Couldn't help noticing...
On this page are listed interesting revenue-related things which have caught my eye, including (but not limited to) stamps which are not listed in the catalogue. Such things will end up on this page if they concern territories for which I have not published a full catalogue listing on this website. For an alphabetical list of the territories which are covered on this site, click here.
Territories and topics covered in this section
Algerian Revenues 1980s-present
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Published July 2015
Last update January 2022 |
Egypt consular stamps since Feltus
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Published January 2021
Last update March 2021 |
Great Britain Foreign Office King George VI provisionals
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Published May 2015
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Jordan Consular / Passport stamps
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Published May 2015
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Tunisian Revenues 1970s-present
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Published July 2015
Last update January 2022 |
Algerian Revenues 1980s-present
Duston lists a number of revenues printed using the horizontal key type shown above left. I have seen a number of additional values not listed by Duston, as well as a number values in a vertical key type which seem to have been issued since 2010. The stamps I have seen are listed below.
Horizontal key type without overprint: 0,10d, 0,20d, 0,30d, 0,50d, 0,60d, 1d, 1,50d, 2d, 2,50d, 3,00d, 5d, 10d, 15d, 20d, 30d, 40d, 50d, 150d, 250d
Duston also lists the 100d and 350d, neither of which I have seen except the overprinted 100d listed below
Horizontal key type overprinted AP in red: 10d, 20d, 30d, 50d, 100d, 150d, 300d
Duston also lists the 10d opt AP in blue, which I have not seen
Horizontal key type overprinted CL in red: 5d, 10d, 20d, 30d
New vertical type: 5d, 10d, 15d, 20d, 30d, 50d, 70d, 200d, 500d
Horizontal key type without overprint: 0,10d, 0,20d, 0,30d, 0,50d, 0,60d, 1d, 1,50d, 2d, 2,50d, 3,00d, 5d, 10d, 15d, 20d, 30d, 40d, 50d, 150d, 250d
Duston also lists the 100d and 350d, neither of which I have seen except the overprinted 100d listed below
Horizontal key type overprinted AP in red: 10d, 20d, 30d, 50d, 100d, 150d, 300d
Duston also lists the 10d opt AP in blue, which I have not seen
Horizontal key type overprinted CL in red: 5d, 10d, 20d, 30d
New vertical type: 5d, 10d, 15d, 20d, 30d, 50d, 70d, 200d, 500d
Egypt consular stamps since Feltus
The 1981 Catalogue of Egyptian Revenue Stamps by Peter R Feltus is one of my favourite books on revenue philately, and it remains remarkably current even now despite being 40 years old.
Three types of Consular adhesives listed by Feltus had new values issued in the 1980s-90s, and ten completely new types have appeared between then and now. Some types can be found with different inscriptions specifying particular consular fees. Here is a brief checklist of what I have found so far.
Three types of Consular adhesives listed by Feltus had new values issued in the 1980s-90s, and ten completely new types have appeared between then and now. Some types can be found with different inscriptions specifying particular consular fees. Here is a brief checklist of what I have found so far.
a) Issues inscribed Arab Republic of Egypt (or AR Egypt)
Listed by Feltus as 480/1 (large format):
167p orange and green 285p orange and brown Not in Feltus - smaller format: 785p orange and brown |
Listed by Feltus as 485/6:
200m deep brown and green 500m orange and grey-blue Not in Feltus: £193.40 blue-green and red-orange |
Listed by Feltus as 487:
£1½ green and orange Not in Feltus: £2 red and blue £5 blue and red £5 greenish grey, rose and dull claret £11.20 brown and green £36 brown and mauve £36.55 brown and mauve |
b) Issues inscribed Egypt
Design: Eagle of Saladin
£11 black and grey-blue* £24½ brown and lilac £25 brown and grey-green £47.90 brown and salmon £48.45 brown and salmon £110 brown, pale rose and black £119.4 brown and pale rose £141.50 brown and yellow £142.05 brown and yellow £405 brown, grey-green and black * Two types of the £11 are known. The first type has the eagle printed over the blue background; the second type (illustrated here) has a gap in the background so the head and shoulders of the eagle are white. |
Design: Ramesses II statue from the Great Temple of Ptah
50p brown and orange-brown £1 brown and green £2 brown and deep brown £3 brown and grey-blue £5 brown and orange £25 brown and violet-blue £40 brown and dull rose £50 yellow and brown £50 yellow and red-brown |
Design: Nahdet Masr (=Egypt's awakening) statue at Cairo University
40p red-brown 50p olive-brown £7.70 green 1040p blue-green 1050p carmine 1080p olive-green 1090p orange 1240p deep violet £27.20 brown £27.20 orange 2775p brown 2775p orange £36.40 olive-brown £38.20 grey-blue £57 purple-brown |
Design: Great Sphinx of Giza
£1 green £2 orange £5 grey-blue £10 carmine £168.40 dull purple |
Design: Pharaoh Menkaure and Queen Khamerernebty (Boston Museum of Fine Arts)
£37 red-orange and brown £37.55 red-orange and brown |
Design: Gold coffin of Tutankhamun
Large: 5850p yellow and brown Small: £192.40 yellow and purple-brown £192.40 redrawn without L.E. £422.40 yellow and purple-brown |
Large:
1520p deep green and brown Small: £103 yellow-green and claret £103.55 yellow-green and claret |
Design: Qaitbay Citadel, Alexandria £26.50 brown-orange and pale blue £27.05 brown-orange and pale blue £43 brown-orange and pale blue £43.55 brown-orange and pale blue |
Design: Maspero TV building, Cairo
Large: 1380p blue and pale brown Small: 5525p blue and pale brown £54.70 blue and pale brown £97.70 green and brown |
In due course I hope to publish illustrations of all these stamps together with translations of the inscriptions. I would be very grateful to any reader who can supply scans of stamps I have not listed.
Great Britain Foreign Office King George VI provisionals
In a footnote on page 53 of United Kingdom Revenues (5th edition, 2010) John Barefoot states: "Consular Service 4/- and 10/- overprinted (handstamped?) FOREIGN OFFICE are...reported".
The above image confirms the existence of these two values - both used with Foreign Office London cancels featuring the royal coat of arms, but with no date visible. The overprint measures 17 x 7 mm and is blackish purple in colour. It has been placed carefully on the stamps to cover the original inscription, but has the soft-edged feel of a rubber handstamp, which I suspect is what it is.
The above image confirms the existence of these two values - both used with Foreign Office London cancels featuring the royal coat of arms, but with no date visible. The overprint measures 17 x 7 mm and is blackish purple in colour. It has been placed carefully on the stamps to cover the original inscription, but has the soft-edged feel of a rubber handstamp, which I suspect is what it is.
Jordan Consular / Passport stamps
The standard catalogue of Jordan revenues is Joe Ross and Avo Kaplanian's superbly researched and beautifully presented book The Revenue Stamps of Jordan & the Occupied Territory (West Bank) (Joe Ross, Elverta, CA, 2004).
Ross and Kaplanian list two sets of Consular adhesives featuring a calligraphic inscription (al-khidmat al-qunsuliyah = consular services) in a rectangle. The first set - dated 1947 - has the English inscription Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan in capitals at foot, with currency in mils and L.P. (=Palestinian (sic) pound). The second set - dated 1951 - has Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (not the Jordan) and currency in fils.
The stamps shown here are from an unrecorded third type, which because of the country inscription must pre-date the first two. It reads Hashimite Kingdom of Trans-Jordan, with the spelling Hashimite not Hashemite as found on the first Palmyra key type series (= R&K 106/113). The central calligraphic inscription reads rusum al-jawazat (= passport fees).
I have now seen six values of this set: 20m, 50m, 100m, 200m, 500m and 1 L.P. The colours are the same as for the Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan Consular Service issue.
The image above shows four values of the set used on a piece dated 1948.
Ross and Kaplanian list two sets of Consular adhesives featuring a calligraphic inscription (al-khidmat al-qunsuliyah = consular services) in a rectangle. The first set - dated 1947 - has the English inscription Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan in capitals at foot, with currency in mils and L.P. (=Palestinian (sic) pound). The second set - dated 1951 - has Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (not the Jordan) and currency in fils.
The stamps shown here are from an unrecorded third type, which because of the country inscription must pre-date the first two. It reads Hashimite Kingdom of Trans-Jordan, with the spelling Hashimite not Hashemite as found on the first Palmyra key type series (= R&K 106/113). The central calligraphic inscription reads rusum al-jawazat (= passport fees).
I have now seen six values of this set: 20m, 50m, 100m, 200m, 500m and 1 L.P. The colours are the same as for the Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan Consular Service issue.
The image above shows four values of the set used on a piece dated 1948.
Tunisian Revenues 1970s-present
A number of Tunisian revenue adhesives have come to light in the years since 2000, when the second edition of Duston's excellent catalogue was published. Here is my first attempt to list those I have seen. All the stamps are based on the three key types shown below.
- Type A: inscribed with the country name in Arabic at top and in French at foot
- Type B: a redrawn version of type A with no French inscription at foot
- Type C: new type with coat of arms now at right and value at lower left, background composed of Arabic inscription Republic of Tunisia in diagonal lines
Types A and B are found in large and small sizes; type C in large, medium and small. Type A stamps exist watermarked either AGT (early printings) or ITVF.
So far I have seen the stamps listed below. Stamps are given alphabetically by appropriation, with general-purpose revenue given first.
General-purpose revenue (Timbre Fiscal)
- Type A (large), wmk AGT (inverted): 5m, 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m, 80m, 100m, 200m, 500m, 1d, 2d (Duston additionally lists the 8m, 15m, 300m & 800m)
- Type A (large), wmk ITVF: 300m, 600m, 1d, 2d, 3d, 6d, 10d
- Type C (large), wmk concentric hexagons: 1d, 1d500, 2d, 5d
- Type C (large), wmk hourglass hexagons: 0d400, 0d500, 0d600, 3d blue, 3d rose, 25d
- Type C (small), wmk concentric hexagons: 1d, 10d
- Type C (small), wmk hourglass hexagons: 0d500
Affaires Etrangères (all stamps inscribed AE in Roman alphabet)
- Type A (small), top tablet 2mm high, wmk AGT: 1d200, 2d, 3d500 (Duston lists 26 others)
- Type A (small), top tablet 3mm high, wmk AGT: 550m, 1d100 pink, 1d100 orange, 2d200, 2d750, 3d, 3d300, 7d600 (Duston also lists the 200m, 300m, 500m, 1d and 6d500 values)
- Type A (small), top tablet 3mm high, wmk ITVF: 330m, 550m, 2d750
- Type C (medium), wmk concentric hexagons: 550m, 1d100, 3d300, 5d, 6d600
- Type C (medium), wmk hourglass hexagons: 6d600, 27d500, 38d500
C.I.
- Type A (small), wmk AGT: 500m
- Type A (small), wmk ITVF: 5d
Consular
- Type B (small): 1d100, 3d, 3d300, 6d
Dimension
- Type A (large), wmk AGT: 390m, 520m, 1d040
(Duston also lists a 260m)
- Type A (large), wmk ITVF: 1d500
- Type B (large): 460m
Formalité
- Type A (large), wmk ITVF: 5d
Visa
- Type A (small), wmk AGT: 2d500, 4d
Voyage
- Type A (small), wmk AGT: 45d
(Duston also illustrates the 30d and 45d surch on 30d)
- Type B (small): 45d
Finally, Duston also lists Passport stamps in the type A (small) design denominated 2d, 6d500 and 23d, but I have not seen these.
- Type B: a redrawn version of type A with no French inscription at foot
- Type C: new type with coat of arms now at right and value at lower left, background composed of Arabic inscription Republic of Tunisia in diagonal lines
Types A and B are found in large and small sizes; type C in large, medium and small. Type A stamps exist watermarked either AGT (early printings) or ITVF.
So far I have seen the stamps listed below. Stamps are given alphabetically by appropriation, with general-purpose revenue given first.
General-purpose revenue (Timbre Fiscal)
- Type A (large), wmk AGT (inverted): 5m, 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m, 80m, 100m, 200m, 500m, 1d, 2d (Duston additionally lists the 8m, 15m, 300m & 800m)
- Type A (large), wmk ITVF: 300m, 600m, 1d, 2d, 3d, 6d, 10d
- Type C (large), wmk concentric hexagons: 1d, 1d500, 2d, 5d
- Type C (large), wmk hourglass hexagons: 0d400, 0d500, 0d600, 3d blue, 3d rose, 25d
- Type C (small), wmk concentric hexagons: 1d, 10d
- Type C (small), wmk hourglass hexagons: 0d500
Affaires Etrangères (all stamps inscribed AE in Roman alphabet)
- Type A (small), top tablet 2mm high, wmk AGT: 1d200, 2d, 3d500 (Duston lists 26 others)
- Type A (small), top tablet 3mm high, wmk AGT: 550m, 1d100 pink, 1d100 orange, 2d200, 2d750, 3d, 3d300, 7d600 (Duston also lists the 200m, 300m, 500m, 1d and 6d500 values)
- Type A (small), top tablet 3mm high, wmk ITVF: 330m, 550m, 2d750
- Type C (medium), wmk concentric hexagons: 550m, 1d100, 3d300, 5d, 6d600
- Type C (medium), wmk hourglass hexagons: 6d600, 27d500, 38d500
C.I.
- Type A (small), wmk AGT: 500m
- Type A (small), wmk ITVF: 5d
Consular
- Type B (small): 1d100, 3d, 3d300, 6d
Dimension
- Type A (large), wmk AGT: 390m, 520m, 1d040
(Duston also lists a 260m)
- Type A (large), wmk ITVF: 1d500
- Type B (large): 460m
Formalité
- Type A (large), wmk ITVF: 5d
Visa
- Type A (small), wmk AGT: 2d500, 4d
Voyage
- Type A (small), wmk AGT: 45d
(Duston also illustrates the 30d and 45d surch on 30d)
- Type B (small): 45d
Finally, Duston also lists Passport stamps in the type A (small) design denominated 2d, 6d500 and 23d, but I have not seen these.