Knowledge / Cancellation Kinds / Hand Postmark Cancellations / Quality

Hand Postmark Quality: subjective assessment of the quality of all properties of a hand postmark

perfect centered hand postmark

very good centered hand postmark

good centered hand postmark (town and date identifiable)

difficult to identify hand postmark

very difficult to identify hand postmark

unidentifiable hand postmark fragment

Hand Postmark Quality Grades: subjective perception of a hand postmark quality in different grades and conditions

Faultless Hand Postmark: hand postmark without conditional of manufacturing or wrong handling originated quality defect

Faulty Hand Postmark: common term for a hand postmark with conditional of manufacturing or wrong handling originated quality defect

Worn Hand Postmark: bad quality hand postmark from a heavily used worn stamp plate

Washed-out Hand Postmark: hand postmark which lost his colour intensity by water

Piercing Hand Postmark: relief-like hand postmark that has partially broken through the paper

Doubled Hand Postmark: hand postmark that has (partially) double contours as a result of looking up with both stamps lying close together or merging into one another