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ostage meters first appeared experimentally at the end of the 19th century and came into general use worldwide starting in the 1920s. By the 1960s more mail was being franked by postage meter than with traditional adhesive stamps. The trend continues today as mechanical postage meters are displaced by newer and more versatile digital franking machines and systems.

This is a catalogue of all the different types of postage meter stamps ever used to frank mail in the world. It organises and categorises the stamps by their appearance (design format) rather than by the meter model that printed them. It is thus a STAMP catalogue for use primarily by stamp collectors and is not a meter (machine) catalogue. It is an expansion of The International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog, written and published by Joel Hawkins and Rick Stambaugh in 2005, and its 2008 Supplement.

Comments, suggested changes, corrections, and additions to the catalogue are encouraged. Please e-mail Jim Ashby at tuvus80506@gmail.com

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Recent changes

27 Oct: Argentina, Sub-type "DA1B" added. 27 Oct: Finland, Variety "PO1d" added. 20 Oct: Great Britain, Type "A2" updated. 21 Sep: France, "Annex: Guadeloupe" updated. 06 Sep: Macau, Type "C4" added. 01 Sep: Kenya, Type "AA5" added "N" prefix. 01 Sep: Liechtenstein, Type "PO2" added. 24 Aug: Venezuela, Type "ESY-UPF-MV-1" added. 24 Aug: Vietnam, Type "DA8" added. 20 Aug: India, Type "DA12" updated. 13 Aug: Russia, Type "PC1" added. 10 Aug: Uzbekistan, Type "A1" updated. 10 Aug: Uzbekistan, Types "A2" & "B1" added. 26 Jul: Angola, Type "A3.1" added. 25 Jul: Iceland, Type "PO1" updated. 25 Jul: Western Samoa, Type "1" M#s updated. 20 Jul: Canada, Type "B1" updated. 20 Jul: Japan, Type "FE1" added. 20 Jul: Japan, Type "G4" added. 14 Jul: Egypt, Type "B5.1" added. 13 Jul: Egypt, Type "A2.0" added. 13 Jul: Egypt, Type "A2.1" updated. 06 Jul: Armenia, Type "2" added. 06 Jul: Egypt, Variety "A2.2d" added. 02 Jul: Belgium, Type "A4" values updated. 01 Jul: Great Britain, Types "A1", "B7" & "D5" provisionals updated. 26 Jun: Nigeria, Types "A1" and "A4" updated. 21 Jun: Egypt, Types "A2.1" to "A2.3" updated. 10 Jun: Nigeria, Variety "B1b" image added.

10 Jun: St. Lucia, Type "1" date changed. 10 Jun: Solomon Islands, Sub-type "A1C" image added. 10 Jun: Uruguay, Type "AB11" V/F "large fixed zero" added. 26 May: Monaco, Type "B11" "HU" prefix added. 26 May: Turkey, Sub-type "FB4C" added. 25 May: South Africa, Sub-type "BA4B" added. 18 May: India, Sub-type "DC2B" image added. 18 May: Singapore, Type "E2.2" "NC4" prefix added. 18 May: Singapore, Group "PV" updated. 28 Apr: Philippines, Type "PO-B1" variety note added. 24 Apr: Iran, Type "A1" image updated. 14 Apr: USSR, Sub-type "C1B" added. 12 Apr: Australia, Variety "A2e" added. 10 Apr: Canada, Type "B4" & "B6" models updated. 10 Apr: Great Britain, PB Model "M/C/MS/CS/CV" entries updated. 10 Apr: Indonesia, Type "B1" M#27 added. 06 Apr: China (PRC), Sub-type "HA1D" image updated. 06 Apr: Netherlands Antilles, introduction updated. 01 Apr: Algeria, Type "PO6.1" added. 01 Apr: Tanzania, Type "A6" added. 29 Mar: Algeria, Type "PO9" added. 29 Mar: Cook Islands, Type "1" machine model updated. 29 Mar: France, Type "PO-A2" sub-types "A" and "B" added.

29 Mar: Netherlands, Variety "F3b" image added. 29 Mar: Portugal, Variety "PO-B12a" added. 23 Mar: Great Britain, Group "PO" re-written. 22 Mar: Paraguay, Type "ESY-UPF-MV-1" added. 18 Mar: Argentina, Type "PO-F8" added. 17 Mar: Belgium, Type "PO13" added. 17 Mar: French Polynesia, Engraving varieties added to header 16 Mar: Latvia, Types "ED3, EE1-EE4 & EF1" updated. 09 Mar: Greece, Type "PV1" added. 03 Mar: Korea, Republic (South), Sub-type "PO-B6E" added. 03 Mar: Liechtenstein, Type "PO1" added. 03 Mar: Malta, Type "PO1.5" added. 03 Mar: Norway, Type "OO10" added. 03 Mar: Oman, Type "6" added. 07 Feb: Guatemala, Type "PO1" TM: SC added. 04 Feb: Australia, Type "A1" TM: SC added. 04 Feb: Bulgaria, Type "A9" added. 04 Feb: New Caledonia, Type "PO1.2" added. 04 Feb: Zimbabwe, Sub-type "A3B2" added. 24 Dec: Germany, Type "J4" TM: DC added. 24 Dec: South Africa, Type "D12" added. 24 Dec: Sweden, Type "A7" image added. 24 Dec: Sweden, Type "F3" image added. 06 Nov: Australia, Type "B6" removed and Variety "B1a" reinstated. 04 Nov: Luxembourg, Value 0,04RM added to Type "AB2A". 26 Oct: Italy, Variety "EE5d" added. 26 Oct: Montenegro, completely re-written, Type "PO3" added.

Table of Contents

• Introduction (The basics of meter stamp collecting)

• Glossary, Abbreviations and Symbols (Understanding the stamp descriptions)

• Identifier (Find the country your stamp is from)

• Meter Manufacturers Worldwide

• Meter Stamp Collecting Societies

• Bibliography

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Abu Dhabi	Afghanistan	Aland	Albania	Algeria
American Samoa	Andorra	Angola	Anguilla	Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda	Argentina	Armenia	Aruba	Ascension Island
Australia	Austria	Azerbaijan	Azores	Bahamas
Bahrain	Bangladesh	Barbados	Belarus	Belgium
Belize	Benin	Bermuda	Bhutan	Bolivia
Bosnia & Herzegovina	Botswana	Brazil	British Indian Ocean Territory	British Virgin Islands
Brunei	Bulgaria	Burkina Faso	Burundi	Cambodia
Cameroon	Canada	Canal Zone	Cape Verde	Cayman Islands
Central African Republic	Chad	Chile	China (mainland, ROC & PRC)	China (Taiwan ROC)
Christmas Island	Cocos Island	Colombia	Comoros	Congo, Democratic Republic
Congo, Peoples Republic	Cook Islands	Costa Rica	Croatia	Cuba
Curacao	Cyprus	Czechoslovakia	Czech Republic	Danzig
Denmark	Djibouti	Dominica	Dominican Republic	Dubai
Dutch Caribbean	East African Community	Ecuador	Egypt	El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea	Eritrea	Estonia	Eswatini (Swaziland)	Ethiopia
Falkland Islands	Faroe Islands	Fiji	Finland	France
French Equatorial Africa	French Guiana	French Indochina	French Polynesia	French West Africa
Gabon	The Gambia	Georgia	Germany, Part 1	Germany, Part 2
Germany, Part 3	Ghana	Gibraltar	Great Britain	Greece
Greenland	Grenada	Guadaloupe	Guatemala	Guernsey
Guinea	Guinea Bissau	Guyana	Haiti	Honduras
Hong Kong	Hungary	Iceland	India	Indonesia
Iran	Iraq	Ireland	Isle Of Man	Israel
Italy	Ivory Coast	Jamaica	Japan	Jersey
Jordan	Kazakhstan	Kenya	Kiribati	Korea, Dem. Rep. (North)
Korea, Republic (South)	Kuwait	Kyrgyzstan	Laos	Latvia
Lebanon	Lesotho	Liberia	Libya	Liechtenstein
Lithuania	Luxembourg	Macau	Macedonia	Madagascar
Madeira Islands	Malawi	Malaysia	Maldives	Mali Federation
Mali	Malta	Marshall Islands	Martinique	Mauritania
Mauritius	Mayotte	Mexico	Micronesia	Moldova
Monaco	Mongolia	Montenegro	Montserrat	Morocco
Mozambique	Myanmar	Namibia	Nauru	Nepal
Netherlands	Netherlands Antilles	New Caledonia	Newfoundland	New Zealand
Nicaragua	Niger	Nigeria	Niue	Norfolk Island
Norway	Oman	Pakistan	Palau	Palestine
Palestinian Authority	Panama	Papua New Guinea	Paraguay	Peru
Philippines	Poland	Portugal	Portuguese India (Goa)	Qatar
Reunion	Rhodesia & Nyasaland	Romania	Ruanda-Urundi	Russia
Rwanda	Saint Helena	Saint Kitts And Nevis	Saint Lucia	Saint Pierre & Miquelon
Saint Vincent	San Marino	Sao Tome E Principe	Saudi Arabia	Senegal
Serbia	Seychelles	Sierra Leone	Singapore	Sint Maarten
Slovakia	Slovenia	Solomon Islands	Somalia	South Africa
South Georgia	Spain	Sri Lanka	Sudan	Sudanese Republic
Suriname	Sweden	Switzerland	Syria	Tajikistan
Tanzania	Thailand	Timor-Leste (East Timor)	Togo	Tokelau Islands
Tonga	Trinidad & Tobago	Tristan Da Cunha	Tunisia	Turkey
Turkmenistan	Turks & Caicos	Tuvalu	Uganda	Ukraine
Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics	United Arab Emirates	United Nations	United States of America	Uruguay
Uzbekistan	Vanuatu	Vatican City	Venezuela	Vietnam
Wallis & Futuna	Western Sahara	Western Samoa	Yemen	Yugoslavia
Zambia	Zanzibar	Zimbabwe

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