???? – 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

Korean “digital revenue stamps”

Ivo Spanjersberg — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 14:45:22 +0000

(Text originally published in MSS Quarterly Bulletin Nr. 316.) On 1 January 2017 the last “paper” revenue stamps of the Republic of Korea (“South Korea”) were phased out. Except for the consular revenue stamps used outside of Korea the only type of revenue stamp now in use within the borders of Korea are meter marks. Meter […]

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 […]