Updated Blog: April 25, 2025.

My newly acquired stamps during the past month.

Beast of Burden 35 satang green imprint stamp block for transfer of the animals.

Purchased in Eurseree auction 69 for $80.

Rare imprint block with the imprint; Local Printing Department of Provincial Administration.

This department is part of the Ministry of Interior. In August 2024, I bought a similar yellow stamps imprint blocks, beast of burden branding.

Used block of 6 of the Salung value agriculture stamps color brown perforation 13,5

Purchased on eBay for $50. Used blocks of agriculture stamps are rare.

3 empty packages of Battle Gong cigarettes. Purchased on eBay for $30

These are very early 1945-1955 cigarette packages for domestic produced cigarettes.

I will use them to enhance my collection of Tobacco revenue stamps.

Sold on eBay (my stamps).

Printed around 1935, a 5 baht, Waterlow printed Erawan court Fee stamp, with Specimen overprint, non-issued color Sold on eBay for $36. This is not a proof or essay. Waterlow printed this kind of stamps using existing plates as printing samples to give to new potential customers, like trade skill samples.

Match stamp on wrapper around 1970. Sold on eBay for $6.

Wrappers were around 10 small boxes of matches. The low-quality wrapper paper has a high level of chemicals which can damage the stamps if kept in a high humidity environment.

Second issue agriculture stamp value 1 baht, sold on eBay for $26.

Printed by Giesecke Devrient in Germany and used in 1897. These stamps are scarce for mint copies. but rare for used copies.

Eurseree Auction 69, held in Bangkok Nov 30 - Dec 1, 2024.

Of the 40 revenue lots in this auction, 28 lots were sold and 12 lot unsold.

Some of the highlights of this auction, prices in picture are without the 10% buyer's premium.

Auction results can be found at www.eurseree.com

Sold for $1075 including buyer's premium.

Sold for $2,325 including buyer's premium.

Sold for $1,600 including buyer's premium.

This lot has postage stamps of 1 att attached as provisional Court Fee stamps

Sold for $1,625 including buyer's premium.

This lot has postage stamps of 1 att attached as provisional Court Fee stamps

Featured article: Thailand Entertainment Revenues - An Update, Part 2 of 2 By Jos Sanders.

Published in the Revenue Journal of March 2018. This is a good summary of the third, fourth and fifth series of Entertainment revenue stamps, covering 1949-1985. To read the article click HERE.

My own collection of Entertainment revenue stamps now posted on my website part 2.

I posted part 2, 1949-1985 on my website under "My Collection" This are 60 pages with the third, fourth and fifth issue. It does match with the above featured article, covering the same time period.

To see this collection, click HERE.

Thailand Revenue Stamp Catalog Edition 2025. Chapter 9 - Entertainment Tax.

Chapter 9, Entertainment Duty is now updated from the previous 2019 edition. This is a similar posting as in my March 2025 blog. It is here again to help with reading my featured article. The complete chapter of 5 pages can be found under My Revenue Catalog 2025 or by clicking HERE.

Thailand Philatelic book Thailand Revenue Stamp Handbook edition 2019.

This Revenue Handbook was previously posted on the top left of my homepage. However, it is now nearly completely replaced by Revenue Stamp Catalog edition 2025. As reference for future use, I post the edition 2019 HERE.

It can also be found at the bottom of the homepage under philatelic handbooks.

Below is my Blogpost from March 15, 2025.

Entertainment revenues second series used 30/11/1948 in the Trocadero Hotel in Bangkok.

Sold on eBay for $57. Used Entertainment stamps showing the name of the hotel they are used in are rare.

Social security proofs 1955 printed by the American Bank Note Company.

Purchased a total of 4 proofs on eBay for

$ 275. These proofs are very rare, especially the one shown in black without value indication in the tablet.

Purchased in the south of Thailand. Small plastic bag with loose Tobacco with an orange Tobacco stamp. Price per bag $0.25

The orange stamp does not have a value indication, but the implied rate is 10 satang or $0.03.

For sale on eBay (not my stamps).

Rental receipt 1943 in Kedah Malaya with 2 stamps of 3 cents each of the postal issue. For sale on eBay for $300, not sold.

In 1943, Kedah (Syburi) had no revenue stamps and postal stamps were used instead. Receipts of Kedah are rare.

Auction 69, held in Bangkok March 29-30, 2025.

The new Eurseree auction will be on March 29-30 held in Bangkok Thailand.

40 Thai revenue related lots or for sale amongst many other items.

The Eurseree website can be found HERE.

Featured article: Thailand Entertainment Revenues - An Update, Part 1 of 2 By Jos Sanders.

Published in the Revenue Journal December 2017. This is a good summary of the first and second series of Entertainment revenue stamps, covering 1939-1948. To read the article click HERE.

Thailand Revenue Stamp Catalog Edition 2025. Chapter 9 - Entertainment Tax

Chapter 9, Entertainment Duty is now updated from the previous 2019 edition. This is a similar posting as in my February 2025 blog. It is here again to help with reading my featured article. The complete chapter of 5 pages can be found under My Revenue Catalog 2025 or by clicking HERE.

My own collection of Entertainment revenue stamps now posted on my website.

I posted part 1, 1939-1948 on my website under "My Collection" This are 26 pages with the first and second issue.

To see this collection, click HERE.

Part 2, 1949-1984 will be posted in April 2025.

Additional, non-revenue related, Thailand Philatelic book posted.

The Philatelic Handbook Volume 5, fourth edition 2018 is now posted on the website. Written by Richard Blakeney. It contains all information on Thailand's Money Orders and other Mail Markings.

You can find the book near the bottom of the home page or by clicking HERE.

Below is my Blogpost from February 2025.

My newly acquired stamps during the past month.

I acquired cross gutter blocks from another collector. These are 1949, 3rd series of entertainment stamps, printed by Thomas De La Rue in the UK. Printed in sheets of 400 stamps with 4 panes of 100 with horizontal and vertical gutters in-between.

These cross gutter blocks, showing both the horizontal and vertical gutter are unique, only 1 set exists.

The sheets of 400 were normally cut by the printer in individual panes of 100 stamps before being shipped to the customer.

I now do have the 5, 10 and 25 satang and the 1 and 5 baht (shown in the picture) in cross gutter format.

The highest value of the set of 6 stamps, the 10 baht was not found in the archives in a sheet of 4 panes, so it's not clear how that value of 10 baht was printed.

Revenue stamps sold during the past month. (not my stamps).

Both December 2024 and January 2025 had hardly any sale of revenue stamps on eBay, even less than usual.

Long Green Court Fee stamps 1897, sold on eBay for $81.

3 high values of 10, 20 and 40 baht, in good edition and quite scarce.

Article: Thailand Court Fee and Land Transaction Revenues, 1887-1898. Written by Jos Sanders and published in the Revenue Journal of December 2024.

December 2024.

This article was previously posted on my website in draft form. It is now published in the December 2024 issue of the Revenue Journal of the Revenue Society (formerly called the Revenue Society of Great Britain). To read the article you can go to Featured articles or by clicking HERE.

Thailand Revenue Stamp Catalog Edition 2025.

Chapter 9 - Entertainment Tax chapter posted.

Chapter 9, Entertainment Duty is now updated from the previous 2019 edition. The complete chapter of 5 pages can be found under My Revenue Catalog 2025 or by clicking HERE.

Thailand Charity stamps used on revenue documents.

Charity anti-tuberculosis stamps on revenue documents. Between 1950 and 1970 various charity stamps can be found on documents in addition to regular revenue stamps. I believe, but I am not sure that addition of these stamps was mandatory.

Additional, non-revenue related, Thailand Philatelic book posted.

The Philatelic Handbook Volume 4A, edition 2012 is now posted on the website. Written by Richard Blakeney. It contains all information on Thailand's Registered Mail Markings.

You can find the book near the bottom of the home page or by clicking HERE.

Below is my Blogpost from January 2025.

32 copies of the blue green two salung Agriculture stamp. Perforation 13.5 and issue date around 1885. Sold on eBay for $84.

After soaking off lots of backing paper and screening out the defective stamps. I have 23 stamps left. I put 5 of them in my collection, see below.

Revenue stamps sold during the past month. (not my stamps).

Documentary War relief stamp, 1942, value 5 baht. Sold on eBay for $12.

This is the highest value in the set, the size is very large, and the stamp is quite scarce.

A large block on paper of 40 Court and Land Fee stamps, value 500 baht each, used in 1983. Sold on eBay for $22.

The stamps seem to be the highest value of the Thomas De La Rue series, printed in 1969. 40 stamps of baht 500 represents a tax of baht 20,000, a very high amount. Large blocks of these high value Court and Land Fee stamps are quite common.

Court and Land Fee stamps were no longer used starting 1984

Thailand Revenue Stamp Catalog Edition 2025.

Chapter 2 - Court and Land Fee Stamps Chapter Posted.

Chapter 2b- Court and Land Fee stamps is posted om my website, under Thailand Revenue Stamp Catalog. This chapter is 22 pages, and I tried to put pictures for every stamp in the listing. You can also access the chapter by clicking HERE.

This chapter does replace the 2019 edition chapter. My work is 2 years behind planned schedule because I was struggling to learn to use Microsoft Word.

I would like to get feedback on how you view the looks of Chapter 2. Now with my first chapter finally done, I plan to finish the 2025 edition by middle of this year,

My own collection of Documentary, Standing Nurse and Standing Buddha stamps now posted on my website.

My own 27-page collection of these Documentary stamps are now posted on my website under My Collection. You can also access by clicking HERE.

Then click on Documentary stamps, Standing Nurse & Standing Buddha.

Most of the gutter blocks of the Standing Nurse stamps are unique. They come from the Thomas De La Rue archives

Article: Thai Charity Stamps, KSS Program. Written by Alan Cameron in the Thai Times 2012.

Interesting article on the so called KSS charity program. Fits well with my just posted Standing Nurse and Standing Buddha Documentary stamps. To access the article, click HERE.

The past 25 years in Thailand revenue collecting, part 5.

The Social Security revenue stamps, surcharged for Match Tax.

The Social Security stamps printed in 1955 by the American Bank Note Company were never issued because the program was cancelled. However, in the early 1960's, these stamps were surcharged to 50 satang under the KSS charity program, to be used as Match tax stamps. The 50 satang on 30 baht orange was thought never to be overprinted and was never seen. Of the 50 satang on 5 baht red only 2 copies were known.

Around 2012, 4 stamps of the orange 50 satang on 30 baht came on the market all at the same time. I sold 2 of the copies for $350 each around 2018.

Discoveries of new Thailand revenue stamps continues till today.

Additional, non-revenue related, Thailand Philatelic book posted.

The Philatelic Handbook Volume 2, edition 2012 is now posted on the website. Written by Richard Blakeney. It contains all information on Thailand Licensed Post Offices.

You can find the book near the bottom of the home page or by clicking HERE.

the old blogposts from December 2024 - August 2023 can be seen just to the right of this Blog post.