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RUSSIA FISCAL STAMPS, Part 2

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Russia Fiscal stamps, part 1

Distillery tax stamps

These stamps exist in two slightly different designs (text different, one set issued in 1890 and one set in 1892) in the values: 1 k brown and grey, 5 k blue and grey, 10 k brown and grey, 50 k orange and grey, 1 R black and yellow, 3 R green (two shades of green on one stamp), 5 R black and red, 10 R red and grey and 25 R blue and light blue.

Railway fiscal stamps of the Nikolaevsk Railway company

I have seen the values 1 k yellow and black, 3 k green and black, 5 k blue and black and 10 k red and black.

Fiscal stamps of Moscow

I have seen the values 1 k black, 2 k brown, 3 k green, 5 k blue, 10 k red, 15 k lilac (with background pattern), 20 k green (with background pattern), 25 k brown, 30 k blue (with background pattern) and 40 k red (with background pattern) in the same design.

Moscow, police stamps

These stamps exist in the values 2 k black, 3 k blue, 5 k green, 10 k brown and 20 k red and were issued in 1861. They are all imperforate, but the 5 k also exists perforated. A misprint 5 k blue exists.

Fiscal stamp, postally used

In the early Sowjet Republic letters didn't need a postage stamp. But in the 1920's stamps were reintroduced. Also fiscal stamps, etc. were allowed to be used as postage stamps. The above stamp is a marine fiscal stamp used for this purpose.

Reduced size
Some fiscal stamps of 1922

Consular stamps:

(Reduced size)

I have seen the values 1 k, 2 k, 5 k, 10 k, 25 k, 50 k, 75 k, 1R50, 4R50, and 7R50. They were first issued in 1913, the values 1 R, 2 R, 2.25 R, 3 R and 15 R should also exist. In a slightly different design (eagle in the middle) were issued the values 10 R, 30 R, 50 R and 100 R:

(Reduced size)

These consular stamps were used in 1922 with overprint as airmail stamps (12 m on 2 R25, 24 m on 3 R, 120 m on 2R25, 600 m on 3 R, 1200 m on 10 k, 1200 m on 50 k, 1200 m on 2R25 and 1200 m on 3 R). They are all very rare with this overprint.

(Genuine overprint, image obtained from http://www.sandafayre.com)

Forgeries exist, examples:

(Genuine stamps with forged overprints)

The next stamp is a fiscal tax on shipments of stamps abroad (during the Sowjet era), I've seen the values 1 R, 3 R, 5 R and 10 R:

Land Registration

Land registration stamp of 1902

Other local fiscal stamps:

Revenue stamp of Estland of 1897 50 k blue (exists with inverted 'N' just above the '5'). It was also issued in 50 k red.

Kronstadt or Cronstadt fiscal stamp issued in 1881, hospital tax, reduced size; a 1 R black and yellow and a 1 R blue and light blue exist

Kiev fiscal stamp of 1881. A similar stamp in 30 k green also exists.

Kiev, different design from 1886, issued in 15 k blue and 30 k green.

Livny fiscal stamp (1887), in this design were issued 10 k brown on yellow, 20 k brown on yellow, 30 k green on green and 60 k green on green.

Issue for the town of Lucin in 1880: 10 k green, reduced sizes

Novgorod passport stamp of with inscription "190" (number to be added to indicate the year), similar stamps exist with dates "1893", "1894" (see second image), "1895", "1896" and "1900". Three values were issued, 5 k red on red, 60 k blue on blue and 1 R violet on lilac. The 1 R value was only issued in and after 1895. Note that the "4" in the 1894 stamp has been changed by hand to a "5". Also a 5 k with "191'. If I'm well informed in 1892 similar stamps were issue (5 k black on red and 60 k black on blue). .

Odessa 20 k black and red (normal border) and 5 k orange and black (ornamental border), receipt stamps (1870 onwards). The following values exist 1 k black and yellow, 2 k black and yellow, 2 1/2 k black and grey, 5 k black and orange, 10 k black and brown, 15 k black and lilac, 20 k black and red, 25 k black and green, 50 k black and blue, 1 R black and yellow, 2 R black and red, 2.50 R black and lilac. Two types exist, with normal border (1870) and with ornamental border (1879).

(Piatgorsk Passport stamp)

Rostov fiscal stamp, 1 R blue with brown background (issued in 1898); hospital fund tax stamp.

Fiscal stamp of Warsaw of 1880, a 10 k black and blue and a 30 k black and red were issued. They also exist perforated (issued in 1883).

Sebastopol 10 k blue, issued in 1907.

Simferopol: double headed eagle in a square. The value is 10 k black on lilac (3 different types, one big sized, two smaller sized with larger or smaller inscriptions) they were issued in 1879 and 1883.

Theater tax from 1892 for the resort of the empress Maria Feodorova. The following values exist: 2 k green, 5 k blue, 10 k orange, 25 k lilac and 50 k blue.

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Theater tax from 1898 for the resort of the empress Maria Feodorova. There is a label attached to the left, which has been torn off here. The following values exist: 2 k brown, 5 k blue, 10 k red, 25 k lilac and 50 k green.

Saratov 1877 issue, 20 k grey."C.O.C." written at the bottom.

Riga, bathing towns police tax, 50 k, issued from 1883 to 1893, a different color for each year.

Tobacco label.