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Topic: Revenue Stamps
Posted By: Daniel
Subject: Revenue Stamps
Date Posted: 20 June 2010 at 05:08
I thought I would revive and expand my post from the previous forum.
 
Stamp duty was introduced in England in 1694 during the reign of William And Mary for the purpose of funding costly wars. Specifically, the Stamp Act was introduced as 'An Act for granting to their Majesties several duties upon vellum, parchment and paper, for four years, towards carrying on the war against France'. The Stamp Office was established to collect the six rates of duty; 1d, 6d, 1shilling, 2s6d, 5s and 40shillings which would be applied to various legal and financial documents by embossing. Each embossed stamp was a different shape to prevent any possibility of fraud by simply altering the value.
 
Here is a scan of a few such revenues from my small collection:
 
 
The bottom right example shows a triple of the common 6d value used for affidavits, writs, leases, passports and marine charters. The triple example indicates two additional duty increases and was therefore used between 1714 and 1757.
 
The top right example dates from 1783 and represents six duty increases, the duty now totalling 6shillings (you have to add up all of the values embossed on the stamp to get the total value; VI PENCE VI PENCE VI PENCE 1 SHILLIG around the top of the stamp and 1 SHILLG VI PENCE 1 SHILLING at the bottom).
 
Documents were also produced on vellum and parchment which are animal skins and did not take to being embossed. Therefore, another method was required to attach embossed duty stamps, this method was called escutcheoning. It consisted of a using a separate piece of paper, called the escutcheon, and affixing it to the vellum or parchment document with an adhesive  and then embossing the escutcheon. But it was soon discovered that this escutcheon could be easily removed and re-used for fraudulent purposes. Therefore, a new method was required and this consisted of using an additional metal strip (used like a wide staple) to affix the escutcheon by making two slits through the escutcheon and document and the metal strip applied like a staple with the ends folded back behind the document. The escutcheon and metal strip are then embossed and a label applied on the back of the document over the ends of the metal strip as a further security device. The label bearing the Royal Cypher of the reigning monarch and are hence known as cypher labels. These are sometimes called the forerunners of the printed postage stamp. An example of an escutcheon type stamp can be seen in the top left and a cyher label can be seen next to it.
 
I'll post again later on this subject.
 
 



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Posted By: Daniel
Date Posted: 12 September 2010 at 08:50
Here are a couple of headers from insurance documents that are doubly attractive for the revenues and the steel engraved logo illustrations:
 


Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 12 September 2010 at 09:09
I must scan and post up a few of my doucments
Those are nice.

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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 12 September 2010 at 10:33
I like to see Revenues used in context, still attached to the documentation. Here's a scan from a 1930s UK passport with 8/- worth of revenues.
The inside cover also has a 6d orange embossed



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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 12 September 2010 at 12:01
A couple more documents picked at random, showing both a US revenue stamp and a good old 1881 1d lilac used a revenue stamp on a self explantory receipt.


And what I believe to be a page from a Japanese health or pension scheme stamp book.

A nice British example of one of these, ideally with different valued stamps, is on my shopping list.

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Posted By: Daniel
Date Posted: 31 March 2011 at 08:51
As part of a small job lot of German war Cinderellas I came across these two items:
 
 
At first they were a mystery to me but they seemed to show a military badge of some type. Quite by chance while looking through a book on D-Day I discovered that it is the insignia for the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) which was headed by General (later President) Dwight D. Eisenhower and was responsible for the D-Day invasion and emancipation of Europe through to the end of the Second World War. Here is the full colour version of the badge:
 
 
The flaming sword represents avenging Allied forces; the black, the darkness of Nazism; and the rainbow, the liberty to come.
 
This then left the question of exactly what they were. It was tempting to think that they were some sort of postage stamp but after a Google search I found a stamp company selling some. It turns out that they were used as military travel permit revenues. I couldn't find them in any of my catalogues, not even Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps & Covers but the stamp company that does have them, Rigastamps in the US, shows Yvert & Tellier (French) catalogue numbers and Bush-Cash (I have never heard of them) catalogue numbers. The one marked GRATIS is clearly used when no fee is required. The other stamp is denominated $1 and is overprinted in German Marks, the Rigastamps site shows 2 other versions of this overprinted stamp. I wonder if there were any other basic stamps, does anyone know anything else about them?
 
Here is the link to Rigastamps, they seem to carry a decent  amount of Cinderella material:
 
http://www.rigastamps.biz/servlet/StoreFront - http://www.rigastamps.biz/servlet/StoreFront


Posted By: marcadabollo
Date Posted: 05 September 2011 at 03:58
Originally posted by Daniel Daniel wrote:

As part of a small job lot of German war Cinderellas I came across these two items:
 
 
 

 
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This then left the question of exactly what they were. It was tempting to think that they were some sort of postage stamp but after a Google search I found a stamp company selling some. It turns out that they were used as military travel permit revenues. I couldn't find them in any of my catalogues, not even Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps & Covers but the stamp company that does have them, Rigastamps in the US, shows Yvert & Tellier (French) catalogue numbers and Bush-Cash (I have never heard of them) catalogue numbers. The one marked GRATIS is clearly used when no fee is required. The other stamp is denominated $1 and is overprinted in German Marks, the Rigastamps site shows 2 other versions of this overprinted stamp. I wonder if there were any other basic stamps, does anyone know anything else about them?

Daniel,
these stamps are almost always described as "military travel permit stamps" but this is a reductive definition. Actually they had the same function of consular stamps but in a period when Germany was under Allied Military Governement so had no authority to issue consular stamps or passports.

Here an example of  use of a 4 DM stamp on an Austrian passport in 1952, paying the fee for a visa to Germany (issued by a representative of the military authority controlling Germany, hence the given definition)



But the fact that these stamps had the a more broad usage than allowing travel to Germany is clearly shown by this rather battered passport issued to a German citizen in Paraguay: as said, Germany under the Allied control was not allowed to issue passports therefore Germans received a "Temporary Travel Document in lieu of passport": in this case the American consul in Asuncion, in Paraguay, acted on behalf of the Allied High Commisison for Germany for issuing a permit valid for Paraguay and Argentina to a "farmer" living at the "Hotel Germania" in Asuncion and willing to move to Argentina.



The fee for the issue of the travel document was paid with two stamps denominated in US $



I have other examples of AMG stamps on passports, but I cannot retrieve them very quickly.

The Bush-Cass catalogue mentioned in the reference you have found is a catalogue of AMG revenue stamps, so the inclusion of these stamps is perfectly right, although no notice is given of the fact that the AMG used them only in connection to Germany and not, just to mention another AMG controlled area, for travel to Trieste. Less clear is the reason why the Yvert catalogue of French revenues lists them: may be just because France was part of the Allied countries controlling Germany.

As soon as I will retrieve other passports out of my GM (general mess), I'll post more pictures.
Michele


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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 05 September 2011 at 08:01
I brief reply, but those documents above are an excellent example of how revenue stamps etc can be so much more informative than ordinary stamps and tell a story

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Posted By: marcadabollo
Date Posted: 05 September 2011 at 08:29
Steve, I would not dismiss so drastically the postage stamps which, when on letters, also may tell stories but certainly I agree with you that very often revenues are very intruguing. I started collecting passports because of the rvenues they carry, but ended up with more than 600 of them just because you can read from them pieces of life, and not always a happy one.
Michele



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Posted By: Daniel
Date Posted: 07 September 2011 at 12:02
Hello Michele (marcadabollo) and Welcome to the forum. Thanks for your reply, that's one of the great things about a growing forum, there's a good chance that eventually someone will be able to answer an outstanding question. Those passports look great with examples of the military travel permit stamps inside. I agree with Steve that revenues can tell a story when still attached to their original documents and it is a shame that, in general terms, most have been cut out. I've had a look at complete passports but most seem quite expensive but I might try some of the cheaper ones. I noticed on eBay a catalogue of AMG Revenues but coming from the USA, with postage, it was about £28.
Thanks again,
Daniel


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 01 October 2011 at 03:05
Hi All, I'm a collector of these WO-II Allied Military travel permit revenues. Like Michele (marcadabollo) I like them best on actual travel documents. Show's how they were used. They are listed in a few specialist catalogues:
 
[Bush] - Bush-Cass, AMG Revenue Stamps of the Allied Military Government in Europe, 1956, pag R3-R4

[Y&T] - Yvert & Tellier. Les Timbres Fiscaux et Socio-Postaux, 2004, p. 104-105

[Erler] - Erler, Martin & John Norton, Catalogue of the Adhesive Revenues of Germany, Part VIII, German Occup. Issues 1914-19, 1938-45, Allied Occup. Issues 1947-51, 1983, pag 124-127

The listed catalogue prices are really wild guesses (bogus), especially the Y&T. A few values were found in stacks of sheets in the vault of the printer in the 1990's. These are the MNH ones offered by companies like Rigastamps: GratiS, Eine Mark overprint, DM2, DM4 and DM6 overprint. Also the unused DM8 overprint and MNH 15 DM are often seen. From a collectors point of view, the actual used travel permits stamps are far more interesting.

The ones I'm still loooking for are the 50 cents overprint and the higher values used for group travel permits. Anyone? Please contact me, even when only an image of these revenues.
 
Fifty US Cents black overprint on $1 - red
$10 - green / DM 40 black overprint on $10 - green
$20 - orange / DM 80 black overprint on $20 - orange
$50 - blue / DM 200 black overprint on $50 - blue
 
This is an overview, including images I collected of the ones I still miss....
 
AMG Travel Permit Stamps collage
 
If there is interest for examples like the ones Michele showed in his reply, let me know.
 
AMG 01
 
 
AMG 03
 
AMG 07
 
AMG 16
 
Regards,
Theo


Posted By: Daniel
Date Posted: 02 October 2011 at 09:31
Hi Theo (TeeJay-III) and welcome to the forum. Thanks for supplying more information on these revenues and for the pictures. That seems to answer my question as to the other values in this series. Whereas I agree that revenues look better in situ, I particularly like your passport with British Consular Service revenues, but with passports starting at about £60 each they're a little out of my league. I'm pleased with the mint versions that I have which I got relatively cheaply but I see your point about the prices of even these mint versions especially since they came from sheets found in 1990s as you say.

None of the catalogues that you mention are readily available here with the exception of the Yvert & Tellier fiscal one which is available second-hand at £35 from Amazon which is too much for what would be of minor interest to me.

Anyway it is still very interesting to see all of these examples.

Good luck with your search for your missing values.

Daniel


Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 02 October 2011 at 10:06
It is possible to get old passports for less than £60. I got this one at a local antiques and collectables fair at a stall selling miscellaneous collectable bric-a-brac. I think I paid £5


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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 02 October 2011 at 12:10
Correct Steve, old passports don't have to cost an arm and a leg. Most of the time 5-10 euro.
When not buying at auctions sites like eBay that is... or Sothebys. This one went for 70.000 GBP.
 
JAMES JOYCE'S WARTIME FAMILY PASSPORT -  
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Joolz
Date Posted: 03 October 2011 at 01:41
Originally posted by TeeJay-III TeeJay-III wrote:

Correct Steve, old passports don't have to cost an arm and a leg. Most of the time 5-10 euro.
 
When not buying at auctions sites like eBay that is... or Sothebys. This one went for 70.000 GBP.
 
JAMES JOYCE'S WARTIME FAMILY PASSPORT
It's so valuable that even the image of it is protected by password! LOL


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 03 October 2011 at 06:12
Hi Joolz, its there...
 
Theo


Posted By: Joolz
Date Posted: 03 October 2011 at 09:29
Originally posted by TeeJay-III TeeJay-III wrote:

Hi Joolz, its there...
 
Theo
Thanks, Theo. It has indeed now been revealed in all its glory!


Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 01 December 2011 at 11:25
For anyone interested there is an old German passport on ebay with a scattering of cancelled revenue stamps. look http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/POLAND-1936-SCARCE-PASSPORT-BERLIN-ISSUE-VISAS-AND-REVENUES-M419-/160692390561?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item256a034aa1 - here

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Posted By: Daniel
Date Posted: 09 April 2012 at 08:29
I've been looking for an example of this 'banknote' for some time and recently managed to acquire one at a reasonable price:

 
It is an example of a Welsh banknote issued, as a bill of exchange (effectively a cheque), by Richard Williams in 1969. The story behind the various notes that he produced is not straightforward. It wasn't a simple matter of wanting to produce the first and only national Welsh banknotes (later when a Welsh bank was formed and recognised they decided not to issue their own notes) but was more to do with Williams believing that he invented the magnetic cheque encoding system, the machine readable numerals printed across the bottom of all cheques, and that he was due royalties for the use of the system. The first issue was produced in small quantities but Williams hadn't anticipated the huge interest from banknote collectors particularly from the US. Indeed, if he had concentrated on this aspect he wouldn't have died a bankrupt but he was totally obsessed with getting royalties from all of the major banks for his encoding system. 
 
He did produce more notes and even managed to get the Inland Revenue Stamp Office to stamp them with their revenue tax stamp adding much authenticity. Unfortunately for the Inland Revenue they didn't, it would appear, have any Welsh speakers on their staff and they didn't realise that 'Prif Trysora Cymru', the name of his registered company, meant The Chief Treasury of Wales, implying that it was a national institution. When they did find out the remaining stocks of his notes were cancelled as per the example. He continued to produce notes changing the name to The Black Sheep Company and continued to confound the Inland Revenue with Welsh and tried having Welsh pounds and even dollars (neither was accepted when the Inland Revenue found out the translation). He continued his campaign against the banks, the Government and Inland Revenue up until his death in 1988
 
There is a very good book on this subject; 'Money galore: The Story of the Welsh Pound' by Ivor Wynne Jones, Landmark Publishing (ISBN 9781843060840) but probably out of print.


Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 10 April 2012 at 11:40
Hmmmm a Welsh First I didn't recognise.

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Posted By: Colin
Date Posted: 10 April 2012 at 22:02
Oh no!  Don't encourage him Daniel  Wink LOL

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Posted By: Daniel
Date Posted: 27 October 2013 at 09:16
A while ago I managed to acquire my first collectible British passport but it is quite old and not at all recognisable by today's versions. It was issued in 1908 and seems to tell you more about the then Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey who has duly signed the document, than it does about the person to whom it was issued, a Mr Abel Sykes and his wife Florence. It was issued on a very large single sheet of thin parchment with information on both sides. The reverse featuring various Russian revenue and franks. I've had to scan the document over 4 scans:

 


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Posted By: Marj
Date Posted: 29 October 2013 at 22:58
What a document!  I would feel completely confident going abroad as a British citizen with that tucked into my coat pocket. It just oozes decency and quality. Those were the days!

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Posted By: jamesw
Date Posted: 17 September 2014 at 09:25
Can you explain this one to a poor ignorant Canadian? What £7 get you? A month of Corrie?

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Posted By: Steve
Date Posted: 17 September 2014 at 09:37
£7 was the annual cost for a b&w TV licence in 1971-73. It looks like that one was cancelled in 1973. Price adjusted to 2013 values, that is about £85.


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Posted By: Londonbus1
Date Posted: 20 October 2015 at 07:25

Here is a Proof copy for the London Mayor's Court revenues.



Posted By: Daniel
Date Posted: 19 November 2017 at 07:09
Here are the restored images for my 1908 one sheet British Passport signed by the then Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey. He was the longest continuously serving person in that position from 1905 to 1916. He played a key diplomatic role in trying to avoid The First world War but, of course, failed.

There are some interesting Russian revenues on the reverse, shown on the last 2 scans. The last scan is shown upside down since this is how the revenue has been applied:

https://flic.kr/p/DxjyV9" rel="nofollow"> https://flic.kr/p/DxjyV9" rel="nofollow - Edward Grey Passport 1 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/101603119@N05/" rel="nofollow - Spicer57 , on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/21Fb2cT" rel="nofollow"> https://flic.kr/p/21Fb2cT" rel="nofollow - Grey Passport 2 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/101603119@N05/" rel="nofollow - Spicer57 , on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/21Fb2yp" rel="nofollow"> https://flic.kr/p/21Fb2yp" rel="nofollow - Grey Passport 3 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/101603119@N05/" rel="nofollow - Spicer57 , on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/21Fb2RZ" rel="nofollow"> https://flic.kr/p/21Fb2RZ" rel="nofollow - Grey passport 4 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/101603119@N05/" rel="nofollow - Spicer57 , on Flickr


Posted By: Daniel
Date Posted: 01 January 2019 at 13:02
I recently acquired this Allied Force Permit from 1950. It is a single piece of card folded in three, so it is a little awkward to show the entire document. It was issued in London to Stanley Mee for travel to Austia. It features a $4 travel permit stamp. Here, then, are 3 scans:

https://flic.kr/p/21A3YBm" rel="nofollow"> https://flic.kr/p/21A3YBm" rel="nofollow - Allied Forces Permit by https://www.flickr.com/photos/101603119@N05/" rel="nofollow - Spicer57 , on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/21A3ZmC" rel="nofollow"> https://flic.kr/p/21A3ZmC" rel="nofollow - Allied Forces Permit Endorsements.jpeg by https://www.flickr.com/photos/101603119@N05/" rel="nofollow - Spicer57 , on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/Dx9M7U" rel="nofollow"> https://flic.kr/p/Dx9M7U" rel="nofollow - Allied Permit 3 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/101603119@N05/" rel="nofollow - Spicer57 , on Flickr

Here are other examples of the stamps that I have:

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Posted By: Colin
Date Posted: 01 January 2019 at 23:53
I love the subtleties that hot-metal presses provide - the spacing of the text, the variations in the weight and density of the printed ink; and the lack of apparent care about getting the block of text bang centre (or even square) on the page.

So often when you see 'aged' layouts mocked up for old-fashioned documents this is lost as it has been produced with modern software and the operator at the keyboard knows no different.  Lovely original stuff.


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Posted By: guyana1230
Date Posted: 21 April 2020 at 05:29
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Posted By: Daniel
Date Posted: 03 May 2020 at 10:00
Here's a catalogue listing for the permit stamps shown in  my post above.

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Posted By: Panterra
Date Posted: 03 May 2020 at 22:38



Northwest Beach, near Kakariki, Waikoa Island.

In 2019, Waikoa Island issued a set of 15 stamps, for fiscal use primarily.  Each is printed by typography in two colours on glossy white paper, and perf 12.

Although primarily for tax purposes, they can also be used on mail, as high-value stamps are not printed on the island.


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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue, 7 tanos.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue, 42 tanos.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue, 4.25 reis.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue, 6.25 reis.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue, 7.25 reis.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue, 12 reis.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue, 17 reis.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue, 56 reis.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue, 100 reis.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue, 200 reis.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue, 300 reis.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue, 500 reis.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue: 2,000 reis.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue: 15,000 reis.

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Waikoa Island 2019 postal-fiscal issue: 1,000,000 reis.

The values all represent the various tax rates.  The lowest stamp, seven tanos, is Email Tax, and this stamp must be affixed to every email that is printed out for whatever reason.

The
Rs 7¼ stamp is for Marijuana Tax, and must be affixed to every half-ounce packet of cannabis that is sold.

The top value,
one million reis, is bribery tax. One must be affixed to every agreement outlining the corruption, and signed by the person receiving the bribe.  The bribe thereupon moves from the realm of "illegality" to "authorised" and exempt from prosecution.


Posted By: guyana1230
Date Posted: 22 November 2020 at 18:25
Trinidad "Free Fee" (1890) and "Fee" (1887) on 1/- stamps
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Posted By: guyana1230
Date Posted: 28 May 2021 at 08:59
A few odds and sods came through today;

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Date Posted: 18 July 2022 at 21:26
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