Knowledge / Cancellation Kinds / Hand Postmark Cancellations / Kinds

Hand Postmark Kind: summary of the different intended styls of a hand postmark

With Hand Postmark: postage stamp cancelled with hand postmark as intended style

Without Hand Postmark: postage stamp (not yet) cancelled with hand postmark as intended style. This will only be shown when the same postage stamp was also cancelled with hand postmark

Provisional Hand Postmark: postage stamp cancelled with provisional hand postmark

Traveling Hand Postmark: philatelic term for a provisional hand postmark that has traveled from one post office to the next. The location information was stamped separately in a date postmark or the location and date were set completely

Official Hand Postmark: postage stamp cancelled with hand postmark ordered by a public postal administation

Country Hand Postmark: postage stamp cancelled with hand postmark issued for the whole area of a postal administration

Local Hand Postmark: postage stamp cancelled with hand postmark issued for a local area (postmaster hand postmark, town hand postmark)

Positive Hand Postmark: hand postmark with coloured design on colourless surface

Negative Hand Postmark: hand postmark with colourless design on coloured surface

Hand Postmark Colour: colour name a hand postmark is made off (e.g. red, blue or green)

Hand Postmark Colour Shade: colour shade name a hand postmark is made off

Rubber Hand Postmark: hand postmark with a rubber stamp plate

Cork Hand Postmark: hand postmark with a cork stamp plate

Plastic Hand Postmark: hand postmark with a plastic stamp plate

Steel Hand Postmark: hand postmark with a steel stamp plate

Hand Postmark In The Middle: postage stamp cancelled with centered hand postmark stamp as intended style

Hand Postmark In The Corner: postage stamp cancelled with a quarter hand postmark stamp as intended style

Single Hand Postmark: postage stamp with once hand postmark as intended style

Double Hand Postmark: postage stamp with twice hand postmark as intended style

Duplex Hand Postmark: two-part hand postmark which consists of a town postmark and a cancellation part

Monochrome Hand Postmark: postage stamp with hand postmark in one colour as intended style

Multicolour Hand Postmark: postage stamp with hand postmark in multiple colours as intended style

Monolingual Hand Postmark: postage stamp with hand postmark in one language as intended style

Multilingual Hand Postmark: postage stamp with hand postmark in multiple languages as intended style

Hand Postmark With Date Correction: hand postmark in which an incorrectly set date was corrected as the intended style

Adaped Hand Postmark: hand postmark in which the inscriptions were partially or completely removed as the intended style

Added Hand Postmark: hand postmark in which the inscriptions were added as the intended style

Cancellation Hand Postmark: hand postmark with which the postage stamps were cancelled. A town-date hand postmark was also stamped on the postal shipment

Cancellation Roller Hand Postmark: roller hand postmark with which the postage stamps were cancelled. A town-date hand postmark was also stamped on the postal shipment

Blocked Hand Postmark: hand postmark in which a rectangle (block) was set as the intended design instead of a number

Foreign Hand Postmark: hand postmark from a postal area that was stamped on a postage stamp from another postal area (e.g. hand postmark from Wurttemberg on a Baden postage stamp)

Camouflage Hand Postmark: hand post-mark without town information, e.g. for field post shipments to conceal the location of troops during a war