Super Size Taxpaid Revenues

Thanks Rev! Good information!

Ron,

Just to inform those who may not know, the Deats and Sterling remainders are the ones with the pie shaped cutouts so often seen.

I was just reading an old article from an 1891 American Philatelist by E.B. Sterling describing how he and Deats obtained and cataloged eight boxcar loads of revenue material from the U.S. Treasury. Fascinating story!

Deats and Sterling sold off the remainders to collectors and some eventually went to pulp paper mills. Here's an example of a giveaway item they created as a promotion at the 1891 Great Interstate Fair in New Jersey. They printed 50,000 of these, which may give you some idea how much material they had on hand.

They saved a lot more then the punched remainders, such as the complete Butler & Carpenter archives (all the first-third issue, proprietary, and m&m proofs and essays plus all the paperwork). Officials on cover and many other important items as well. Revenue and BOB collectors should bow at the very mention of their names.

Eight Boxcars full of Bob material?

The government retrieved a fair amount when it was discovered that there were many current tax paid stamps.

I picked up a couple early vignette prints by the BEP with significance to taxpaid revenues.

The first one, "Progress," shows a locomotive and river scene. It was engraved in 1859 by George Baldwin, so it actually pre-dates the Bureau, but they ended up adding the plate to their stock and using it for various purposes. In this case, a small circular vignette was cropped and used on a taxpaid for Special Bonded Warehouse for Grape Brandy and a Domestic Opium Stamp, both in 1878. BEP records show it was also used on an 1878 Re-Warehousing Stamp.









The other vignette, titled "Harvesting," was one of the first works done at the Bureau, engraved in 1869 by W.H. Earle. It was used in cropped versions on a Distillery Warehouse Stamp (DenimDan, I purloined your image) and a 40 Gallon Distilled Spirits stamp.







Anyone recognize any other uses?

Greg,

This is the only other usage I have. I posted it a couple years ago to the nearly moribund checks and stocks sub-forum here. These 1880s checks are lithographs, whereas the Distilled Spirits are engravings. It really is one of my favorite vignettes.

While it's out of my league with respect to cost, and there's a TON of duplication, it would be interesting to see what lurks within:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/14236176786...RK:MEBIDX:IT

1000's and 1000's....man that's a bunch of revenues!!

Wow! I agree, it would be a lot of fun to paw through all that material. It's a shame, but it looks like a lot of the special tax stamps were yanked out of their original binders - and yet they still kept the empty binders.

Apart from the different dates, denomination and type of special tax stamps here, there's another surprising design difference. Can anyone spot it? (I'm not referring to the frame, either.)

No year date.

The first special tax stamps (1873) didn't have the year overprint. But that's not it.

The stuff around the capitol vignettes is different.

Jim