Cinderellas Revenue Fiscal Telegraphs Unlisted Back Of Book Unusual
https://www.hipstamp.com/store/treasurings about 1100 items listed to date- much more to follow. for those wanting to add to the Postal stamp collections with deep back of the book stamps. New store opened this month- stocking now. - 99% non postal stamps
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Telegraphs are another field and generally are undervalued. Specimens tend to be overvalued , imo. so it balances out. Revenue Stamps are the largest area and are of course Worldwide. France started producing Revenue stamps in the 1600's and it proved to be a great way to get money from the people. :-) England and Germany quickly followed with similar stamps. Postal issues generally started after 1850ish. Revenue stamps were around 250 years prior to that or almost 400 years ago and are available to collectors today at a reasonable costs.
Stamp collecting Postal issues can quickly become expensive after you get most items so I suggest you add a deep BOB area with things like i sell for the countries you collect..LOL :-) a little harder to acquire but a lot of fun tracing them down to purchase. I have Collected, accumulated and sold this area for over 30 years so i can clearly honestly state the value of this material has generally went up a lot in most scarce areas and down in others more common areas. my prices reflect a fair value according to my opinion and generally i ignore outdated catalog pricing. my thoughts are the values on my material will greatly out pace most postal issues.
This one is getting close to 1600's (early 1700's)
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Hundreds of pictures in listings.
(cover not included in my lot for sale)
Japan one my favorites :-) !00y brown, 50 yen blue 10 y green Rice and Farm Inspection.. way under priced in the barefoot asia catalog. scarce stamps actually and should be 10-20x catalog price.. over all the catalog is good for reference and some prices are close to correct.. most are very low to insanely low for Japan and Taiwan - Philippines tends to be better but very mixed in price accuracy overall as compared to all listed. still a great catalog!
https://www.hipstamp.com/listing/spain-colonies-guinea-africa-cinderella-revenue-fiscal-stamp-3-18-unlisted-mint/28957612