STRAITS SETTLEMENTS Due, Postcards, Fiscals

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Postage Due Stamps

1924 Inscription 'STRAITS SETTLEMENTS POSTAGE DUE, value in a circle

  1 c violet
  2 c black
  4 c green
  8 c red
  10 c orange
  12 c blue

Fiscal stamps

REVENUE:

1874 Large sized stamps, 'REVENUE' on top, 'STAMP' below

The following values were issued: 3 c, 5 c, 10 c, 15 c, 20 c, 25 c, 30 c, 50 c, 60 c (all in lilac, value in black), $1, $2, $3, $5, $10, $25 and $50 (all in blue, value in black).

1882 New smaller design

reduced size, with typical red cancel often found on fiscal stamps of Straits Settlements, the red cancel indicates the same value as the stamp together with the date 25 9 88 in this case.

The following values exist:
A: With value in colour of the stamp (1882): 3 c, 5 c, 10 c, 15 c, 20 c, 25 c, 30 c, 50 c, 60 c (all in lilac), $1, $2, $3, $5, $10, $25 and $50 (all in blue)
B: With value in other colour: 3 c lilac and black , 5 c lilac and blue, 10 c lilac (two shades on one stamp), 20 c lilac and green, 50 c lilac and red, $1 green and red, $2 green and blue, $5 green and violet, $25 green and $100 green and red.

FOREIGN BILL

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JUDICIAL

Example, 25 c brown and violet reduced size

MARINE POLICIES

Example, 24 c blue and violet reduced size

RECEIPT STAMP

Reduced size

A receipt stamp of India exists overprinted with a crown and surcharged 3 c (issued in 1867, see picture above).

(Receipt stamp of 1875)

Straits Settlements issued its own receipt stamps in two values: 3 c lilac (1875) or 3 c violet (1876).

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Some postage stamps used as fiscal stamps, cancelled with a large red seal with a crown in the center, the date is also indicated in this seal '11-10-24' on the left and '7-6-21' on the right hand side.

Postal Stationery

POSTCARDS

1879 Queen Victoria in a rectangle

  3 c blue
  3 c red (1894)
  'TWO CENTS' on 3 c blue (1891)

1879 Queen Victoria in a circle

  'FOUR' on 5 c brown
  4 c brown (1880)
  'THREE CENTS' on 4 c brown (1884)

1885 Queen Victoria in a circle (new design)

  1 c green
  2 c red

REGISTERED LETTER

1891 Queen Victoria in a circle, inscription 'STRAITS SETTLEMENTS REGISTERED LETTER POST'

  5 c blue