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Cryptic Stamps and Postal Oddities
Explore the curious world of unusual postal markings with clues on rare cancellations, secret codes, and unique handstamps used in mail history.
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Across
- 1. Mark indicating mail was forwarded
- 2. Relating to stamp collecting and postal markings
- 3. Mark indicating postage has been paid
- 5. Inspection mark applied to sensitive mail
- 9. Rare marking indicating airmail priority
- 13. Date imprint on mail item
- 14. Official mark showing mailing date and place
- 16. Modern machine readable postal mark
Down
- 4. Elaborate ornamental cancel design
- 6. Term for collecting machine-applied postal marks
- 7. Mark used to void a stamp
- 8. Fee indicated by a stamp or mark
- 10. Mark indicating traceable mail service
- 11. Mark indicating postage shortage
- 12. Manually applied postal mark
- 15. Historical stamps with unusual postal marks
- 17. Promotional inscription on stamps or cancellations
- 18. Informal term for poorly applied cancel
- 19. Printed postage mark from a machine
- 20. Mark indicating mail's travel direction
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