Danish West Indies: Revenues: Danish West Indies Revenue Stamps
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DWI and USVI (U.S. Virgin Islands) revenues are now listed and priced in the Scott U.S. Specialized Catalogue. This occurred around 2018 (?) and was the first time in the modern era that these revenues had been comprehensively listed and PRICED! This has resulted in greatly increased interest in these stamps. There is still much work to be done on publishing information about these stamps and their printings and varieites and especially further developing price information. Other resources include: Article / unpriced listing by McRee in The American Revenuer, October 1992; Article unpriced listing by Baird in The American Revenuer, March 1977; Scandinavian Revenue Catalog, Volume I (Nelson, 1982, includes extensive DWI/VI revenue bibliography) which I have available for sale. I usually have additional (sometimes substantial) DWI / VI revenues in stock but have not had time to put them on the website; please inquire if you collect this area.
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243527
Scott #R1 [1907 10 Bit] NH VF. Wonderfully fresh. [McRee states that there are four printings. Years ago I saw all four color shades / combinations; they are slightly different. Compare to your collection.]
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246607
Scott #R1 [1907 10 Bit] Used VF with both manuscript ("19/7/1908" and signature) and bank handstamp cancellations. [McRee states that there are four printings. Years ago I saw all four color shades / combinations; they are slightly different. Compare to your collection.]
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243529
Scott #R1 "MAK." Overprint [1907 10 Bit] NH Fine. Very fresh. Archival sale overprint ca.1971. The Danish "Mak." abbreviation, for "makulatur" philatelically means waste, canceled, defaced. [McRee states that there are four printings of the original stamps. I can only recall seeing one printing with the Mak. overprint, which would make sense since it is likely that only (or mostly) the final printing would have still been in stock when DWI became VI.]
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246608
Scott #R2 [1907 50 Bit] NEVER HINGED with Average centering (perforations just cut the frameline at top), with INVERTED WATERMARK. The inverted watermark is known to exist but is listed with just a dash in the price in Scott. I have not previously recorded having an example of an inverted watermark on any of the five printings. If I have noticed any other dealers offering the inverted watermark, I do not recall. In my experience with inverted watermarks on DWI and Danish revenue stamps of this format (all printed by the same printer), the inverted watermark on a particular stamp is either relatively easy to find or it is extremely scarce -- this stamp is in the "extremely scarce" category. [McRee states that there are five printings. Over the years I have seen several of the resulting different color shades -- this example is a Pale Green -- but I have not seen them all at one time and thus I cannot supply comparison information. Compare to your collection. I do not know which of the printings are known to exist with inverted watermark. However, I feel confident in saying that if there were any inverted watermarks on this stamp that were sold in the 1971 archival sale, it was extremely few, perhaps just a single sheet.]
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243530
Scott #R4 "MAK." Overprint [1907 2 Franc] NH F-VF, left marginal example. Very fresh. Archival sale overprint ca.1971. The Danish "Mak." abbreviation, for "makulatur" philatelically means waste, canceled, defaced. [McRee states that there are three printings of the original stamps. I can only recall seeing one printing with the Mak. overprint, which would make sense since it is likely that only (or mostly) the final printing would have still been in stock when DWI became VI.]
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243532
Scott #R8 [1907 10 Franc] NH Fine. Wonderfully fresh. [McRee states that there are two printings. Compare to your collection.]
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