After some recent threads on the topic, I figured I'd dig through my cartons of unprocessed U.S. revenue material and pull out any postage stamps used as revenues on document and revenue stamps used as postage on cover, in order to get them added to my website.
The following items are what I dug up.
First, postage stamps used as revenues:
And now the reverse, revenue stamps used as postage:
The one cent banknote on the Ct. River Railroad has no reason to be there. Aside from the fact that there was no one cent tax rate for a receipt, the amount involved was too small to be taxed at all (no receipt under $20 was taxed).
Yeah, I didn't think that one was legit, but the cost was nominal and the stamp is "fresh". As a general rule, I avoid usages where the stamps are uncancelled.
I took a closer look at the Ct. River Railroad piece, and with very little effort, the stamp popped right off the document. On the upside, the stamp has almost full original gum, so that worked out ok after all. It's actually not a cheap stamp unused ($650 with gum).
I was just examining the #113 a bit closer before filing it. All other examples of #113 I have show the grill quite clearly, but for the life of me I cannot find a trace of a grill on this stamp. I don't want to lift it off the document in order to view the back.
3200dpi image of just the stamp below. Can anyone else find traces of a grill on the front of the stamp?
Not seeing it from the front does not mean a whole lot, they were not always strong and get pressed out easily. No idea what might have happened to this document and stamp in the last 150 years.
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Posted 02/18/2018 9:50 pm
