Korean consular revenue stamps: new won value series (II)

This listing is an addendum to the article “Consular Revenue Stamps of the Republic of Korea” in The American Revenuer, Third Quarter 2017 (Vol. 70, No. 3). For the full article contact the American Revenue Association through their website: http://www.revenuer.org/

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New won value series (II)

CR52	CR57

The second won series comes in two print varieties, namely a text for the Ministry of Trade and Industry and a text for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In both cases the department named is the “Passport Division,” which apparently changed from one ministry to another. The difference is the text at the bottom of the stamp:

Version for Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Version for Ministry of Trade and Industry

For this series there is no known archival document mentioning a publication date. Two documents (each with the 30,000 won stamp) are known with cancellations prior to 2000, one from the 1980s (year unfortunately only reads as “198”) and one from 1994. Because of all the references to this series on Korean blogs it seems that this series was used until 2013. In October 2016 no trace could be found of them in local council offices in Korea.

Nr.	Value	Background colour	Text colour	Serial nr. colour	Ministry (seen)
CR50	600	grey	dark blue	black	외교통상부 여권과
CR51	1000	dark yellow	dark blue	black	외교통상부 여권과
CR52	3000	light green	dark blue	black	외무부 여권과
CR53	5000	pink	purple	red and black	외교통상부 여권과
CR54	10000	azure	dark blue	red	외교통상부 여권과
CR55	15000	bright yellow	dark blue	black	외교통상부 여권과
CR56	25000	lilac	dark blue	black	외교통상부 여권과
CR57	30000	bright red	dark blue	red	외무부 여권과
CR58	33000	yellow	black(?)	black	외교통상부 여권과
CR59	35000	light green	dark blue	black	외교통상부 여권과
CR60	38000	lilac	purple	black	외교통상부 여권과
CR61	40000	light blue	dark blue	red and black	외교통상부 여권과