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    • Brunei
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    • Burma / Myanmar stamp paper
    • Labuan
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    • Malaya (FMS)
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    • Malaya (Sungei Ujong)
    • Malaya (Trengganu)
    • Malaya (Japanese and Thai Occupation)
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    • Mauritius
    • Mauritius supplementary information
    • North Borneo / Sabah
    • Seychelles
    • Seychelles supplementary information
    • Weihaiwei
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    • Syria (Key)
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    • Yemen (Northern / Kingdom / YAR)
    • Yemen (Southern / PDR)
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    • British Solomon Islands
    • Fiji
  • West Indies
    • Antigua
    • Bahamas
    • Barbados
    • British Guiana / Guyana
    • British Honduras / Belize
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Cayman Islands
    • Dominica
    • Grenada
    • Jamaica
    • Jamaica supplementary information
    • Leeward Islands
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    • St Lucia
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​Contents
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Brunei
​​Burma / Myanmar
  • Main page
  • Stamp paper​
Labuan
Malaya
  • Straits Settlements
  • Federated Malay States
  • ​Johore
  • Kedah
  • Kelantan
  • Negri Sembilan
  • Pahang
  • Perak
  • Perlis
  • Selangor
  • Sungei Ujong
  • Trengganu
  • Japanese and Thai Occupation
Maldive Islands
Mauritius (see also Mauritius supplementary information page)

North Borneo / Sabah
Seychelles (see also Seychelles supplementary information page)

Weihaiwei


Acknowledgments

(see also individual territory pages)

 

Picture
W Barber, The Impressed Duty Stamps of the British Colonial Empire (update to 1st Edition, privately published, Chesapeake, Virginia, 2009)

J Barefoot Ltd, British Commonwealth Revenues (10th Edition, privately published, 2019)
 
A Forbin, Catalogue De Timbres Fiscaux Dans Le Monde Entier (3rd Edition, privately published, 1915)

W Morley, Catalogue of the Revenue Stamps of the British Colonies including Railway Stamps (2nd edition, privately published, 1910)

M Shimomura (ed), Standard Catalogue of the Japanese Revenue Stamps (Fukuo Ltd, 2003)

Steven Tan (editor), Standard Catalogue of Malaysia Singapore Brunei Revenue Stamps and Postal Stationery (1st edition, International Stamp & Coin Sdn Bhd, Kuala Lumpur, 2003)

Stanley Gibbons, Commonwealth & British Empire Stamps 1840-1952 (Stanley Gibbons Ltd, Ringwood, published annually)

Note: despite being over 100 years old, Morley's catalogue (illustrated above right) is still one of the best listings of Mauritius and Seychelles revenues ever published.  Morley was the first to describe the different settings of the Crown CA watermark, making his listing more specialised than is required by the majority of revenue philatelists today.

Many thanks to David Beech, Paul Skinner and Richard Morel at the British Library for their help and expertise, and for allowing me access to the Library's extensive Philatelic Collections including the Crown Agents Requisition books and proof material.

​When reproducing images of stamps not in my own collection, I have sought the permission of the current owner whenever possible, though in some cases the current owner is not known to me.  If I have inadvertently broken any rules of copyright, please help me to comply by bringing this to my attention.
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