I bought a couple more examples on piece recently - see below.
I have not seen revenue use of Pictorials often and wonder how scarce such usage is ?
i just checked Bill Lloyd-Smiths excellent article of Tas Revenues on the TPS bulletin Board where he states:
"With the onset of Federation, postage and revenue stamps had to be separated. To this end, the Post Office published a notice to say that the £1 Tablet, the 2/6, 5/- and 10/- St George and Dragon and all the Platypus issues had been withdrawn from use. They would henceforth only be used as revenue stamps. Old stocks and new printings of these stamps were therefore overprinted REVENUE from November 1900. From the surviving records, it appears that stamps without the overprint would not be valid for revenue purposes after 30 November 1900 but no public notice to this effect has been located. The Stamp Duties Act was amended to ensure that postage and revenue stamps were no longer interchangeable but that amendment only came into force on 1 December 1900."
My examples are dated 21/10/00 so they represent fairly late use. I do also have an example dated 31/12/1900 ( not shown here but I can post it if necessary)- which based on Bills article is not legal use as postage stamps could not be used for revenue purposes after 1/12/00.
Does anyone have a LRD for revenue use of the Pictorials, and are there any other examples of such use after the Stamp Duties Act Amendment came into effect on 1/12/1900?
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