Local ???? – Korean Revenue Stamps

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 […]

Behind the stamp (Paju local revenue stamp)

John E. Strout — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 23:58:37 +0000

Highway 1 leads northward from Seoul to Kaesong and then to P’yong-yang, connecting two ancient capitals of Korea with the modern one. A few miles from the Seoul city limits, a smaller road leads east towards Uijong-bu, and about two miles from Highway 1 there is a narrow gravel road headed north, up the steep […]

The Revenue Stamps of Seoul City (part 3 of 3)

Ivo Spanjersberg — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 08:00:04 +0000

(Part 3 of 3) Like most countries which at one time used revenue stamps, South Korea has a long history of using local revenue stamps. Until the 1970s these local revenue stamps were produced locally, each with a unique design per province or municipality. From 1976 onwards local revenue stamps were produced nationally (with standardized […]

The Revenue Stamps of Seoul City (part 2 of 3)

Ivo Spanjersberg — Wed, 08 May 2019 16:14:06 +0000

(Part 2 of 3) Like most countries which at one time used revenue stamps, South Korea has a long history of using local revenue stamps. Until the 1970s these local revenue stamps were produced locally, each with a unique design per province or municipality. From 1976 onwards local revenue stamps were produced nationally (with standardized […]

The Revenue Stamps of Seoul City (part 1 of 3)

Ivo Spanjersberg — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:25:42 +0000

Like most countries which at one time used revenue stamps, South Korea has a long history of using local revenue stamps. Until the 1970s these local revenue stamps were produced locally, each with a unique design per province or municipality. From 1976 onwards local revenue stamps were produced nationally (with standardized designs) by the national […]

More on Korean local revenue stamps

Joe Ross — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 07:47:02 +0000

Home from the hunt I took out of the box a file folder marked Misc. unsorted Rev’s. In it was an untidy pile of album leaves and stock pages with an assortment of Korean, Chinese and Japanese revenue stamps. In sorting through I noticed a couple of stock cards and two pages of Korean Municipal […]

Seoul Korea Municipal Revenues Update

Joe Ross — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:51:57 +0000

In March 2011 Joe Ross wrote in the CalRev’r: “Listing recently printed revenue stamps is nearly impossible. There are no government publications which list current or future items. It is incumbent on collectors that locate new or unlisted items to pass on this information.. Barefoot’s SE Asia catalog took a huge step towards providing that […]

Korean Revenue Update – Oh By The Way

Joe Ross — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 07:03:07 +0000

Once a catalog is finished, out come all the collectors that have checked to find all the items missed, the unlisted. Fortunately the following items came from an auction house in Korea that had never read John Barefoot’s Southeast Asia Revenues catalog. The following have not yet been listed with issue dates through 1975. (Please […]

Daegu: resident registration card (1976)

Ivo Spanjersberg — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 14:58:22 +0000

All Koreans are registered in their family register which is also used to give details through the type of document shown here. This is called a ????? (resident registration card). These documents come in several different forms, the more detailed one is this large form. It is somewhat larger than A4 and printed on very thin […]

Ganghwa-gun: certified document with local stamp (1974)

Ivo Spanjersberg — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:42:47 +0000

A more mysterious document is this document from ??? (Ganghwa-gun). It is a certified document, written mainly in hanja. Unfortunately the handwriting is very difficult to read, even Koreans I asked couldn’t make much sense of it. The document comes with one local revenue stamp, issued by Ganghwa-gun itself. On the stamp is a text which refers […]