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Registers of dies and stamps intended for use by the Stamp Revenue in America and the West Indies from 1765-66. A mixed collection of postage and revenue stamps, dating from 1849-1884 held in 7 volumes. The inspectors’ Specimen Books of impressed revenue and postage stamps for the period 1885-1964 in 10 volumes.
British key types were also overprinted for use as postage and revenue stamps of British Bechuanaland, [66] as revenue stamps of Cyprus [67] and Weihaiwei, [68] and as court fee stamps of the Trucial States. [69] The key types were also used to produce Military Telegraphs and Army Telegraphs stamps of the United Kingdom. [70]
A separate Board of Stamps was created by the Stamps Act 1694.During the 18th and early 19th centuries at various times (as financial strains on the economy demanded, and Parliament allowed) stamp duties were extended above a certain threshold of sale value to cover newspapers, pamphlets, lottery tickets, apprentices' indentures, advertisements, playing cards, dice, hats, gloves, patent ...
British Central Africa, 1898-c.1906 - Revenue stamps of Nyasaland and Malawi; British East Africa, 1897 - Revenue stamps of Kenya; Ceylon, 1954 - Revenue stamps of Sri Lanka; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1885-1947 - Revenue stamps of the United Kingdom; India, c.1910-1975 - Revenue stamps of India; Ireland, 1931-1971 - Revenue stamps of ...
The Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps is a collection of newspaper tax stamps of the United Kingdom and of the 1694 6d revenue tax stamps that forms part of the British Library Philatelic Collections. It was formed by S.R. Turner and donated in 1973.
A 1922 Malta stamp from the Melita issue used as a postage stamp (strip of three with Sliema postmarks) and as a revenue stamp (single with an Anglo-Egyptian Bank cancellation) A postage and revenue stamp, sometimes also called a dual-purpose stamp [1] [2] or a compound stamp, [3] is a stamp which is equally valid for use for postage or revenue ...
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The Penny Lilac was the basic penny postage and revenue stamp of the United Kingdom from its first issue on 12 July 1881 until 1901. [1] It superseded the short-lived Penny Venetian Red because the Customs and Inland Revenue Act of 1881 necessitated new stamps that were valid for use as both postage and revenue stamps, and so the Penny Lilac was issued in that year, inscribed "POSTAGE AND ...