Revenue Scans : Worldwide

Italy, I would be interested if anyone knows anything about this one. I have guessed some sort of Visa Stamp?

Merci Visitate = Examined Goods
Dogana Italiana = Italian Customs.
Hope this helps.

Tony Vella
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

That's it, keep the scanner humming Rev
Crete:postage
SG0115 (1905) T0027 05L crete enslaved [1m0] orange File068.jpg

Austro Hungary (nice)
Forbin132 1875 stamp duty 1fl black and rose 30x50 p8.5-13
cv 5c (1915)

Tony, Thank You for the translation. The sad thing is, I have an old woman next door that is "off the boat" form Italy. A Very, Very, NASTY, Bitter old lady. I had asked Her one day and she told me I don't know, some kind of tax. Mind you I know She could read it. She is a retired School Teacher. She Taught Italian, German and French.

Rodney,
Just think were now on page 11 not bad for a topic that started with the following!

Rod, I most say you have alot of nice Rev's. I just might have to borrow Spocks Transporter!

More nice ones, guys...great stuff. Thanks for sharing them.

I hear the Mediterranean is nice this time of year...

Palestine (which looked better before enlarging):



A couple Edwards from Malta (I wonder about the Police cancel):



George V, first from Malta:



...then from Cyprus:


(Trying to figure out the cancel on the Cyprus...)

Malta periodically went back and forth between postage stamps that were postage, only, and postage and revenue. This is why there are so many overprints of Malta. The KGV Malta was from the period in the '20's when stamps were postage only, and a separate run of revenues was created.

Wow! I have been knighted by the King
I never really knew why I bid for them at auction, they were always cheap and interesting, and like Cinderellas not many bid against you.
That was 10 years ago, and now, you can have a virtual bunfight when they come up, especially India.
I regret not actively pursuing them in the beginning.
I have yet to see a revenue exhibit at a bourse.

We have to take a rest soon, I am having a hard time keeping up with this thread.
Your Malta may be a drivers permit? Tony Vella may be able to assist there.

I Dub Thee "Sir Rod, Knight of the Order of The Rev".
If you wish I shall start posting some Indian Revs?

Recalling vaguely stuff from my childhood, say, the 50s, I remember father saying something about all applications for government services had to be "stamped". Having said that, I cannot think of what services my parents could possible have been applying for in the late 40s, early 50s, since Old Age and Survivors Pension came on line in '56, Social Assistance also in '56, Disability in '65, Earnings-related Pension in '79, and Social Security in '87. Perhaps - and I'm just guessing here - applications for passports, ration cards (for two years following WWII), construction permits, residence permits, property rentals from government bodies, none of which would have applied to my parents.

@revstampman

Don't post them for Rod; he'll just sit and drool over them with Hoagy Carmichael music in the background.
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely night dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you.

Just send them to me.

Tony and Sir Rod here you go! The teaser

An appetizer of Netherlands "Cauliflower's"