Collector's Guide

The Collector's Guide presents most of the features of classical postage meter stamps. This Guide gives the collector a background to determine how his or her collection can best be collected and housed. The Guide also includes a comprehensive Postage Meter Stamp Identifier that aids in the identification of international postage meter stamps. Click the image to download the Collector's Guide.

UK Windor-Nixdorf Hyteck

ATM Catalog
1st Edition 2013

   The UK ATM catalog by John McCallum is available here. A full listing of ATM stamps provided in the UK since the first issue in 2008.

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The Canadian Meter Stamp
Study Group Newsletter
1981-2005

   The CMSG was an affiliate of the Postal History Society of Canada. From 1981 to 2005 the newsletter provided detailed descriptions of postage meter history and activities. Since 2005 current information is presented in a regular column in the MSS Quarterly Bulletin.  A collection of searchable PDF scans of every issue of the newsletter is available on the CMSG page and at the PHSC site. Also on the CMSG page is the CMSG Catalog that was presented in the NL a few pages at a time. A complete Article Index is also available.

Meters By the Numbers

  Originally meter collectors attempted to collect postage meter stamps "by the numbers."  In doing so they wanted to collect one of each meter number. That was quite possible when Pitney Bowes only had a few hundred or a few thousand units in customers' offices. When the numbers got into the millions it became somewhat more difficult to accomplish. However, a good number of collectors kept track of the meters they had seen and built user lists for many of the meter types. Some of the MSS members have been adding to these lists provided by their forefathers in the hobby. These lists are the result of literally decades of work. Here we present those lists.

Postage Meter and Postage Paid
Machine Stamps of China

Rick Stambaugh and Dee. D. Drel (1990)

The Postage Meter Stamps of China, Taiwan and PRC are described in this book. This 1990 version is out of print. The updated 1991 edition is also out of print. We offer the 1990 edition here to provide some details that might not be present in the Wikibooks edition of the complete International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog .

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The Francotype Specimen Handbook 1949-1991

1949-1991

A bit longer than 10 years ago, German collector of Francotyp postage meter material purchased a book of what appear to be specimens or essays of Francotyp meter stamps. Dozens of these print designs have never been seen in use in the many countries that they represent. It is assumed that an employee at Francotyp in Germany maintained this book but we have no more information as to its history. The collector has generously provide the images in this book for our library.

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The Meter Stamp Society Bookstore

                                                                                   US        Canada       World

                                                                                                Mexico            

Complete MSS Bulletin CD 1948-present                                        $50.00

(All MSS Bulletins as Searchable PDF Files)

Includes Homer Hemenway's Linn's articles from 1975-1982.

Mailed Via Mailomat by Douglas Kelsey       $10.00     $12.50      $16.50

(The definitive guide)

National Cash Register Company-Meter Stamps by Douglas Kelsey

(A Complete Listing)                                                $3.00        $4.00         $5.00

United States Meter Stamps, First Days    $ 6.00      $8.00       $10.00

and Earliest-Known Uses

by Douglas Kelsey

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Homer H. Hemenway's "Fun with Meters" Columns