Fun Ebay Item, Lots Of High Denomination Tax Stamps On Documents

A few of my "Still on Paper" revenues. Most stock transfers I have have one or two US Revenue stamps, and may have a state Revenue
These are chock full of both. Heavily canceled, but quite rare in terms of sheer quantity of material.

Junius Morgan wrote:



If the pieces being shown here are valued because they have a lot of stamps on them, but are not being held because of the story they tell, into which they logically fit, then the owner is a collector but not a philatelist.

Doc and covers are valued by philatelists for many reasons that go well beyond mere possession of stamps. Stamps on a cover fit into bigger stories than the stamps alone can tell. Some stories revolve around the nature of the stamps, some revolve around the specifics of their use. But when the stamps are separated from the cover, most of the story they could have told is irretrievably lost.

If a person handling such covers is not sensitive to the story capabilities of the material combinations, they are well advised to leave them intact until someone more knowledgeable can expose them. For the larger long term good of the hobby.