Revenue Scans : Worldwide

Here is a Victoria Vicki that, without the benefit of a catalogue, I would have had difficulty assigning a color to. Brown for this issue?

Whoa David
that was a surprise, an echo from the past :)
I can still recall in England (Somerset) marching in front of a black hearse, behind a fellow with a flag and black top hat, crawling along at 4mph
Death was very much alive then, a part of our rural community,
and respect for the elders who pass on.
Today none of that survives, now it seems we meet at church, say bye, and your off.
Elders are packed neatly away in retirement homes.

Yes, I guess it's our journey into the revenue catalogue, where we may be used to the sort of depth postal catalogues go.
Barefoot is reasonably niggard in their descriptions, but I would have thought "buff" would have been an appropriate intermediate colour between orange and brown.
Seems not.
Even so Barefoot runs out at a very reasonable 300 pages

A couple more for our friends Down Under...







...and for our web-footed friends even further Down Under...



I'd be curious to know if there is a story about the layout of the New South Wales issue...

Collin

Maybe a couple for our friends up Nort'...

The 1 problem with Barefoot is while overall it is an EXCELENT Catalog, it is understandably very incomplete. As are most catalogs. If it was complete we wouldn't need a bookshelf of additional literature. This holds true for most Non-Country/Area specific catalogs. If Scott was complete we wouldn't need Springer. If Michele was complete we wouldn't need Erler. Etc., Etc., Etc.

I love that Platypus!

rev-

My emails may not be getting through...I've been having email issues lately. I'm going to try from a different computer.

C.

Are you wondering about the big patch of blank space on the side of the stamp? That's a wing margin. Here's a site with a good explanation of British stamps with wing margins.

http://www.imagesoftheworld.org/sta...-margins.htm

Ryan

revstampman I liked the platypus also

Ryan-

I thought about it being a wing margin, but this has a straight edge across the top, and what presumably could be the end of the word "Wales" and the beginning of the word "Stamp." Even if someone cut the top off, I wasn't clear on why "New South Wales Stamp Duty" (if, in fact, that is what it is) would be included within the perfed area of the stamp sheet.

Collin

Revstampman:
having trouble with your Kenya and Uganda 5c
Does anyone have an SG number for the base stamp?
The scan appears to be Grey.

5c Kenya, Judicial is not grey. it is a dull green(in a lousy black card).
Base stamp is listed in Scott's Kenya-Uganda-Tanzania KGV, Type A3, 1927 Scott#20

rod and rev-

I would say the underlying Kenya judicial is SG78. 5c green 1927. That matches up with rev's Scott 20 i.d.

Collin

I would have to agree with Collin, Revstampman.
KUT in Gibbons does not list a 5c

Now to the problem, Barefoot does not list a 5c Judicial.
The only listing is:
Circa 1922 postage stamp opt KENYA/Judicial
Barefoot 19: 50c grey ...GBP 10.00

You either have a forgery or a unlisted revenue
or Rodd222 has had too much caffeine