Two Unknown Venezuela Stamps

Hello,
please do you have any reference for theese two?
thank you

I don't have a reference, but they look to be official stamps rather than postage, if that helps at all...

-Allen

It is supposed that these postage stamps were created for use on mail within the country of Venezuela, with a portion, or all, of the sale proceeds going to the Venezuelan Ministry of Education. No official record has been found to determine the exact procedure that was used in handling these stamps, or the revenue from their sale.

Adding a link: http://www.apfelbauminc.com/library...osstamp.html
And an image:


I don't have the catalog numbers or values for these.

The red issue I had not seen before..it is 1911 and
is shown in Venezuela in the Richard C Witt Cinderella collection.

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Venezuela:
Schools tax
Stanley Gibbons #

Assorted Commentary :

1. Why were the earliest stamps of Venezuela inscribed Escuelas? They were
used for all purposes (including revenue) until the first Bolívar issues of
1880, at which point their use was limited to internal post. Did the
schools get a percentage of the money?
2. What were the stamps inscribed Instrucción used for? Did schools get a
percentage? Why are they not listed in Scott?

They are revenues which were also allowed for domestic postage.
In Spanish the term used is "(Estampillas Fisco Postales)"

Until 1895, stamps inscribed "correos" were expected to be used for
international mail.

Until 1895, stamps inscribed "escuelas" or "Instruccion" were used
for domestic postage OR for revenue purposes. I always assumed
that those used as revenue stamps had all or part of the proceeds
go towards building the education system. (Scott is silent on the
specific use of the revenues.)

From 1895, stamps inscribed "escuelas" or "Instruccion" were
not valid for postage.

Here is a comment from the well known dealers , Earl P L
Apfelbaum of Philadelphia.

After 1876 two sets of stamps to prepay postage are used side by side,
the "Correo" (Post), or "Correos" (Posts), and the
"Escuelas" (Schools), altered lately into "Instruccion" (Education).
Some authorities declare the latter labels to be revenue stamps which
may be used for postage like some of the Australian fiscals; others
again say that stamps of the "Correos" class are used for Foreign
postage, the proceeds of their sale going to the Post Office
Department, while the "Escuelas" and "Instruccion" stamps are set
apart for Inland postage, the revenue arising from their sale being
handed over to the minister of education for the maintenance of the
State Schools. But, as Dr. Moschkau remarks, "It is strange that in
spite of prolonged researches no official decree could be placed
before us to prove that those stamps were used exclusively for Inland
postal service as is presumed by many philatelists." Without entering
into this controversy we will at present take up the "Correos" stamps
only as being undoubtedly true postage stamps."

acknowledgement:blair rcsd