Spectactular combination usage of 4 singles along with R58c and a pair of R15c paying the 49-cent tax. Illegal use of 2-cent Andrew Jackson 'Black Jack' (Scott #73) and 3-cent George Washington (Scott #65) postage stamps as revenues. The two receipts on the back are not taxable because they were on the same sheet of paper as the notes.Ī one-of-a-kind piece, a complete bottom margin plate block of 16 used improperly as revenue stamps. The correct tax, five cents per $100 or part thereof, should have been 25 cents per note, or 50 cents, but the illegal attempted payment, 45 cents was based on the cumulative total of $900. Two promissory notes (one year and two year) dated February 22, 1865, each for $450, with 15 randomly placed #65. Just an incredible piece! Doubly illegal, with postage stamps used as revenues, and miscalculation of the tax owed.

Either way, the document is doubly illegal: (1) postage stamp used as revenue, and (2) short payment of the tax. Either the clerk grabbed the wrong blue stamp in their haste, or they ran out of 10-cent revenue stamps and grabbed something that looked close. The proxy was for 3 related family members, hence what should have been 30 cents tax. Revenue-Stamped Documents of the Civil War Era. A similar document (sans illegal usage) is shown in Mike Mahler's book U.S. A 1-cent Franklin postage stamp used illegally as revenue, along with a horizontal pair of 10-cent Power of Attorney part perforates on a February 1863 voting proxy (early matching usage) from the Quincy mining company. Very scarce use of a demonetized postage stamp as a revenue.

The catalog value listed above is for the notary stamp off document. On-document usages are quite scarce, with populations in the double digits, and usages in conjunction with federal revenues are virtually unheard of, this being one of only two thus far reported. While the strip of 5 of R197 or R208 is interesting, it is the additional usage of the large format Virginia notary stamp (SRC #D1) that is of note here. Shade of the stamp, or perhaps a particularly sharp cancel strike, a fancyĬancel, the contrast between the colors of the cancel and the stamp, or simplyĬlick on any thumbnail below to pop up a window with more information Not necessarily the condition of the stamp. I may have chosen them for any number of reasons,

These are the revenue stamps and documents in my collection that 'jump off the page' at me.

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