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ISO 22382:2018 Security and resilience – Authenticity, integrity and trust for products and documents – Guidelines for the content, security and issuance of excise tax stamps, is an international standard developed by ISO/TC 292 Security and resilience and published by the International Organization for Standardization in 2018.
The first revenue stamp issued in the Straits Settlements was an East India postage stamp overprinted S.S. in a diamond. Only about 20 copies are known to exist of this stamp, making it very rare. On 1 April 1867, the Settlements became a British Crown Colony and so Indian revenues were issued overprinted with a crown and a new value in cents.
1 February: Establishment of Kuala Lumpur as a Federal Territory; 25 April: 7th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank; 1 August: Malaysia Scout Jamboree; 1 September: 25th Anniversary of the National Electricity Board; 9 October: Centenary of the Universal Postal Union; 31 October: 4th World Conference on Tin in ...
An 1898 £1 revenue stamp of Western Australia Revenue stamps on smuggled tobacco seized by the British tax authorities.. A revenue stamp, tax stamp, duty stamp or fiscal stamp is a (usually) adhesive label used to designate collected taxes or fees on documents, tobacco, alcoholic drinks, drugs and medicines, playing cards, hunting licenses, firearm registration, and many other things.
Stamps sell at a considerable premium if they are in this condition. Lightly hinged (LH) is a mint stamp which was hinged but only slightly disturbed. Heavily hinged (HH) is a mint stamp which was hinged and damaged in the process. Hinge remaining (HR) is a mint stamp which has part of a stamp hinge on the back.
The "perforation gauge" of a stamp specifies the number of perforation holes that appear in a two-centimeter span along its edge. [1] The finest gauge ever used is 18 on stamps of the Malay States in the early 1950s, and the coarsest is 2, seen on the 1891 stamps of Bhopal. Modern stamp perforations tend to range from 11 to 14.
On the smaller size stamps (3 to 15 heller), the man is visible from the waist up, and on larger size stamps (20 to 40 heller), the whole figure is depicted. [4] Stamps of 50 and 60 heller and 40 to 60 para depict an allegory of Yugoslavia, a woman holding three falcons. Stamps of 1 and 2 krone depict an angel with olive stick.
1 drachma value of the 1914 Infantryman issue. The provisional government's first definitive stamps came out in February, March and April 1914. The set of eight stamps, with denominations of 1 lepton, 5, 10, 25 and 50 lepta, 1 drachma and 2 and 5 drachmae, depicted an infantryman aiming a rifle while others look on; the 10 lepta and 25 lepta values were inscribed only with ΗΠΕΙΡΟΣ ...