WHAT IS A SPECIMEN STAMP?
Postage stamps overprinted or perforarated "specimen" was earlier sent by each country to the
Universal Postal Union for to be distributed to the member countries as reference stamps. Nowadays specimen stamps are issued more for marketing purposes. Specimen stamps is a specialized field of stamp collecting.
Specimen stamps is a specialized field of stamp collecting. As a growing number of postal administrations
issue specimen stamps they have today also became popular for stamp collecting by country and by topic.
The specimen stamps can have the word "specimen" overprited,
itergrated in the print or perforated (perfins). Specimen stamps also
appears with the text "CANCELLED, ANNULÉ , Espécimen. Muster or as for
Japan
in japanese (mihon). Every country have their own way but often the word "specimen" is used.
