{"id":2217,"date":"2025-11-30T00:56:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T00:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:04:24","slug":"on-line-exhibitor-fernan-pacheco-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/2025\/11\/30\/on-line-exhibitor-fernan-pacheco-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern\u00e1n Pacheco (Costa Rica)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Exhibits : Argentinian Match Industry<\/a>, Costa Rica Match Industry<\/a>, Match Tax Stamps<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in San Jos\u00e9, 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 \u201chooked\u201d 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<\/strong><\/a>, of which I have been a member since 2008. <\/p>\n

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Tax stamp and Costa Rica matchbox label, 35 x 50 mm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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 that the bottle, cigarette pack, deck of playing cards or matchbox is opened, hence few survive. <\/p>\n

I liked how the stamps looked on the labels and in some time I discovered this nice and peculiar hobby and discovered the beauty of the old matchbox labels, started buying some, mainly Latin American countries. However, boxes with tax stamps combine both of my hobbies.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/strong><\/a> to return to the Exhibition Catalogue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exhibits : Argentinian Match Industry, Costa Rica Match Industry, Match Tax Stamps Born in San Jos\u00e9, 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 \u201chooked\u201d with revenue stamp collecting, a branch little known and even despised by […] Read more<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-line-exhibitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}