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Auction: 14026 - Stamps and Covers of South East Asia including the Peter Cockburn Award Winning Collection of Straits Settlements and Malayan States Revenue Stamps
Lot: 651

Kedah
Postage and Revenue Stamps used for Revenue
Documents
1926 (12 Feb.) Promissory Note taxed in Kedah bearing 25c., 50c. and $3, all with perfins and tied by circular cachet, registered in Penang with $1 tied by red embossed datestamp. On 20 November 1928 when the Supreme Court in Penang gave judgment favouring the lender for non-payment it was discovered that the duty should have been $3 so a further $2 is paid along with a penalty of $25, thus on reverse are Straits Settlements $1, $2 and $25 each tied by red embossed datestamp; a few small faults

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