The truth is within and only you can reveal it 25 Apr 2016 05:44:08pm
re: Japan?
Agreed, There are a great many Japanese revenue stamps that closely resemble postage stamps. I find a few pages devoted to them and placed at the back of the album is the best way to deal with them. They often have interesting cancels.
Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy.. 25 Apr 2016 11:59:56pm
re: Japan?
The Imperial Chrysanthemum at the center is a tell.
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".... You may think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you think you heard is not what I thought I meant. .... "
It is a Japanese general revenue tax stamp, listed by Barefoot as 1883, catalogue price is 50 pence ($1). A similar series was issued for Medicine tax with the top 3 characters changed.
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