’t Cleyn Segel No 35 : February 2005
ONTDEKTE CATALOGIDISCOVERED CATALOGSIn September, I bought the following catalogue on
Ebay from City Collectibles:

108 pages in black and white but some pages show
also coloured images.Glued with soft cover.Withvaluation in GB Pounds.

RUSSIA REVENUES
1st edition 2004

Price:£ 15,- incl.shipping (cheapest rate); for airmail add
30% (*).

By J. Barefoot Ltd
ISBN 0 906845 645(*)source: The Revenue Journal of Great Britain;
Vol XV No 2 september 2004; page 42; 3rd line.
Available at:
J. Barefoot LtdP.O. Box 8YORK YO24 4AR
United Kingdomor look at http://www.jbarefoot.co.uk
E-mail: JBarefoot@AOL.com
Finally a work that can replace the information
known from Forbin in 1915 for Russia. After ashort preview and coloured illustrations, thecatalogue starts with Documentaries from theTsarist area in 1875. WW I caused many extra
issues for the occupied territories and provinces.
The number of municipal and/or local issues is evenmore larger and contains approx. 40 pages. Further
more the Russian Administration on Crete andsome other provinces.There are not so many
revenues if you consider the size of the Russianarea. Even the catalogue of Great Brittain is bigger.
However, it is less than 15 years ago that Russia
became more open to the public with more
opportunities to get infornmation about therevenues of Russia. The future issues are expected
to grow for a while.

Mr van der Wateren sold me the following book on
the Postex exhibition:

NEPAL REVENUES
2002
By:
Dick van der Wateren

Issued by:
Dick van der Wateren

This book has already been issued in 2002; Spiralbound with transparant page at front and back. 118
pages in English printed in black and white but
some pages show illustrations
In colour.No prices!
Price: € 20,- =incl. Shipping costs worldwide.
Dutch buyers can pay by giro 809789 in the nameof D. van der Wateren and referring to” book Nepal revenues”
buyers abroad can send cash payments.
Available at:Dick van der Wateren
IJsbaanweg 8, 8391 HZ Noordwolde (fr)
Netherlands.

The book starts with a short preview and index with
9 chapters, starting with red revenue cancels on
documents in 1774. The varity of thesecancellations and it’s purposes is increasing during
the centuries. The size of these imprinted revenues
are growing too. There are not much adhesive
revenues. The use of postage stamps for revenue
purposes seems to be granted under specified
conditions. For those who want to start collecting
revenue stamps of Nepal is patience a necessaryelement. As far as I can remember there are about ahandfull of revenue items offered on Ebay during
the last 5 years that I am active. By coincidence a
card with 12 Court Fee stamps was offered a week
before Christmas but the result was less than $ 10,-.
This work is one major step in the direction of thecollectors. As Dick mentioned in his preview, hiswork is not finished and he encourages everyone tosupply new discoveries. I will follow its
development with interest.

‘t Cleyn Segel No 37 September 2005
Some time ago, Ebay offered the following remarkable catalogue:- MIΧ. Σ. ΠETΡAΔΔAKHΣ (Michael E. Petradakis)
XAPTOΣΗMA KAI AΛΛA ENΣHMA THΣ ΔΩΔEKANHΣOY(CATALOGUE FOR REVENUE STAMPS OF THE DODECANESE ISLANDS)--verkrijgbaar in het grieks en Italiaans
Available in Greec or Italian language
Uitgeverij / Publisher : Collectio in 2005
ISBN 960-85275-9-7 (Grieks / Greec)
ISBN 960-88579-0-0 (Italiaans / Italian )Prijs: € 40,- (ca. $52 ,-) bij inzet en verkocht
Price: € 40,-(approx. $ 52,-) starting bid and soldVerzendkosten zijn/ Shipping costs are:Europese Unie /European Union : € 5,90 / $ 7,60
Rest van de wereld /Rest of world : € 7,70/$ 9,70
Aangetekend (extra) /registered (add)€ 2,35 / $3,00Betaalwijze / payment forms:
Money Order, Bidpay Money Order, Cheque,Cashiers Cheque, Personal Cheque, Cash, Cash ondelivery (for some European countries), SWIFTTransfer (add 3 Euros), NO PAYPAL
Adres/ Address: Alexandre Galinos
P.O. Box 3138 GR-102 10 Athene / Athens
Griekenland / Greece
Maar de verkoper is evenueel via www.ebay.com
te benaderen onder de naam “arapin”
But the seller can also be approched atwww.ebay.com with the name “arapin”
192 pages; glued boundI myself ordered the Greec edition. Not that I canread it but it seemed to be more appropiate together
with a language course in Greec. Probably moreluck with this with the next holidays.
After a short preview the book is devided in several
chapters:
1
The Ottoman period
2
The Italian occupation
3
Italian territory
4
Municipal stamps
5aGerman Occupation
09-05-1945
5bBritish period31-03-1947
6a
Allied Forces
15-05-1948
6b
Greec Administration
1955

tot / up to 1912
1912 - 1923
1923 – 1943
08-09-1943 –Each chapter has paragraphs showing the revenues
in full size colour or even enlarged or reduced on
document . Pre-taxed document are also describedand shown with their fiscal cancellations. Ifpossible, all values of each series are shown!
Although my knowledge of the Greec language
ain’t much more than som recepies, the illustrationsand value descriptions made it possible tounderstand it. In my opinion a magnificent piece ofwork that shows the use of Turkish; Italian andgreec revenues in this area up to the smallest
details.

09-05-1945 –
01-04-1947 –A separate appendix is added and made bi-langular(Greec – Italian) with a rarity scale for used stamps
and on document:

15-05-1948 –Also pages mentioning sources and a large
appendix.

CCCR
RR
RRR

====
=quite common
commonrare
quite rare
1-3 copies recorded.

you have to be very patient and has to explore awide market to discover something. Prices are alsostrongly influenced by the connection a collector
thinks to have with this area. Altough I do not wantto jump into conclusions; prices for the cheapest
stamps will fetch at least € 5,-. The same counts forthe documents who will fetch at least double thestamp value. I do not have any experience with thesale of top-items but on Ebay some stamps havefetched prices between $ 50,- and $ 100,-. Some
documents were sold for prices between $ 100,- and$ 200,-. Thanks to this work there is a better image
from this area which will be reflected in future
prices. Really a must for the collector of this region
and/or involved countries.
Oscar van der Vliet

1912: RR / RRR
CC/C

1926:
1936: R

1934: CC/C
1943: CC/C

1948:

CC/C
An indication of prices is a different stories and still
is something what a “fool”will give for it. We aretalking here about a small area with many varieties
and the revenues are rarely offered. As a collector

‘t Cleyn Segel No 38: December 2005
DISCOVERED CATALOGS
By O. van der Vliet
At the end of September, Ebay offered the following
remarkable catalogue:
THE STANDARD CATALOG OF KOREAN
REVENUE STAMPS
By Stephen J. Hasegawa

80 pages; spriral boundother version: 40 pages
English language and in colour
Publisher : private
ISBN 960-85275-9-7 (Greec)
ISBN 960-88579-0-0 (Italian )Price:$ 59,- bought on Ebay. A version without
Treasury Bonds fetched almost $ 30,Shipping costs are:Unknown (for this version approx. $ 8,-) withairmail from the USA.
payment forms:
Paypal payment; money Order, Bidpay Money
Order, Cheque, Cashiers Cheque, Personal
Cheque, Cash, Cash on delivery
Address:
P.O. box 40610. san Francisco,California 94140 USA.
Email: stevhase@hotmail.com
Fax: (415) 821-9657 (USA)Cell : (415) 577-3703 (USA)

After the sale I tried to contact him immediately by email and letter but so far no reply. You should ask yourself
if this is a single action or a serious attempt for a new issue. After starting with an Introduction and an Index
there is a checklist in which you can mark your collection. This prevents the usual writings all over thecatalogue and therefore quite usefull. After a page with several types of overprints, the catalogue starts withdocumentary stamps issued in 1905. You can recognize the Japanese influenses in this issue and from 1909 there
are issues under Japanese rules. From 1945 to 1951 it was controlled by the USA and from 1951 you will findissues from the republic. After that other kinds of taxes and local issues will pass the scene. The 2nd part of thecatalogue contains the Government Bonds from 1936. There is an index with a matirx for the scarcity of thedocuments from quite common to very rare. There is also a confirmation of existance for some documents. Both
Corean revenues and Bonds are not regulary offered and prices for them could vary considerably. The stamps
are quoted from $ 0,20 but an average revenue will cost between $ 5,- and $ 10,-. The most expensive one arecolour samples from the first series and are quoted $ 5000,- each. This is probably the first serious issue forrevenue stamps of Corea. There is alreay a small and handy catalogue for stamps; coins and banknotes in fullcolour. Not bad at all for Corea. Who knows there might a a chapter for revenues in this work in the future. The
future will learn us.
A valuable asset for collectors of this area!