Share your GB, Australia, Commonwealth & other REVENUE stamps here

[Global Admin]

You have 73,000 posts and know full well we do NOT do lazy and totally meaningless 2 word (or 3 or 4 word) headings here, such as 'Revenue Stamps'.

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[RogerE]

I was motivated to start this thread by the following two posts:

Can anyone help with these stamps? I can only guess, maybe Egyptian.



I earlier submitted this under a different thread but it appears I may have committed a faux pas in so doing.

https://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=10277&start=27871
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Not sure it is the correct thread for such questions. Anyway, revenue stamps from Egypt from the period the country created a unity with Syria and was called UAR - United Arab Republic. The design shows the constitution and the year is written in Arabic 1962. These are the low values of 20 Mils.

https://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=10277&start=27872
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Here is an Egyptian [UAR] Official stamp (postage, not revenue) with inscription at the head matching the Arabic inscription on the revenue stamps shown by johnvincentio and identified by Eli.

UAR Egypt, 1966: 1m Official stamp

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Google Translate supplies the following version of the header:

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الجمهورية العربية المتحدة
[aljumhuriat alearabiat almutahida]
— United Arab Republic
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Here is a group of revenue stamps listed on eBay as Egypt UAR 1964-1980 (so some date from beyond the "UAR" period):

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/RogerE

[RogerE]

Maldive Islands issued a long set of stamps in 1960.

Catalogues such as those of Stanley Gibbons and Scott list 11 stamps in that set, with face values ranging from 2L up to 10R. But in fact there are three more stamps in the set, with face values 25R, 50R and 100R. These three are usually described as fiscal stamps, that is, revenue stamps, as their use was apparently restricted to payment of taxes on legal documents, though in fact very little official information about them seems to be known. It would be wonderful if some reader of this post could add any information about them, or examples of their use.

Maldives, 1960: Definitives 2L to 10R,
(SG 51-61; Sc 58-68)
plus three fiscals/revenues 25R, 50R, 100R

(current eBay offering)
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/RogerE

[RogerE]

Australia has issued a great many revenue stamps.

Here is a group of Australian decimal currency income tax instalment stamps (currently on eBay):

Australian Commonwealth (C of A) 1971
tax instalment stamps (check portion)

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The stamps begin as pairs, comprising a wide stamp entitled "tax instalment" and a narrow companion stamp entitled "tax check". Use of these stamps was phased out in 1990.

Australian Commonwealth (C of A) 1971
tax instalment pairs, top left corner position comprising two pairs
The security underprint is clearly visible in the selvedge

A widely used online source of information about Australian revenue stamps is Dave Elsmore's Australia and New Zealand Revenue and Railway Fee Stamp Catalogue

https://ozrevenues.com/tabs/t12.html
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/RogerE

[22028]

In my father's estate I also found these "Cinderellas"..., can anyone tell me what they were for?

[RogerE]

The German cinderellas shown here by 22026 are not revenue stamps. They are purely decorative/artistic items. I discussed them in detail in the Spirit of Cinderellas thread, at

https://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=221&start=579
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Some follow-up posts in that thread have added to the discussion.

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Characteristics of revenue stamps

I would expect a revenue stamp to have two identifiable characteristics ("What, and how much"):

• A "statement of purpose", naming the goods or services for which the revenue was being collected.

• A "face value", showing either the amount of revenue being collected, and effectively receipted by the stamp, or alternatively/simultaneously, the total value or quantity of the goods or services that was the basis for calculating the revenue being collected.

Perhaps there are exceptions to this description, but it covers the revenue stamps that I am acquainted with.

/RogerE

[RogerE]

Canadian Electricity and Gas Inspection revenue stamps

In the post initiating this thread I included, as examples of revenue stamps, some Canadian Electricity and Gas [Meter] Inspection revenues.

https://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=10543267#top
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Here is a 1934 inspection receipt from Ottawa, showing some of those stamps in actual use. I acquired this item recently for one of my collections.

Canada, 1934: Electricity meter inspection certificate,
with $10.20 revenue stamps attached,
as a receipt for the fee paid by the meter holder.
The stamps were serially numbered when printed, as an accountancy aid.

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/RogerE

[RogerE]

Canadian Electricity and Gas Inspection revenue stamps

A current eBay item shows a full sheet of $10 Canadian Electricity and Gas Inspection revenue stamps. The 5x10 layout, the order in which the serial numbers were arranged, and some printing details, are evidenced by the sheet.
The imprint is in the top selvedge/margin, and there is a guide mark (?) at the extreme left edge of the sheet, opposite row 3.

Canada: $10 Electricity and Gas Inspection revenues,
Series of 1930, full 5x10 sheet
Serial numbers 337451–337500
(current eBay offering)

/RogerE

[Ubobo.R.O.]

Roger. Ask a moderator to change the title to remove the word cinderellas.
Revenues and cinderellas are two different things.
And there is already a thread for cinderellas.

[RogerE]

Roger. Get a moderator to change the title to remove the word cinderellas.
Revenues and cinderellas are two different things.
And there is already a thread for cinderellas.

Hello Terry = Puffin = Ubobo.R.O..
In the first post of this new thread, I stated

Stampboards already has many posts devoted to cinderellas,
broadly defined as stamps that aren't postage stamps.

I'm aware that there are various definitions for "cinderellas". The definition I have used is widely accepted, and is quite well suited for someone who has found a "stamp" that isn't a postage stamp, and wonders what it is. That's where johnvincentio was coming from when he posted his question that prompted this thread.

If a person has a "non-postage stamp" and can actually identify something more about the type of "stamp", they can allocate it to a relevant category, such as revenue, parcel stamp, local, fantasy, forgery, etc. In that case, the class "cinderellas" effectively becomes "none of the above", that is, "it doesn't fit any of the formally recognised categories that I know about".

There are advocates of some of the formally recognised categories who vehemently argue against stamps in their favourite category being called "cinderellas". This may be the viewpoint that Puffin favours regarding the category revenue stamps. But it needs to be recognised that that is only one viewpoint of several, equally respectable positions. In philately, as in botany, zoology and elsewhere, there are the lumpers and the splitters. Such differences can be diplomatically accommodated. However, it is common experience to see that some members of each camp become prescriptive or even dictatorial over their favoured position.

The Cinderella Stamp Club of Australasia = CSCA publishes an excellent journal, Cinderellas Australasia, and wisely adopts the "lumper" viewpoint that any "non-postage stamp" can be discussed in its pages. Other cinderella clubs and publications around the world also tend to be "inclusive" rather than "exclusive".

https://www.philas.net.au/cinderella-stamp-club
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Of course, there are also specialised groups and publications devoted to one or other of the categories within the broad class "non-postage stamps". A notable example, relevant to the present thread, is The American Revenue Association, and its widely respected journal The American Revenuer.

https://www.revenuer.org/the-american-revenuer.asp
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/RogerE

[RogerE]

USA has issued a very large number of revenue stamps, for a wide variety of purposes.

Here is an interesting example from the category usually described as Match and Medicine revenues.

USA: Match and Medicine revenue
James Eaton, Utica, New York
1¢ tax on matches
US Internal Revenue Department
(Sc RO 73c)

(current eBay item)
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/RogerE

[RogerE]

Here is another Canadian document with revenue stamps.

In this case the document certifies that an Ontario grocer's scales (and other measuring instruments?) were accurate within allowable tolerances, on 7 Nov 1944. The document required payment of $2.50 for the testing and certification. That payment was receipted by the two Weights and Measures (series 1930) revenues attached, and cancelled by the inspector's signature.

Ontario, Canada: $2.50 Weights and Measures revenues on 1944 document

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Note how much more informative it is to have the stamps on a relevant document — the purpose is clear, but also the social context is documented.

/RogerE

[BigSaint]

Sorry RogerE,

Cinderella is not entitled to receive an invitation to the Revenue ball.

Thread merged with a dedicated Revenue thread

[RogerE]

I was motivated to start this thread by the following two posts:

Can anyone help with these stamps? I can only guess, maybe Egyptian.



I earlier submitted this under a different thread but it appears I may have committed a faux pas in so doing.

https://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=10277&start=27871
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Not sure it is the correct thread for such questions. Anyway, revenue stamps from Egypt from the period the country created a unity with Syria and was called UAR - United Arab Republic. The design shows the constitution and the year is written in Arabic 1962. These are the low values of 20 Mils.

https://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=10277&start=27872
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Hello Brad = BigSaint. Yes, moving the above posts to this thread is appropriate, thank you.
When I started a separate thread about identifying which "non-postage stamps" are revenue stamps, I was not aware of this previously existing thread devoted to revenues. Now the few preceding posts are in their appropriate thread

/RogerE

[RogerE]

Even for most Australian philatelists, this revenue is quite unfamiliar.

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South Australia, 1936/1937
3d Swine stamp duty
(Elsmore: SA Swine Duty, No. 2)
(current eBay item)

The Elsmore online catalogue is at
https://www.ozrevenues.com/Revenue-Railway-Local-Perfin-Catalogue/sa-revenue-catalogue.htm
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/RogerE

[Global Admin]

Added this cool goodie to stock today.

Tasmania 1892 £1 Tablet Queen Victoria o/p ‘REVENUE’ postally on the *LAST DAY* legal! - Amazing find. These Postal Fiscal £1 Queen Victoria Stamps overprinted “REVENUE” were mostly used for Stamp Duty purposes, and are often found thus, but were of course full legal for POSTAL use up until November 30, 1900, (see SG note after SG F39) hence their full SG listing. A few philatelic singles and covers were created - near all cancelled Hobart - this one was invoiced for $A2,250 see - https://tinyurl.com/Tas1900 - Not many were done, as of course, £1 was well OVER one week’s gross wages then! Gorgeous printing by De La Rue in London. Better than usual perfs centering. SG F39, £225=$A450 - where this price has been literally unchanged for 25 years - insane: show me another for sale globally at ANY price! It is FAR scarcer than the basic QV £1 - SG #225, cat £500=$A1,000. Scott #A35, Cat $US350=$A540 - a little more sensible. Fine full face “Socked On The Nose” upright cds cancel of “HOBART - NOV 30 - 00 - TASMANIA” CTO on the very last day of validity - $A250 - Stock 961LR

[gregbear61]

A quirk with these is that they were issued on 15th Nov 1900, so they were only valid for postal use for 15 days to the 30th. It wasn't really intended that they be used postally at the time.

[RogerE]

Recently in this thread I showed two of Canada's Weights and Measures revenue stamps on document.

https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=43101&start=311
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Here is the full Canadian KGV 1930 set of Weights and Measures revenues, from 5¢ to $10:

Canada, 1930: Van Dam FWM 60 – FWM 71
5¢–$10 KGV Weights and Measures revenues

Earlier, a nice group of Queen Victoria Weights and Measures revenue stamps was shown at

https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=9600329&#p9600329
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/RogerE

[RogerE]

Here is a nice group of early Canadian crowned Weights and Measures revenue stamps:

Canada, Weights and Measures revenues
Top row: 5¢–30¢, red serial number above crown (FWM 1–5)
Bottom row: 30¢–$2, red serial number in centre panel (FWM 8–12)
(current eBay offering)

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One cent and two cent Weights and Measures

Lower value revenues from this series were also issued. They are relatively scarce:

Canada, Weights and Measures revenues
Blue 1¢, 2¢, red serial number in centre panel (FWM 6, 7)
Black 1¢, 2¢, red serial number in centre panel (FWM 13, 14)
(current eBay offerings)

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/RogerE

[RogerE]

Here is a 1902 Canadian document bearing crowned Weights and Measures revenue stamps:


The certificate (Form O.6) attests to verification of four weights, two volume measures, an equal-armed balance (scales), and two platform scales. Total inspection fee was $1.85, paid and receipted by the attached crowned Weights and Measures revenue stamps: 2x10¢ +15¢ + $1.50. We can imagine the business was probably a small general store.

Document bearing
Canadian crowned Weights and Measures revenues (2x10¢, 15¢, $1.50)
with blue serial numbers in the central panel.
(Current eBay offering)

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The document has a strong vertical fold and a lighter horizontal fold (for convenient storage), and some ageing discolouration, but it still preserves insight into practical details of small business practice at the very beginning of the 20th century. The business was in the small coastal town of Fourchu, Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia.

Fourchu, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Acknowledgement: Wikipedia

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/RogerE

[PetCin88]

Maldives is part of the Commonwealth

Maldives 2015 10,000 Rufiyaa Revenue Stamp

To Celebrate 50 Years of Independence - Maldives released a special Revenue Stamp in 2015. I was lucky to be able to get Serial Number 1

15.40 Rufiyaa = approx US$1 so depending on the exchange rate this 10,000 Rufiyaa stamp has a face value of approx US$650 - probably used to pay Business Tax or Stamp Duty

Maldives 2015 10,000 Rufiyaa Revenue Stamp

[RogerE]

After the post showing Canadian Weights and Measures revenues on a 1902 document,

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https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=43101&start=319
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I will now show several other examples of usage on documents, in chronological order.


Here is a 1905 document

Document bearing
Canadian crowned Weights and Measures revenue (5¢) with central blue serial number,
plus elderly Queen Victoria Weights and Measures revenues (20¢, 13x$2)
with central red serial numbers. Total = $26.25
(Current eBay offering)

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The business (apparently a coal company) was in Rondeau, Ontario.

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Location of Rondeau, Ontario, on Lake Erie
Map acknowledgement: University of Waterloo

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With so many revenue stamps on the face of the document, apart from one heavyweight scale (over 6,000 lb capacity) we cannot see details of any other scales and devices that were tested and approved.

The document is missing a symmetrical portion at the left margin, where it was horizontally folded — perhaps it was attached at that point by a pin or nail or drawing pin [= thumb tack] to a wall or cupboard door. After all, the business manager would have needed to be able to show the document if the premises were inspected.

In former times, someone obtaining this document would have considered soaking the revenue stamps off the page, and probably discarding the two damaged $2 stamps and the form itself. Look at how much information would have been lost if that had happened; the stamps by themselves, if removed from the document, tell very little of the story, and a piece of history would have been lost.

/RogerE

[RogerE]

Next, here is another document bearing Canadian Weights and Measures revenue stamps, this one dated 1908.

Document bearing
Canadian crowned Weights and Measures revenues (10¢, 15¢) with central blue serial number,
plus elderly Queen Victoria Weights and Measures revenue ($1) with central red serial number,
and Edward VII Weights and Measures revenues (5x$5) with red serial numbers at base.
Total = $26.25
The stamp with missing corner was probably damaged when applied.
All hand stamped diagonally CANCELLED in red.
(Current eBay offering)

Back of the document, showing further detail:
the tested scale was capable of measuring up to 200,000lb,
and was Gurney brand scale No. 39083.

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This time much more of the face of the form is visible, and it is clear that just one heavyweight track scale (capable of measuring weights exceeding 6,000 lb) was the subject of the testing and certification. This gives us confidence to deduce that the 1905 form in the previous post was certifying just one scale, of the same heavyweight type, and no other items were certified "under" the numerous revenue stamps on that document. Evidently $26.25 was the fixed charge for certification of a single scale capable of measuring weights above 6,000 lb. This extrinsic information would have been sufficient to show what the 1905 document was certifying.

The business, Lake Erie Coal Ltd(?), was based in Erieau, Ontario — located on the northern shore of Lake Erie, a short distance east of Rondeau (see previous post). As a further conjecture, based on the potential relationship of the 1905 document and this 1908 document is that perhaps the company owning the scale was essentially the same business, having relocated a small distance in the meantime, and perhaps changed its name slightly. These two documents were probably both sourced from the records of that company.

This document is signed by R. A. Hughes, Assistant Inspector of Weights and Measures. This is the same offical who signed the 1905 document for a business in Rondeau, shown in the previous post.

/RogerE

[RogerE]

Here is the last document I will show for now, bearing Canadian Weights and Measures revenue stamps, this one dated 1911.

Document bearing
Canadian elderly Queen Victoria Weights and Measures revenues (50¢, 75¢)
and Edward VII Weights and Measures revenues (5x$5), all with red serial numbers.
Total = $26.25
(Current eBay offering)

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Once again, a $26.25 fee paid for certifying a heavyweight scale capable of measuring weights over 6,000 lb.

The form was issued to Père Marquette Pty Co (?), in Round Eau [=Rondeau(?)], in Ontario's London Weights and Measures Inspection Division.

The three documents shown in the latest three posts show us why the Weights and Measures revenues with low face values are relatively "scarcer" than those with higher face values such as $2 and $5.

/RogerE

[RogerE]

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A post by Stuart = SBaker62 asking about this Queensland £50 revenue stamp has been added in another thread, at

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https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=10802327#top
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The question would probably have been more appropriate in this thread, where Australian revenues are a designated topic. However, I have answered the query in that thread, by providing the link (and some page references) to the relevant online study by Dave Elsmore

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https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=10802327#p10802327
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/RogerE

[RogerE]

Here's an outstanding Canadian revenue item, currently on eBay:

Canada, 1930: KGV $3
Electricity and Gas Inspection
Sunken die proof
(The corresponding issued stamp is FEG3)
Current eBay item #304836897634

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A very attractive item.

/RogerE

[Jon E]

That's a lovely item. I do like these Canadian issues and have been gathering a few as I expand into commonwealth and world revenues. I wonder why the stamps had to be so large (like a number of GB revenues) ?

TTFN,
Jon

[RogerE]

Jon E wonders: Why are many revenue stamps large?

We might not have a definitive answer to explain that observation, but I have two related suggestions.

• A large stamp with a "serious" design has gravitas. In other words, the size helps to ensure the stamp is treated seriously and respectfully.
• A large stamp placed on a large document (such as a legal instrument) or large container (such as a wine barrel) comes more readily to attention, so is noticed as doing the job it is intended to do.

Postage stamps have developed into items that promote tourism, national pride and identity, coming events, prestige of individuals, raise awareness of significant current issues, and so on. Revenue stamps, in most cases, serve no such extra agenda: their job is simply to be seen as official acknowledgements that relevant fees have been paid. Size implicitly says "this is an official instrument".

Two examples of large revenue stamps

Canada, 10c KGVI Federal Law stamp FSC21a

India, Saurashtra, 5r KGVI Court Fee stamp
The text has the 5 rupee amount stated in nine languages
The punch holes denote cancellation

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/RogerE

[RogerE]

Here is another on-document usage of a Canadian revenue. In this case we see an issued example of the $3 Electricity and Gas Inspection revenue shown earlier in beautiful sunken die proof, at

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https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=43101&start=325

Canada, 1950: Electricity Meter Inspection
Fee for checking an electricity meter, and verifying its accuracy: $3
KGV 1930 series $3 Electricity & Gas Inspection stamp (FEG 3)
tied by circular cancel, 17 Jan 1950

Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG)

The inspection represented by this certificate was at the request of the O. L. H. & P. Co. Ltd. I am guessing that company ultimately became part of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (HEPCO), though my online search didn't locate an explicit reference. (Perhaps others will contribute more explicit information on O. L. H. & P. Co. Ltd.)

Evidently generation and supply of electricity in Ontario has long been the subject of considerable political debate and activity, and commercial involvement.

Ontario Hydro, established in 1906 as the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, was a publicly owned electricity utility in the Province of Ontario. It was formed to build transmission lines to supply municipal utilities with electricity generated by private companies already operating at Niagara Falls, and soon developed its own generation resources by buying private generation stations and becoming a major designer and builder of new stations. As most of the readily developed hydroelectric sites became exploited, the corporation expanded into building coal-fired generation and then nuclear-powered facilities. Renamed as Ontario Hydro in 1974, by the 1990s it had become one of the largest, fully integrated electricity corporations in North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Hydro
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The more recent developments are reflected in this commentary:

Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) is a Crown corporation and "government business enterprise" that is responsible for approximately half of the electricity generation in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is wholly owned by the government of Ontario. Sources of electricity include nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, gas and biomass. Although Ontario has an open electricity market, the provincial government, as OPG's sole shareholder, regulates the price the company receives for its electricity to be less than the market average, in an attempt to stabilise prices. Since 1 April 2008, the company's rates have been regulated by the Ontario Energy Board.

In June 2019, it was announced that a new corporate campus would be built in Clarington, Ontario, that will also house Ontario Power Generation's headquarters. In February 2023, it was announced that OPG would instead purchase the former head office building of General Motors Canada in Oshawa, Ontario, for their new headquarters, planning to open by 2024.

Establishment
Ontario Power Generation was established in April 1999 as part of plans by the Progressive Conservative government of Premier Mike Harris to privatise the assets of Ontario Hydro and deregulate the province's electricity market. OPG was one of the five successor corporations to Ontario Hydro and assumed ownership of all generating stations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Power_Generation
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/RogerE

[Pelin]

Canadian Electricity and Gas Inspection revenue stamps

In the post initiating this thread I included, as examples of revenue stamps, some Canadian Electricity and Gas [Meter] Inspection revenues.

https://stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=10543267#top
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Here is a 1934 inspection receipt from Ottawa, showing some of those stamps in actual use. I acquired this item recently for one of my collections.

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/RogerE

Wow. Beautiful

[Pelin]

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I searched for quite a bit and while there are threads for revenue stamps of particular countries, there seems to be no thread dedicated to revenues of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. So if you have any, post them here.

Let me start with these. Here is a selection of three Maltese revenues:

1899 Queen Victoria 1s with local overprint Revenue (Barefoot 4)
1899 Queen Victoria 1s with London overprint REVENUE (Barefoot 13)
1908 Melita 2s6d with London overprint REVENUE (Barefoot 26)

For the other revenue part of the topic I was intrigued to add this Cigarette tax stamp from Turkey, as a response to another cigarette tax shared under this topic. Issued in 1916 with a nominal value of 5 paras, written in Ottoman Turkish, catalogued under Suleyman Catalogue #303, part of fiscal stamps issued in Ottoman Empire era.

[RogerE]

Thanks Pelin, that Turkish cigarette tax stamp is an attractive revenue.
The calligraphy and the scroll work are beautiful.

/RogerE

[RogerE]

I showed a nice document bearing a Canadian $3 Electricity and Gas Inspection revenue (FEG 6), at

https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=43101&start=328

On-document usage of this revenue series is scarce (Van Dam)
I have just received a companion document, issued two days later (7 Dec 1949), bearing the $2 and $10 Electricity and Gas Inspection revenues (FEG 5, 7):

/RogerE

[RevRed+]

I am familiar with postage stamps being used on invoices as per the images below:

1d Edward VII stamp used on invoice

1d Edward VII stamp used on invoice

But, I haven't seen Embossed examples before. Can anyone tell me more about them, please?

Where would the embossing have taken place?

Who would have done the embossing?

The images bear a number at the top and what appears to be a date at the bottom? 11 10 = November 1910?
5 09 = May 1909?

Embossed Stamp Duty stamps.

[RevRed+]

Just a bump.

[Not Bruce]

The embossing was done by the government Stamp Office - there were 21 main offices in the UK and Ireland and plus another 21 auxiliary offices.

You didn't need to take each document there, most companies got blank receipts stamped in batches.

The ones in Ireland were Belfast, Cork and Dublin - the Irish embossed duty always showed a shamrock - although this wasn't the case for the north of Ireland where special dies were mostly used (indicated by a "Z")

Most of these are very common, however after independence in 1922, the red dies were struck with green ink for a very short while, these are the ones to look-out for and are seriously collected.

[RevRed+]

Thank you - it's appreciated.

[RogerE]

A nice group of Canadian Gas Inspection revenues, recently acquired. These 1897 Queen Victoria stamps are notable for their individual designs, differing significantly across the denominations.

Canadian Gas Inspection revenues
1897 Red control numbers
25¢ 50¢ 60¢ 75¢ $1 $10
(vD FG18 19 20 21 22a 26]
Worn security pattern in $1 control panel
1897 Blue or purple conrol numbers
$2 $4
[vD FG 27 28a]

Canadian Gas Inspection revenues
1897 Red control numbers
50¢ $1 [vD FG 18 22a]
$1 has worn security pattern in control panel

Catalogue numbers: vD = E.S.J. van Dam, The Canadian Revenue Stamp Catalogue, 2022 edn.

/RogerE

[RogerE]

More Canadian Gas Inspection revenues, recently acquired.
Three different series are represented here.

1897 Queen Victoria

Canada,1897: Gas inspection revenues
60¢ strip of three, red control numbers
[vD FG 20]

1915 George V

Canada, 1915: Gas inspection revenues
$3 pair, Blue control numbers, dry print
[vD FG 31a]

1930 George V Electricity and Gas

Canada, 1930: Electricvity and Gas inspection revenues
$3 block of 4, blue control numbers
[vD FEG 10]

Catalogue numbers: vD = E.S.J. van Dam, The Canadian Revenue Stamp Catalogue, 2022 edn.

/RogerE

[RogerE]

A group of Canadian Electric Light Inspection revenues, recently acquired.

1900 Electric Light Effigy
("1897 series")

Canada, 1900: Electric Light inspection
50¢ 75¢ $1 $2 $5 $10
[vD FE 10a 12 13 14a 16b 17a]

Catalogue numbers: vD = E.S.J. van Dam, The Canadian Revenue Stamp Catalogue, 2022 edn.

/RogerE

[RogerE]

Here's a remarkable group of Canadian Electricity and Gas Inspection stamps used on document, recently acquired:

Canada, 1948 document
bearing $132.60 in Electricity and Gas Inspection revenues

Accounting:
60¢ x 11 = $6.60 [FEG8]
$3 x 35 = $105.00 [FEG10]
$1 x 1 = $1.00 [FG22]
$10 x 2 = $20.00 [FEG11]
Total = $132.60

Purple oval cancel x 19:
Electricity and Gas Inspection
District Inspector
Feb 10 1948
Howe St Vancouver B.C.
Dept. Trade & Commerce
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/RogerE

[RogerE]

Canada Gas Inspection revenues

Canada, 1897: 60c QV, red control numbers
Four used pairs, FG 20
Handstamps: script or block font "cancelled"

/RogerE

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For the record:

Post number 88K

[RogerE]

Revenue stamps from the Austro-Hungarian Empire have remarkably elegant designs.
Here is one example:

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1868: 15kr revenue, value in German
Note the finely detailed "leaf" background,
and the double-headed eagles above the numerical value
364153759512

Austro-Hungarian Military revenues


Revenue stamps for military use had the "leaf" background overprinted with a surround derived from the double-headed eagle. Here are some of those revenues. The central motif is unique to each value.

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1868:
1kr, 2kr, 5kr, 15kr military revenues, values in Hungarian
Leaf background overprinted with double-headed eagle elements

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1868:
50kr, 1f military revenues, values in Hungarian
Leaf background overprinted with double-headed eagle elements

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/RogerE

[RogerE]

I particularly like the early Canadian revenue stamps with the crowned tablet design. Here are some I have recently acquired:

Canada, 1875: 50¢ Gas Inspection revenue
4½ mm red controls — FG2

Canada, 1875: 2x 50¢ Gas Inspection revenues
3½ mm red controls — FG10

Canada, 1885: 50¢ Weights and Measures revenue
3½ mm blue controls in tablet — FWM29

Canada, 1885: $2 Weights and Measures revenue
3½ mm blue controls in tablet — FWM32

Canada, 1885: 30¢, 50¢, $2 Weights and Measures revenues
3½ mm blue controls in tablet — FWM28, 29, 32

Centring is variable
Pen cancels are usual, hand stamps less so
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/RogerE

[RogerE]

Here are some more Canadian revenues with the crowned tablet design. I recently added these to my modest collection of Canadian Federal revenues.
(There are also many types of Canadian Provincial revenues — currently I am not actively collecting any of them, though of course there are some very interesting types.)

Canada, 1885: 20¢ Weights and Measures
3½ mm control number in panel (FWM 27)

Canada, 1895: $10 Electric Light Inspection revenue
Blue contol number in panel (FE 7)
Cancelled with signature hand stamp

Canada, 1895: $10 Electric Light Inspection revenue
Blue contol number in panel (FE 7)
Cancelled with linear date stamp
26 Jan 1918

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/RogerE