That's a pretty awesome stamp you have Lee. I don't know much about the Settlements, but the only stamp I see, in either Scott's or SG, is the Labuan stamps with that type of OP, in 1907, which bear absolutely no resemblence to your stamp. Maybe one of the "Big Guns" will get in here with an answer to you question. Good luck.
Mike
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I see nothing similar in my Barefoot -the closest there is an image of a fiscally used postage & revenue stamp with a similar cancel. My guess is it could be a fiscally used postage stamp with fugitive ink that has been washed away.
Your stamp look like a Streit Settlements # 104, I agree wirh Josh. The 5$ inscription is similar and the information in Scott said "High values of the 1902 and 1904 issues with revenue cancellations are of minimal value"
I'm not even seeing a cancel on this stamp. The orange is part of the stamp. I believe it is the lower right of of a setenant set of 4. I'm still pretty sure it is a revenue.
This is a postage (and revenue) stamp where the main (green) colour of both the design and the paper has been bleached out by light and/or solvent. You can see a little of the green frame showing through the red cancellation at the top left. It has the regular colonial keyplate stamp design.
The red cancellation with the "09" date slug and part of the word "dollars" is an impressed revenue stamp used as a revenue cancellation. This would have been used to tie the stamp to the document not as a central cancellation on a block of four.
I found this document just now on Stampboards. It shows similar revenue cancellations including a green and red $5 stamp.
This document is from 1924 so has King George V stamps. The bleached out stamp is cancelled in 1909 so will have had King Edward VII's portrait and has the earlier brown-orange colour for the colony name and value.
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Need some help identifying this one if possible.
