What practical use do they serve? If we collectors have trouble identifying them, how could anyone else use watermarks as a test against counterfeiting?
And do postal employees simply purchase loads of stamps from strangers?
This has a major mistake. The Bureau did NOT print revenue stamps from 1862, they were printed by Butler & Carpenter, NBN, ABNCO, and the Continental Bank Note Co. The Bureau did not start printing revenues until the late 1870's for taxpaids and October of 1880 for the Scott listed revenues.
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