Help With Some Great Britain Stamps - Revenue Usages

I have been moving my Great Britain collection from some old spring-back Windsor albums to newer albums. I was wondering if anyone can help me with more information on the following stamps...



Stamp 1 - I am not familiar with this overprint, is it a type of precancel? Is the purple cancel a revenue usage?

Stamp 2 - I am not familiar with this overprint, is it a type of precancel?

Stamp 3 - Is this a revenue stamp used as postage?

Thanks in advance for any input.
Don
APS #094826

Hi Don,

The first two have commercial overprints that were used on stamps intended for fiscal use on receipts.

Once overprinted like this stamps were no longer valid for postal use.

This duty was 1d until 1920 when it was increased to 2d, hence the two different values here.

There was also a 6d duty on certain other agreements such as insurance policies.

The receipt duty was abolished in 1970 just before decimalisation.

The third stamp is a postal fiscal, a revenue stamp that was also authorised for postal use and was used for that purpose.

Nice stamps! Thanks for sharing them with us.

Good Day Nigel,
Thank you very much for the informative reply. I am woefully uneducated in British revenue usage and history. I imagine I am like a lot of collectors; I usually put these items aside and never get around to securing the reference works needed to better understand them. Here are a few more British revenue items which sit in the back of my albums.





Thanks again,
Don