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telegraph stamp
Telegraph stamps are stamps intended solely for the prepayment of telegraph fees.〔''The Stamp Collector's Encyclopaedia'' by R.J.Sutton & K.W. Anthony, Stanley Paul, London, 1966, p.240. ISBN 0-340-17183-9〕 The customer completed a telegraph form before handing it with payment to the clerk who applied a telegraph stamp and cancelled it to show that payment had been made. If the stamp was an imprinted stamp, it formed part of the message form.〔Bennett, Russell and Watson, James; ''Philatelic Terms Illustrated'', Stanley Gibbons Publications, London (1978)〕
== Usage ==
In most countries, the cost of sending a telegram was paid using normal postage stamps. These can often be identified by their distinctive telegraphic cancels or punched holes. In some countries and at some times, special telegraph stamps were produced or postage or revenue stamps overprinted to pay the fee (e.g. Nicaragua, Ecuador). Private companies also issued telegraph stamps in countries where the telegraph network was in private ownership.
The first telegraph stamps issued might be those of The English and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Co., released in 1853. The first government-issued telegraph stamps were issued in India in January 1860.
Occasionally postage stamps ran out and telegraph stamps were used for letter postage as an emergency measure, for example in Spain in 1879.
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