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The World's Most Boring Stamp?

 
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Posted 07/25/2013   10:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add jamesw to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
My daughter got a postcard in the mail today (that in it self was unusual, we see so few of these anymore!) from a friend of hers who has gone to New Zealand for six months on a co-op.
Of course the first thing I look as is the postage and what struck me was how, well, just look at it!




I've played with the exposure of the image to darken it so you can see the very faint postage stamp image. But otherwise it's just a white self adhesive label.
Obviously mailed from Brunei, rather than New Zealand, unless Brunei postage is accepted in the land of the Kiwi.
Anyone seen these before?
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Posted 07/26/2013   01:59 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Okay, yes, pretty boring...

more boring than this, though?




I think not.

US 2521 for the win...


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Posted 07/26/2013   07:14 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add floortrader to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Come on guys ------There is a whole list of boring stamps for a worldwide collector . From the British 2p red Queen Elisabeth ,for U.S. its the 3 cent purple and gray 5 cent Washington ,also the Spanish orange FRANCO and the 10 green and 20 pfg.red from Germany .They printed gazillions of these stamps and every kid collection has them by the dozens.
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Posted 07/26/2013   09:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Zuzu to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
What's up with the faint outline of perfs around that Brunei stamp/label? Do you suppose it picked up residual ink from the cancellation device?

And Cjd, I have to respectfully disagree. At least the US 2521 has a border and a couple of colors. (Although, I think it should also have a period at the end of that sentence.) :P
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Edited by Zuzu - 07/26/2013 09:19 am
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Posted 07/26/2013   09:32 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
No zuzu, I really think that's the 'design'. It's too perfectly centred around the type.
I guess this qualifies as meter postage, though it's printed on the adhesive paper, and the 'stamp' image indicates some thought (though I don't think anyone broke a sweat over this one!)
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Posted 07/26/2013   11:44 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Timm to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I don't think your Brunei item can be classified as a stamp but rather a postage permit label.
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Posted 07/26/2013   1:11 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bujutsu to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
jamesw and all

This falls under the category of meter and permit mail. These stickers are being produced more and more throughout the world.

I have to agree, it is a boring design but, issued to provide a service only. The types of meters I prefer are the ones that have a design or slogan with them.

Chimo

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