Courtesy stamp

A courtesy stamp is a cancellation of a postage stamp at the request of a collector. The affected stamp is not used for postal purposes. First day stamps are not considered to be courtesy stamps , as these are made by an official body without a special request from the collector.

Such stamps are often requested, especially on special dates (so-called schnapps numbers , for example August 8, 2008 ). Another case of courtesy cancellation are the postmarks of special post offices (such as the Austrian Christmas post office Christkindl ).

literature

Wolfram Grallert, Waldemar Gruschke: Lexicon of Philately , 5th, revised and supplemented edition. Transpress VEB publishing house for transport, Berlin 1971, keyword courtesy cancellation .

Web links

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