Collin,
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But what about the handstamps/cancels? Are these commercial overprints? Cancels? Plus a manuscript cancel?
Not a specialist here, my observations
The OP Original Poster's stamp is a "National Issue"
The revenues used for any matter of Consulate matters (speculation)
Visas etc, the marks ergo could be anything.
In 1907 these stamps could be surcharged in the currency in which the consulate is located.
Exists
France
Germany
Great Britain
Persia
Russia
United States of America
Bulgaria (But they used a very different revenue stamp)
John Barefoot's commentary with cynosure on Brit. Consulate Revenues.
