Some time ago, I purchased a small lot of worldwide revenues which included the stamps shown above. All are embossed or depict the Spanish coat of arms, which indicate that they were issued by Spain or one of its colonies. The larger stamps are dated 1886-87, 1892-93 and 1898-99. All are denominated in pesos.
I looked through Forbin (1915), and they don't seem to be listed. I did find stamps similar to the horizontal blue stamp (row 1 stamp 2) listed under both Spain and Cuba, but I couldn't find this one.
I was told that these might be cut-squares from Spanish colonial revenue stamped paper (about A4 size). However, I cannot identify which colony they came from. I suspect that these are from the Philippines (there were two or three other Philippines revenues in the lot), but this is merely speculation.
Can anyone help identify them please?
Posted 07/29/2018 11:46 am
