Exhibit : Match related postcards and covers
Born in San José, Costa Rica, in September 1964. I started collecting matchboxes and labels in 2016. I never collected anything in my life until in 2006 when I became “hooked” with revenue stamp collecting, a branch little known and even despised by traditional postal stamp collectors. As a lawyer and notary I fell in love with those fiscal stamps that are stuck to documents. Since then I have assembled a great collection from Costa Rica, exhibited internationally and written for multiple magazines, including for The Revenue Journal from The Revenue Society, of which I have been a member since 2008.
When my collection from Costa Rica was almost complete, I became interested in tax stamps that do not adhere to documents but to objects, which are the rarest. These stamps are meant to be destroyed in the moment the bottle, cigarette pack, deck of playing cards or matchbox is opened, hence few survive.
I liked how the stamps looked on the labels and in some time I discovered this nice and peculiar hobby.
I quickly realized that it is impossible to collect “the whole world” so, in addition to the labels with tax stamps, I focused on Latin America countries, my favourites being Argentina, Cuba and Mexico.
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