I stumbled into stamp collecting when I pulled the stamps shown below out of an old Big Little Book. I've since had some help identifying them as Imperial Japanese Revenue stamps. They are on some sort of cover sheet for a legal document. They are from Nago Okinawa.
So far, nobody has had any ideas on why the stamps have holes so neatly punched in them but several people tell me it was not the "practice" to do so. Any thoughts?
This little discovery got me hooked on revenue stamps and I am starting to branch out into postage. I have a small collection and intend to pair it down to only include pre-1900 stamps plus WWI & WWII stamps on envelopes (covers?) and those with identifiable cancels.
My personal interest is in connecting stamps to historical events and using historical records to paint a picture of what was going on at a particular place and time. For me, stamps provide a tangible link to the past.
Cheers!
Posted 01/10/2020 3:13 pm
