Education ???? – Korean Revenue Stamps

Revenue stamped document: Masan middle school graduation certificate

Ivo Spanjersberg — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 03:48:48 +0000

From the collection of Joe Ross, well-known amongst revenue stamp collectors as someone with one of the largest revenue stamp collections in the world and author of several revenue stamp catalogues, comes this revenue stamped document from the city of Masan (??), now part of Changwon (???). Unlike with postal documents, revenue documents are usually […]

Gangwon-do Education Revenue Stamps

Ivo Spanjersberg — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 07:31:51 +0000

The more you search in (online) Korean archives, the more you will find of course. Here is a discovery from the (Korean) Law Archive regarding education revenue stamps from the Provincial Office of Education (POE) of Gangwon-do (??????). These stamps were in use from the mid-1990s until 1 January 2013, when they were phased out. […]

Gyeongsangbuk-do Education Revenue Stamps

Ivo Spanjersberg — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:03:10 +0000

Another find in one of the Korean digital archives, in this case the Law Archive: a series of revenue stamps issued by the Provincial Office of Education in Gyeongsangbuk-do. Although the file doesn’t mention it, these stamps were very probably produced by KOMSCO, the Korean government printer which also produced stamps for other provincial offices of […]

Seoul Education revenue stamp in NAK

Ivo Spanjersberg — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:51:12 +0000

The National Archive of Korea (NAK) has a lot of information on all sorts of revenue stamps. As long as you know what to look and search for a lot of information will come up. Sometimes this information turns out to be not just a list of values or dates of publication, but even (new) […]

Gyeongsangnam-do POE revenue stamps

Ivo Spanjersberg — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 20:24:09 +0000

(This article was originally published in The Revenue Journal, see at the end of this article for more information.) Sometimes documents with revenue stamps can have a very personal link, like the document shown here. This document from South Korea was issued by the Ulsan Boy’s High School in October 1984 to show that Mr. […]