Dear fellow members David Springbett’s family have expressed their grateful thanks for the numerous messages of condolence from members of the Revenue Society following David’s death on 22nd December. David will be cremated in a private funeral service attended by his family only, but a memorial service will be held some time later this year. I...
Several files have been updated in the members area principally the books that we have for sale to members, the detailed list of the principle articles in each edition of The Journal and our programmes list.Books For SaleThe Journal IndexProgramme
STOP PRESS Following a Committee Meeting it has been decided that our meeting on the 7th November will be a ZOOM meeting split into 2 parts 09.00 GMT – Paul Woods New Zealand presentation part 3 16.00 GMT – AGM (followed hopefully by short presentation by an overseas member) If you wish to attend...
The Revenue Journal for June 2020 is now available on the website amongst the topics covered are: The Card and Dice Office – Evasion of Stamp Duty in the Early 19th Century Gieseche and Devrient Revenues for Siam Greece Cigarette-Paper Tax Revenues Die Proofs of the GB Unappropriated Revenues Part 1, KGV Hong Kong...
We would like to remind members of our annual auction, this is always a highlight and a key date for many. This year it will be held on November 2nd at the auction room at the Royal Philatelic Society, 15 Abchurch Lane, LondonThe auction catalogue will be posted on the website as soon as...
Meeting of the Revenue Society Saturday September 7th 2019 10:00 – 16:00 Royal Philatelic Society 15 Abchurch Lane London EC4N 7BW All are welcome to attend this meeting where club secretary Andrew McClellan will talk about his display of Malayan revenues and a talk on GB revenues will be given but Ed Hitchins and...
The Midlands stamp fair ‘Midpex’ is on 6th July at Warwick Exhibition Centre, Fosse Way Leamington, CV31 1XN. All society members are cordially invited to a ‘get-together’ from 12:00 until 13:00. Please contact us for more details
All members are invited to the next society meeting which will be held in the Auction Room at Spink, 69 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4ET. The topic is ” Court Fees”, followed by “One or two frames of your favourite countries”. Photocopies of displays welcomed. (Bring them or send them). Dealers and Bourse at...
The locations and future meeting dates of the Society have been booked as follows (please note the change of venue for the September and November 2019 meetings): At Spinks Auction Rooms 1st June 2019 (10.30 am – 5 pm) At the new premises of the Royal at 15 Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BW (nearest...
The results of Class 9 Revenues section (5 Frames) were as follows: Ian McMahon – AustraliaQueensland Revenue Stamps Score 88 Award Large Vermeil Jukka Makinen – FinlandThe Rouletted Revenue Stamps 1865 & 1866 of Finland Score 93 Award Gold Vincent Ong – SingaporeEvolution of Tax Stamps in the Cape of Good Hope up to 1910 Score 85 Award...