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Postal Fiscals Fiscal or revenue stamps authorized for postal use.
Postal Forgery Forged stamps used to defraud the postal authorities.

 


Postal fiscal: Revenue Stamps
Postal history: The study of historical postal markings, rates and routes.
Postal stationery: Anything excluding postage stamps used in the postal system including covers, postcards etc.

Postal Fiscal: Revenue or fiscal stamps used postally.
Postal History: 1) The study of postal markings, rates and routes; 2) Anything to do with the history of the posts.

Postal fiscal issue - revenue stamp later authorized to be used postally ...

AR — postal fiscal
AX — 3¢ 1861 CSA postmaster's provisional
B — semipostal ...

1, 6 pence gray lilac, Tasmania name first used on stamps, 1863: first postal fiscal stamp, 1891: joined the UPU, 1901: one of the six British Colonies to form the Commonwealth of Australia, 1913: Tasmania replaced by stamps of Australia; ...

Both national and local entities have issued them. In certain periods government have combined the uses of postage and revenue stamps, calling them "postal fiscals" or inscribing them "Postage and Revenue".

Fiscals are ordinarily affixed to documents and canceled by pen, canceller or mutilation. Because of their similarity to postage stamps, fiscals have occasionally been used either legally or illegally to prepay postage. See also Postal fiscal, ...

stamps; revenue stamps; post office seals; postal savings mail adhesives; newspaper stamps; parcel post adhesives; locals; carriers; stamped envelopes and wrappers; semi-postals; souvenir sheets or blocks; officials; war tax stamps; postal fiscal ...

See also: Stamp, Fiscal, Official, Local, Used

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