Norway Type BB5 Meter Stamp

Norway · 1930 · Variable (machine imprinted)

This is a catalog image of a Norway Type BB5 meter stamp, which is a machine-generated postal indicium used in place of traditional adhesive stamps. The design typically features the country name, a postal value, and sometimes a date or town mark, all imprinted by a franking machine.

Meter stamps like the Norway Type BB5 were introduced to streamline mail processing for businesses and organizations, allowing them to prepay postage directly onto envelopes or labels using a specialized franking machine, thus becoming an important part of 20th-century postal mechanization.