The BPMA Handstamp Collection

December 3rd, 2009 admin

by Freya Folåsen, Cataloguer (Collections) The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) museum collection has just about any object type one can think of when it comes to the British postal service: postal stationary, pens and stamps; letterboxes and sorting machines; vehicles and uniforms. A very large part of the collection consists of handstamps: these are implements used to apply a postmark by hand. The BPMA has several thousand handstamps which are in the process of being catalogued and made available online, and 952 handstamps were added to our online catalogue yesterday. The impression of a rare Dumb Canceller Obliterating Handstamp, which has a wooden die The…


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