https://spanjersberg.net Spanjersberg.net Mon, 24 Dec 2018 11:04:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spanjersberg.net/2019/01/02/gangwon-do-education-revenue-stamps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gangwon-do-education-revenue-stamps https://spanjersberg.net/2019/01/02/gangwon-do-education-revenue-stamps/#respond Wed, 02 Jan 2019 07:31:51 +0000 http://www.spanjersberg.net/?p=2663

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.  […]]]> https://spanjersberg.net/2019/01/02/gangwon-do-education-revenue-stamps/feed/ 0 https://spanjersberg.net/2018/03/21/more-on-korean-local-revenue-stamps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-on-korean-local-revenue-stamps https://spanjersberg.net/2018/03/21/more-on-korean-local-revenue-stamps/#respond Wed, 21 Mar 2018 07:47:02 +0000 http://www.spanjersberg.net/?p=2426

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 […]]]> https://spanjersberg.net/2018/03/21/more-on-korean-local-revenue-stamps/feed/ 0 https://spanjersberg.net/2018/02/15/gyeongsangbuk-do-education-revenue-stamps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gyeongsangbuk-do-education-revenue-stamps https://spanjersberg.net/2018/02/15/gyeongsangbuk-do-education-revenue-stamps/#respond Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:03:10 +0000 http://www.spanjersberg.net/?p=2033

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 […]]]> https://spanjersberg.net/2018/02/15/gyeongsangbuk-do-education-revenue-stamps/feed/ 0 https://spanjersberg.net/2018/02/06/seoul-education-revenue-stamp-in-nak/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seoul-education-revenue-stamp-in-nak https://spanjersberg.net/2018/02/06/seoul-education-revenue-stamp-in-nak/#respond Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:51:12 +0000 http://www.spanjersberg.net/?p=2012

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) […]]]> https://spanjersberg.net/2018/02/06/seoul-education-revenue-stamp-in-nak/feed/ 0 https://spanjersberg.net/2018/02/05/last-series-of-korean-national-revenue-stamps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=last-series-of-korean-national-revenue-stamps https://spanjersberg.net/2018/02/05/last-series-of-korean-national-revenue-stamps/#respond Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:52:11 +0000 http://www.spanjersberg.net/?p=1884

The last series of Korean revenue stamps to be issued for the whole of Korea was this series of 10 revenue stamps. They were printed by KOMSCO, the official government printing company which also prints Korean banknotes and postal stamps. The series was according to the official KOMSCO website put into circulation in 2005. They […]]]> https://spanjersberg.net/2018/02/05/last-series-of-korean-national-revenue-stamps/feed/ 0