Revenue stamps – Korean Revenue Stamps

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 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 […]

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 […]

Revenue stamps published 30 years apart used on the same day

Ivo Spanjersberg — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 03:30:25 +0000

Recently seen on Ebay (and purchased by the well-known revenue stamp collector Joe Ross): two South Korean documents with tax stamps. In itself, both stamps and the type of document are not particularly special: both stamps were easily available at the counter in South Korea until at least 2014, and unlike many types of documents […]

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 […]