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October 13, 2022 17:10
dalros81
Sorry, stupid, naturally stamped...
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It must be a CTO seal. These are stamped for collectors, but have not seen a letter. Hence the gum is still intact.
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Wouldn't it be better to change 'stamped' to 'used'?
Then you have
- MNH (as the stamp came from the factory)
- unused (eraser (partly), glue it on, CTO)
- used (walked, stamped or not)

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October 13, 2022 20:03
Rather not. Then you promote the CTO. Unused is still a mutilated MNH: gum gone, gum partly gone, gum damaged, gum thumbed (as a result of not using the basic philatelic tool: the tweezers), or patch (rest).
But unused (if within the validity period, it would still have been valid for postage).
An unused stamp can in principle still be used (apart from the validity period of the stamp).
The Belgian 'Frank' stamps from 1960 can still be used for sending mail. Whether the gum is intact (MNH) or not (unused).
Try using a CTO to send mail. And ... that is still the basis of what a stamp is: useful for sending mail.

An unused one can be a temporary hole filler for those who collect MNH. A CTO does not meet this in any way.

A lower (lesser) quality simply needs to be added: CTO.
Or a ban on selling CTO on LD.
I repeat again: there are (many) collectors who are allergic to CTO. That is pure 'manufacturing' for commerce. Has nothing to do with philately (definition of a stamp). A used (really used) copy is stamped for that branch of the collection segment.
That is also the basis on which all large catalogs, whether paper or otherwise, are based. The quality (condition) determines the value.

A stamp that has a MNH market value of 40 euros, which is unused, max. 50% of that value. The same stamp could then be canceled (nice round stamp with recognizable place and date), for example 2 euros.
The CTO version, which no one is asking for, actually has no value. Many Eastern European CTOs from the 50s and 90s simply go in the trash with me.

How you designate them in your collection is up to you. But in the shop ... Suppose you ordered 'unused' to fill the hole and you get a CTO version ... guaranteed double red, and ventilation on the forum. Guaranteed.

If I order a (post) stamp in condition stamped (used), of a certain value (not a cent stamp), then I certainly don't want a CTO. And not a seal that has been seen with a ballpoint pen. That the cancellation is not perfect, or even only contains wavy lines (mainly USA stamps) does not matter to me. The stamp has 'run' (has been used for what it was made for). For others, on the other hand, this can also be a reason for negative judgment or judgment.


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October 13, 2022 20:22
CTO cancellations are still quite common today. A first day stamp on a stamp is also a CTO. This type is still widely used by most postal services.
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October 13, 2022 20:24
- unused (erase (partly) off, stick it on, CTO)
- used (walked, stamped or not)

koenkuijpers I get your logic, but I don't think it's feasible to change that right now. Thousands of collectors have placed hundreds of thousands of items in their collection as 'stamped' over the past 14 years. Then you can't suddenly change that to 'unused'.
Many collectors also have no idea that there is such a thing as cto...

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October 13, 2022 20:24
But the criterion is not whether the stamp can be reused, is it?
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MennoGo you can phase that out right? Years ago, cars didn't have seat belts, but they did have wooden wheels ;)
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I am certainly also in favor of a separate condition 'CTO'. That is in any case clearer and then collectors who attach importance to it can select on that basis. It will take the sellers a lot of effort to completely check and reclassify their stamped copies.
The biggest problem in my opinion is recognizing CTOs in some cases. Often clear, but there are indeed first-day or occasion stamps that are in principle also 'cancelled to order' and there are of course also real doubts: stamps with a very regular, real cancel but still with full gum and artificial cancels that still look strong on real. I am thinking, for example, of Czechoslovakia, which used vending machine stamps for CTO. Or stamps that are really too perfect to be true... etc.
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I don't quite agree with Raoul62 , that a CTO is a lower and lower quality. These stamps are usually undamaged, the gum is intact and there is a perfect stamp on it, which has been specially developed for this stamp. Personally, I don't consciously save these stamps either, but if I come across them, they will still be added to my collection. I really won't throw them away, really a shame. But we still live in a free world, so everyone can still have a free opinion. How long ?. Just a new quality, CTO, may be a bit of work for the collector and seller, but it will pay off in the long run.
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October 14, 2022 17:15
Well, if you already have 100 of all those Eastern European CTOs in your duplicate book ... then the rest will go in the trash. Every time you buy a 'collection' there are dozens again (per stamp). Every collector has dozens of those Eastern Bloc countries from that period (50-90) of the non-block values.
And usually with the strangest sticker residue (no real stamp stickers, because until cost too much).
Often they have also been soaked to get them free from the sheets where the young enthusiastic collector stuck them on at the time. Sometimes with tape, sometimes with stamp edges, sometimes just lick and paste.
Later also just 'torn' back from those sheets. Then you have a 'narrowing' of the paper (thin spot).

The cheapest subscriptions (eg 6 of the 9 values of a series) were sold 'en masse' in the good old days. Machine already stamped, and an inviting gum to lick.
The Panini Philately Time. When there were still hundreds of thousands of 'collectors' in the low countries :)

A number of other (non-Eastern bloc countries) eagerly participated: Arab (federal) states (emirates), North Korea, Mongolia, ...
Millions of copies (per stamp), made purely to drop on the stamp market in the West. Foreign currency in place.

After 2000, the phenomenon shifted mainly to Africa (Stamperia philately).
For me those items from Sierra Leone, Maldives (Maladives?), Mozambique, Djibouti or Togo from about 2010 have nothing to do with philately.
Rather a surrogate of Artis-Historia, but a class more expensive for those who are caught by it.

In between was the rise and boom of illegal issues, which unfortunately we house under Cinderella's on LD.
The countries where the stamp printer-dealer could not 'buy in' as an 'official postal service', masses of illegal issues, pre-stamped (cancel printed with the image: CTO) were made.
Where the board was suitable to 'sell' the official postal service of the country, masses of issues, pre-stamped (cancellation stamp printed with the image: CTO) were also made.
Issues that have never seen the country featured on them.
Directly from the stamp printer to the collector.
With specially created 'misprints', 'varieties' and 'coincidences' in edition. To make the profits even bigger.

No, really: CTO? ...
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Many collectors say, crazy CTO. Who are we to say, no it's all fake, you can't collect something like that, just throw it in the trash?.
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October 14, 2022 18:23
Raoul62
We now know what you think about it, but would you please stop pushing your opinion. There are still plenty of collectors who do like it, so please stop
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I don´t believe one can really distinguish between regular used stamps and c.t.o.
F.i. ,I bought a near complete collection of the GDR (DDR).
The guy who had assembled it,let nearly all stamps cancel either in his hometown Zwickau or in places near by.
So technically they are not c.t.o.,like then ones produced for export to the West,but they are nevertheless not from "commercial" use.
Nearly all high-face-valued  semi-postal stamps of Germany,Austria and
Switzerland (and suppose so Belgium as well) of the last 100 years are
cancelled by philatelic "use" only.Let alone the souvenir sheets.
Sure there are exceptions,but no one really can believe,that f.i. the
1930 IPOSTA or the 1933 Nothilfe souvenir sheet exist genuinely used.
There are countries,like Laos or Cambodia or take Falklands and Pitcairn
 where nearly all used stamps are c.t.o. But that does not render those
 stamps worthless.
Sure there are mass-produced c.t.o. stamps of a number of countries
what have nearly no commercial value and will hardly find a buyer.
But so are many stamps,nicely commercially used,what are just so
common,that there are no buyers for them.
As stamps of the last decades are concerned I do not like c.t.o. very much.
But as it is quite a challenge to find regular used stamps (of Germany),as 
long as they are not self-adhesive,I will by no means throw c.t.o.s into the
dustbin,but collect them as  representatives of the modern age.
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My eye is on Usage Type = Pre-stamping. What does that mean? Is that a CTO then?
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Hello koenkuijpers if you look at #3242021 and you then key in (pre-cancelling HV3) is under the title, it already becomes a bit clearer. It is not a CTO.
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October 20, 2022 22:30
Juglans I thought I understood until I saw this: #4615707
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October 20, 2022 22:55
koenkuijpers A Precancellation is a stamp that has already been validated before it was sold. For the old one this all had to be done manually, don't consider this one because that is quite an exercise. To recognize the recent ones, you can look at #1872229 and #271331 , which were stamped in advance by machine or the stamp was printed with it. Belgium used this, for example, for printed matter (no letter post) so that not every magazine in the post office had to be stamped/declared.
I leave the example #4615707 to my fellow Netherlands specialists. They are stamps that have been in a magazine as a promotional stunt (and were therefore pre-stamped and never used for postage). They are not ordinary stamps for sale at the post office.
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user-1713548 I still don't get it. Isn't a CTO also identified before he was sold?
For the record, I don't want to re-ignite the discussion, I'm just trying to understand.

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koenkuijpers Simply put a pre-stamping could still be sent by post. The letter with this stamp simply went from A to B. With a CTO stamp, A is the final station.
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October 21, 2022 22:56
koenkuijpers Juglans put it beautifully. Pre-cancelled stamps are stamps with a stamp printed on them that you use for postage. CTO are stamps that are simply sold expensive to get into your collector's album but with which you cannot send mail.
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Juglans user-1713548 Right. Pre-stamped therefore had postage value, a CTO did not. Sure, thanks for the explanations!
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koenkuijpers In many distant countries on LD we also put the 'pictures' under cinderella.
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