Recently purchased what I consider to be an intermediate Philippines collection. Included therein are several non-Scott items, each of which I had not previously known about/seen.
Assume these are some form of revenue stamps/coupons. Can any member provide further details?
Thanks for your reply as well as reminding me of the Forbin catalogue. Believe I have a link to an online (scanned) version. IIRC it’s (now) in the public domain.
There's a small one-off fee to obtain a login name and password which gives you unlimited access.
The document may well be available to read for free online somewhere else but I'm very happy with this access.
The website owner has created an index bar on the screen listing all the stamp issuing countries, towns etc. in the catalogue and this lets you jump to the first page for that country etc.
This is the last edition of the catalogue which dates from 1915.
It's in French. I usually find that's ok but I did have to look up "déesse" (goddess) when reading the description of a 1 peso stamp which wasn't illustrated.
Here's a Wikipedia artcile with some info on Alfred Forbin and his publications:
On my laptop, the Forbin files are in the 2nd row, but StampSmarter appropriately uses a responsive format (meaning that the layout adjusts to the type of device you're on), so the configuration may look different depending on the width of your computer/phone/tablet.
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