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• Just Added
• Reference Charts
  • Introduction
  • U.S. 1st Issue Revenues
  • U.S. 2nd Issue Revenues
  • U.S. 3rd Issue Revenues
  • U.S. Proprietary Revenues (1st Series)
  • U.S. Proprietary Revenues (2nd Series)
• Cancel Search
• Revenue Museum
• Certified Revenues
• XF & Jumbos
• Revenue Multiples

• Margin Imprints
• Freaks & Oddities
• Revenues on Documents
  • All Documents
  • Civil War Photographs (CDVs)
  • Illegal Usage - Postage Used as Revenues
  • Illegal Usage - Revenues Used as Postage
• Publications
  • The American Revenuer (1985) — Ship Cancellations of the Civil War
  • Shellabear/Tolman
    Interactive Railroad
    Cancel Database
  • Shift Hunter Letters
  • The Boston Book
  • Forbin Catalogue
• Links
• Counterfeits, Fakes, Forgeries

• 1st-3rd Issue Plate Variety Reference
• 1st Issue Silk Papers
• Census of 1st-3rd Issue Revenue Bisects

July 12, 2011 - Beta version of the Shellabear/Tolman Railroad Cancel Interactive Database now open!

News

May 16, 2012. - I added a PDF of the November 1985 TAR article updating Shellabear's listing of ship cancellations on Civil War revenues.

November 26, 2011. - I added a page on counterfeits, forgeries, and altered stamps in my collection.

November 10, 2011. - I added a set of pages on 1st Issue plate varieties.

October 9, 2011. - I added a reference page on 1st Issue silk papers.

July 12, 2011. - Initial version of the Shellabear/Tolman Interactive Railroad Cancel Database opens to the public (partially complete).

September 6, 2010. - The 1,000th stamp added to the website.

December 28, 2007. - Forbin CD-ROM is no longer available. All future additions will be to the online version only.

December 24, 2007. - Massive reimaging project underway. Extensive revenue cancel/image search capability added.

December 24, 2004. - Added a gallery page for the U.S. revenue multiples in my collection.

October 24, 2004. - Added a gallery page for the handstamped and printed cancels on 1st Issue revenues in my collection.

August 24, 2004. - I've added an information and subscription page for Global Stamp News.

January 1, 2004. - Forbin - Catalogue de Timbres-Fiscaux is now available both online and on CD-ROM. Order today!

January 25, 2003. - This site opens. Welcome to the wonderful world of collecting revenue stamps, some of the most beautiful and elegant examples of art ever created.

All the pictures you see on this site are of actual stamps in my personal collection. Other than items listed on the "For Sale" page, the stamps are not for sale.

Enjoy! -Dan