Updated:
21 June 2009
Newest additions:
R133 R153 R005 R157 R135
Total # Items:
24

Please use the item's ID number - orange box - when communicating about it.


R005
RAFFLES HOTEL / SARKIES BROTHERS / SINGAPORE / PENANG / RANGOON / SINGAPORE
 
Triple oval [Estimated 60 mm x 35 mm] red, violet

updated: 25 April 2009


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Image from the author's collection

  • seen on a German PSC from SINGAPORE to LONDON franked with a Straits QV 3 cent brown [issued 1899] and cancelled SINGAPORE January 1901
  • seen on a Straits one cent green PSC with and additional two cent red QV stamp mailed from SINGAPORE to Neu Babelsberg, Germany in April 1900

 

 

R010
RAUTENBERG SCHMIDT & Co.
 
No frame, 1 line ( Estimated 64 mm, 4.5 mm serif letters ) violet

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

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All cancelled SINGAPORE, left stamp 10 August 1898 and the middile stamp, May 1898

Images from the author's collection

 

 

R020
RAUTENBERG SCHMIDT & Co.
 
No frame, 1 line ( Estimated 54 mm, 3 mm serif letters ) violet

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

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Image from the author's collection

 

 

R030
RAUTENBERG SCHMIDT & Co.
 
No frame, 1 line ( Estimated 53 mm, 3.5 mm serif letters ) violet

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

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Both cancelled SINGAPORE

Images from the author's collection

 

 

R040
RAUTENBERG SCHMIDT & Co.
 

No frame, 1 line ( Estimated 59 mm, 5.5 mm letters ) blue

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

Image from the author's collection

 

 

R050
RAUTENBERG, SCHMIDT & Co. / SINGAPORE.
 

Triple oval ( 42 mm x 14 mm , 2 mm serif letters ) black, blue, violet

updated: 31 March 2007

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Images from the author's collection

  • the "o" of "Co." is raised and the stop is underneath
  • seen in blue on an 1854 cover using three Indian stamps to CANTON [AC0005, lot 60080]
  • seen in blue on an 1855 ( 7 May ) cover using 2 Swiss and 1 Indian stamps to MANILA [AC0002, lot 146]
  • seen in blue on an 1855 ( 17 May ) cover using three Indian stamps to CANTON [AC0006, lot 664] and [AC0008, lot 3248]
  • seen on an 1857 cover using two Indian stamps to HAMBURG [AC0001, lot 14]
  • seen in blue on an 1858 cover using a single Indian stamp to CADIZ [AC0007, lot 125]
  • seen in blue on an 1860 ( 12 September ) cover using a single Indian stamp from BANGKOK to BOMBAY via SINGAPORE [AC0007, lot 178]
  • seen on an 1861 covere using a single Indian stamp to BATAVIA [AC0005, lot 60098]
  • seen in black on an 1868 ( 6 February ) cover to NIEDERUZWYL ( Nederuzwil ), SWITZERLAND [AC0007, lot 207]
  • seen in black on an 1869 ( 6 March ) cover to NIEDERUZWYL ( Nederuzwil ), SWITZERLAND [AC0007, lot 211]
  • seen in black applied to a 12 cent blue QV stamp on an 1871 ( 23 Nov. ) cover from PENANG to NIEDERUZWYL ( Nederuzwil ), SWITZERLAND [Feldman Auction 16-17 April 2007, lot 31210]
  • seen on an 1872 ( 7 March ) cover to NEW YORK [AC0002, lot 282]

 

 

R060
RAUTENBERG SCHMIDT & Co. / SINGAPORE.
 
Double oval ( Estimnated 40 mm x 19 mm , 2.5 mm serif letters ) blue

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

  • seen onan 1851 cover using Indain stamps to SWITZERLAND
  • seen in blue on 'a large part' of an 1855 cover using two Indian stamps to GLARUS, SWITZERLAND [AC0005, lot 60091]
  • seen in blue on an 1855 ( 18 January ) cover using two Indian stamps to GLARUS, SWITZERLAND [AC0007, lot 67]
  • seen in blue on an 1855 ( 21 April ) cover using two Indian stamps to GLARUS, SWITZERLAND [AC0007, lot 72]
  • seen in blue on an 1855 ( 16 May ) cover using three Indian stamps to GLARUS, SWITZERLAND [AC0006, lot 658]
  • seen in blue on an 1855 ( 16 June ) cover using two Indian stamps to HAMBURG [AC0002, lot 141]
  • seen in blue on an 1856 ( 16 July ) cover using four Indian stamps to GLARUS, SWITZERLAND [AC0006, lot 660]
  • seen in blue on an 1856 cover using two Indian stamps to GLARUS, SWITZERLAND [AC0005, lot 60089]

 

R070
Rautenberg, Schmidt & Co. / SINGAPORE.
 
Double oval ( Estimated 37 mm x 17 mm , 1.5 to 2 mm letters ) violet, red

updated: 28 Feb. 2006

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All cancelled SINGAPORE, the middle stamp in 1899

Images from the author's collection

  • the letters of SINGAPORE are serif and 2 mm tall
  • seen in violet on a 28 October 1896 cover from SINGAPORE to FLENSBURG, Germany

 

 

R080
REME & Co / PENANG
 
Double oval ( Estimated 30 mm x 20 mm , 3 mm letters ) blue

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

  • seen on an 1860 ( 28 November ) using a bisected India 8 anna stamp from PENANG to SINGAPORE [AC0007, lot 153]

 

R090
REME BROTHERS
 
Double circle with wavy outer frame ( Diameter 22 mm, 2 mm letters ) violet

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

Click the image to see the entire stamp

Image from the author's collection

  • the central numerals and letters of the date are 2.5 to 3 mm tall

 

 

R100
REME BROTHERS / SINGAPORE
 
Double oval ( Estimated 30 mm x 20 mm , 3 mm letters ) black, blue, orange

updated: 15 June 2006

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Images from the author's collection

  • seen on 8 cent on 2 anna yellow cancelled D14 duplex

 

 

R110
REME BROTHERS / .... SINGAPORE
 
Double oval ( Estimated 35 mm x 22 mm, 2 mm letters ) violet

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

Dated 1884

Image from the author's collection

 

 

R120
REME BROTHERS / date / SINGAPORE
 
Double oval ( Estimated 35 mm x 26 mm, 3 mm letters ) blue

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

Dated 1877

Image from the author's collection

 

 

R130
REME BROTHERS /date / SINGAPORE
 
Double oval ( Estimated 40 mm x 26 mm, 3.5 mm serif letters ) black, blue

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

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Left stamp dated 30 April 1884, rignt stamp dated Sepetmber 1882

Images from the author's collection

 

 


R133
REME, LEVENSON & Co. / SINGAPORE
 
Double oval, blue

updated: 21 June 2009

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Image from Jan de Kort

 


R135
RIGOLD, BERGMANN & Co. / SINGAPORE
 
Double oval, violet

updated: 18 Feb. 2006

 

  • See in violet on a 11 Sept. 1894 cover to Germany

 

 

R140
RILEY HARGEAVES & Co. LTD.
 
No frame, 1 line ( Estimated 75 mm, 5.5 mm letters ) violet

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

Cancelled PENANG 1899

Image from the author's collection

  • what looks like a frame line under the visible letters, is probably due to an over inking of the handstamp

 

 

R150
RILEY HARGEAVES & Co. LTD.
 
No frame, 1 line ( Estimated 60 mm, 4.5 mm letters ) violet

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

Cancelled KUWAL LUMPUR 1886

Images from the author's collection

 

 


R151
ROBINSON & Co. / PENANG
 
No frame, 2 line ( Estimated 25 mm x 19 mm, 2.5 to 3 mm letters ) violet

updated: 10 Nov. 2006

Image from the author's collection

 


R153
ROBINSON & CO. / TUNERS & REPAIRERS / INSTRUMENT DEALERS / ... & Singapore
 
Fancy rectangle ( 1.5 to 2 mm some serif letters ) violet

updated: 31 Jan. 2006

Cancelled SINGAPORE 3 August 1896

Image from the author's collection

  • "Robinson & Co. This began as a husband-and-wife drapery and millinery but by 1910 there was a Robinson Piano Company. with reference to guides or directories." John Wilson 31 Jan. 2006

 

 

 


R155
Rodyk & Davidson / SINGAPORE
 
Triple oval ( 2.5 to 3+ mm letters ) violet

updated: 9 June 2006

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The red stamp is cancelled 1899

Images from the author's collection

  • ID050 and ID088 are "Rodyk & Davidson (Advocates) with reference to guides or directories." John Wilson 31 Jan. 2006

 

 


R157
RUD SIEVERTS & Co. / SINGAPORE
 
Double oval, violet

updated: 28 Feb. 2006

 

  • seen in violet on a 24 August 1900 Straits PSC from SINGAPORE to HAMBURG

 

 

R160
RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER FLEET
 
No frame, 1 line ( Estimated 55 mm, 5 mm letters ) ?

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

Image from auction catalogue ( Christies 11 April 1984 )

  • the stamp has the B.M.C. PERFIN of Behn Meyer & Co.

 

 

R170
RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER FLEET / AGENT / SINGAPORE
 
Triple oval

updated:5 Feb. 2006

 

 
 

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