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21 Oct 2010
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I was wondering if a catalogue exists for worldwide revenue stamps or postal stationary. I know that Scott lists both for the United States, but where would I turn to identify foreign varieties?
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21 Oct 2010
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re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

There is a book called 1840-1940 Classic Specialized Catalogue by Scott which "somewhat" does what you ask. It's sometimes limited and is pricey but it does cover a variety of stamps from "Back of the Book" My copy does not cover stationary but covers some revenue, including war tax stamps, and the postage dues (up to 1940).

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22 Oct 2010
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re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Barefoot is the standard for Britain and Colonies. They also do other countries. Check this out... http://www.jbarefoot.co.uk/stock.htm?menu=1. Click on the country on the left.

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22 Oct 2010
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re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Thanks for the advice; I will have to consult both resources.

Best,
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23 Oct 2010
11:37:14am
re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

The specialist catalogues for some countries will list that country's postal stationery. The major, encyclopedic catalogue is Higgings and Gage, which is where the H&G numbers come from...you'll run across the numbering on auction lots. The problem, in my mind, is that the catalogue is alphabetical across 19 volumes, so if you were interested in a region, or a colonial power such as the British Commonwealth, you'd have to accumulate many (all?) of the volumes. If you choose to specialize in one or two countries, then its more manageable.

My 2d.

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01 Nov 2010
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re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Thanks Collin, I will check this out also.

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16 Oct 2011
07:55:06pm
re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Hi Walden,

I would love to have worldwide catalogues for postal stationery and revenues!

As far as I know the last world catalogue for postal stationery was Higgins and Gage as mentioned above but it has not been updated since the 1970s and 1980s with some price changes in the 1980s.

As Cjd mentioned it was published as a volume per first letter of the country name and I'm currently looking at "Section 7: Gabon to Guyana". Unfortunately, I only managed to buy letters A, B, C, G and T before they disappeared from sale in Vera Trinder's, my local stamp bookshop in London.

The H&G catalogue was sold some years ago (maybe to a German buyer if I remember correctly) but I've never heard of it being updated or even reprinted.

There is an excellent new postal stationery catalogue for the UK by Alan Huggins and Colin Baker which I strongly recommend.

The last worldwide revenue catalogue was published a long time ago, by Forbin in 1915, when revenue stamp collecting was going out of fashion.

I'm afraid I can't agree with Sponthetrona2 about the Scott Classic. While it does list war tax stamps, post dues and the like, these are considered postage stamps by most catalogues and you'll find them in SG, Michel, the Scott Standard and other worldwide postage stamp catalogues.

I agree with Parkinlot that the Barefoot catalogues are a great source of information on revenues, especially for British Commonwealth and Eastern Europe (and Benelux).

I've found some very good one country catalogues especially McDonald for Turkey and I recently picked up a second-hand Yvert et Tellier catalogue for French revenues which is useful. However, I have found it very difficult to find information on a number of countries, including Italy (especially the municipal issues), Spain and Latin America.

Similarly, I've seen references to a long series on German revenues by Eisner but I've not had a chance to get my hands on any of them yet.

I've rambled on a bit here but I hope it's been of some use.

Good luck with your hunt!







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16 Oct 2011
07:57:40pm
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I've just realised this thread had been dormant for almost a year!

Oh well, it's an interesting topic so maybe we can breathe some life back into it. :)

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17 Oct 2011
08:10:30pm
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Nigelc,

Thanks for the helpful suggestions; I will have to check out Huggins and Baker.

Thanks again,

Best,
Walden

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18 Oct 2011
02:39:50am
re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Hi Walden,

Here's a link to the Postal Stationery Society web site which has a lot more information about the catalogue:

http://www.postalstationery.org.uk/

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21 Oct 2011
01:05:20pm
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Thanks Nigelc, I will check this out as well.

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02 Aug 2012
03:02:54pm
re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

The British Commonwealth Revenue Catalog is now available at J Barefoot Ltd -www:jbarefoot.co.uk 2012 edition

Just got mine in the mail today

Lee

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02 Aug 2012
11:51:11pm
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Thanks Lee, I will have to check this out.

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11 Oct 2012
04:37:12pm
re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Hello...

I am a really new member here, so I'll just jump in with both feet

My primary collecting interest is pre-1950 worldwide airmal stamps. I have a complete set of the Higgins & Gage, and I find it very useful for information about airletter sheets. I would be happy to share postal stationary info from these catalogs with any members.

Forbin was the first attempt to catalog worldwide revenue stamps. However, revenue stamps rapidly grew to the point where a worldwide catalog was impossible to maintain. I think that since that time most of the work to catalog revenue stamps and really back of BOB has been done by individual collector groups. I created a catalog of early revenue stamps for Vietnam when I was a member of the Society of Indochina Philatelists. I think that catalog is available from them on CD. I also wrote up a catalog of cinderella issues for early French Indochina (propaganda stamps, tourist labels, Red Cross and TB seals, etc). I don't know if the Society of Indochina Philatelists got around to publishing that one though.

As I began to specialize my collecting interests, I found that the search for philatelic reference material became almost as exciting as collecting the stamps themselves.... Almost

For my airmail collection I now reference Scott, Minkus, Michel and Sanabria catalogs as well as several books from the early 1900s. All of this reference material I use when creating my very own worldwide airmail specialty stamp album. My album currently consists of six 1-1/2" 3-ring binders with more than 1,100 total pages created from my computer using the Adobe PageMaker program. Yes, I designed several sets of country pages for Bill Steiner at stampalbums.com, but I wanted to be a little more creative with my own specialty designs. I would love to share about creating your own album pages with any members as well.



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13 Oct 2012
09:54:50am
re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Hi Terry,

Welcome to Stamporama, and thank you for the information. It sounds like Higgins & Gage is the best reference for postal stationary. I had not heard of Forbin, but I will have to check it out.

Thanks again,
Frank

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21 Nov 2014
11:15:59pm
re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

I have written two catalogs that are on-line and free for anyone to use. One is for the postage stamps of Bangladesh and includes the postal stationary (envelopes, postal cards and aerogrammes). http://friends.peoria.lib.il.us/community/howardcourtney/Bangladeshdedication.html

The second catalog is for the revenue stamps of Bangladesh, which includes the stamp papers.

http://friends.peoria.lib.il.us/community/howardcourtney/revenuecatalog.html

No values are indicated in either catalog, only the listings and varieties.

I hope people will find them useful.


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22 Nov 2014
11:17:21am
re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Not a world site, but good for many revenues is a website built by a clergyman -www.revrevd.com.

Why is it that clergymen ( of the Anglican/Episcocalian persuasion ) appear to be into stamps and steam trains (not necessarily in that order !)?

Malcolm

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21 Oct 2010
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I was wondering if a catalogue exists for worldwide revenue stamps or postal stationary. I know that Scott lists both for the United States, but where would I turn to identify foreign varieties?

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21 Oct 2010
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re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

There is a book called 1840-1940 Classic Specialized Catalogue by Scott which "somewhat" does what you ask. It's sometimes limited and is pricey but it does cover a variety of stamps from "Back of the Book" My copy does not cover stationary but covers some revenue, including war tax stamps, and the postage dues (up to 1940).

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22 Oct 2010
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re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Barefoot is the standard for Britain and Colonies. They also do other countries. Check this out... http://www.jbarefoot.co.uk/stock.htm?menu=1. Click on the country on the left.

Bob

(Message edited by parkinlot on October 22, 2010)

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22 Oct 2010
11:30:54pm

re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Thanks for the advice; I will have to consult both resources.

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Frank

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23 Oct 2010
11:37:14am

re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

The specialist catalogues for some countries will list that country's postal stationery. The major, encyclopedic catalogue is Higgings and Gage, which is where the H&G numbers come from...you'll run across the numbering on auction lots. The problem, in my mind, is that the catalogue is alphabetical across 19 volumes, so if you were interested in a region, or a colonial power such as the British Commonwealth, you'd have to accumulate many (all?) of the volumes. If you choose to specialize in one or two countries, then its more manageable.

My 2d.

Collin

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01 Nov 2010
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16 Oct 2011
07:55:06pm

re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Hi Walden,

I would love to have worldwide catalogues for postal stationery and revenues!

As far as I know the last world catalogue for postal stationery was Higgins and Gage as mentioned above but it has not been updated since the 1970s and 1980s with some price changes in the 1980s.

As Cjd mentioned it was published as a volume per first letter of the country name and I'm currently looking at "Section 7: Gabon to Guyana". Unfortunately, I only managed to buy letters A, B, C, G and T before they disappeared from sale in Vera Trinder's, my local stamp bookshop in London.

The H&G catalogue was sold some years ago (maybe to a German buyer if I remember correctly) but I've never heard of it being updated or even reprinted.

There is an excellent new postal stationery catalogue for the UK by Alan Huggins and Colin Baker which I strongly recommend.

The last worldwide revenue catalogue was published a long time ago, by Forbin in 1915, when revenue stamp collecting was going out of fashion.

I'm afraid I can't agree with Sponthetrona2 about the Scott Classic. While it does list war tax stamps, post dues and the like, these are considered postage stamps by most catalogues and you'll find them in SG, Michel, the Scott Standard and other worldwide postage stamp catalogues.

I agree with Parkinlot that the Barefoot catalogues are a great source of information on revenues, especially for British Commonwealth and Eastern Europe (and Benelux).

I've found some very good one country catalogues especially McDonald for Turkey and I recently picked up a second-hand Yvert et Tellier catalogue for French revenues which is useful. However, I have found it very difficult to find information on a number of countries, including Italy (especially the municipal issues), Spain and Latin America.

Similarly, I've seen references to a long series on German revenues by Eisner but I've not had a chance to get my hands on any of them yet.

I've rambled on a bit here but I hope it's been of some use.

Good luck with your hunt!







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16 Oct 2011
07:57:40pm

re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

I've just realised this thread had been dormant for almost a year!

Oh well, it's an interesting topic so maybe we can breathe some life back into it. :)

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17 Oct 2011
08:10:30pm

re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Nigelc,

Thanks for the helpful suggestions; I will have to check out Huggins and Baker.

Thanks again,

Best,
Walden

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18 Oct 2011
02:39:50am

re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Hi Walden,

Here's a link to the Postal Stationery Society web site which has a lot more information about the catalogue:

http://www.postalstationery.org.uk/

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21 Oct 2011
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02 Aug 2012
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re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

The British Commonwealth Revenue Catalog is now available at J Barefoot Ltd -www:jbarefoot.co.uk 2012 edition

Just got mine in the mail today

Lee

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02 Aug 2012
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11 Oct 2012
04:37:12pm

re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Hello...

I am a really new member here, so I'll just jump in with both feet

My primary collecting interest is pre-1950 worldwide airmal stamps. I have a complete set of the Higgins & Gage, and I find it very useful for information about airletter sheets. I would be happy to share postal stationary info from these catalogs with any members.

Forbin was the first attempt to catalog worldwide revenue stamps. However, revenue stamps rapidly grew to the point where a worldwide catalog was impossible to maintain. I think that since that time most of the work to catalog revenue stamps and really back of BOB has been done by individual collector groups. I created a catalog of early revenue stamps for Vietnam when I was a member of the Society of Indochina Philatelists. I think that catalog is available from them on CD. I also wrote up a catalog of cinderella issues for early French Indochina (propaganda stamps, tourist labels, Red Cross and TB seals, etc). I don't know if the Society of Indochina Philatelists got around to publishing that one though.

As I began to specialize my collecting interests, I found that the search for philatelic reference material became almost as exciting as collecting the stamps themselves.... Almost

For my airmail collection I now reference Scott, Minkus, Michel and Sanabria catalogs as well as several books from the early 1900s. All of this reference material I use when creating my very own worldwide airmail specialty stamp album. My album currently consists of six 1-1/2" 3-ring binders with more than 1,100 total pages created from my computer using the Adobe PageMaker program. Yes, I designed several sets of country pages for Bill Steiner at stampalbums.com, but I wanted to be a little more creative with my own specialty designs. I would love to share about creating your own album pages with any members as well.



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13 Oct 2012
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re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Hi Terry,

Welcome to Stamporama, and thank you for the information. It sounds like Higgins & Gage is the best reference for postal stationary. I had not heard of Forbin, but I will have to check it out.

Thanks again,
Frank

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21 Nov 2014
11:15:59pm

re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

I have written two catalogs that are on-line and free for anyone to use. One is for the postage stamps of Bangladesh and includes the postal stationary (envelopes, postal cards and aerogrammes). http://friends.peoria.lib.il.us/community/howardcourtney/Bangladeshdedication.html

The second catalog is for the revenue stamps of Bangladesh, which includes the stamp papers.

http://friends.peoria.lib.il.us/community/howardcourtney/revenuecatalog.html

No values are indicated in either catalog, only the listings and varieties.

I hope people will find them useful.


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22 Nov 2014
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re: Catalogue for Worldwide Revenue Stamps or Postal Stationary?

Not a world site, but good for many revenues is a website built by a clergyman -www.revrevd.com.

Why is it that clergymen ( of the Anglican/Episcocalian persuasion ) appear to be into stamps and steam trains (not necessarily in that order !)?

Malcolm

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