Imprinted stamp

A stamp impression or stamp imprint or indicia impression is a printed postage stamps, they are directly printed on postcards, envelopes, or other philatelic documents and are usually the same motif with stamps. The documents with value stamp impression are called postal stationery. They are available in diverse shapes, squares, octagons, circles, ovals, shields, etc.

History

First postal stationery were mostly completely redesigned envelopes that nothing on postal stationery had in common with today's conventional stamp imprinting. The idea value temple (and later on postal and postcards ) to print directly onto envelopes, only required the determination. The idea already existed in the precursor of postal stationery in the British New South Wales (Australia) in 1838. This value stamp produced in relief printing, there were stamp sheet, but also on envelopes on white paper.

Collect

Collector cut usually not, but collect the full postal stationary. Carl Lindenberg was one of the first German postal stationary collector vigorously spoke out against cutting out the value temple. Excised segments are called postal stationery cutouts. The appeal for collectors is, inter alia, that it is not always the same motif is the postage stamp designs as stamps, but sometimes are own designs.

Not to stamp imprints include indicia such as Stampit or Internet brand.

Exemplary representation of a normal stamp and the stamp impression on a postal stationery ( postcard):

Stamp impression on the postcard

Postcard with stamp impression