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November 04, 2014 07:13

Sealing stamp: a piece of paper, serrated or gummed, reminiscent of a postage stamp, usually intended for advertising or for a good cause, that is attached to a postal item (envelope, card), but does not contribute any value, required for the circulation of that postal item.

Maybe something like that?

Then, I think, the city mail, revolutionary mail, postage, etc. belongs to the stamps. Only the really commercial editions still fall under the cinderellas. And spending by governments in exile.

Who is sharpening further?

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November 04, 2014 07:20
Arco ... did I say "first day cover" somewhere ???? I say FDC and you are looking for something like ANWB on First Day Cover and then search on Algemene Nederlandse Wielrijders Bond then your hits decrease by 99%. Did you also look for envelopes on the first day? I suggest searching catawiki and marketplace on FDC, First Day Cover and First Day Envelope and then check again if I have a bitch about this matter
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November 04, 2014 09:03

a piece of paper, serrated or gummed, reminiscent of a postage stamp

Contains as much useful information as " a piece of paper, reminiscent of a postage stamp . You can't do anything with defining a bird as "an animal that may or may not fly". :-)

And are those things really used on cards? I am not an expert, but I associate a seal (the word says it all) only with sealing the packaging of the object to be shipped.

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November 04, 2014 09:10

At point 2, they are still glued to the piece to be sent. And they are also stuck on the front to embellish the envelope (e.g.). Perhaps the attached file is too unclear and should be adjusted?

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November 04, 2014 09:25

But how do you think someone who only has such a piece of paper in their hands can apply those definitions? How is they supposed to know it's not a stamp? He must first be able to find it somewhere, only then will he see what it really is.

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November 04, 2014 10:00

Don't we have that problem everywhere. There are always some doubtful cases that are classified in a different place by the layman than by an expert. (Prickly Leg, Peanuts, Toonder busy at pockets). Most people really don't go through extensive screening of manuals before entering a single item. Laziness is, after all, a human trait.

And stamps are unfortunately just small pieces of paper (or something else). So there are always few physical differences and so you're going to build functions and things like that into the definition. I think that if you look purely at external characteristics you will not arrive at a definition. Then you get something artificial that does not do justice to common ideas.

Then you have to go to a stamps section, but then you keep the same problem within that section. I think you have to build in functional features, that you have to accept that there is a difficult definition, that laymen sometimes misplace something there, but that is only a small part that can be corrected by administrators.

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November 04, 2014 10:35

Try defining what a stamp is. If there is no country name on it, is it not a stamp? What about England and the seals of the International Court of Justice? So to say with something like that that it is a 'seal' or something to that effect is very difficult. Is there a name of a company or person on it? The appearance of a seal alone does not say enough about what it is. It is very difficult to explain that to a beginner.

At the time I was also trained with the Viennese editions of Indonesia. I always thought that they were so beautiful and very different from the usual stamps of Indonesia, but I knew a lot, I didn't know much then ... :-)

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November 04, 2014 10:55

Seal :

"A small piece of paper that looks (shape, size, possibly even image) strongly reminiscent of a postage stamp. However, cannot be used for postage (does not contribute to the value, needed for shipping), but only as a seal or embellishment of a mail item. "

As I write this I wonder if many cinderellas (and I mean stamps of fantasy areas like Duckburg, not those of controversial or unrecognized areas such as viet-cong) so should actually be earmarked as a seal.

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edit:

"A small piece of paper that looks (shape, size, possibly even image) strongly reminiscent of a postage stamp. However, cannot be used for postage (does not add to the value, required for dispatch), and can never be used as such, but only as a seal or embellishment of a mail item. "

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November 04, 2014 11:32

As I write this I wonder whether many cinderellas (and by that I mean stamps from fantasy areas like Duckburg, not those from controversial or unrecognized areas like Viet Cong) should actually be earmarked as sealing stamps.

It might be possible in the long term, but choosing 'Fictitious country or area' will solve this for the time being.

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November 04, 2014 13:39

We've had this discussion before and each time we can't resolve it.

It is difficult enough to define what a stamp is. What Sinbad said yesterday at 1:28 PM is absolutely correct.

A stamp is intended as (1) prepayment of a service from the postal provider; (2) to be used within a time frame and territorial area specified by the postal service provider which the provider may restrict / tighten as it pleases; (3) the service can be restricted by the provider, ie to be used only for very specific services offered by the provider.

Registered stamps or airmail stamps are an example of 3. Service stamps are usually limited to the territory of the relevant service [Int. Court of Justice bv], but are not equally clear in terms of prepayment; the latter also applies to airmail stamps for a special flight.

The Internment stamps of NL are NOT stamps! Neither can postage stamps, because they cannot be purchased in advance by the public and are only intended as a settlement by the post with the customer if insufficient postage has been made. The fact that postage stamps were at a certain point sold for philatelic purposes had nothing to do with the actual purpose of the postage stamp.

The few examples above show the influence of the collector - see also Sinbad - on what was seen as a stamp. When in the 1920s some postal administrations issued stamps that could only be obtained at a stamp exhibition and the collector was faced with speculation and exorbitant prices, attempts were made to add universal availability to the definition of a stamp. And a restriction on the selling price! Reality has always been rebellious and that addition has proved completely pointless. In Nedelrand we no longer have post offices and apart from the standard repertoire [King WA, birth, mourning, etc.] nothing is generally available anymore! Some special issues can only be found at Bruna - if you already have them in your area! - or at the Collect Club in Groningen.

The same applies to our southern neighbours. Apart from some stickers and what has been on presale, you have to go to the philatelic service or to the two philately boutiques [Mechelen, Brussels X].

Each country has its own specific stamps which can be counted as a (general) stamp and which have a limitation. Belgium, for example, has, in addition to the regular stamps, the stamps for railway parcels, Kilopost and Taxipost.

Do you have to define all those different types??? And the specificity per country??

Cinderella's includes anything that somewhat resembles a postage stamp but isn't!

The above-mentioned internment stamps are cinderellas, sealing stamps are cinderellas, but can best be regarded by collectors as a separate, closed group, just as happened with the fiscal stamps. Collecting revenue stamps has become a full-fledged branch of philately!

Depending on fashion or ideology, stamps that meet the above conditions for stamps are NOT recognized as such! They are being discriminated against as it is called! Maybe sometimes for practical reasons, but that doesn't mean it's right!

Although the Dutch parcel stamps, express stamps and registered stamps have a limitation in terms of use [type of service from the postal provider], they simply fall within the criteria for a stamp.

Personal stamps - fixed-frame stamps - are 100% stamps and should be cataloged as such, however difficult this may be in practice....

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November 04, 2014 13:56

I have to disappoint you, Rein, we're already out. Everything comes in the Stamps section at Catawiki, whether they are stamps or not. All dogmas and sacred houses (officially or not officially published, to be purchased in advance or forgotten to pay afterwards, whether or not included in another catalog, religion, politics, etc.) are thrown overboard. Something looks like a stamp, smells like a stamp, sounds like a stamp ... Then it IS an item for the Stamps section. Only seals have their own home base. For the rest, we only look further at a much later stage, because if we do not work in phases, nothing will get off the ground in the short term.

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November 04, 2014 14:03

Seals from the supermarket?

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November 04, 2014 14:24

Have a value, but no country. At most, make a balanced budget ... (;-) Are listed under Other under Savings Stamps.

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November 04, 2014 15:33

Arco,

Sjapo !!! After 5 years of endless discussion you have just made the Gordian knot :)

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November 04, 2014 15:44

That wasn't endless discussion then, it helped.

So what shall we talk about now?

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November 04, 2014 15:49

@Arco, can I then just leave the US tax stamps where they are, after all I received a request to place them in Other somewhere between the decals and magazines and other various items

see ~~3648419 3648551 3648167 3648359 3648383 and 3648621

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November 04, 2014 15:57

http://www.catawiki.nl/catalogus/postzegels/landen-gebied/verenigde-staten-van-amerika-usa/3648551-franklin-jefferson

What type of use do these have with Internment? to do ?? I also don't think 50 years of NATO (Canada 1999) and dinosaurs (Djibouti 2010) belong in that category .... If internment should be a type of use at all?

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November 04, 2014 16:14

Yes, Aart, in the context of Stamps 2.0, leave it there, otherwise we will keep moving.

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November 04, 2014 16:27

@ Rein, nothing at all, but I had to put them somewhere in the past, and at the time of internment there was nothing at all.

and the usage type does not include Fiscal. although I wanted to put them at FDC first, because that also happens to start with an F. but then I thought I won't.

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