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TIMBRE-POSTE MARQUE [1 record]

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Record 1 2016-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Postage Stamps and Stamp Cancelling
DEF

A stamp invisibly marked during production to make it positively identifiable to an automatic facer canceller.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Timbres et oblitération
DEF

Timbre portant une marque invisible que peuvent reconnaître les machines à redresser et à oblitérer.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sellos postales y obliteración
DEF

Sello […] tratado con una sustancia fosforescente sobre papel fluorescente [que se utiliza] con la máquina de procesamiento electrónico.

CONT

[...] la fabricación en España de sellos luminiscentes (con fósforo o con flúor) [...] permitirá el máximo nivel de automatización en las operaciones de clasificación y cancelación de correspondencia.

OBS

La técnica [...] consiste en imprimir barras incoloras con la materia luminiscente en el frente de los sellos o incluso cubrir todo el anverso del mismo.

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