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US Treasury Department check signing machine. Operated by J.L. Summers in 1918. An autopen (or signing machine) is a device used for the automatic signing of a signature.. Prominent individuals may be asked to provide their signatures many times a day, such as celebrities receiving requests for autographs, or politicians signing documents and correspondence in their official capacit
1840 (UK) Postally franked German Air Mail cover (Berlin-Buenos Aires via D-LZ127 Graf Zeppelin (1934)) "Postage" franking is the physical application and presence of postage stamps, or any other markings recognized and accepted by the postal system or systems providing service, which indicate the payment of sufficient fees for the class of service which the item of mail is to be or had been ...
A registered envelope for Kenya and Uganda from 1930. A scarcity of postage stamps during WWI in German East Africa was the cause for this handstamped envelope. Any indication that postage is prepaid (see top right handstamp) is what makes the item postal stationery. The fact that this indicium was applied to an envelope makes this a stamped ...
Signed, Sealed, Delivered. The U.S. Postal Service is raising postage costs for the second time this year. On July 9, the price of a first-class stamp will rise to 66 cents from 63 cents.
Test stamp – a label not valid for postage, used by postal authorities to test sorting and cancelling machines or machines that can detect a stamp on an envelope. May also be known as dummy or training stamps; Variable value stamps - dispensed by machines that print the cost of the postage at the time the stamp is dispensed
The inside of a variable value stamp vending machine showing the stamps before the value is printed A selection of variable value stamps showing the range of values that may be selected A variable value stamp is a gummed or self-adhesive postage stamp of a common design, issued by a machine similar to an automatic teller machine (ATM), with a ...
An Affixing Machine is a machine that affixes postage stamps to an envelope, postcard or wrapper. [1] Affixing machines first appeared in the 1850s [2] but were not widely used until the early 20th century. [3] Stamp affixing machines were brought about by the need to mechanically affix stamps for bulk processing of mail. [4]
The 7d, 8d and 9d stamps had the value indicator behind the bust. [8] 8d Vermillion 8d Light turquoise blue 6 Jan 1969 [6] 9d Dark green 8 Aug 1967 [3] 10d Drab 1 Jul 1968 [7] The background of the 10d and 1/- stamps had a gradient. 1/- Pale violet 5 Jun 1967 [4] 1/6 Blue and deep blue 8 Aug 1967 [3] 1/9 Orange and black 5 Jun 1967 [4] 2/6 Peat ...