Dakota

01 Dec 2015
07:03:32am

Can anyone help identify the overprint on these Philippine stamps. I can't finf this overprint in Scott's. Is this a revenue?

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Ningpo

01 Dec 2015
07:56:20am

re: Philippine overprint

These are Spanish era postal fiscals. The base â…› stamp (1880-88) is a stamp used for printed matter ("impresos") with an overprint applied from 1888, for excise tax. Others may be able to flesh this out further.

Here is a screenshot of a section from the Yvert et Tellier catalogue:

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