Postal fiscal

Postal fiscals are revenue stamps that can also be used for postage.

For the British Commonwealth, postage stamps (often inscribed "Postage & Revenue") could be used as revenues, even with part of the value being used for postage and the rest for revenue purposes. Typically, blue/violet/purple cancels were used on revenues and black cancels were used for postage. However, this is not a hard and fast rule. New Zealand, with many postal fiscal issues, often cancelled their revenue stamps with a black CDS reading STAMP OFFICE or STAMP DEPARTMENT. And in the scarcer case of genuine postal usage, New Zealand postal fiscals can have heavy bar cancels used for parcels that are disliked by collectors.

Collectors should also be wary of stamps with revenue cancels cleaned off and replaced with forged postal cancels.





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