Super Size Taxpaid Revenues

I finally scanned a couple snuff stamps I had forgotten about. I'd love to pick up some others but they've gotten hard to find at a reasonable price.

In general, snuff stamps tend to be the toughest to find of all the various tobacco taxes. I would think that there was less snuff produced in relation to other types of tobacco.

I recently found an interesting link between these taxpaid revenues and Military Payment Certificates. The Columbia vignette found on this Tobacco Export stamp was later selected for a $20 MPC, printed lithographically in 1969. However, the MPC is from Series 691, which was never released. The bricks shown here reside in the US Army Finance Corps Museum.

I think there are a couple other vignettes from taxpaids that appear on MPC and I know of several on currency, as well.

Recently, we visited the Kam Wah Chung House, a state historical park in John Day, Oregon -- a nice day trip for us. It's a fascinating time capsule of a Chinese pharmacy and store, from well over a century past. I was pleasantly surprised to discover an 1896 Special Tax Stamp for Retail Liquor Dealer posted, so they evidently sold more than dry goods.

I have been searching for where I've seen this vignette before. Here is the "harvesting sugarcane" vignette proof from the sugar producer license. I believe this must be a BEP proof as it appears to be from a presentation book, and has a very light 3743 embossed in the upper left corner.

Randall, that vignette is found on one of my favorite taxpaids -- the License for Sugar Producer. It's a rare one and quite expensive. Here's an example from the BEP Certified Proof Collection. As far as I know it was not used on anything else.



Does your vignette have a blue serial number on the back? The Bureau typically numbered and logged their working proofs.

Hi Greg. I have many proofs with control numbers on the back. Not this one. It is the first I've seen with numbers like this.