Ivo Spanjersberg – Korean Revenue Stamps

Revisiting the Suin Line: Television Chronicles of a Bygone Railway

Ivo Spanjersberg — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 23:17:03 +0000

The Suin Line (???, ???) was a 52 km narrow-gauge railway connecting Suwon and Incheon in South Korea. Opened on August 5, 1937, by the Ch?sen Gyeongdong Railway, it primarily transported salt from the Sorae area. In 1942, the Ch?sen Railway acquired the line, and following Korea’s liberation in 1945, it was nationalized under the […]

Wat verdiende een arbeider bij de stoomtram naar Huisduinen?

Ivo Spanjersberg — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 22:33:06 +0000

Rond 1900 speelde het onderwerp “arbeidsomstandigheden” een belangrijke rol in de toenmalige politiek. Dat had vooral te maken met de opkomst van sociaaldemocratische partijen in West-Europa, die vaak gelieerd waren aan allerlei vakbonden, vaak georganiseerd per sector. De grote spoorwegstaking van 1903 leidde tot aandacht voor de arbeidsomstandigheden bij het spoor. Dit leidde tot de […]

De tram ontspoort

Ivo Spanjersberg — Fri, 26 May 2023 22:23:25 +0000

Zondag 6 september 1914 was een aangenaam warme dag. Volgens historische gegevens van KNMI was het tussen de 15 en 18,5 graden in Den Helder. Er stond niet veel wind, dus een bezoek aan het strand van Huisduinen was zeker een optie zo aan het einde van het badseizoen. De Huisduiner tram was dan ook […]

Het veranderende tramstation van Huisduinen

Ivo Spanjersberg — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 22:27:48 +0000

Tussen 1896 en 1917 reed van Den Helder naar Huisduinen de tram. De tram werd gedurende twee perioden geëxploiteerd door twee verschillende trammaatschappijen. Het eerste trambedrijf, van Jan Pot, bestond van 1896 tot 1907, het tweede bedrijf, een samenwerking van inwoners van Den Helder, van 1910 tot 1917. Gedurende de twee decennia dat de tram […]

Series of alcohol tax revenue stamps sample pages show up on Kobay

Ivo Spanjersberg — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:17:33 +0000

In recent months a seller on Kobay has been selling individual pages with sample revenue stamps on them. The pages seem to be a 1960s/1970s set of samples which were sent to relevant authorities to be able to check which stamps were needed for which product. But who knows more about these stamps? Or has […]

One For The Record

Ivo Spanjersberg — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:42:01 +0000

It should not come as a surprise that a specialized stamp society such as the KSS has among its membership quite a few highly specialized members. However, it does sometimes feel as if the KSS has more of those specialized members than quite a few other stamp societies. It is of course purely anecdotal, but […]

Revenue stamps in album pages?

Ivo Spanjersberg — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 19:54:38 +0000

The biggest challenge when it comes to creating stamp album pages for revenue stamps is the sheer endlessness of it all. There is no way of knowing for sure how many stamps were ever produced. Unlike postal stamps, which are usually issued by an official postal authority, revenue stamps can be issued by a whole […]

Examples of sample pages

Ivo Spanjersberg — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 12:30:51 +0000

Whenever a new series of commodity (revenue) tax stamps was introduced in Korea, a special booklet was created which showed all the new stamps. Here are a few of the pages from such a booklet. The pages probably came from a much larger booklet, which was taken apart by the seller to be able to […]

Incheon local revenue stamps (1964)

Ivo Spanjersberg — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:57:51 +0000

I (Matt Parkkinen) made a state-side trip in September, to Seattle, and since my return have been too busy and also have not had an opportunity to add much in the way of information on Korean revenues, until just the other day. A few days ago I was in Pusan, and obtained some of the […]

Revenue stamps of Iran 3rd Edition

Ivo Spanjersberg — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:49:16 +0000

Several well-known members of the revenue/fiscal stamp community pointed out that a new edition of the “Revenue Stamps of Iran” catalog had been published. This edition, the third, is larger than ever, with “742 full color pages with pictures of every stamp and many new rare documents”. The two volumes show many different types of […]