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Posted 11/24/2013   07:59 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add JR1960 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Forgive the awful photo, but I can't make out the printing on this even in real life, except for the 6p. Obviously commonwealth of some kind, but I don't even know if it is a postage stamp. It appears affixed to some kind of heavy stock, almost like a post card. It is almost as if the design was stamped into thick wet paper.

Any ideas?

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Posted 11/24/2013   08:14 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add MikeQ to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I think it's an old Great Britain Revenue stamp. I have stumbled across some in the past and they were not very valuable, but you never know. Someone with a GB Specialized Catalogue can probably shed more light.
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Posted 11/24/2013   08:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add JR1960 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Mike, that's a start!
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Posted 11/24/2013   10:43 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add scotzm to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I believe it to be a blue paper stamp-duty stamp. I can see the Tudor Rose with "Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense". A better scan or photo might assist ID. In theory, it could even be American as they were issued to the "colonies" for taxing any official document in the reigns of the Georges.
Worth further investigation...
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Posted 11/24/2013   3:31 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add JR1960 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Scotzm, I think you are correct. It looks like a tax stamp, except that the descriptions I read say the word "America" is on the stamp. Apparently these were only issued in 1775 and were much hated by the American colonists until repealed by British Parliament in 1776.

Still not sure if this is American though, or if there is any possibility it was used outside of the colonies, or if this is the 1775/6 version.
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Posted 11/25/2013   02:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add scotzm to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A better scan or photo might assist There's not much detail to see just now but I could just see the "Honi Soit" etc and a garter and Tudor Rose. Must be British in origin but date-wise might be tricky without further detail. Maybe a crown or letters or watermark to identify the reign for instance.
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Posted 11/25/2013   09:41 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add JR1960 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yeah sorry I need to get me a scanner :(
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