Canada Excise - Tobacco Stamp

Just won this nice looking stamp, thought I'd share it with you all. I love the design, but admit I don't know anything else about it.

Checkout this link, specifically page 6 (reads page 8 on the document) and figure 22 that describes your stamp and it's usage:

http://www.esjvandam.com/Tobacco%20...Part%202.pdf

Thanks, I'll have to read that! :-)

Nells250, Very nice piece!

This stamp was on a 5 pound of tobacco package. From the Lee W. Brandom catalog, your stamp seems to be #M-200 or #M-201, depending if it is watermarked on thick paper in the first case or unwatermarked on thin paper in the second case. As for value, the given prices (from 1976) are 1.00$ and 1.50$.

The given price is said to be a "rarity factor" only. I heard that we could multiply this price by 10 to get an approximation of today value, but it does not seems to be enough with what I can see on the Internet. It is still a mystery how to correctly value those "tax paid" tobacco stamps. I once send an e-mail to a guy at BNAPS (http://www.bnaps.org/; Lee Brandom was/is (??) a member of BNAPS) asking if there were any price update and nobody ever took over M. Brandom's work. So, I do not know how dealers calculate their sales prices. If anyone have any idea, feel free to explain!

Very nice stamp Nells

I have only three or four of this type in my collection. You don't see them often.

I always loved the fancy engraving on Canada's revenue stamps.

Chimo

Bujutsu

I paid about $4 for mine. Going by pepere_jack's post, I may have overpaid! I don't mind... I think its worth it.

I don't think so... As I said, those are prices from 1976. In that case, it seems that the "multiplication by 10" seems to be valid, or at least near the current value.

I was born in 1976... does that make me worth 10 times more than did when I was a baby?