I have in my possession a British (GB probably) Tin Seal Revenue. I got that info from a site called Stampcommunity.org. I have never seen one in my life, nor can I find someone selling one. Are they rare? Any idea as to the value? Any help would be appreciated. Only on that stamp board do I see this mentioned
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I have a few of these myself and they are GB. These I think are less common than their eventual replacements; fiscal and revenues stamps. I am hoping to buy a couple from the late 1600's to early 1700's over the next day or so.
I noticed that the crown is a different design on yours, with a letter B in top left, yet it has the cypher VR on the reverse (Victoria)
Can you confirm these are tinned, as I was led to believe these were embossed silver?
These don't seem to attract much interest from what I've seen, so value is rather meagre. Certainly the ones I bought were in the £3-5 range.
Here's a closeup:
Edit:
Just seen nigelc's post. It would seem that tin was in fact used.
The truth is within and only you can reveal it 18 May 2017 09:01:51pm
re: Tin Seal Revenue
Valuable or not, they are certainly very cool. I must keep my eye open for them. Having worked with Silver all my life the "staples' sure appear to be Silver.
I see these come up on ebay when I search for patents. Usually there are several listed but today I found one. I don't collect them so I can't say what their value is. You can search ebay for items sold under patent in stamps to give you an idea of what they sell for.
Looking again at the crown on Soundcrest's copy, I suspect the embossed mark is actually from the latter part of George IV's reign, and used in Victoria's early reign.
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