Fiscal cancel
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Fiscal: A revenue stamp or similar label denoting the payment of tax. Fiscals are ordinarily affixed to documents and canceled by pen, canceler or mutilation.
Fiscal Stamps Used for the collection of taxes or fees for non-postal purposes such as on official documents.
Flaw A blemish upon the design of a stamps or its perforation, which has arisen in the course of manufacture.
Fiscal stamp: A revenue stamp or label denoting the payment of tax.
Flaw: A defect in a plate that is in turn identifies in the stamp.
Forgery: A fraudulent reproduction of a postage stamp.
Postal-fiscal stamps can be used to indicate payment for a broad category of services. They are prefixed "AR" in the Scott catalogs. They often straddle the line between postage and revenue stamps.
Postal Fiscal: Revenue or fiscal stamps used postally.
Postal History: The study of postal markings, rates and routes, or anything to do with the history of the posts.
Fiscal Philately - collection of revenue stamps and stamped documents which have been used to pay revenues or taxes.
Maximaphilly - collection of picture postcards showing the stamp design or a picture with some relation to the stamp on it.
Fiscal. A revenue stamp, or postage stamp used as a revenue.
Flat Plate. A form of printing where the plate is flat, in contrast to rotary plate which is curved.
Frank. A marking indicating the right of free postage.
Postal fiscal issue - revenue stamp later authorized to be used postally ...
Label, fiscal: label valid for fiscal usage.
La Belle France: cinderella issues from France used to promote tourism.
Label, semi-postal: with description of charity.
Label stain (LS): blemish from a peelable label on a cover.
The category includes locals, labels, tax stamps, fiscals, poster stamps, charity seals, forgeries, fantasies, phantoms, revenues, etc. Some are more elaborately designed than the postage stamps they imitate.
He formed a collection of fiscal stamps in an album in 1774.
The world's largest stamp is the China Special Delivery issue (1913-1914)it was printed in strips with five different designs. The entire stamp measures 247mm by 65mm.
First Day Of Issue (FDI) - The day on which a stamp is first placed on sale.
Fiscal - A revenue stamp or similar label use to show proof that a tax has been paid.
FL - Abbreviation, folded letter.
On many issues, such cancellations indicate use of postage stamps as fiscals (revenues) or telegraph stamps rather than as postage. Cut cancellations were used experimentally on early United States postage stamps to prevent reuse.
The balanced operating budget has been achieved by a combination of cutting expenses and implementing new income-producing initiatives that will enable the Society to remain fiscally sound, while investing in the hobby's future.
Some stamps, including many issues of the British Commonwealth, were inscribed 'Postage and Revenue' and were available for either use. Such issues are usually worth less fiscally canceled than postally used.
Fiscal - A revenue or tax stamp - not a postage stamp.
Flaw - Visible change in the printed design of a postage stamp due to damage to the printing surface of the plate or cylinder; 'constant flaws' are seen, ...
They were used by Egyptian court officials and read: 'In the name of the living king, speed!'
The first stamp collector was John Bourke, Receiver-General of Stamp Duties in Ireland. He formed a collection of fiscal stamps in an album in 1774.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Official, Cover, Catalog
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