US Revenue Stamp Labels

Anybody seen anything like these?



The bottom right one is gummed while the other two are affixed to pieces of a document.

Yes. I believe these were labels to tell clerks the amount of tax so that the proper stamp or stamps would be applied.

These look like facsimile revenue stamps, used by students at a business school or college in the 1860s. They were probably made in the school's print shop.

There are very few of these types of things still around these days, as they were invariably discarded after their use (who today keeps homework and test scores and practice handwriting pages from their high school days?), and, at the time, they were really nothing special.

But now they're worth hundreds, to me at least.

Jim

Here's some similar examples.

Jim

The Auburn Commercial College stamp used on a 1868 bill of sale.

Jim

I wound up buying these labels from 1typesetter (thanks!).

Shown below is a scan of the back side of the document fragments that two of these stamps were attached to. Note that the bottom one has thin, light blue, regularly spaced lines (difficult to scan correctly).

Has anyone seen "normal" documents with U.S. revenue stamps attached that are similar to the two shown here (meaning that the labels are instructional for what denomination of stamp a clerk should attach to the document)?

Or do the document fragments look more like documents you'd see in a school (meaning that the labels are school stamps)?

Jim