Revenue ID Help Again Please

Hello, Once again I need help in identifying some revenue stamps.The first on is Costa Rican. It reads Secretary of Finance-Proportional Ring? Proportional Ring may have translated wrong as it made no sense to me. I need a catalog number for it please.


The second one is a Bayern Toll stamp, again a catalog number please

The last one is Japanese and I know nothing about it, so any information on it's use and a catalog number would be great.
As usual your help is invaluable to me.
Many thanks
David


The correct scan is now there for the second one.
Thanks
David

The translation of the 1st, should be "Costa Rica Republic Finance (Treasury, Exchequer) Secretary"
The second is a Guatemla revenue stamp.
That's all I can say. Nothing for the third. I'm sorry!

The third matches the design of the 1898 parcels series, but I'm not much good with the characters. The 500s is listed as light brown and the 1000s is listed as yellow.

Hello, The wrong scan for the second one, I will fix that.

Cursus and cjd, many thanks, your help is most appreciated.
david

Your Bavaria looks to come from the 1882 series of revenues, Bavaria #14 in Forbin. It is one of 12 values, the first five of which (the various pfennig values) are emerald green, and the balance of which share the color in your example.

[edit: Forbin is pretty old, so any newer information would be appreciated.]

Thanks again cjd, great info and very much appreciated. Do you know what the overprint means?
David

Guessing it is a pen cancel/date, which is something I would expect to see on a revenue. Looks sort of like "20 VII" which I would take to be July 20.

Guessing. Perhaps someone will know for sure.

cjd, thanks again
David

I wonder if Tony Mac can offer his wisdom?

I have the third as an Express stamp.

Express parcel stamp then?

Hi rod, I saw a website that called it a Parcel Post stamp issued by the Ministry of Railway/Express Co. Each color is a different value. The value is found on the ribbon. That is all the information they had though.
Thanks
David

Someone who could read the values would be able to positively i.d. this guy...it doesn't seem light brown to me, but it looks more orange than yellow, too.

Apologies to Rod222 and Cjd (who had to prod me in the ribs) over this one. I only looked at the first scan, and didn't look further, assuming it was all Spanish.

The 'value' is in the central ribbon. I put value in quotation marks because it isn't shown as currency. This is inscribed something like '1000 items'. I chased the offending character through several dictionaries, including one from the 19th century, and they all agree that it refers to 'things', not any unit of money.

So, if Forbin lists the possible suspects as 500 somethings, or 1000 somethings, it looks like we go with 1000 somethings. Which would make it Forbin Japan Colis-postaux #10, 1898. It should be perf 14.

Thanks tmg.

(As always, if anyone has newer, better information, pipe up.)

Yes, Cjd. This one is 'one thousand things'.

Interesting, I must have missed them in Forbin
I can now move them to "Revenues"

Here is the blue 100 "things"
(not mine)

"Ring" is a valid translation of "Timbre" but not on this Costa Rica stamp. It can best be translated as "Tax Stamp". Same thing goes for Guatemalan Timbre stamps.