Postal stationery cutout

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Postal stationery clipping from 1890 from Guatemala, stamp 'Poste Local Guatemala' from 12 August 1895

A postal stationery cut-out (abbreviated: GAA) is a stamp imprint cut from a postal stationery .

Collect

In the early phases of philately in particular, stamp impressions were often cut out and collected. Usually they were either cut out according to their shape or as rectangular pieces. Today it is taboo among postal stationery collectors to ever cut out stamps at all. There are larger older stocks of it. Today they are often only included in one's own collection if they have a special postmark . Unstamped items are usually hardly worth anything today. Postal stationery clippings are only rarely listed in postal stationery catalogs with price information, the prices then move in the range of 10% to 50% of the complete postal stationery. In retrospect, it is often impossible to determine the exact type of postal stationery from which the clippings originate. There are various options for this, each of which is printed on the same paper with identical stamps and therefore cannot be differentiated. Some philatelists like to collect stuck-on items used by post .

Postage validity

At times, postal stationery clippings were permitted as postage stamps in some postal areas or they were sometimes at least unofficially tolerated. With the German Reich they were possible from August 4, 1873, which was soon reversed. Even when they weren't allowed, they sometimes slipped through without objection.

literature

  • The postal stationery , joint magazine of the BGSV and MGSV:
    • Postal stationery clippings, yes or no? Issue No. 1–2 / 1973 and No. 3–4 / 1973
    • Clippings from postal stationery, missing postage stamps in most of the "complete" stamp collections. Issue No. 4/1995, pp. 127-128; on page 128 there is a supplementary note from the editor of this journal at the time
    • Postal stationery clippings as franking or postage fraud. Issue No. 2/2010, pp. 55-57; the topic was taken up again in issue no. 1/2011 pp. 2-3
    • No. 1/2010, pp. 19-20
    • No. 2/2010, pp. 82-83
  • Postal stationery clippings of the GDR used as postage stamps. In: Collector's Service 1970, pp. 172, 1582
  • Unrecognized classics. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung edition 17/2013, p. 24
  • A “lance” for postal stationery clippings. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung No. 15/1997, pp. 62–64
  • Clippings from postal stationery, used as postage stamps. In: The collector's magnifying glass No. 15 from 1954, volume No. 9, p. 239
  • British Postal Stationary Cut-Outs & Early Stamp Dealer Mail. In: American Philatelist , October 2012, pp. 938–944

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Postal stationery clipping. In: Large Encyclopedia of Philately in Two Volumes, Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag 1978, Volume 1, Page 288
  2. ^ Postal stationery clipping. In: W. Grallert: Lexicon of Philately. 2nd Edition. Phil * Creativ GmbH, Schwalmtal 2007, ISBN 978-3-932198-38-0 , page 155