Revenue Stamps of Liberia

This listing of Liberian revenues is based on Philip Cockrill’s LIBERIA Series Booklet No. 5 and No. 25, supplemented by information from Col. Rogers book and: Korn, Bryant (2011): Preliminary chronology for provisional Liberian revenue overprints. Journal of the Liberian Philatelic Society 147. - and ADDENDUM. Journal of the Liberian Philatelic Society 148.

  • First Issue 1906

    printed by Perkins, Bacon & Company, England on paper thin white to grayish, perforated 14.

    papermaker’s watermark JAS WRIGLEY & SON LD
    219     covering approximately 10 stamps (190 mm overall) in the sheet of 50.

    • as issued

      • R1
        1906, Feb. 15
      • R2
        1906, Feb. 15
      • R3
        1906, Feb. 15
      • R4
        1906, Feb. 15
      • R5
        1906, Feb. 15
      • R6
        1906, Feb. 15
      • R7
        1906, Feb. 15
      • R8
        1906, Feb. 15
      • R9
        1906, Feb. 15
      • R10
        1906, Feb. 15
      • R11
        1906, Feb. 15

    • overprinted BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE

      printed by Perkins, Bacon & Company, England on paper thin white to grayish, perforated 14.

      previous issue diagonally overprinted with a straight line rubber stamp approximately 61 mm long with seriffed capitals 3 mm high for the Liberian Internal Revenue Department; this overprint is found in varous shades of violet through to violet-black and occasionally even black; overprint exists reading upwards and downwards, both normal and inverted.
      • 2c
        sky blue & black
        PC28
        1914
      • PC29
        1914
      • PC30
        1914
      • PC31
        1914
      • PC32
        1914
      • PC33
        1914
      • PC34
        1914
      • PC35
        1914
      • PC36
        1914
      • PC37
        1914
      • PC38
        1914