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| Keywords: Venezuela 1874 FO26.jpg en Venezuela lithographed possibly in 1874 by Felix Rasco in Caracas 9r green fiscal usage by blue handstamp Type B overprint <ref> cite book L W Fulcher 1925 The Stamps of Venezuela Escuelas 1871-79 Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal April 1925 </ref> This is a revenue stamp from a series of stamps which was also was used for postage These were the only stamps used for postage in Venezuela from March 1871 to August 1873 and they were also largely employed for postal purposes in conjunction with the square Arms type with control overprint from this date onwards to 1879 when both were superseded by the larger-sized Escuelas stamp dating 1879 The inscription Escuelas which is Spanish for schools is explained by the fact that the revenue accruing from the use of these stamps was intended to be applied for the purposes of public instruction They are so rarely found postmarked because only a very few places in Venezuela possessed a cancelling stamp at this date and when used on letters they are generally found pen-cancelled At the same time it is true that the great majority of the copies found to-day have been fiscally used The stamps were lithographed the heads being laid down first and the frames added afterwards The stamps fall into three groups depending on overprint type A With control overprint in upright microscopic letters in two double lines reading BOLIVAR SUCREM MIRANDA and DECRETO DE 27 ABRIL DE 1870 B With control overprint in microscopic italic letters in one double line reading DECRETO DE 27 DE JUNIO DE 1870 many times repeated the lines of lettering being tete-beche C With the same overprint as B but in two double lines As far as is known there were eight issues of these stamps Catalogue Forbin 26 1874 Scan of original Venezuela government PD-old-100 Sources reflist Revenue stamps of Venezuela Postal fiscal stamps | ||||
