Security Markings on British Malaya Stamps - Important Information

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IMAGES:

• Virtually every image of a chop has been enhanced in some way or other - cleaned, frames strengthened or added where missing, made from a composite of several examples, etc.
• at this time, most of the images are from the author's collection. The source of images is given where known.

DIMENSIONS OF CHOPS: [given in the second line of a chop's heading]

• Ovals: width x height, letters
• Circles: diameter, letters
• Rectangles: width x height, letters
• Unframed Chops: width, letters. If mixed upper and lowercase, then height is that of the tallest letter

MEASUREMENTS:

• Unless one can examine an actual copy of a complete chop one must estimate the size of the frame from what is visible.
• Letters are different, their height can be measured accurately even if the chop is not complete.

COLOUR: Violet and purple are seen as the same colours.

© Michel Houde

Last modified: 28 March 2007