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Steve
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 December 2011 at 11:25 |
For anyone interested there is an old German passport on ebay with a scattering of cancelled revenue stamps. look here
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Joolz
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 October 2011 at 09:29 |
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 October 2011 at 06:12 |
Hi Joolz, its there...
Theo
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Joolz
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 October 2011 at 01:41 |
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 02 October 2011 at 12:10 |
Correct Steve, old passports don't have to cost an arm and a leg. Most of the time 5-10 euro.
When not buying at auctions sites like eBay that is... or Sothebys. This one went for 70.000 GBP.
JAMES JOYCE'S WARTIME FAMILY PASSPORT -
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Steve
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 02 October 2011 at 10:06 |
It is possible to get old passports for less than £60. I got this one at a local antiques and collectables fair at a stall selling miscellaneous collectable bric-a-brac. I think I paid £5
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Daniel
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 02 October 2011 at 09:31 |
Hi Theo (TeeJay-III) and welcome to the forum. Thanks for supplying more information on these revenues and for the pictures. That seems to answer my question as to the other values in this series. Whereas I agree that revenues look better in situ, I particularly like your passport with British Consular Service revenues, but with passports starting at about £60 each they're a little out of my league. I'm pleased with the mint versions that I have which I got relatively cheaply but I see your point about the prices of even these mint versions especially since they came from sheets found in 1990s as you say.
None of the catalogues that you mention are readily available here with the exception of the Yvert & Tellier fiscal one which is available second-hand at £35 from Amazon which is too much for what would be of minor interest to me. Anyway it is still very interesting to see all of these examples. Good luck with your search for your missing values. Daniel |
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 October 2011 at 03:05 |
Hi All, I'm a collector of these WO-II Allied Military travel permit revenues. Like Michele (marcadabollo) I like them best on actual travel documents. Show's how they were used. They are listed in a few specialist catalogues:
[Bush] - Bush-Cass, AMG Revenue Stamps of the Allied Military Government in Europe, 1956, pag R3-R4
[Y&T] - Yvert & Tellier [Erler] - Erler, Martin & John Norton, Cat The listed catalogue prices are really wild guesses (bogus), especially the Y&T. A few values were found in stacks of sheets in the vault of the printer in the 1990's. These are the MNH ones offered by companies like Rigastamps: GratiS, Eine Mark overprint, DM2, DM4 and DM6 overprint. Also the unused DM8 overprint and MNH 15 DM are often seen. From a collectors point of view, the actual used travel permits stamps are far more interesting. The ones I'm still loooking for are the 50 cents overprint and the higher values used for group travel permits. Anyone? Please contact me, even when only an image of these revenues.
Fifty US Cents black overprint on $1 - red
$10 - green / DM 40 black overprint on $10 - green $20 - orange / DM 80 black overprint on $20 - orange $50 - blue / DM 200 black overprint on $50 - blue This is an overview, including images I collected of the ones I still miss....
If there is interest for examples like the ones Michele showed in his reply, let me know.
Regards, Theo
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Daniel
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 07 September 2011 at 12:02 |
Hello Michele (marcadabollo) and Welcome to the forum. Thanks for your reply, that's one of the great things about a growing forum, there's a good chance that eventually someone will be able to answer an outstanding question. Those passports look great with examples of the military travel permit stamps inside. I agree with Steve that revenues can tell a story when still attached to their original documents and it is a shame that, in general terms, most have been cut out. I've had a look at complete passports but most seem quite expensive but I might try some of the cheaper ones. I noticed on eBay a catalogue of AMG Revenues but coming from the USA, with postage, it was about £28.
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marcadabollo
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 September 2011 at 08:29 |
Steve, I would not dismiss so drastically the postage stamps which, when on letters, also may tell stories but certainly I agree with you that very often revenues are very intruguing. I started collecting passports because of the rvenues they carry, but ended up with more than 600 of them just because you can read from them pieces of life, and not always a happy one.
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