Ship's stamp.

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I am trying to come up with a design for a ship's stamp but am at a loss to find what information is best put on it.
Any views?
And a recommended manufacturer?

Many thanks.
 
I used http://custom.bladerubberstamps.co.uk/

Easy to deal with... not the cheapest as they are in central London, but they did a great job. I did all the artwork myself though and included the ships name, SSR number together with 'British Regisitered'. I put a dashed line across the middle to allow me to either sign it, or date it, or write whatever.

No connection, just satisfied customer.
 
I agree with the above.

Great fun to use in the more officious places where you can produce the stamp, stamp your invoice/bill or whatever with a great flourish then ask whoever produced the document to sign on the dashed line along with their printed name, passport or ID Number and their Date of Birth.

p.s. Not to be recommended for use in Israel.
 
I designed my own. It's round with the ship's name and SSR number around a crude drawing of our yacht. A local stamp-maker made it up for me. I forget what it cost but it wasn't much. We haven't used it much, though it's handy for stamping books in the book-swap that you've already read, it avoids that sense of deja-vu you get by page 32. :)
 
chinita said:
p.s. Not to be recommended for use in Israel.
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Curious - why not?

Tony Cross said:
I designed my own. It's round
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I discovered during my parents' posting to Moscow that round stamps are considered by the Russians to be more important / authoritative than rectangular stamps. Also that they're very fond of stamps in general - even the guy who delivered the drinking water to the flat came with a sheaf of paperwork that he would cover with various stamp marks. So good choice in going for a round one :)

Pete
 
Sorry, in reply to prv:

Only that I would want to spend as little time with Israeli officialdom as I could.

On your second paragraph. Back in the distant mists of time in BAOR we would require a NATO travel order to drive (a civilian car) from Germany, through Belgium, Holland or France and on to the ferry.

Armed with this we could get by on just a NATO ID card - amazingly enough, very few soldiers actually had passports.

So, on the Friday morning of departure we would go around all offices and departments, stamping our Travel Orders with as many (totally irrelevant but different shaped, sized and coloured) stamps as possible.
 
chinita said:
Armed with this we could get by on just a NATO ID card - amazingly enough, very few soldiers actually had passports.
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I once flew home on leave - Germany to UK via the Netherlands - on just my MOD90 as I'd managed to leave my passport behind. That was in 2001, I don't know if it would still work.

Pete
 
We had ours made locally in a key-cutting type of shop, I provided a jpg of the logo and the required text. It cost very little and has seen almost no service.

During our many visits to port police offices in Greece I like to count the number of rubber stamps in the racks on the desk. Winner to date is Itea, where they had 24.
 
GHA said:
Would be very nice to have one but suspect to oil the wheels of immigration / customs check in a big smile, air of calmness and asking how their football/cricket team is doing works much better. :)
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Unfortunately I suspect they have seen all of that before!

Best advice I heard was to behave like a Victorian child; only speak when you are spoken to and offer no information unless they ask for it.
 
vyv_cox said:
During our many visits to port police offices in Greece I like to count the number of rubber stamps in the racks on the desk. Winner to date is Itea, where they had 24.
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Isn't it curious though how they almost never put their hand on the one the want first time? It generally takes several goes before they locate the right stamp. :)
 
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