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ostage meters first appeared experimentally at the end of the 19th century and came into general use worldwide starting in the 1920s. By the 1960s more mail was being franked by postage meter than with traditional adhesive stamps. The trend continues today as mechanical postage meters are displaced by newer and more versatile digital franking machines and systems.

This is a catalogue of all the different types of postage meter stamps ever used to frank mail in the world. It organises and categorises the stamps by their appearance (design format) rather than by the meter model that printed them. It is thus a STAMP catalogue for use primarily by stamp collectors and is not a meter (machine) catalogue. It is an expansion of The International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog, written and published by Joel Hawkins and Rick Stambaugh in 2005, and its 2008 Supplement.

Comments, suggested changes, corrections, and additions to the catalogue are encouraged. Please e-mail Jim Ashby at tuvus80506@gmail.com

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Recent changes

24 Nov: Belgium, Type "A4" 4c and 5F50 values added. 31 Aug: Italy, Variety "EE9a" added. 17 May: New Zealand, Type "B8" ½c and 12c values added. 17 May: New Zealand, Type "B9" 2½d, 1c, 2c and 17c values added. 17 May: New Zealand, Type "C2" 5, 12 and 22 values added. 20 Apr: USSR, Sub-type "DA3D" added. 27 Oct: Argentina, Sub-type "DA1B" added. 27 Oct: Finland, Variety "PO1d" added. 20 Oct: Great Britain, Type "A2" updated. 21 Sep: France, "Annex: Guadeloupe" updated. 06 Sep: Macau, Type "C4" added. 01 Sep: Kenya, Type "AA5" added "N" prefix. 01 Sep: Liechtenstein, Type "PO2" added. 24 Aug: Venezuela, Type "ESY-UPF-MV-1" added. 24 Aug: Vietnam, Type "DA8" added. 20 Aug: India, Type "DA12" updated. 13 Aug: Russia, Type "PC1" added. 10 Aug: Uzbekistan, Type "A1" updated. 10 Aug: Uzbekistan, Types "A2" & "B1" added. 26 Jul: Angola, Type "A3.1" added. 25 Jul: Iceland, Type "PO1" updated. 25 Jul: Western Samoa, Type "1" M#s updated. 20 Jul: Canada, Type "B1" updated. 20 Jul: Japan, Type "FE1" added. 20 Jul: Japan, Type "G4" added.

14 Jul: Egypt, Type "B5.1" added. 13 Jul: Egypt, Type "A2.0" added. 13 Jul: Egypt, Type "A2.1" updated. 06 Jul: Armenia, Type "2" added. 06 Jul: Egypt, Variety "A2.2d" added. 02 Jul: Belgium, Type "A4" values updated. 01 Jul: Great Britain, Types "A1", "B7" & "D5" provisionals updated. 26 Jun: Nigeria, Types "A1" and "A4" updated. 21 Jun: Egypt, Types "A2.1" to "A2.3" updated. 10 Jun: Nigeria, Variety "B1b" image added. 10 Jun: St. Lucia, Type "1" date changed. 10 Jun: Solomon Islands, Sub-type "A1C" image added. 10 Jun: Uruguay, Type "AB11" V/F "large fixed zero" added. 26 May: Monaco, Type "B11" "HU" prefix added. 26 May: Turkey, Sub-type "FB4C" added. 25 May: South Africa, Sub-type "BA4B" added. 18 May: India, Sub-type "DC2B" image added. 18 May: Singapore, Type "E2.2" "NC4" prefix added. 18 May: Singapore, Group "PV" updated. 28 Apr: Philippines, Type "PO-B1" variety note added. 24 Apr: Iran, Type "A1" image updated. 14 Apr: USSR, Sub-type "C1B" added. 12 Apr: Australia, Variety "A2e" added.

10 Apr: Canada, Type "B4" & "B6" models updated. 10 Apr: Great Britain, PB Model "M/C/MS/CS/CV" entries updated. 10 Apr: Indonesia, Type "B1" M#27 added. 06 Apr: China (PRC), Sub-type "HA1D" image updated. 06 Apr: Netherlands Antilles, introduction updated. 01 Apr: Algeria, Type "PO6.1" added. 01 Apr: Tanzania, Type "A6" added. 29 Mar: Algeria, Type "PO9" added. 29 Mar: Cook Islands, Type "1" machine model updated. 29 Mar: France, Type "PO-A2" sub-types "A" and "B" added. 29 Mar: Netherlands, Variety "F3b" image added. 29 Mar: Portugal, Variety "PO-B12a" added. 23 Mar: Great Britain, Group "PO" re-written. 22 Mar: Paraguay, Type "ESY-UPF-MV-1" added. 18 Mar: Argentina, Type "PO-F8" added. 17 Mar: Belgium, Type "PO13" added. 17 Mar: French Polynesia, Engraving varieties added to header 16 Mar: Latvia, Types "ED3, EE1-EE4 & EF1" updated. 09 Mar: Greece, Type "PV1" added. 03 Mar: Korea, Republic (South), Sub-type "PO-B6E" added. 03 Mar: Liechtenstein, Type "PO1" added. 03 Mar: Malta, Type "PO1.5" added.

Table of Contents

• Introduction (The basics of meter stamp collecting)

• Glossary, Abbreviations and Symbols (Understanding the stamp descriptions)

• Identifier (Find the country your stamp is from)

• Meter Manufacturers Worldwide

• Meter Stamp Collecting Societies

• Bibliography

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Abu Dhabi	Afghanistan	Aland	Albania	Algeria
American Samoa	Andorra	Angola	Anguilla	Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda	Argentina	Armenia	Aruba	Ascension Island
Australia	Austria	Azerbaijan	Azores	Bahamas
Bahrain	Bangladesh	Barbados	Belarus	Belgium
Belize	Benin	Bermuda	Bhutan	Bolivia
Bosnia & Herzegovina	Botswana	Brazil	British Indian Ocean Territory	British Virgin Islands
Brunei	Bulgaria	Burkina Faso	Burundi	Cambodia
Cameroon	Canada	Canal Zone	Cape Verde	Cayman Islands
Central African Republic	Chad	Chile	China (mainland, ROC & PRC)	China (Taiwan ROC)
Christmas Island	Cocos Island	Colombia	Comoros	Congo, Democratic Republic
Congo, Peoples Republic	Cook Islands	Costa Rica	Croatia	Cuba
Curacao	Cyprus	Czechoslovakia	Czech Republic	Denmark
Djibouti	Dominica	Dominican Republic	Dubai	Dutch Caribbean
East African Community	Ecuador	Egypt	El Salvador	Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea	Estonia	Eswatini (Swaziland)	Ethiopia	Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands	Fiji	Finland	France	French Equatorial Africa
French Guiana	French Indochina	French Polynesia	French West Africa	Gabon
The Gambia	Georgia	Germany, Part 1	Germany, Part 2	Germany, Part 3
Ghana	Gibraltar	Great Britain	Greece	Greenland
Grenada	Guadaloupe	Guatemala	Guernsey	Guinea
Guinea Bissau	Guyana	Haiti	Honduras	Hong Kong
Hungary	Iceland	India	Indonesia	Iran
Iraq	Ireland	Isle Of Man	Israel	Italy
Ivory Coast	Jamaica	Japan	Jersey	Jordan
Kazakhstan	Kenya	Kiribati	Korea, Dem. Rep. (North)	Korea, Republic (South)
Kuwait	Kyrgyzstan	Laos	Latvia	Lebanon
Lesotho	Liberia	Libya	Liechtenstein	Lithuania
Luxembourg	Macau	Macedonia	Madagascar	Madeira Islands
Malawi	Malaysia	Maldives	Mali Federation	Mali
Malta	Marshall Islands	Martinique	Mauritania	Mauritius
Mayotte	Mexico	Micronesia	Moldova	Monaco
Mongolia	Montenegro	Montserrat	Morocco	Mozambique
Myanmar	Namibia	Nauru	Nepal	Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles	New Caledonia	Newfoundland	New Zealand	Nicaragua
Niger	Nigeria	Niue	Norfolk Island	Norway
Oman	Pakistan	Palau	Palestine	Palestinian Authority
Panama	Papua New Guinea	Paraguay	Peru	Philippines
Poland	Portugal	Portuguese India (Goa)	Qatar	Reunion
Rhodesia & Nyasaland	Romania	Ruanda-Urundi	Russia	Rwanda
Saint Helena	Saint Kitts And Nevis	Saint Lucia	Saint Pierre & Miquelon	Saint Vincent
San Marino	Sao Tome E Principe	Saudi Arabia	Senegal	Serbia
Seychelles	Sierra Leone	Singapore	Sint Maarten	Slovakia
Slovenia	Solomon Islands	Somalia	South Africa	South Georgia
Spain	Sri Lanka	Sudan	Sudanese Republic	Suriname
Sweden	Switzerland	Syria	Tajikistan	Tanzania
Thailand	Timor-Leste (East Timor)	Togo	Tokelau Islands	Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago	Tristan Da Cunha	Tunisia	Turkey	Turkmenistan
Turks & Caicos	Tuvalu	Uganda	Ukraine	Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics
United Arab Emirates	United Nations	United States of America	Uruguay	Uzbekistan
Vanuatu	Vatican City	Venezuela	Vietnam	Wallis & Futuna
Western Sahara	Western Samoa	Yemen	Yugoslavia	Zambia
Zanzibar	Zimbabwe

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