…the image they use to cancel stamps?
I’m looking for a particular country, (Thailand), and my googling is not going well. I know it’s called franking, but nothing I put in comes up with what I’m looking for.
I want an image of the stamp used to cancel/frank a stamp on a letter leaving Thailand, today, preferably.
Any and all hints welcome. I suspect I’m not using the right terminology. I keep getting images of postage stamps no matter what I search for, it seems.
Got any ideas?
Are you asking about postmarks?
Here are Google images of Thai postmarks.
Here is a site that talks about Thai postage. It may not be any help, but it does display a number of special issue postmarks.
ETA: Philatelic Museum of Thailand.
(If you want a photo of a hand stamp, I am not sure how successfu you will be. Thailand is sufficiently modern to be running most of their mail through machines.)
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Colibri
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It’s not clear what you are asking for,
Do you mean the equipment that applies the franking?
Do you mean an image of the postmark alone, on a plain background, without a postage stamp?
Something else?
So sorry for not being more clear, especially with the thread title, my bad!
And, no not the equipment that makes the mark, but the mark itself. On a plain background, without a stamp would be ideal, of course. But just one I could see clearly would also do.
Thomndeb, that’s pretty close, though lots aren’t Thai at all! I suspect I should have used ‘Thailand’ instead of ‘Thai’ in my searches! Doh!
Thank you all, very much, for your help!
In Philatelic language, the word you are looking for is “killer”. A Postmark is the mark stamped by the post office to indicate the place and time that the mail was processed. In addition to the postmark, there may be other printed or stamped devices, intended to deface the stamp to show that it has been used. “Killer” is a rather informal word, and if more exactness is required, might be called simply a “cancellation mark”.
Before there was machine cancellation, postal officials nearly always simply used the postmark device, struck in such a way that it defaced the stamp, often striking the piece twice, once to cancel the stamp and once to show the time and place or processing.
Franking is posting a letter with your signature in place of a stamp. Congressional members have franking privileges when sending letters to constituents about official business. I concur that the word you’re probably looking for is “postmark”.
How about the indicia?
I think the indicia is the image that’s applied by a postage meter instead of a stamp.