Can Anyone Identify These Stamps

I'm stumped trying to identify these two stamps

Google Syria Revenue Stamp.
I do not have a catalogue.

The Revenue Reverend has them,
navigate to Syria
Consular Fees stamps.

https://www.revrevd.com/syria.html

As Rod stated, these are Syrian fiscals. However they are not Consular stamps, but revenue stamps. The difference is in the Arabic inscription at the bottom tablet.

The bluish stamp is denominated 5 piastres, and the greenish one is 2 piastres. These are listed in Revenue Revrend (see link in Rod's post above) as R503 (2p greenish blue) and R505 or R506 (5p steel-blue or grey-blue). They form part of a set believed to have been issued circa 1950-60.

Rod - thank you - excellent link. He dates the end of French control too early. The war tax stamps are, I think, included in most catalogues as postage stamps.

Geoff,
only downside to an excellent site, he does not include Egypt.




Aha! Thanks for the correction.

Not being picky, but are not Consulars considered revenues?
If not, how do you classify? Thanks.

thank you all for the information....always very helpful

What I meant is that the stamps shown in the OP are inscribed "Revenue Stamp" in the bottom tablet. There are Consular stamps which have identical designs, except that the bottom tablet is inscribed "Consular Fees Stamp" (all the inscriptions are of course in Arabic).

Perhaps my wording was not that clear. I'm not an expert in Syrian revenues, but presumably the stamps inscribed "Revenue Stamp" were intended for general fiscal purposes. The Consular stamps are also revenues, but they have a more specific function.

I generally tend to use the term "Revenue" for only the general-duty fiscals (which are often inscribed "Revenue", as in this case). Of course, it doesn't mean that stamps issued for more specific uses aren't revenues as well - they just fall into different categories.

Similarly, think of newspaper stamps or parcel stamps. They are postage stamps in the sense that they pay a fee to convey a postal article, but they are considered to be in a different category than the regular postage stamps (ie. those listed in the main section of the catalogue).

Right, thanks for your perspective, I thought maybe considered "officials"

Could be as well, although I don't tend to think of any revenues as officials (just my personal opinion). There were quite a few cases of revenue stamps which were never officially available over the counter and were only used for internal purposes (so technically no mint examples should exist). Consular stamps might fall into that category, depending on the procedure in the country (I have no idea what was done in Syria). If I recall correctly some of the more obscure types of GB revenues were probably never available over the counter.

Perhaps British India was the most explicit regarding "official" revenues - some issues (Court Fee and some other types if I'm not mistaken) exist overprinted "Service" which is the same inscription used on (postage) official stamps.