Great Britain : Revenues.

1853
Receipt.
1d (One Penny)  Light Blue.
Typography.
De La Rue
Wmk: Anchor and Stock normally inverted
Perf 15.5  x 15
Barefoot #1  CV $0.10   (10 cents)

Note: Modified design shows octaganal Belt Buckle.

GB
Unidentified Revenue.

Customs Duty Wrapper 
Possibly free from Gum.

Tripartite excise wrapper?
Based on similar design for CAVENDISH TOBACCO DTY Wrapper.

Image similar to CUSTOMS in Barefoot, but yellow not listed.

James, can I have the Ebay Link please,   I collect these, and shall bid.     OK Found it.

I have them filed under : Great Britain : Commercial Overprints.

Crikey!  No thanks James  
We must feel free and comfortable to dispose of material,  as we  see fit.
I'll see how the auction goes,  but to be frank, one always rethinks with singleton stamps
with shipping that's $5
I have adjusted my sales regarding this, and often add "padding"

Postage has been doubling the price of every stamp I buy in the past year or so.
I've had to curb my collection of  US precancels for this very thing.

Wow, £5 back in QV's day - that was quite a pile of money then.

Ryan

Thanks for that.  According to Forbin, the low values have a garter watermark, the middle values have a "VR" watermark, and the pound values have a balance (scales) watermark.

As near as I can tell from Google Books, the fee was based on a filing fee for the size of the action you were maintaining in court.  Perhaps someone with a more-direct familiarity with English courts can add some perspective...

[edit:  Actually, Forbin says that the low values have a jarretierre watermark...I had to google that.   When you Google the french word for garter, be prepared...]

Revenues.
We can thank the Dutch for this form of Taxation, along with Tulips (bulbs once more valuable than Gold)   and Coffee Houses. Circa 1694

In Great Britain, a board of Commissioner of Stamps was established,
whose duty was to arrange the supply of stamped stationery to the public.
The stamp proved that tax was paid, and added a form of legality to the document.

Distributors were appointed in major cities or on a County basis.
At first the work was not too onerous,
For instance, the Distributor for Westmorland (Cumbria) also found the time to write poems.

I shan't tell you his name,  but in 1804 he wrote this poem,  the 5th most popular nations' poem in 1955

I WANDERED lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood, 
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Wow!   that's a knockout !
Thanks Jaysee.

1866
Common Law Courts
Usual Cancels : Manuscript, Oval Cachet
Scarcer cancels :  Circular cachet, boxed oblong cachet

Typo De La Rue
Wmk Scales
P14

1875- Replaced by Judicature Fee Stamps

Barefoot #5    CV 50c   1989

No mention of paper.   For blued paper I would suggest the best procedure to be, scan the back of the stamp, alongside a known white paper.
Cancellations, stamp design  can trick the naked eye regarding colour and flyspecking design.

This only works (naturally)  for blued paper,  not blued surface paper  (Austria if memory serves)

Philatelic verbiage : "Surface toned paper"

1857
Foreign Bill
One of the first PERFINS    HUTH   (albeit, not on this particular stamp)    Johann Friedrich Andreas Huth of Hartesfield in Germany.
Wmk VR  Perf : 14
Barefoot #57


Faint Oval Cancel  Dk HUTH ,   rest  indescipherable.

That's curious.
I'd swear that top curve ended in an "E"

However, must be 1886
Queen Victoria  Surcharge  Sterling Overprint
Barefoot #46 
10/- on 10/- Green and Carmine
Used Europe Africa and the Americas.
Typo  De La Rue
Wmk Script VR  (1/- to 10/-)
Perf 14
CV 20c  1989

Ryan

National Health and Insurance Revenues.
1989 Pricing.

Great Britain TV Licence Fee

1972 >
Part of a se-tenant pair,    the right hand side, was retained by the vendor (guess)

Mr. Don Schilling has a blog, with this type noted.

You have to scroll down the page to July 19th 2005
(or CTRL F  type   "TV")
stampcollectingroundup.blogspot.com.au/2005_07_01_archive.html

I'm having the same problem, Rod.