Revcollector: I can guess why the company would put that stamp on the back of a common revenue - they wanted people to know that it was a real stamp. Most beginning collectors have no experience with revenues, and most non-collectors have never heard of them. When I told a woman at work that I collected revenue stamps she asked: "Are those like the Christmas stamps?"
I suppose even 120 years ago a novice might need to know, although the anti-theft idea does seem more likely. Revenues are like Christmas stamps, presents for the government. :-)
A marketing ploy? They were willing to put their name on it and stand behind it that it was genuine? I wonder how big stamp collecting even was in that period? Just think how many fewer stamps a collector would have had to deal with.
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