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Rond 1900 speelde het onderwerp “arbeidsomstandigheden” een belangrijke rol in de toenmalige politiek. Dat had vooral te maken met de opkomst van sociaaldemocratische partijen in West-Europa, die vaak gelieerd waren aan allerlei vakbonden, vaak georganiseerd per sector. De grote spoorwegstaking van 1903 leidde tot aandacht voor de arbeidsomstandigheden bij het spoor. Dit leidde tot de […]
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Zondag 6 september 1914 was een aangenaam warme dag. Volgens historische gegevens van KNMI was het tussen de 15 en 18,5 graden in Den Helder. Er stond niet veel wind, dus een bezoek aan het strand van Huisduinen was zeker een optie zo aan het einde van het badseizoen.
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Tussen 1896 en 1917 reed van Den Helder naar Huisduinen de tram. De tram werd gedurende twee perioden geëxploiteerd door twee verschillende trammaatschappijen. Het eerste trambedrijf, van Jan Pot, bestond van 1896 tot 1907, het tweede bedrijf, een samenwerking van inwoners van Den Helder, van 1910 tot 1917. Gedurende de twee decennia dat de tram […]
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In recent months a seller on Kobay has been selling individual pages with sample revenue stamps on them. The pages seem to be a 1960s/1970s set of samples which were sent to relevant authorities to be able to check which stamps were needed for which product. But who knows more about these stamps? Or has […]
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It should not come as a surprise that a specialized stamp society such as the KSS has among its membership quite a few highly specialized members. However, it does sometimes feel as if the KSS has more of those specialized members than quite a few other stamp societies. It is of course purely anecdotal, but […]
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The biggest challenge when it comes to creating stamp album pages for revenue stamps is the sheer endlessness of it all. There is no way of knowing for sure how many stamps were ever produced. Unlike postal stamps, which are usually issued by an official postal authority, revenue stamps can be issued by a whole […]
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Whenever a new series of commodity (revenue) tax stamps was introduced in Korea, a special booklet was created which showed all the new stamps. Here are a few of the pages from such a booklet.
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I (Matt Parkkinen) made a state-side trip in September, to Seattle, and since my return have been too busy and also have not had an opportunity to add much in the way of information on Korean revenues, until just the other day. A few days ago I was in Pusan, and obtained some of the […]
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Several well-known members of the revenue/fiscal stamp community pointed out that a new edition of the “Revenue Stamps of Iran” catalog had been published. This edition, the third, is larger than ever, with “742 full color pages with pictures of every stamp and many new rare documents”. The two volumes show many different types of […]
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From the collection of Joe Ross, well-known amongst revenue stamp collectors as someone with one of the largest revenue stamp collections in the world and author of several revenue stamp catalogues, comes this revenue stamped document from the city of Masan (마산), now part of Changwon (창원시). Unlike with postal documents, revenue documents are usually […]
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In the September 2019 edition of “Stamp Collector” an article was published on the Polish government-in-exile stamps. The article titled “Poland’s exile issues” tells the story behind both the official exile stamps, produced by the London exile government, and the stamps as produced within wartime Poland for the underground mail.
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Highway 1 leads northward from Seoul to Kaesong and then to P’yong-yang, connecting two ancient capitals of Korea with the modern one. A few miles from the Seoul city limits, a smaller road leads east towards Uijong-bu, and about two miles from Highway 1 there is a narrow gravel road headed north, up the steep […]
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