Shown below are some recent Canadian revenue stamps that came my way this week. I think they are stunningly beautiful but I know nothing about them. I have no reference material for Canadian postage stamps let alone the Canadian Back Of Book stuff so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!- in advance -Jeffrey
Sorry, I truly know next to nothing about them other than what I've found on the web this morning.
Since most of these are third issues.~
Quote: On June 30th, 1864, the Province of Canada passed an Act to Impose Duties on Promissory Notes and Bills of Exchange. In August of that year, the Bill Stamp Act came into force. The amount of tax paid was to be identified by attaching bill stamps equivalent to the amount of the tax to each pertinent document and then cancelling each stamp across its face by signature of the instrument's creator or recipient.
Penalty for neglecting to affix stamps or for willfully writing or stamping a false date thereon, was $100.
In 1865 the American Bank Note Co. was awarded the contract to produce a new set of bill stamps replacing the earlier First Bill Stamp Issue of 1864. The Second Bill Stamp Issue, as it has come to be known, was of a much higher quality then its predecessor and depicted the portrait of Queen Victoria as used on an earlier 1860 one cent Nova Scotia postage stamp. These stamps were replaced in 1868 with the Third Bill Stamp Issue of Queen Victoria in Widow Weeds. Third issue bill stamps -
Issued April 1st, 1868.
It was designed for the "Dominion of Canada".
Line-engraved printing by the "British American Bank Note Co. Montreal & Ottawa.
This series was in use until they were demonitized on June 30th, 1882.
I don't have the van dam catalog but isn't FB46 with the NS (Nova Scotia) ovpt in a whole different league and worth quite a bit more . Love canadian revenues but have to give the US top billing for older revenues.
Nitro I agree and I really don't collect for values sake but it is nice to have an idea so for that I'm very thankful sak! Thank you. I just picked these up (from lokos) because they was beautiful!
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