’t Cleyn Segel No 39 February 2006
DISCOVERED CATALOGUES
By O. van der Vliet
At the end of October I bought the following catalogues from Eric Jackson:

THE REVENUE STAMPS OF BASUTOLAND (2004); BECHUANALAND (2001) AND SWAZILAND (2005)

Door / By Brian Trotter and Neville Midwood

33 / 37 / 29 pages; spriral boundEnglish language and in colour
Publisher : Neville Midwood
Price £9 /each.
Shipping costs are unknown
payment forms: Paid at Eric Jackson with creditcard system
Address: ?
These works were issued during the years 2003; 2004 and 2005 and are already reported in the magazines of theRSGB and the ARA but this article is for those who are not a member of these Societies. It’s like entering a newworld when you are collecting these revenues and you have Barefoot’s catalogue as a guidance. Each work is infull colour and every value will be shown if available. Varities are clearly enlarged and described. Also different
are prices in GB Pounds for used and unused copies but also on document. This is also for a quotation for fiscallyused stamps which you hardly see in revenue catalogues for the lower values. In these aspects they are marvellous
pieces of work and very usefull for the “common” collector and the specialist. What I could not find were thepossible years of date from the overprinted South Africa revenues from 1931. Perforations are not always
mentioned. Differences like normal paper with luminescent and fluorised paper are not mentioned in any catalogue
and that means also other editors. These works were issued for the first time and have a good potential to be
specialised catalogues.
When writing this work I had some additionals for this work. These are several revenues on document from
Bechuanaland and Swaziland but also values from complete new series and missing values like a ½ cent Lesothoseries 1972. I saw it for sale at the Amsterdam Amphilex 2002 exhibition and was offered by John Barefoot. Also
seen and bought but stolen on it’s way to me were a 1/- and 10/- Basutland revenue from series 2 of approx. 1891.
This insured shipment was refunded but I’d rather showed you the stamps. In the mean time other discoveries werereported at Brian Trotter and Neville Midwood. I will look forward for the next issue. South (West) Africa
perhaps ?.

several revenues unlisted on document.

Swaziland 50c MNH and also for 2s Lesotho from unknown series.

DISCOVERED CATALOGUES
By O. van der Vliet‘t Cleyn Segel No 41: september 2006
At the end of April I purchased at www.Delcampe.com de following remarkable catalogue:
CATALOGUL TIMBRELOR FISCALE
Si a vignetelor
ROMANESKI (1856 – 2006)
By ing. Mihai Cojocar

448pages; plastificated bound; glued
In Rumanian and English and in colour.
ISBN-973-0-04207-1
Publisher: unknown
Price: $ 30,- on www.delcampe.com
Registered shipment: $ 6 (for imprimat);(cut off corner from envelope for check by Customs)
Registered shipment: $15+ (no imprimat;`no cut)Payment form : IBAN payment:
RO671INGB0000999900336101
Adress ING-BANK N.V. AMSTERDAM/Sucursala Bucuresti:Sos.Kiseleff nr.11-13/sect.1/Bucharest/
SWIFT Cod:ING Bank Amsterdam/sucursala Bucuresti:INGBROBU
Corespondent Bank for EUR-ING BANK N.V.AMSTERDAM
What you have here is a strongly revised issue from the same writer with f.i. a chapter for fiscally embossed
documents. The last issue from 2000 had 288 pages and was printed in black and white. This work was dedicatedto the 150 anniversary of revenues in Rumania. The work is showing better due to the colourfull abbreviations.
Except for a foreword in Runanian and English there for the colours a list in 4 languages: Rumanian ; English ;French and German.
The catalogue has been devided in chapters starting with printed and embossed fiscals on documents. The rest of
the structure is almost the same as last issue with alterations and additions.
When comparing the prices you will notice that many chapters have dropped value. For those who think in Euco
currency that feeling is even stronger!
In 2000 1 (virtual) Euro was equal to $ 0,80. Now in the year of 2006 this is $ 1,25.
The first examples started directly when you look at the Agriculture stamps which dropped 20 –50 in $-value. The
overprints during the German Occupation dropped even to 80 %!
Somewhat pages further, insurance stamps had doubled in price! Generally speaking you can assume that prices
have been reduced by 50%.
For those who collect Rumania a nice piece of work to purchase!
----Earley May I received the following catalogue from www.nutmegstamp.com :Real EstateState Revenue Stamps catalogue
Door Peter Martin

32 pages; cover from thick paper; stitched
In Engish and in colour.
Publisher: State Revenue Society
Pric: $ 15,- incl. shipping costs (airmail)Payment forms: Creditcard. Other forms unknown
Adres: State Revenue Society, POB 4503, Danbury, CT 06813.
Info: info@nutmegstamp.com

DISCOVERED CATALOGUES

By O. Van der Vliet

In september I saw the following catalogues fro sale:
REVENUE STAMPS OF IRAN
SECOND EDITIONREVENUE STAMPS OF CHINA

By Sasan Baharaeen
and Gordon Brooks

By Jason Yu & Harrison Hongyuan Wang

550pages; sealed cover with spiral bound
ISBN=?
Prijs on Ebay: $ 145,- with ebaynr 120026810359
Seller Ebay: sbaharaeen from the USA
Shipping costs:
USA:$4,- with media mailIran:$20,- with airmail
Rest Wereld:$17,- with airmail
Registered mail if possible will cost extra.
Members of the Iran Philatelic Study Circle
And the Californian Revenue Society get a 25%
discount.
Payment forms : Paypal ; Money Order ; cashierschequeAuteur:
You Zhenjie Social Sciences
Publisher :Academic Press
Pages:? ; paperback ; 430 gram
ISBN:7801908457
Price on Ebay: $ 8,99 with ebaynr 220023464470
Seller on Ebay: myelike uit China
Shipping costs: USA/Ca/Mx Eu Azie Au/NZ Afrika
SAL
811 5 7
14
Luchtpost
1215 9 1118
UPS/FedEx
2528 22 24
31
Discount is possiblefrom airmail when ordering
multiple copies.
Payment forms: Paypal ; Western Union ; several
forms of cheques (charged with extra costs)

In 2003 appeared the first issue from this work thatwas replacing another catalogue from 2000 andnow written in both English and Farshi language.
The new issue was a revision from the last issue
and now with more than 600 abbreviations;documents etc in colour. You will also find ascarsity scale listed for the stamps. You can stillfind this catalogue on Ebay when searching for thenumber mentioned above with more examples ofwhat can be found in the catalogue.

A separate subject from the Chinese revenue stamps
that was thoroughly investigated by the author fordecades. For more information please see at theEbay number mentioned above.
In the mean time regulairly offered but often sold atstarting bid.

THE TRANSPORTATION SERIES‘t Cleyn Segel No 42: December 2006
On November 1st it was possible to sign in on thewebsite from John Barefoot for the following
catalogue:
SOUTH EAST ASIA REVENUES
By J. Barefoot.

examples of revenues which are not listed
in this issue

This work contains 287 A4-size pages with glued
cover of thickened paper. Costs are £25 post freewhich is approximately € 35,-. You can alreadyorder your copy at the website
www.jbarefoot.co.uk and using a special payment
program for a creditcard payment.
Discount of 20% for 5 copies ;discount of 30% for
10 copies ; discount of 40% for 50 different copies
and discount of 50% for 50 of the same copies.
At the introduction you will notice that this is agathering of several existing works with additions
from countries as far as I know did not show up in
any catalogue. Parts of Duston for the French
areas; Barata’s edition of 1980! For Portugal andcolonies The last catalogue from Japan ; China andso on. New to my opinion is Indonesia and Nepal
and Korea were already issued by someone else but
there is no report for their work. Also duplication ofwhat also can be found in his Commonwealthcatalogue.
It is a basic catalogue with footnotes for specialties.
Otherwise it was impossible to fill this in 300 pages
and you should call this an issue to trigger thecollectors for a reply with missing stamps;
perforations etc.

The new Barata for that area has almost doubled insize and there is a lot to report about Indonesia andthe Dutch Indies. Especially if the intention is to
publish the municipal stamps of Indonesia. Almost
each island ; district and village has it’s own stamps
and are still in use. The amount of 100.000 different
ones is not an unrealistic number for an area ofapproximately 60 years. I received this issue 1 week
before this magazine went to the printe’s so I will
limit myself to some examples. I (and you) canreactWith an extensive story about this issue in a next
edition.
Pricing is always a desired part of this issue but thefollowing rule always stands : “what the fool isready to offer for it”. There are stamps quoted for
10 pounds but it can take years to find 1 and if then
you will not manage to buy it for that price from astamp trader. You will hardly experience this when
this is a postage stamp and you will notice thatwhen there is a judgement on exhibitions.
I am glad another work got onto the market because
that’s what the collector was searching for to have areference.
In the mean time, when your magazine has rechedyour mailbox there is a great chance that the new
Benelux edition has become available.
Untill next time.

I also managed to get a copy of the catalogue
shown below for a short book review:
REVENUES OF PORTUGAL AND
COLONIES
By Paolo Rui Barata

There is however a footnote abou a Lithographicand Typographic print but it seems to be difficult toshow which came first and when.
The next series of 1990 will give several resultswith the UV light for the small-sized stamps. Also
for the Consular series of 1931 which has modern
printings with luminescent paper but this will countfor the entire area of this work.
You will not find small printing varieties which areextensively described in normal stamp catalogues.
I like to report more of this but due to the limited
time available I will do that in a next edition.
Barata however appreciates any form ofcorrespondance that will lead to a better issue andyou can inform him bij mail to the following
address:
Paolo Barata
P.O. Box 455
4431-906
V.N. Gaia in Portugal or by email withbaratap@yahoo.com

Due to a virus causing a crash of the system fromthe Portugese seller I did not receive any reply
when ordering it so I ordered a copy at Eric Jackson
for $ 48,- plus $ 6,- surface mail (which took 5weeks to arrive) at www.ericjackson.com and paidwith my creditcard. The shipment arrived inexcellent condition and was franked with $ 6,20!
using postage stamps.

The following variety is lot listed but maybe niceto give it some attention:

Finally a new edition after 25 years and lets comedirectly to the point: What has changed?
Lots of it!
For example the Motorway Tax licences for cars;
Wine labels and the Estampilha Fiscal were
adjusted to the most recent issues. For some sorts ofstamps there is a complete “makeover” while otherswere only rewarded with a footnote. Prices wereconsiderably changed. A used copy is quoted for atleast € 0,50 to a maximum of € 100,- but in someoccacions even to € 250,-.
I have to saw that this still is a basic catalogue withfootnotes for the details. Being a detail digger I am
still missing something . Reports of theirperforations is still missing for many series. In
some cases the series were investigated like thePortugese Imposto Do Selo of 1921 showing 5
different types of perforation and sorts of papers.
The modern issues will show responses under UVlight but there is nothing about this to be found.
Some of these series were used for over 50 years
like the Portugese Imposto Do Selos from 1940.

value variety 80 Reis of series 1879
Except for all these sorts of varities I checked mymodest collection and found the following stamp
which should be listed in the next edition.

Cabo Verde: Assistencia 1967
With inverted overprint in black
I am curious when his next edition will show up.