The post-independence general revenue stamps of Swaziland

Having been a member of the South African Philatelist magazine for many years I was really surprised to find this article of the author in the February 2005 issue filling four pages with these revenue stamps. Since their Independence in 1968, stamps were printed for postage and revenue but perhaps for it’s simplicity they decided […]

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Österreichische Spielkarten-Signetten

Seltsam ist die Geschichte der Spielkarten-Besteuerung, 1661 plante die Nieder-Österreichische Regierung die „Aufrichtung eines Zuchthauses“. Um dieses Vorhaben zu unterstützen, verfügte die Resolution v. 24. Juli 1671, dass von „Aussländischen Kartenspillen ein groschen und von einem Inländischen ein Kreuzer zu dem Zuchthaus genommen werde“. Diese Besteuerung blieb ohne sichtbares Erfüllungszeichen (Signette) und dürfte daher nicht […]

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“From the cradle to the grave, only forms, forms”

Saarland stamped papers, so-called state stamp sheets, to be used for whole high and only handwritten stamp duty values. These documents that had very high stamp amounts in the Saar area, and businesses that had also been put under control, were made on specially made for this purpose security stamp paper, similar to the then […]

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