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Now I thought I could find info about the section 'Sealing stamps' in this section ... but only an export problem and a phone card matter are shining here :)
So it's high time for a relevant 'Sealing stamp' message .

For those who are interested:  Seal stamps is a section on LD. There are stamps that look like stamps but have no stamp function. They are vignettes that can also appear on postal items, whether or not on the back to close the cover properly.
Usually they had the purpose of: promotion, collecting funds or themed decoration (Easter, Christmas, love, sorrow, support, advertising, ...).
The main item are Charity Stamps of the type 'Tuberculosis Control'.
There are many issues of these, also for the Netherlands, worldwide. Year after year.
Have a look around. Perhaps you recognize seals in it that you have already put 'on the side' somewhere for a long time and did not know where to point them. From now on you know: in 'Sealing Stamps'. :)

One specific specialty of Tuberculosis Control stamps cannot be found in the 'Sealing stamps' section. A special one: the Jul Seals (Julen) from the Scandinavian countries.
Tuberculosis Control Seals (sponsorship in the fight against TB) has its origin in Denmark. The origin is in the Scandinavian region. There they call those things 'Jul' seals. Despite the fact that they had (and have) no postal value, they are so intertwined - for those countries - with philately (catalogues, pre-print albums, collections) that they cannot be ignored there. You can find Jul stamps in the 'Stamps' section.
This is not discussed: it is so decided and it should stay that way. Decisions provide stability for a long period of time.

Other types of Seals are eg the 'Easter Stamps' (Eastern stamps) and the 'Boys Town Nebraska' Seals . It is guaranteed that almost every collector has had a copy of this in their hands - or still does. What's not there yet ... just make a scan and add it. There really isn't much to fill in!

One of the best series in my opinion is the one from the 'Safety Museum' of Belgium (Antwerp). Mainly drawn by someone (Gaston Ebinger) who once had to temporarily step in for Pom (the author of the comics by Piet Pienter and Bert Bibber). That was in 1958.

Let us know which seal(s) impress you the most. Or where data can be supplemented. Or better yet: gather them together and add what is missing.

Sealing stamps are part of our cultural-historical heritage. There is little to be found. Let LD become a beacon here!
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For those who hadn't found it yet: there is also a Handbook Sealing Stamps.
[ edit moderator: EN-instructions, FR-instructions, DE-Anleitung )
Not very extensive: you can read it completely in less than half an hour (from front to back and from back to front).
Would you like to add to this section: first read the manual and then get to work. Thank you for that.
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Raoul62 : Do these 6 stamps fall under your definition of sealing stamps? If so, I'll add them to the catalog.

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February 06, 2022 16:43
thisismyalias 
Weakened, there are 4 closing stamps and 2 postage stamps on it.
As a whole, it is a postal item that can be entered under 'Other' because of the postmark. As a mail item, it is a unique item, and unique items are not posted on LD. It must be an item that has been created in a certain number (print run).

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Raoul62 : it was not my intention to add the envelope in its entirety, but to enter the seals (there are indeed 6 ;-)  ) individually (via Paint or Photo Editor) I certainly do.
It certainly doesn't seem to me to be about home crafts, although I have no idea about edition or origin (It is most likely Italian).
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Indeed 6 :)  The seals are loose. Usually these have to be glued to the back of an envelope, but here the shipment has gone through the entire shipping process. The postal worker on duty must have been very tolerant.
It will be a chore to make the perforation stand out, and that is quite important. I usually recommend scanning the (loose) stamps on a black background. Then the perforation is visible in full uniform. It's not about the picture alone.
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Raoul62 : searched a little further...it actually turns out to be the tabs of the various 'ship series' from Italy e.g. #4233943 
So I'm not going to enter those as a seal, and I don't think they have another place on LD.
Bon, that saves me some digital cutting and pasting again :-)
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Whew :)
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Raoul62 I appeal to your seal skills :-), but if others have information they can always respond of course.

I found some seals in an album that I put under the seals. However, I need some help with this one.

On this stamp there is no text or other indication of what this might be about. The overprint suggests that the stamp comes from Switzerland, but what it represents and what the stamp was issued for is a mystery to me. Do you have an idea? or do you not see this as a seal? Looks like it was sent by post.

thanks!

PS: I have item #9086489 entered. Do you prefer that I edit the 4 stamps with 'Paint' and add them again individually? looks neat then.
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thisismyalias 
Leave 9086489 in full. I think Erinnophilia of Belgium. A kind of semi-official commemorative stamps. Are often collected by Belgium collectors. Numbered in the OBP with Ennn. I'll have to check it out (you can also search ;).
These are normally in the stamp section: side issues follow the main thing. Like Jul stamps are also included in the stamp section.
The issue was only issued in block and sold to collectors, not to be broken into pieces. I don't think there are any collectors of Erinnophilia who would think of tearing those things to pieces (as happens in the Netherlands with those so-called 'combinations from booklets').

What the seal on the picture concerns: hard to say.
It could be a label attached to a postage stamp, or included somewhere in a sheet or block. Then it is not a seal. Such labels can only win a place in the 'Other' section.
The problem is, if there is no stamp anymore, that it becomes a search for a needle in a haystack.
Don't add for the time being. Maybe someone recognizes the image.
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I don't know much about it either.
But the stamp has a telephone receiver left and right.
And the text on the stamp is from Switzerland, it says dänk dra lüt a !
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March 19, 2022 23:09
Boekenmagazijn
Great find.
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The haystack wasn't that big after all, and you already put me on the right track (Switzerland).
It's a label that should be on a Swiss postage stamp: #6909527. So you can only put it in 'Other'. If @jummeke knows under what kind of object? I have no idea. I don't think such labels are really collected.
Not in Stamps and not in Seal Stamps.
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March 19, 2022 23:11
Damn, Boekenmagazijn was a rapper :)
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Boekenmagazijn : great! thank you. Then it is a tab and it has no independent right to exist in LD. I'm not entering the tab.

Raoul62 are indeed the stamps from Erinnophilia block E86 from 1962 with overprinted with a special cancel on the occasion of the 1964 Olympiad in Tokyo. It is not listed separately in the OBP. I will add the stamps in the series 1962 European Athletics Championships. Can you still reject those sealed off stamps?
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Come on, just found #5486103 ... you're all rap this evening ... If only I hadn't gone to a wedding reception lol
ok thisismyalias , I disapprove of that one. I can do that alone, so no danger that someone will be a rapper for that :)
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