FREE: Worth $$ 1800's RARE AND OLD George Washington Proprietary Revenue Stamp Lot With Extra

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I am not sure on the value of these stamps these could be worth over 100 dollars So bid up!.

The two George Washington stamps are in two different colors of blue not sure which is what. What I do know is that the George Washington Revenue stamps helped pay for the civil war. The other stamp has the face of lady liberty on it and it was used for checks.

Adhesive Revenue Stamps (1862)

One of Congress' new measures was a range of new taxes to be paid by adhesive revenue stamps. These new taxes were applicable to quite a varied range of items: legal documents, playing cards, patent medicines, matches, and perfumes. These taxes eventually brought over $10 million annually to the Federal Treasury. Matches were an especially important revenue earner, about $1 million annually. Thee total revenue collected was about $40 million. This was about 1 percent of the cost of the War. Photographs were not at first included in the revenue measures.

Here is the book on Proprietary stamps in pdf form.

An Historical Reference List of Revenue Stamps Of The United States - Including the private die proprietary stamps.


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