Identifying What Is A Stamp

I'm almost done with all the collections that I acquired on ebay (mainly worldwide) and these items have popped up and I can't figure it out. Some might be labels, but are the stickers, like Thailand or France ones in the picture, really stamps? Or the paper ones from Pakistan? Any advice on what to do with these?







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I looked up a couple US ones.....
#29 is 1049,E21,1136 on U536
#35 is 1271 on UC36
#39 is U550

I think thats accurate
well half time of Italy v Paraguay is over so thats all I can do for now

First page

Nos 2,3,7,10,11,18,19,21,26,27,28,23 are al;l Postal Stationery cutouts

17 is a QEII cinderella, one of a set.
16 is a label or Gutter missing the [once] adjoining stamp or stamps
15,22 and 24 I am not sure about, cannot see them clearly enough.
The rest are Postage labels, the sort you get if you forget to ask for stamps at the Post Office or from a Vending machine.

Londonbus1

The second page are all USA stamps or Postal Stationery items [or both] except the Zaragoza items which I believe are locals, there was a thread or posts about them recently. I will try to find it.

Oh yes, there is also a registered handstamp on page two, [No.32] from Teheran,Iran..
Page three are mostly Canadian except what looks like a Czech stationery item.
One of the Canadian members will pipe up soon enough.

Londonbus1...they usually do !

Why don't you keep them. They are all quite collectable.
Of course, if you plan on discarding the registered handstamp, I will gladly put my hand up !!

Londonbus1

Postal stationery was one of the first things I collected. Of course, I didn't know it by that name back then. All I knew was that it was so rare that it wasn't even in the catalogue. Eventually I discovered that my catalogue was just too basic. Still I got hooked, and a couple of years ago, I realized that this was a great and relatively inexpensive way to increase my collection of Elizabethan definitive stamps. I started with "cut squares" that were just the top right corner of the envelope, then gradually moved to collecting the entire covers. That part of my collection is still very much in its infancy, but it's a lot of fun and filled with interesting varieties.

Have fun with your new collections!

Peter

Numbers 4,8,9,12,14 and 20 are the Frama, Spanish (Espana) or Costa Rican version of these stamps.

Frama is the European name for these intriguing variable value stamps dispensed from Automatic teller machines (ATMs).

Be careful as some earlier versions of these disintegrated when soaked in water. I think if yu search on here (SCF) someone mentioned these before at one time.

I like some of the designs on these. There are a lot of listings on ebay on these 'frama' also. Some of your other one, like the interesting Thailand elephant one, could be loosely categorized into the Frama grouping. I think of Frama as those with a nice picture on them and being coloured but I would make an exception for the Thailand one.

The Canada 'cut squares' are, as londonbus suggested, off of envelopes, being pre-printed on them and sold as a whole envelope raedy to mail with stamp already on it. No licking and sticking involved. They can make a nice collection and, as Peter says, you soon graduate to wanting the whole cover.

By the way, if you do not wish to keep the frama (of any sort or just some) please keep me in mind when you reach you 50 mark and we could trade or work something out for them. They would be my first ones, that is if you are now willing to part with them.

Wikipedia article on them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_value_stamp

Official website of ATM stamps:
http://www.ateeme.net/angles/welcome_a.html

So that would mean that #1, 14 and 25 are Frama stamps also. The Thailand ones are on the ATM site.

These are neat. I like them.