Re: What is this postal stationery ?

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:46:48 -0500, TC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:24:40 GMT, Tracy Barber
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 03:33:48 -0500, TC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 06:32:40 GMT, Tracy Barber
>>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 04:26:05 +0100, "Pierre COURTIADE"
>>>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Tracy Barber  wrote :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's definitely Ceylon.  The Higgins & Gage catalog on letter "C" only
>>>>>> goes to 1974.  It looks "close" to an airmail envelope, but I couldn't
>>>>>> find it in there.  Maybe there's an Addendum that I overlooked,
>>>>>> upstairs.  Will check later.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Value?  Not much... no world cruise, for sure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tracy Barber
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi Tracy and Didier,
>>>>>
>>>>>I found stamps from Sri-Lanka with the same design in the centre,
>>>>>catalogued by Yvert as "Fiscaux-Postaux" (stamps for common usage as
>>>>>normal and revenue stamps).
>>>>>Issued in 1984.
>>>>>These stamps are catalogued by Scott in the normal section (Sc #
>>>>>726-727)
>>>>
>>>>As a follow up, my reprinted Higgins & Gage stationary catalog doesn't
>>>>cover them.  Looked up Sri Lanka, not even represented.  Then again,
>>>>that section was done up in the early 70s.
>>>>
>>>>Tracy Barber
>>>
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>>>
>>>Didier , Pierre and Tracy:
>>>
>>>Further to the above, I would like to point 
>>>out that Scott #726-727 have been DELETED 
>>>from the Scott 2004 catalogue.
>>>
>>>At the end of the regular stamps listing is 
>>>a section on POSTAL-FISCAL stamps is added.
>>>
>>>Only 2 (1984) stamps are illustrated - 50R 
>>>and 100R.  The numbers are AR6 and AR7.
>>>
>>>However, the following note appears.
>>>
>>>"The editors believe that seven additional 
>>> revenue stamps were authorized for postal use 
>>> during 1979-98 and would like to examine them."
>>>
>>>Blair
>>
>>The only problem with the "revenue" slant is that not many revenues
>>have been stationery.  Maybe over there, but not so more elsewhere.
>>
>>Tracy Barber
>
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>
>It's not a revenue.  It's a 60 cent DOMESTIC rate 
>postal stationery.  The design is similar to the 
>postal-fiscals of the same period.

Blair!  Buddy!  Please re-read what I said!  I commented on your
revenue "slant" above my post.  We know it's not a revenue!

Sheesh, did I break a philatelic protocol or was that Scott etiquette?

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Tracy Barber