Swiss postage meter stamps
Not all stuff that wholeworld collectors like me bumb into are traditional stamps. One example of such material are postage meter stamps / labels such as this item from Switzerland. Usually items as this end up as back-of-book material.
A Swiss postage meter label used by Perles AG - a Swiss power tool manufacturer.
I know very little of these (as these are not mainstream/traditional postage stamps), but here’s something I know…
About 95% of all Swiss postage meter labels on the market are quite common. Yes, some of them are very hard to get (especially outside Switzerland), but even the remaining 5% should not break anyone’s bank account.
Swiss meter labels can be put into three major categories based on their size; in addition these main types can be divided to several subcategories based on framing type, perforation, text and colors used. The oldest type meter stamps (pre 1940’s) are very large and odd sized. After second world war, the size became somewhat regulated to 40×40mm (such as my example). The third and most recent meter stamp are the modern “low but long” issues.
Older meter stamps have usually a water soluble addhesive on the back, while the more recent ones do not soak.
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Nice information on Swiss Meter Postage labels
Hello,
Hmmm! Some of what you wrote is right, but the big part is not right. I am a specialist of meter stamps from Switzerland and I can answer to your question if you want. But there is a large subject !
Yon can find some informations on the website of our Philately Society where I have placed some of my publications (http://cpde.ch/publications.html). However there are in french (sorry). I can also send to you informations much general on the swiss meter stamps but I cannot send pdf files through this mail.
Best regards
Hi Bernard,
and thanks for the comment. It’s very nice to get feedback from specialists /experts of topic in question as it will very likely open an interesting ( and more indepth) discussion that will teach something new… As said in the post, I’m not an expert with these (or anything else in philately to be precise
). My source for these is/has been couple of odd articles in “general worldwide” stamp magazines. So in a way I’m not that suprised about the errors; especially as I tried to keep the topic very simple, short & easy to read.
I will take a peek with the link you mentioned during weekend. French language is not a problem as I do read/understand it good extent; writing in French is the hard part I have never learned to master
I have send you also email.
best,
-keijo-
Hi All
I think that meter collecting is gaining in popularity. More people are studying the different syles etc.
For those of you who are really interested in this facit of philately, I suggest you try the online catalogue of WW meters. It is very thorough and interesting.
The website is at:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/International_Postage_Meter_Stamp_Catalog
I think it is well worth looking into.
Chimo
Larry Matthews
@Larry… That seems like an excellent resource. I did take a peek of some Finnish & US postage meter stamps, and they both seemed great. I think this site will be highly useful to many.