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O C / P letter bomb inspected: Office of Communications, State Department, Washington, DC marking issued during 2002 letter bomb inspection.
O Murcia: (Sp.) Orihuela Murcia, Spain, pre-adhesive postmark.
O. A.: Official Assignee, South Australia official overprint, 1868-74.
O.A.S.: On Active Service, military personnel on active duty get free ranking privilege.
O.A.T: Onward Air Transport, continuance of conveyance by air.Obali: currency in Ionian islands during British administration.
O.B.: Official Business overprint on stamps of the Philippines. _#9: occupation overprint on stamps of Russia for Batum. _#9!E: occupation overprint on stamps of Russia for Batum.
O.B.C.: (Ger.) Österreichisch-Bayerische Correspondenz (Austrian-Bavarian Mail) pre-adhesive postmark, 1840, entitled to reduced postage rate.
O.D.E.C.A.: (Sp.) Organiscion de Testados Centro Americanos; Central American States
O.H.B.M.S.: On His Brittanic Majestys Service, Great Britain official overprint on German East Africa revenue stamps, 1915.
O.H.E.M.S.: On His Exalted Majestys Service, overprint on stamps of Egypt for official use, 1922-23. O.H.H.S.: On His Highnesss Service, overprint on stamps of Egypt, official use, 1907-22.
O.H.M.S.: 1: On His/Her Majestys Service; 1978-91 Aitutaki, Cook Islands, etc. overprint. 2: official use, Canada.
O.K.C.A.: .: Russia Army of the North Issue, 1919; initials of Russian words meaning Special Corps, Army of the North; see Russia.
O.M.F. Cilicie: (Fr.) Occupation Militaire Française overprint on stamps of France, occupation of Cilicia, Syria, Offices in Turkey, 1920-22.
O.M.F. Syrie: (Fr.) Occupation Militaire Française; overprint on stamps of France, for Syria and Cilicia; 1920-22: French military occupation, Turkey/Ottoman revenue stamps; see Cilicia.
O.M.Y.: in cancel; Odessa Local Administration.
O.N.F. Castellorizo: Occupation Navale Française, French Naval Occupation, overprint on stamps of French Office in Levant for Castellorizo.
O.N.M.I.: Opera Nazionale Maternitŕ Infanzia, (National Organization for Maternity and Child Welfare), overprint on stamps of Fiume.Onoranze/Al Duca Degli/Abruzzi: honor Duke Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, overprint on stamps of Somali, 1932.
O.P.: (Ger.) Orts Post; overprint for local post.
O.P.A.: Osterreichische Post Amt (Aust.) Austrian Post Office, 1820.
O.P.Continental: United Kingdom postal strike; local post 1971
O.P.D.: (Ger.) oberpostdirektion, overprint, Upper Postal Directorate, Russian Zone of Germany, Post WW II., see Berlin, Germany.
O.P.D.A.: Ottoman Public Debts Administration, see A.D.P.O.
O.P.M.: overprint on stamps of the Southern Moluccas by rebels in Western Papua, 1976-79.
O.P.S.O.: On Public Service Only overprint of New Zealand officials,1892-1901.
O.S.: 1: On service, overprint on Australian States. 2: offentlig sak, Norway official stamps. 3: overprint on various British states. 4: overprint on Liberia officials.
O.S.G.R.I. New Britain: overprint on stamps of German New Guinea.
O.S.G.S.: On Sudan Government Service, overprint on Sudan officials, 1902-36.
O.T.: Obchodni Tiskovina (Czech.) overprint for commercial printed matter Czechoslovakia, 1934.
O.T.: Oregon or Orleans Territory, when used in a postmark.
O.U.S.: Oxford Union Society overprint and backprint on the Great Britain 1-penny red picturing Queen Victoria; 1859-1879.
O.W. Official: Office of Works/Official overprint on stamps of Great Britain officials, 1896-1902.
O.Z.A.K.: (Ger.) Operation Zone Adriatische Küstenland, (Operation Zone of the Adriatic Coast), consolidation of provinces created by Germany in WW II.
O/C: off centered design.
O/P: overprint or overprinted.
O: 1: Scott Catalog Number prefix for Official. 2: postal administration mark for invalid stamps used on mail at country of origin. 3: Ohio, pre-adhesive postmark 4: abbreviation for ordinary paper as opposed to other unusual paper or finish of a printed stamp.Oakway, S.C. 5: see Confederate Postmasters Provisionals.
OB: Orville J. Butler, BEP employees initials, 1906-1928; see Plate Finisher, Siderographer.
OBHV: Osterreichischer Briefmarken-Händler-Verband, Austrian Stamp Dealers Association.
OC-CO: letters in the four corners of a San Marino essay, 1864, for M. Riester.
OC: auction abbreviation for off cover.
OCA: (Sp.) Argentine Clearing Organization, labels of a private delivery firm, Buenas Aires, Argentina, started 1997, for delivery in Argentina and worldwide through other firms.
OCR: optical character reader.
OD: 1: Scott Catalog number prefix for Official Department (Argentina). 2: auction abbreviation for oddity.
OE: auction abbreviation which indicates that a cover has been opened at the end or side.
OETA: Occupied Enemy Territory Administration; World War II organization to administer occupied territories, used stamps of Great Britain overprinted M.E.F. for British Occupation of Italian Somaliland.
OF Castellorisco: Occupation Française, overprint on stamps of France for occupation of Castellorizo, 1915.
OFC: USPS abbreviation used in address for office.
OG: original gum
OH: USPS abbreviation for Ohio
OHMS: Abbreviation for On His (Her) Majestys Service. Used in perfins, overprints or franks to indicate official use in the British Commonwealth.
OK: USPS abbreviation for Oklahoma.
OL: (Fr.) origine locale (local origin), overprint on stamps of Monaco as a control mark when French carriers received them when placed in French mail boxes, up to 1904.
OL: 1: Scott Catalog number prefix for Local Official (Germany). 2: origine locale: local postmark.
OLS: auction abbreviation term for Outer Letter Sheet
OMS: (Fr.) Organisation Mondiale de la Sante; World Health Organization (W.H.O.).
OPAT: Organiacion Panamenta Antituberculosa, the Panama Tuberculosis Organization.
OPP: auction abbreviation term for Opposite.
OR: 1: USPS abbreviation for Oregon. 2: origine rurale (Fr.) postmark applied by a rural carrier on stamps of France.
OSS Forgeries: Office of Strategic Services postal forgeries for use in Japanese-occupied China during World War II.
OWASU: Old World Archaeology Study Unit.
OX: Scott Catalog number prefix for U.S. Post Office Seal (Official Seals).
OY: Scott Catalog number prefix for Life Insurance (New Zealand).
OZ: Peru.
Oahamapka: Finland
Oakland Parcel Delivery: parcel delivery firm serviced Oakland, Calif. area; used labels; year unknown.
Oaxaca: 1: overprint on stamps of Mexico for this district, 1856-1883. 2: inscription on stamps of Mexico for State of Oaxaca revenue issue during civil war, 1913-16, printed on back of post office receipt forms.
Obalky: (Czech.) envelopes.
Obchodní tiskopisy: (Czech.) printed matter.
Ober: (Ger.) high, above.
OberPostAmt: (Ger.) main post office.
Oberbogen: (Ger.) the two upper panes in a sheet of four panes.
Oberfläche: (Ger.) surface, the face of a stamp.
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht: (Ger.) German High Command, censored mail.
Oberpostdirektion: (Ger.) (OPD) Regional Directorate of Posts.
Oberschlesien: (Ger.) Upper Silesia.
Obervolta: (Ger.) Upper Volta.
Obetydlig: (Swed.) insignificant.
Obetydlig: (Swed.) insignificant.
Objetos envasados: (Sp.) wrapped and bottled article; found on local fiscals of Cadiz which were used as postal tax stamps during the Civil War.
Obligations: bonds, debentures; revenue inscription on stamps of French Colonies.
Oblique roulette: perforation cuts are set with a slant, parallel to one another.
Oblit.: auction abbreviation term for obliterator cancel (grid cancel).
Obliteracion: (Sp.) cancellation.
Obliterare speciala: (Rom.) special cancellation.
Obliterat: (Rom.) used.
Obliterating bar: a mark used to make illegible an unwanted portion of a stamp design.
Obliterating stamp: a mark, with date or time indication, used to deface stamps on mail.
Obliteration: 1) A cancellation intended solely to deface a stamp. Also called a killer; 2) An overprint intended to deface a portion of the design of a stamp, like the face of a deposed ruler.
Obliteration: 1: term used to denote a cancellation marking to deface a stamp. 2: abstempelung (Ger.); Oblitération (Fr.); Annullamento (It.); Matasellado (Sp.).
Obliterator: hand or machine stamp used to cancel an adhesive.
Obliterazione: (It.) obliteration.
Oblitérateur: (Fr.) canceller.
Oblitération de complaisance: (Fr.) canceled to order, stamps canceled by postal authorities without having been used for postage.
Oblitération de faveur: (Fr.) favor cancellation.
Oblitération de premier jour: (Fr.) first day cancel
Oblitération en barres: (Fr.) barred cancel; with stripes.
Oblitération forgé: (Fr.) forged cancel.
Oblitération lourdé: (Fr.) heavy cancellation.
Oblitération rond avec date: (Fr.) circular date stamp.
Oblitéré a plume: (Fr.) pen cancellation.
Oblitéré de complaisance: (Fr.) canceled to order.
Oblitéré: (Fr.) canceled, used, a stamp that has been employed for the postal or revenue service for it was issued.
Obock: eastern Africa on Gulf of Aden, seaport of French Somaliland; currency: 100 centimes = 1 franc 1862: acquired by France, 1883: stamps of French Colonial issue, 1888: government moved from Obock to Djibouti, 1892, Feb. 1: No.1, 1 centime lilac-blue, first stamps, Obock overprint on back of French Colonial issue, postage due stamp, 1902: Obock and Somali Coast protectorate combined under name of French Somali Coast; name Somali Coast Protectorate adopted on stamps of Djibouti; see Afars and Issas, Benadir, Djibouti, Oltre Giuba, Italian East Africa, Italian Somaliland.
Obrestez: (Rus.) see : Specimen.
Obsolescent stamp: stamp about to go off sale.
Obsolete stamp: 1: stamps that are no longer sold by the postal service. 2: stamps no longer valid for postage.
Obsolete: A stamp no longer available from post offices, although possibly still postally valid.
Obverse watermark: caused by thick paper instead of the normal thinning of the paper, making the watermark appear opaque instead of semi-transparent.
Obvert: a picture or header on the stamp sheet that is on the opposite side than then usual or normal sheet.
Occasion (bonne): (Fr.) bargain (good).
Occident: (Rom.) west.
Occupacion (timbre d): (Fr.) occupation (stamp).
Occupacion de Pascua: inscription on stamps of Chile for semi-postal for Easter Island.
Occupacion: (Sp.) occupation
Occupation Azirbayedjan: overprint on stamps of Persia, 1945-46 during Russian occupation; made by Entente officers, found to be bogus.
Occupation Française Cameroun: (Fr.) overprint on stamps of Middle Congo, French occupation of Cameroon.
Occupation Française: (Fr.) overprint on stamps of Hungary, French Occupation, 1919, see Arad.
Occupation Issue: An issue released for use in territory occupied by a foreign power.
Occupation stamp: 1: stamps issued for use in enemy territories by the conquerors. 2: stamps of the invaded country.
Occupazione Italiana: (It.) private overprint on stamps of Egypt for Italian occupation of Oasis of Siwa, 1942,occupation.
Occussi-Ambeno, Sultanate of: Timor: bogus labels sold as stamps for nonexistent territory, 1968.
Ocean Letter (OL): letter sent by radio to seafarers by Germany, England and Denmark in the early 1900s.
Ocean mail: mail carried on ocean routes.
Ocean postage: Great Britain Penny Postage cutouts from envelopes during the 1850s.
Ocean-ĺngare: (Swed.) ocean-going steamboat, steamer, steamship.
Oceania: 1915: first semi-postal stamp, 1926: first postage due stamp, 1934: first air mail stamp.
Oceanic Settlements: eastern Pacific French islands, including Tahiti, Society Islands, etc.; 1880: French colonial issues, 1882, June: overprint for Tahiti on French Colonial issues, 1892: stamps first issued, 1958: renamed French Polynesia.
Oceanie: inscription for French Oceania, 1892-1958.
Oceletisk z plochych desek kombinovany s knihtiskem: (Czech.) line engraving - flat plates in combination with typography.
Ocelotisk z plochy desk: (Czech.) line engraving, steel engraving, recess printing, intaglio, taile douce - flat plates.
Ockra: (Swed.) ochre (color).
Ockrafârgad: (Swed.) ochre-colored.
Ockragul: (Swed.) ochre-yellow (color).
Ockupationsstyrkor: (Swed.) occupation forces.
Ocru: (Rom.) ochre (color).
Octombrie: (Rom.) October.
Octubre 12, 1942: on stamps of Cuba, Ecuador and Paraguay; labels printed in 1935-36 to commemorate Columbus first voyage.
Ocupatia Bulgara: (Rom.) Bulgarian occupation.
Ocupatia Franceza în Arad: (Rom.) French occupation of Arad, see Arad.
Ocupatia Franceza: (Rom.) French occupation.
Ocupatia Germana: (Rom.) German occupation.
Ocupatia Greaca: (Rom.) Greek occupation.
Ocupatia Româna: (Rom.) Romanian Occupation.
Ocupatia Turcesc: (Rom.) Turkish Occupation.
Odborník: (Czech.) expert, specialist.
Odchylka: (Czech.) difference.
Odder: Denmark inscription for local seal.
Oddity: a collectible philatelic item that has unusual variations such as design errors, gum varieties, shade differences, odd or unusual cancels, etc. and is not a freak or an error.
Odense - Odense A. A. Local Post: Local post with first (and only) 5 and 10 řre lithographed perf 11-1/2 “Dampbaadene Paa Odense AA” local stamps issued during July 1882 The stamps were used on mails carried by boats on the Odense and Great Belt Rivers.
Odense - Odense Local Post : Odense is a city and the capital of Fyn county in N central Fyn Island ca. 83 miles SW of Copenhagen, Denmark. Local post opened 1 February 1884, with “ Odense / Bypost” local stamps being issued on the same day, and with several others being issued through 1887. The local post ceased operations on 2 June 1891.
Odense Bypost: city of Odense, Denmark, local post.
Odessa: city in the USSR, on Black Sea; 1878-1881, city in Russia, local post, see Zemstvo, 1919-Jan. 30, 1920: overprint for Polish consular post in Odessa, Russia 1941: Romanian occupation, local post.
Odontomčtre: (Fr.) 1866 name for perforation gauge.
Oelsnitz/Vogtl.: city in Germany, Express-Packet-beförderung, local post.
Oeneo Island, Dependency of: bogus overprint of Pitcairn island.
Oesterr: Austria, 1883-1907.
Oesterreich, S.S.: steamship marking of the Danube Steam Navigation Company built around 1910.Oesterr Post Liechtenstein: Liechtenstein, Austrian Postal Administration, 1912-20.
Oesterreich: alone or as an overprint on stamps of Germany for Austria.
Oeuvres Sociales: with cross and surtax, overprint on St. Pierre and Miquelon semi-postal.
Oeuvres de Guerre: with cross and surtax, overprint on stamps of Cameroon for semi-postal.
Oeuvres de Solidarite Française: French Colonies general issue.
Oferta: (Inicial) (Sp.): first, or opening bid at an auction.
Oferta: (Iniziale) (It.): first, or opening bid at an auction.
Off center: a stamp design that is not printed in the exact center of the paper, resulting in unequal margins around a stamp.
Off sale: stamps still valid for postal use, but no longer on sale by the post office.
Off-Center: A stamp design is not centered in relation to the edges of the stamp. Generally, off-center stamps are less desirable than stamps more nearly centered in relation to the edges. Some collectors specialize in collecting stamps that are extremely off-center.
Off. Sak: (Nor.) inscription for official stamp of Norway.
Offenbach: city in Germany, local post 1: Offenbach-Frankfurter Packet-u. Stückgut-Bef. Ges., 1890. 2: Private-Brief-verkehr, 1893-1900.
Offences Island: cinderella label, not valid for postage.
Offences of Humanity: cinderella label featuring offences of the human body.
Offene Klasse: (Ger.) open class for exhibitors.
Offentlig Sak: (O.S.) (Nor.) inscription on stamps of Norway, official use.
Offices Abroad, China: The German offices were shut in March 1917 after China entered WW I on the Allied side. The Russian offices ceased operation in Dec.1920. Most of the others, including the American office, were closed at the end of 1922. One exception was a British office in Weihaiwei, which remained open until 1930.
Offices Abroad, Morocco: The British were operating offices there well after the end of WW II. Open Mail: mail sent from one country’s exchange office to another country’s exchange office, sorted and marked at each office; rate differences ceased when prepaid international rate went into effect July 1, 1875.
Offices Abroad, Turkey: First closure was at the end of Sept. 1914, when the Ottomans entered the First World War. The Allied powers reopened their offices in1919 once they won the war. These were closed in 1923 when the nationalists assumed control of Turkey.
Offices Abroad: At various times, many nations have maintained post offices in other countries, usually because of the unreliability of the local postal system. In China and the Turkish Empire, especially, many foreign nations maintained their own postal systems as part of their extraterritorial powers. Usually, special stationery and stamps were used for these offices. Most often they were overprints on the regular issues of the nations maintaining the offices.
Offices abroad: postal agency of one country in another, usually because of the poor local postal network; special stamps were usually overprinted for these offices, mainly from the country maintaining the office.
Official First Day Cover: usually indicates that it was produced by the nations postal agency, but can be any FDC with an official government postmark..
Official cachet: 1: cachet produced by a postal administration. 2: loose term used by organizations closely associate with the issuance of a stamp.
Official cancel: a government sponsored cancel.
Official imitation: stamps printed by authority to provide specimens for an exhibition or for sale after the original dies, proofs, etc. were no longer available.
Official label: printed labels provided and possibly affixed by the postal authorities for services rendered or to be rendered beside those prepaid by use of postage stamps.
Official mail: government business mail, to be sent by government officials without postage prepayment; sometimes called Penalty Mail because the special envelopes had the slogan Penalty For Private Use $300.
Official notice: post office handstamp warning recipient that envelope may contain Counterfeit Money and letter with contents should be returned to the local post office; contents known as green goods to postal officials; prevalent in late 1800s.
Official paid stationery: postal stationery used by government departments, or provided for the public to reply to government offices.
Official reprint: stamps reprinted at a later date by the original issuing entity from the original
Official seal: a label, in stamp form, issued by the Post Office to seal mail and parcel post that has opened in transit or that may have been opened for postal inspection of contents.
Official stamp: valid only on official mail of a government agency, or their agents; may be called service stamps; when inscribed or overprinted for specific departments, they are known as department stamps.
Official: 1: Tanganyika overprint on stamps of Kenya and Uganda; Basutoland overprint, official use, 1959-60. 2: overprint on stamps of British Guiana, 1875-77. 5: bogus overprint on Great Britain 1d red of 1864 Official Service: overprint on stamps of Liberia for official use.
Official: 1: of or related to the government. 2: stamps or stationery issued for use by government departments in the course of official business.
Official: Stamp or stationery issued solely for the use of government departments and officials. Such items may or may not be available to collectors in unused condition from a post office.
Officially flown: covers flown with postal authorization.
Officiel nytryk: (Dan.) official reprint.
Officiel: 1: overprint on stamps of Luxembourg, Switzerland officials. 2: on stamps of Iran, officials denotes genuiness (1885-87). 3. specialized catalogue of Belgium and former colonies.
Officiella maximikort: (Swed.) official maximum cards.
Officiella minneshäften: (Swed.) official souvenir booklets.
Officiella minneskort: (Swed.) official souvenir cards.
Officiella utställningskort: (Swed.) official exhibition cards.
Officiella ĺrsböcker: (Swed.) official yearbooks.
Officina de Tanger: Tangiers local post
Offisieel-Official: (Afrikaaans) official; South West Africa.
Offisieel: (Without Official) (Afrikaaans) overprint South West Africa for official use.
Offrant (au plus): (Fr.) to the highest bidder.
Offre: (Fr.) an (auction) bid.
Offset lithography: printing process consists of transferring an image from an aluminum or zinc plate to a rubber blanket; the image is then transferred from the rubber blanket to the paper running through the machine.
Offset printing: the use of an aluminum plate that is photographically treated to retain the positive stamp image, while attracting ink, while the non-design areas repel the ink; the offset plate transfers the image to a rubber blanket roll (a negative image) that transfers the design to paper for the finished product.
Offset: 1) A printing process that transfers an inked image from a plate to a roller. The roller than applies the ink to paper; 2) The transfer of part of a stamp design or an overprint from one sheet to the back of another, before the ink has dried (also called set off). Such impressions are in reverse. They are different than stamps printed on both sides.
Offset: 1: reverse impression from the face of a sheet of stamps onto the back of another sheet. 2: Abklatsch (Ger.)
Offsetdruck: (Ger.) offset printing.
Offsettryk: (Dan.) seeTryk - Offset.
Oficial: (Sp.) overprint on stamps of Portugal and Spain for official use.
Oficina correos: (Sp.) post office.
Oficina de cambio: (Sp.) postal exchange office, used at Cubas military headquarters in Angola, 1985.
Oficina de correos: (Sp.) post office.
Oficina filatelica del estado: (Sp.) State Philatelic Bureau, opened by the Nationalists at Salamanca in 1937.O.G.: auction abbreviation term; see Original gum.
Ofrankerad: (Swed.) unstamped, not stamped.
Ofset: (Czech.) offset printing.
Ofsettpressen: (Swed.) offset press.
Ofszetnyomat: (Hung.) offset printing.
Ogdens Express Co.: private baggage delivery firm serviced northern New Jersey cities and New York City; used labels; year unknown.
Ogn: Oregon, pre-adhesive postmark
Oh-My-Hair: fantasy by the American Journal of Philately.
Ohio: U.S. state March 1, 1803; taken from part of Northwest Territory; Enabling Act passed Nov. 29, 1802; Congress admitted as state in 1953.
Ohne falz: (Ger.) never hinged.
Ohne gummi: (Ger.) without gum.
Ohne wasserseichen, o.Wz: (Ger.) without watermark.
Ohu Post: inscription on stamps of Estonia for air mail.
Oil Rivers Protectorate: former British protectorate in West Africa; currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling 1852, Jan. 29: British Steam Africa Navigation Company granted contract to carry mails to West Africa, used British stamps, 1879, Jan. 1: British West Africa colonies joined the UPU, 1884, July: British protectorate started, British Royal Niger Company, 1886: charter granted to The Royal Niger Company to administer territory, 1887, Oct. 18: Niger Districts Protectorate established, 1891, Nov.-July 1892: used stamps of Britain, 1892, July 20: British Protectorate / Oil Rivers,overprint on British stamps, stationery, 1893, May 12: became Niger Coast Protectorate, overprint on British postal stationary, 1894, Jan. 1: distinctive stamps and overprinted postal stationery issued for Niger Coast Protectorate, 1895, April: overprinted post cards issued for Niger Coast Protectorate, 1899: company gave charter to the Crown, 1900, Jan. 1: superseded by the two new colonies, Protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria, 1914: amalgamated as Crown Colony of Nigeria; see Nigeria.
Oilette: name given to a postcard that was made to resemble an oil painting.
Oiseaux: (Fr.) birds (thematic).
Ojen: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War Nationalist,1937.
Okergul: (Nor.) ochre-yellow (color).
Okeridge Motor Service: United Kingdom postal strike; local post 1971.
Okhansk: city in Russia, local post, 1871-1913, see Zemstvo.
Okker: (Dan.) ochre (color).
Okkergul: (Dan.) ochre-yellow (color).
Okla.: abbreviation for Oklahoma prior to Zip Code usage.
Oklahoma: U.S. territory May 2, 1890, state Nov.16, 1907; taken from Oklahoma and Indian Territories.
Okraj: (Czech.) margin (of stamp[s]).
Oktober: (Dan., Nor., Swed.) October.
Október: (Hung.) October.
Okupace albánsky: (Czech.) Albanian occupation.
Okupace americky: (Czech.) American occupation.
Okupace australsky: (Czech.) Australian occupation.
Okupace belgicky: (Czech.) Belgian occupation.
Okupace brazilsky: (Czech.) Brazilian occupation.
Okupace britsky: (Czech.) British occupation.
Okupace bulharsky: (Czech.) Bulgarian occupation.
Okupace ceskoslovensky: (Czech.) Czechoslovakian occupation.
Okupace cesky: (Czech.) Czech occupation.
Okupace chorvatsky: (Czech.) Croatian occupation.
Okupace chílsky: (Czech.) Chilean occupation.
Okupace cínsky: (Czech.) Chinese occupation.
Okupace dánsky: (Czech.) Danish occupation.
Okupace estonsky: (Czech.) Estonian occupation.
Okupace finsky: (Czech.) Finnish occupation.
Okupace francouzsky: (Czech.) French occupation.
Okupace holandsky: (Czech.) Dutch occupation.
Okupace indicky: (Czech.) Indian occupation.
Okupace italskie: (Czech.) Italian occupation.
Okupace japonsky: (Czech.) Japanese occupation.
Okupace jihoafricky: (Czech.) South African occupation.
Okupace litevsky: (Czech.) Lithuanian occupation.
Okupace lotyssky: (Czech.) Latvian occupation.
Okupace nemecky: (Czech.) German occupation.
Okupace peruánsky: (Czech.) Peruvian occupation.
Okupace polsky: (Czech.) Polish occupation.
Okupace portugalsky: (Czech.) Portuguese occupation.
Okupace pákistánsky: (Czech.) Pakistani occupation.
Okupace rakousky: (Czech.) Austrian occupation.
Okupace rumumsky: (Czech.) Romanian occupation.
Okupace rusky: (Czech.) Russian occupation.
Okupace slovensky: (Czech.) Slovakian occupation.
Okupace sovetsky: (Czech.) Soviet (USSR) occupation.
Okupace spanelsky: (Czech.) Spanish occupation.
Okupace srbsky: (Czech.) Serbian occupation.
Okupace svedsky: (Czech.) Swedish occupation.
Okupace thajsky: (Czech.) Thai occupation.
Okupace turecky: (Czech.) Turkish occupation.
Okupace uhersky: (Czech.) Hungarian occupation.
Okupace ukrajinsky: (Czech. Ukrainian occupation.
Olajbarna: (Hung.) olive-drab, olive-brown (color).
Olajzöld: (Hung.) olive-green (color).
Olanda, olandez: (Rom) Netherlands (Holland), Dutch (adj.).
Olanda: (It.) Netherlands
Olasz Cyrenaica: (Hung.) Italian Cyrenaica.
Olasz Szomália: (Hung.) Italian Somaliland.
Olasz: (Hung.) Italian.
Olaszország, olasz: (Hung.) Italy.
Olautoland: British Colonial Royal Wedding frames from book Surreal Stamps and Unreal Stickers.
Old paper: a tough, semi-transparent paper used during the 1860s.
Old stamps not recognized: handstamp used for issues declared invalid for postage; used during
Oldenburg: German State, located on North Sea in northwestern Germany; currency: 30 silbergroschen = 1 thaler, 30 groschen = 1 thaler 1852, Jan. 1: joined the Austria-Prussian Postal Union, 1852, Jan 5: No.1, 1/30 thaler black, issued its first stamps with fractional denominations and multiple currency values, 1868, Jan.1: stamps of the North German Confederation, 1870: became part of the German Empire.
Oldest known illustration of a postal vehicle: bas-relief dated about 250 B.C. shows a two-wheeled chariot of the Roman postal service.
Oldest postal services: China about 4000 B.C., Egypt and Assyria about 3000 B.C.
Oldham, Ashton & Guide Bridge Railway: British railway local post.
Olefactory: stamp issues that when rubbed emit an odor, used for chocolate stamps of Switzerland, perfume issue of Norfolk Island.
Oleomargarine: U.S. Internal Revenue stamp for oleo manufacturers, 1886-1935.
Olias: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War, Nationalist, 1937-38.
Olika: (Swed.) different.
Oliv-galben: (Rom.) yellow-olive (color).
Oliv: (Rom.) olive (color).
Oliva: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War, Republican, 1937.
Olivakt brungul: (Swed.) olivish brown-yellow (color).
Olivakt gulbrun: (Swed.) olivish yellow-brown (color).
Olivakt orangebrun: (Swed.) olivish orange-brown (color).
Olivegrönt pĺtryck: (Swed.) olive-green surcharge.
Oliven: (Dan., Nor.) olive (color).
Olivenbrun: (Dan., Nor.) olive-brown (color).
Olivengrĺ: (Dan., Nor., Swed.) olive-grey (color).
Olivengrön: (Swed.) olive-green (color).
Olivengrřn: (Dan.) olive-green (color).
Olivengrřnn: (Nor.) olive-green (color)
Olivengul: (Dan., Nor.) olive-yellow (color).
Olivensort: (Dan.) olive-black (color).
Olivensvart: (Swed.) olive-black (color).
Olivovohnedá: (Czech.) olive-brown (color).
Olivovy: (Czech.) olive (color) (adj.).
Olivovzelená: (Czech.) olive-green (color).
Olivová: (Czech.) olive (color) (adj.).
Olivoyla: bogus Island Queendom of Popeyes girlfriend Olive Oyl.
Olkusz: city in former Austrian-occupied Russian Poland, local post overprint, 1918-20.
Olleria: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War, Republican, 1937.
Olomouc: city in Czechoslovakia, local post, c1945.
Olonetz: see Aunus.
Olsztyn-Allenstein: overprint on stamps of Germany; see Allenstein, Poland.
Olsztyn: (Pol.) Allenstein.
Olten: city in Switzerland, local airmail, 1913.
Oltre Giuba: strip if land, parallel to the Juba River, aka Italian Jubaland; currency:100 centesimi = 1 lira 1924: ceded to Italy by Great Britain, 1925, July 29: No.1, 1 centesimo brown, Oltre Guiba overprint on stamps of Italy, regular issue and postage due, 1926, June 1: semipostal for Italian Colonial Institute, 1926: incorporated into Italian Somalia, 1936: became part of Italian East Africa, see Jubaland.
Oluja: Croatia overprint, bogus.
Olympiade gioce: (It.) Olympic games (thematic).
Olympic Couriers: United Kingdom postal strike; local post 1971.
Olympic Games: common design on stamps of Portugal and Colonies, 1972.
Olympische spiele: (Ger.) olympic games (thematic).
Oman Imamate State: bogus stamps for Arabian sultanate
Oman, State of: bogus stamps for Arabian sultanate; not to be confused with genuine sultanate.
Oman: (Muscat and Oman) Sultanate on Arabian Peninsula; official name of postal administration: Ministry Of PT & T currency: 12 pies = 1 anna, 16 annas = 1 rupee, 100 naye paise = 1 rupee (1957), 64 baizas - 1 rupee (1966), 100 baizas = 1 rial saidi (1970) 1864-1947: British post office opened under Indian administration, stamps of India used, 1875, Aug. 17: joined the UPU, 1944, Nov. 20: No.1, 3 pence slate, first stamps and officials issued, stamps of India with Arabic overprint for use in Muscat only, 1947, Dec. 20: stamps of India overprinted Pakistan used, 1947, Dec. 20-Dec. 29: stamps of India handstamped Pakistan for local use, 1948, April 1: surcharge on British stamps for British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia, used in Abu Dhubi, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Muscat, and, Qatar, 1966, Apr. 30: Oman Sultanate took over postal administration of Muscat and Oman, issued first stamps under its own postal authority, 1970-pre: officially known as Muscat and Oman, 1970: name changed to Oman, 1971, Jan. 16: first stamps inscribed Sultanate of Oman, 1971, Dec. 25: first semipostal issued for UNICEF.
Omfattande: (Swed.) comprehensive.
Omfattende: (Dan., Nor.) comprehensive.
Omgravert: (Nor.) re-engraved.
Omis: (Fr.) omitted, missing.
Omnia juncta in uno: (Latin) All joined in one inscription referring to the international character of the Shanghai Municipal Council.
Omnibus Issue: An issue released by several postal entities celebrating a common theme. Omnibus issues may or may not share a keytype design.
Omnibus issue: a common theme simultaneously used on the stamps of several different countries.
Omrĺde: (Dan., Nor.) territory, seeGebet.
Omslag till smĺpaket: (Swed.) wrappers for small parcels.
Omvendt Vandmćrke: (Dan.) inverted watermark.
Omvendt: 1. (Dan., Nor.) inverted, 2. (Nor.) reversed.
Omvänt vattenmärke: (Swed.) inverted watermark.
Omvänt: (Swed.) inverted.
On C.G.S.: On Cochin Government Service; overprint on official stamps of India for Feudatory State of Cochin.
On Foreign Service: found in 1918 postmark and censor handstamp permitting the cover to pass through the U.S. mail system without charge.
On H.M.S.: On Her/His Majestys Service, overprint on stamps of Somaliland Protectorate, Chamba State, India officials.
On K.D.S.: On Kishengarh Durbar Service, overprint on Feudatory State of Kishengarh, India official, 1918.
On L.F.S.: On Local Funds Service, private overprint on stamps of India to prevent theft.
On Paper: Stamps on paper, usually used stamps, that still bear portions of the original envelope or wrapper upon which they were used.
On Piece: A stamp on a portion of the original envelope or wrapper showing all or most of the cancel.
On S.S.: On State Service overprint on Feudatory State of Travancore, India officials.
On S.S.S.: On Sirmoor State Service, overprint for Feudatory State of Sirmoor, India official, 1885.On State Service: overprint on official stamps of Iraq, British Mandate.
On Service: overprint on stamps of Ceylon officials.
On cover: stamps that are on the original envelope and may also be tied (postmark on stamp and cover tying the two together) to cover.
On paper: stamps that still have paper portions of the original envelope or wrapper stuck to them.
On piece: a stamp attached to the original portion of the envelope or wrapper with enough of the cancel showing to ensure authenticity.
OnB: auction abbreviation term for On Board (Zeppelin Mail cachet).
Onda: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War, Republican, 1937.
Ondara: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War, Republican, 1937.
Onderkant: (Dut.) bottom.Onderbroken: (Dut.) broken.
Ondulé: (Fr.) wavy.
One Cent Despatch: U. S. local post, Baltimore, Md, Washington, D.C., 1856.
One Cover Collection: consists of a cover from every country in the world.
One Directional Imperforate: term given to pairs or more found without either horizontal or vertical separations.
One Farthing: surcharge on stamps of Bermuda for temporary use to mail newspapers; 1901.
One Frame Exhibits: material is confined to one frame only, may include all classes and themes.
One Hundred Years: inscription on centenary issue, New South Wales 1888.
One Pnny: error surcharge on 1885 Malta issue; found once on each pane.
One way perforator: a perforating machine that applies perforations to the sheet in one dimension at one operation.
Onfiro: (Ice.) Onfiroinga or Onundarfirsi, local post.
Onil: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War, Republican, 1937.
Onsdag: (Dan., Nor., Swed.) Wednesday.
Onteniente: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War, Republican, 1937.
Ontur: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War, Republican, 1937.Onza: currency unit in Spain.
Open Class exhibits: may include all material centering on a subject, judging for rarity is omitted.
Open End Auction: Internet auction that keeps going until there are no bids within a 5-minute time span.
Open transit: mail from one country to another, usually in small quantities, sent to the U.S. for processing and dispatching.
Opend by Rebells: earliest known example of censor mark, applied to letters detained by the Jacobites Rebellion, Scotland and England, 1745-46.
Opened up: refers to a die that is worn and redone by an engraver to improve the quality of the die.
Opening price: beginning selling price of the lot; can represent one bid over the second highest book bid, the highest book bid or the reserve price for the lot.
Operation Deepfreeze: cachet applied to covers on board ships to the Antarctic during the 1997-98 season.
Operation Gum Gum: British police operation to eliminate wholesale processing (eliminating the cancel) of used British stamps, 1989.
Operation Highjump: cachet applied to covers on board ships to the Antarctic during the 1996-97 season.
Operation Papua Merdeka: Papua Freedom Movement labels.
Operazione Alba: military postmark used by Italian forces in Albania, 1997.
Opinions: series of books published by the Philatelic Foundation on expertizing.
Opium War: mail from British military ships engaged in the China conflict of 1840-42, when Chinese high commissioner Lin Tse-hsu confiscated and destroyed 20,000 chests of opium
Opium ship letters: 1820-47; mail carried on ships with an opium cargo sailing to China from various nations throughout the world.
Oplata Skarbowa: revenue stamp of Poland.
Opochka: city in Russia, local Zemstvo issue, 1876-94.
Oppgravere: (Nor.) (printing plate) retouch.
Opposite the Post Office: term used in advertising in cities to emphasize location.
Opt.: 1, Overprint. 2. (Rom.) eight (number).
Optesprezece: (Rom) eighteen (number).
Optical Character Reader (OCR): An automated mail processing machine that optically scans letter mail, locates the address and translates the address information into a bar code representation of the ZIP+4 delivery point bar code.
Optical Character Reader (OCR): mail-processing machine that reads an address and translates it into a sprayed on bar code.
Optiforma Press: six-color webfed Goebel offset press put in service for coils about 1985; officially known as presses 42 and 43.
Or K.C. Novita: Serbia.
Oradea: (Nagyvárad) Eastern Hungary, located in Romania; WW 1-pre: Hungarian, 1919: stamps of Hungary overprinted by Romania as second Transylvania issue.1945: surcharged stamps of Hungary, issued by Russia to commemorate its being handed back to Romania.
Orange Free State: Dullsville, Nightsky Bethlehem and orangeless tree; inscriptions, unissued Great Britain cinderellas by David Horry, 2001.
Orange Free State: former Boer Republic in South Africa; 1854: established as a Boer republic, 1866: De La Rue, U.K., printer; first Postmaster General appointed, 1868, Jan.-74: first stamps issued, but outgoing mail required stamps of Orange Free State and Cape Colony, 1898, Jan.: became member of UPU, 1900, Mar.19: British Amy took over the Posts and Telegraphs Office; produced overprinted provisional, Victoria Regina Imperatrix, VRI, 1900, May 28: became Orange River Colony attached to the British Crown, see Orange River Colony.
Orange River Colony: former British colony in South Africa; previously known as Orange Free State; 1900, May 28: formerly Orange Free State, 1900, Aug.-1902: overprint on stamps of Cape of Good Hope, 1903, Feb.: definitives issued, 1910, June: combined with other territories to form the Union of South Africa, 1913: only stamps of South Africa used.Orang(j)e Vrij Staat: (Afrikaan) Orange Free State.
Orange-orangegul: (Swed.) orange - orange-yellow (color).
Orangeakt brun: (Swed.) orangish-brown (color).
Orangeakt gul: (Swed.) orangish-yellow (color).
Orangeakt röd: (Swed.) orangish-red [brick-red] (color); seeTegelröd.
Orangeakt: (Swed.) orangish (color).
Orangebrun-gulakt orangebrun: (Swed.) orange-brown - yellowish orange brown (color).
Orangebrun: (Dan., Swed.) orange-brown (color).
Orangeburg coil: issued January 24, 1911, in Orangeburg, NY, for the Bell Pharmaceutical Co.
Orangefarvet: (Dan.) orange (color).
Orangefristaten: (Dan.) Orange Free State.
Orangegul-orange: (Swed.) orange-yellow - orange (color).
Orangegul: (Dan., Swed.) orange-yellow (color).
Orangeröd - tegelröd: (Swed.) orange-red - brick-red (color).
Orangeröd: (Swed.) orange-red (color).
Orangerřd: (Dan.) orange-red (color).
Oranjefristaten: (Swed.) Orange Free State.
Oransje: (Nor.) orange (color).
Oransjebrun: (Nor.) orange-brown (color).
Oransjegul: (Nor.) orange-yellow (color).
Oransjerřd: (Nor.) orange-red (color).
Oranzovocervená: (Czech.) orange-red (color).
Oranzovohnedá: (Czech.) orange-brown (color).
Oranzovozlutá: (Czech.) orange-yellow (color).
Oranzovy: (Czech.) orange (color) (adj.).
Oranzová: (Czech.) orange (color) (adj.).
Orcades (les): (Fr.) Orkneys (the).
Orch(h)a: India Feudatory State; 1897: stamps prepared but never issued, 1913: first local stamps, 1950, Apr. 30: stamps discontinued, now uses stamps of Republic of India.
Orchid Issue: nickname for the U.S. 80˘ Hawaii airmail stamp depicting Diamond Head Mt. farmed by palm trees.
Ord: auction abbreviation term for Ordinary (paper).
Order of the Tie: formed in Windsor, Canada to honor good collectors and good sports.
Ordinaries: former U.S. term for definitives or regular issues.
Ordinary usage: the correct rate of postage applied for the correct usage.
Ordinary: overprint on official stamps of Liberia to make stamps valid for ordinary postage.
Ordinateurs: (Fr.) computer (topic).
Ordlista: (Swed.) symbols.
Ordnung: (Ger.) decree.Öre: currency unit in Denmark, Greenland, Norway, Sweden money unit.
Ore.: abbreviation for Oregon prior to Zip Code usage.
Oregon: U.S. territory Aug. 14, 1848, state Feb. 14, 1859; taken from Oregon area.
Orel: (Czech.) eagle.
Orense: province in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War Nationalist and Republican, 1936-38.
Organisation Internacionale pour les Refugies: (Fr.) International Organization of Refugees overprint on Switzerland officials,1948-50.
Organisation Meteorologique Mondiale: (Fr.) World Meteorological Organization overprint on Switzerland officials.
Organisation Mondiale de la Sante: (Fr.) World Health Organization overprint on Switzerland officials.
Organizaciones colectivizadas: (Sp.) government organizations which were socialized by the Republican government during the Civil War.
Organizatia Natiunilor Unite: (Rom.) United Nations Organization.
Orgheef: city in Russia, local post, 1871-1893, see Zemstvo.
Orgiva: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War, Nationalist, 1937.
Orient, S.S.: steamship marking of the Danube Steam Navigation Company built around 1860s, for lower Danube lines.
Oriental: (Fr.) East, Eastern.
Orientale: (Fr.) generally means “East” when used with a country name.
Original Gum: The adhesive coating on a mint or unused stamp or envelope flap applied by a postal authority or security printer, usually before the item was issued. Upon request of stamp collectors, postal authorities have at some times offered to add gum to items first issued ungummed.
Original gum: (OG) gum which is in the original state as applied by the printer and appears untouched by a hinge, another auction definition states: unused with original gum disturbed by previous hinging, which may still be attached..
Original: a stamp from the first issue and not a reprint or later issue.
Originalgummi: (Dan.,Nor.) original gum.
Originel: (Fr.) pristine (condition).
Orihuela: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War, Republican, 1937.
Orizava: overprint on stamps of Mexico for this district, 1856-1883.
Orizontal, orizontala: (Rom.) horizontal.
Orkneys, South: Falkland Island Dependencies, Antarctica; 1944, Feb.21, first stamps issued.
Orleans Territory: U.S. territory Oct. 1, 1804; became State of Louisiana, May 1, 1812.
Orlof: overprint on stamps of Iceland for holiday or vacation savings, considered fiscal stamps.
Oro Pastas: inscription on air mail stamps of Lithuania.
Orono Match Co.: see Private die match proprietary stamps.
Oropesa: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War, Republican, 1937.
Orosz: (Hung.) Russian.
Oroszország: (Hung.) Russia.
Orphelins de la Guerre: War Orphans inscription on stamps of French semi-postal.
Orts Post: inscription on Zurich cantonal stamps of 1850, stamps of Switzerland, local post.
Ortspostmarke: (Ger.) local stamp created by Austrians to provide service when Austria recaptured territory occupied by Italy, June 15, 1918..Osa: city in Russia, local post, 1889-1911, see Zemstvo.
Osakeantiaktieemissin: (Finn.) Stock Share Issuance; Finnish documentary stamps, 1922.
Osch: Schilling; currency used in Austria.
Oschatz: city in Germany, Courier local post, 1893.
Oslo: City and capital of Norway, and also seat of Akershus county, in SE Norway at N end of Oslo Fjord (an inlet of the Skagerrak [also Skagerak] arm of the of the E central North Sea), extending inland ca. 80 miles, see Christiania.
Osmanli Postalari 1337: overprint on Turkish revenue stamps; Turkey in Asia.
Osnabruck: city in Germany, local post, Boten-Comtoir H. Witte, c1860-78.
Ossetia: bogus Russian local overprint.
Ossola: city in Italy, local post, C. Nazionaldi Liberazione, c1944.
Ostafrikanische Gemeinschaft: (Ger.) Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika.
Ostashkof: city in Russia, local post, 1878-1897, see Zemstvo.
Ostasiatische Expeditionskorps: (Ger.) East Asiatic Expeditionary Corps, July 1900.
Osten: city in Poland, overprint on stamps of German for Poland, German occupation, 1939.
Oster: city in Russia, local post, 1885, see Zemstvo.
Osterreichische Post: (Ger.) Austria post.
Osterreichische Staatsdruckerei: (Ger.) Austrian State Printing Works.
Ostmark: currency in East Germany.
Ostraca: ancient pieces of clay with writing on them, singular form is ostracon.
Ostrof: city in Russia, local post, 1875-1910, see Zemstvo.
Ostrogozhsk: city in Russia, local post, 1871-1885, see Zemstvo.
Ostroleka: city in German-occupied Russian Poland, local post overprint, 1918-20.
Ostropa-Osteuropäische Briefmarkenausstellung: (Ger.) East European Stamp Exhibition, 1935, held in Konigsberg, East Prussia.
Ostrov: (Czech.) island.
Ostrovy: (Czech.) islands.
Ostrumelien: (Dan., Ger.) Eastern Roumelia.
Ostrów Mazowiecka: city in German-occupied Russian Poland, local post overprint, 1918-20.
Ostämplat utan gummering: (Swed.) unused, no gum.
Osuna: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War, Nationalist, 1937.
Osvobozeni: city in Czechoslovakia, liberation local post, c1945.
Osztrák posta Kréta: (Hung.) the Austrian post office in Crete.
Osztrák posta Levanta: (Hung.) the Austrian post office in the Levant.
Osztrák postaigazgatás magyarországon: (Hung.) the Austrian postal administration of Hungary. Austrian postage stamps were used in Hungary from 1 June 1850 through 1871.
Osztrák-magyar katona posta: (Hung.) Austro-Hungarian military post.
Osztrák: (Hung.) Austrian (adj.), see Ausztria.
Otandat: (Swed.) imperforated.
Other articles: a category of international mail that is made up of various classes of printed matter, matter for the blind and small packets.
Otivar: city in Spain, local post, Spanish Civil War, Nationalist, 1936-38.
Ottawa: formerly Bytown, Canada.
Otte: (Dan.) eight (number).
Otto plates: 1883 reissue of South Africa of Cilliers Printings of PretoriaOu: Ouguiya; currency unit in Mauritania.
Ottoman Empire: 1: Constantinopoli, Egypt, see Interpostal seals,1867-71. 2: Turkish Empire.
Otvorenie Slovenskeno: overprint on stamps of Czechoslovakia for Slovakia, 1939.
Otwock: city in German-occupied Russian Poland, local post overprint, 1918-20.
Oubangi-Chari: former French territory in western Africa; currency: 100 centimes= 1 franc 1915: stamps of Middle Congo overprinted Oubangui-Chari-Tchad, 1916: first semipostal issued, 1922: stamps of Middle Congo overprinted Oubangi-Chari, 1924: stamps overprinted Afrique Equatorial Française, 1931: first stamps issued, 1936-59: used stamps of French Equatorial Africa, 1948: known as the Central African Republic, see Ubangi-Shari.
Oubangui - Chari - Tchad: overprint on stamps of Middle Congo for Ubangi Shari Chad, 1915.
Oubangui-Chari A.E.F.: overprint on postage due labels of France, 1931.
Oudeypoor Palumpoor: Indian State produced as a German fantasy issue in 1889.
Ouest: (Fr.) West.
Ouganda: (Fr.) Uganda.
Ouguiya: currency unit in Mauritania.
Out of hours: Finnish term for fee paid when mail is posted outside normal post office hours.
Outer Islands Agents: United Kingdom postal strike; local post 1971
Outline type: name for an open type where the strokes are drawn in outline format.
Outre-Juba: (Fr.) Jubaland.
Outre-mer (étranger): (Fr.) overseas.
Outside of the mail: addressed envelopes carried on steamship or railroad company business.
Outward portion: the part of a reply postal card that carries the card on its outward trip, distinguishing it from the reply half.
Ouvert d office pour le contrôle des devises: (Fr.) opened by the office for the control of currency, label used to reseal mail after being opened to check enclosure for currency, 1939.
Ouvert par lAutorité Militaire: (Fr.) (opened by military authority), censor marking.
Ouzbékistan: (Fr.) Uzbekistan.
Oval grill cancel: used in Buenos Aires, 1858-59, complicated design to prevent washing of stamp for reuse.
Oval meter: meters introduced in Jan. 1922 capable of printing only one fixed denomination.
Oval pattern: 1: used in Ceylon,1855-67, complicated oval design to prevent washing of stamp for reuse. 2: used in New South Wales, 1850, complicated oval pattern to prevent washing of stamp for reuse.
Ovanför: (Swed.) above.
Ovanlig: (Swed.) scarce.
Ovate bar duplex: cancel with eight to ten horizontal bars tapered at ends to form an ellipse.
Over (or Under) inking: stamps that have been received with more or less of one or more of the colors to complete the design.
Overall multiple watermark: a network pattern watermark covering all the stamps in a sheet.
Overall tagged: stamps with phosphor coating applied to their entire surface after printing; taggant is applied to the entire printed paper web.
Overcharge: see surcharge.
Overland Mail: term used for postal services operated over large areas by various means of transportation; such as the trans-continental mail carried by stage coach across the U.S. in the 1860s.
Overlay: overall printing, usually applied to light weight papers to make them opaque so that any writing on the inside is not visible outside.
Overprint (Opt.,Ovpt.): an additional printing on a stamp that was not part of the original design; for example, the Molly Pitcher U.S. stamp of 1928 has the words Molly Pitcher overprinted on top of the design; where the additional inscription changes the face value of the stamps, this is then named a surcharge.
Overprint transposed: used on stamps of South West Africa, English inscription of Afrikaans stamps, or vice versa.
Overprint: Any printing over the original design of a stamp. An overprint that changes the value of a stamp is also called a surcharge.
Overrun countries: commemorative set of U.S. stamps issued in1943-44 illustrating flags of various nations.
Overseas Courier Service: local post, Victoria, Canada postal strike, 1981.Overton & Co.: U. S. local post, New York, N.Y. Boston, Mass., 1844.
Overseas Mail: United Kingdom postal strike; local post 1971.
Oversjřisk: (Nor.) overseas (areas).
Overstemple: (Dan.) overprint, surcharge, see Overstryk.
Oversř: (Dan.) Overseas (areas).
Overton & Co.s City Mail: U.S. local post handstamp, New York, N.Y., 1844-45.
Overton & Co.s Express: S. Allan Taylor label.
Overtryk: (Dan.) overprint, surcharge, see Overstemple.
Overtrykk - Blĺtt: (Nor.) blue overprint (1905 1.50 Krone surcharge).
Overtrykk - Karmin: (Nor.) carmine overprint (1905 2.00 Krone surcharge).
Overtrykk - Lys grřnt: (Nor.) light green overprint (1905 1.00 Krone surcharge).
Overtrykk - Olivengrřnt: (Nor.) olive-green overprint (1905 1.00 Krone surcharge).
Overtrykk - Rřdt: (Nor.) red overprint (1905 2.00 Krone surcharge).
Overtrykk - Svart: (Nor.) black overprint (1906-1908 15ř and 30ř Krone surcharges).
Overtrykk - Ultramarin: (Nor.) ultramarine overprint (1905 1.50 Krone surcharge).
Overtrykk: (Nor.) overprint, surcharge.
Overtryksfarve: (Dan.) overprint color, surcharge color.
Overtryksforfalskning: (Dan.) overprint forgery, surcharge forgery.
Ovpt(d): auction abbreviation term for overprint(ed).
Owls: mail carriers in the magical world of Harry Potter.
Owney: a dog who became the symbol of the Railway Mail Service and traveled on mail trains in the1890s.
Oxford Postal & Courier: United Kingdom postal strike; local post 1971
Oxford: United Kingdom college stamp/labels; All Souls 1884; Exeter 1882; Hertford 1875; Keble 1871-76; Lincoln 1877; Merton 1876-83;Saint Johns 1884-85.
Oxia, Arcoudi and Dranonera: Greek island stamps repudiated by the government in 1963.
Oxidado: (Sp.) foxed.
Oxidation: Darkening of the ink on certain stamps caused by contact with air or light. Some inks used in printing stamps, especially oranges, may in time turn brown or black.
Oxidation: a chemical process where the color of the stamp is changed due to exposure to elements present in the air or by improper storage; is considered a damaged stamp.
Oxidized: term applied to a stamp that has been darkened from sulphurization or oxidation with age.
Oxydeé: (Fr.) oxidized.
Oymatikqn T.T.T.: (Resembles these letters) Greece.
Ozorków: city in German-occupied Russian Poland, local post overprint, 1918-20.
o.Wz, ohne wasserseichen: (Ger.) without watermark.
Ólomkék: (Hung.) livid blue (color).
Öarna: (Swed.) islands.
Öffnungszeiten: (Ger.) times of being open (post office).Off paper: stamps that have been soaked off the paper.
Ölpapier: (Ger.) gold beaters paper
Östafrica: (Swed.) East Africa.
Östberlin: (Swed.) East Berlin.
Öster: (Swed.) East.
Österreich: (Ger.) Austria.
Österreich: (Ger.) diagonal overprint on German stamps for use in Burgenland, Vienna and Lower Austria, 1945.
Österrike-Ungern: (Swed.) Austria-Hungarian.
Österrike: (Swed.) Austria.
Österrikisk: (Swed.) Austrian.
Österriske skeppspost: (Swed.) Austrian ship mail (ship post).
Östersjön: (Swed.) Baltic Sea.
Östra Skärgĺrden: (Fin.) steamship, carrying mail, serving Finland cities, late 1800s.
Öt: (Hung.) five (number).
Ötezer: (Hung.) five-thousand (number).
Ötven: (Hung.) fifty (number).
Övertryck: (Swed..) overprint, surcharge.
Övre Schlesien: (Swed.) Upper Silesia.
Övre Senegal & Niger: (Swed.) Upper Senegal and Niger.
Övre Volta: (Swed.) Upper Volta.
Övriga Norden: (Swed.) Nordic countries.
Ř: (Dan.) island.
Řer(ne): (Dan.) island(s).
Řpost: (Dan.) island post.
Řrn: (Dan., Nor.) eagle.
Řst: (Dan., Nor.) east.
Řstafrika: (Dan., Nor.) East Africa.
Řstasia: (Nor.) East Asia.
Řstasien: (Dan., Swed.) East Asia.
Řstberlin: (Dan., Nor.) East Berlin.
Řsterrike: (Nor.) Austria.
Řsterrikisk: (Nor.) Austrian.
Řsterriske skipspost: (Nor.) Austrian ship mail (ship post).
Řstersjřen: (Nor.) Baltic Sea.
Řsteuropa: (Dan., Nor.) Eastern Europe.
Řstland: (Dan., Nor.) WWII German occupied territories in northern Russia..
Řstrig-Ungarnsk Feltpost: (Dan.) Austro-Hungarian field post.
Řstrig: (Dan.) Austria (adj.).
Řstrigsk Post i Levanten: (Dan.) Austrian Offices in the Turkish Empire (Levant).
Řstrigsk: (Dan.) Austrian (adj.)
Řstrigske skibspost: (Dan.) Austrian ship mail (ship post).
Řsttyskland: (Dan., Nor.) East Germany (DDR).
Řvre Senegal og Niger: (Dan., Nor.) Upper Senegal and Niger.
Řvre Slesien: (Dan.) Upper Silesia.
Řvre Volta: (Dan., Nor.) Upper Volta.
Řvre: (Dan., Nor.) upper (side).
Řy: (Nor.) island.
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