This collection brings together seals from archival documents and postmarks from letters and postcards connected with Karlobag. Each example is considered alongside the original on which it survives, preserving its historical context and allowing its inscription and symbols to be compared with the document’s date, signatures and contents.
Official seals and postmarks serve different purposes. A seal authenticates a document or identifies an institution, while a postmark records the processing of a postal item, often including a place-name and date. The date of a document confirms the use of that impression on that particular item; it does not, by itself, establish when the seal was made or how long it remained in use.
