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| Additional Frankings | Categories | Changes | Differences | Double Frankings | Doubtful Cases | Kinds | Fakes | Parallel Issues | Quality | Validations | Other Frankings |
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Knowledge / Postal Shipments / Frankings / Other Frankings |
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Exhaustion franking: postal shipment franked e.g. with many postage stamps with a small face value |
Non-philatelic franking: franking of a postal shipment based on a genuine need for communication from a sender to a adressee |
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Imbricate franking: postal shipment franked with overlapping postage stamps e. g. in times of inflation to use up postage stamp with a low face value |
Dealer franking: franking of a postal ship-ment that were posted (often in large quanti-ties) by a stamp dealer (e.g. production of canceled postage stamps) |
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Mass franking: postal shipment franked with plenty of postage stamps due to a lack of suitable high value stamps or as a philatelic gimmick |
Forwarding franking: postal shipment with 2 frankings that was sent through the post office twice, e. g. if it was sent to the actual addressee by a private person |
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Remailing: postal shipment that is not sent directly from the sender to the addressee but rather goes through an intermediary agent (forwarded letter) |
Collector's franking: franking that primarily serves philatelic purposes (e.g. sending canceled postage stamps) |
Complete issue franking: postal shipment franked with all values of an issue |
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Double complete issue franking franked with two complete issues |
Triple complete issue franking franked with three complete issues |
Overfranking: franking of a postal shipment that exceeds the required fee (e.g. 5 Mark instead of 4 Mark) |
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Underfranking: franking of a postal shipment that is below the required fee |
Four-times-value franking: postal ship-ment from the German Empire between November 26th and 30th 1923 in which the postage stamps were used at four times the face value (e. g. postcard 40 billion mark) |
Mixed currency franking: postal shipment that was franked after a currency reform or conversion with postage stamps with a face value in different currencies |
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Ten-times-value franking: postal ship-ment from Germany in which the postage stamps were used at one tenth of its face value (e. g. cover 24 pfennig) |
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