Royal revenues

ne of the previously neglected areas of philately is that of stamps used for the collection of taxes. This had been much more prominent a subject before the First World War when an increasing number of new issues of postage stamps caused collectors to begin to withdraw from revenues, and indeed postal stationery as well, in order to concentrate on postal issues and, progressively over the past century, to one country or a single issue or indeed a single stamp! With a plethora of new postage stamp issues in the past twenty years, collectors have been looking at areas to collect that