Imprinted stamp

[1] The printing may be flat upon the surface of the paper, or embossed with a raised relief.

[4] Today collectors much prefer to keep postal stationery items intact, because cutting destroys the postal history, the knife of the stamped envelope, the postmark and any receiving marks.

[2] Some countries permitted the use of a cut-out imprinted stamp to pay postage on another item of mail.

[5][6] Items of postal stationery with an imprinted stamp are sometimes found with adhesive stamps added to pay for additional services such as airmail, registration or the part transport of mail by a local postal service.

[8] This term also applies when an imprinted or embossed stamp is overprinted or handstamped to increase the face value.

An imprinted stamp on an Irish pre-paid envelope, used 1970.
An example of an embossed postage stamp, called an indicium, on an 1861 U.S. letter sheet. Note the raised portions.
A Hungarian telegram form with an imprinted stamp from the later part of the nineteenth century.
An imprinted stamp on an 1898 Cuba postal card .
An overprinted surcharged imprinted stamp on a Chinese zodiac "Year of the ox" postal card , 1997