United States: General Revenues

US Revenues aren't that hard to identify. These are some of my favorite stamps. I have a decent collection, but still not near complete yet.

I came across this while I was sorting over the weekend.  I've never seen a revenue stamp before.  I only looked up the basics, but it will be interesting to learn more about these in the future.

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A very nice piece. It is Scott 98a. But yes, the cut edge on the bottom - and the damage on the top left, and close margin on the top right - will all decrease its value, should you sell it. You can check equivalent sales on ebay for a 98a pair. My guess is somewhere in the range of 15-25% of CV...

To see where these stamps came from, look here.

To my mind this was one of the most interesting pages simply because there were some oddball items that I don't usually see or have in my back-of-book US collection. The playing card revenue stamps intrigued me as did the state specific tobacco tax stamps. I was also excited to see 2 copies of a Hussey's Express local stamp, both badly damaged however, that will go into my album as space fillers, but cool to see nonetheless.

Welcome to the rabbit hole known as Revenue stamps. I first got involved when I purchased a small collection that included some revenues and I was completely ignorant about the topic. After ignoring these stamps for a while I obtained a couple more collections that had some revenues and I decided that I had to do something with them. Once I got the Scott Specialized Catalog, I discovered just how many types of revenue stamps actually existed, and I realized my Minuteman album pages were completely inadequate. Thus, I purchased the Scott National album revenue pages (parts 1 and 2) and a 3" binder which covers the following types of Revenue stamps:
Documentary
Proprietary
Future Delivery
Stock Transfer
Cordials and Wines
Fermented Fruit Juices
Playing Cards
Silver Tax
Cigarette Tubes
Potato Tax
Tobacco Sales Tax
Narcotic Tax
Consular Service Fee
Customs Fee
Motor Vehicle Use
Boating
Camp
Trailer Permit
Distilled Spirits Excise Tax
Firearms Transfer Tax
Rectification Tax
Postal Note
Postal Savings
Savings
War Savings
and
Treasury Savings

Whew! My fingers are sore after typing that list. Uncle Sam was really trying to raise some money!
My favorites are the 1898 Battleships issues for both Documentary and Proprietary Revenues (Documentary shown below- sorry for the glare).

[NOTE: This post was moved from the thread titled R27 Questions]

hi - couldn't see a US Classics section for States Revenue (non-postal) - so posting here as there is the obvious connection  -  apologies if wrong and hope Admin are able to move if so.  

the top two examples showing Stock Transfer Tax Revenue and Internal Revenue, are example of the slanting machine cancellations (or cuts) as mentioned by Steve (Admin) - the left hand example is OTT and obliterates excessively which is a shame  -  the right hand stamp has three fine cuts and leaves the stamp intact and visually fine.             

The lower stamp has what might be an example of the pen or manuscript cancel  -  seen here on a 1c. Documentary Internal Revenue stamp - image of ship with wording 'Series of 1898'  -  the cancellation looks almost like a felt tip marker, but am sure just purple ink via fountain pen.

Lastly - and although lacking qualification to be here, seemed related since it's non postal  -  a $1 Documentary Internal Revenue stamp - without any cuts or manuscript cancellation, but a rather fine central circular cancellation which reads  'WM. M. IMBRIE & CO.'   with date stamp reading  'MAR  19  1899'  -  though not too clear and I could be wrong with that interpretation.

I don't collect U.S. seriously, so lack Scott or any catalogue for that side of the pond  -  but hope these few of interest to those who do.  

wasn't sure exactly where to put these. More a 'sharing" of what I came across today. There is another value Cordials, Wines, Etc. but it's in even worse shape. The American Foreign Service Fee Stamp is one I don't think I have seen before.  In a box of stamps in no particular order, mixed in with a US cindy and a few other reagular issues.

I looked through my 2021 Specialized Catalog of United States Stamps and Covers which includes Revenues and could not find anything resembling this. There is a Tobacco section but no mention of Snuff specifically. While I collect US Revenues I am no expert, hopefully someone else will be more helpful.