Source For Bureau Of Engraving And Printing Print Runs For 19th Century US Revenues

Is there a source that indicates print run amounts for 19th Century U.S. Revenues? I am seeking the print run amount for the 5/8 cent proprietary battleship revenue (Scott # RB23).

For example:

"The print run for the one-cent documentary issue (Scott # R163) was 1,124,972,000, the first time the Bureau of Engraving and Printing produced more than one billion copies of a stamp, making this revenue stamp the most common US issue of the 19th Century."

asking the curators at the Smithsonian postal museum might bring an answer. the Bureau also might still have records.
if I remember correctly the Boston book has numbers, but they would not be complete as the print run and the taxes were both still in effect when it was published.

I am trying to understand what you are seeking. Do you want to know how many were printed? Do you want to know how many the Bureau of Engraving & Printing delivered to Internal Revenue? Do you want to know how many stamps Internal Revenue delivered to its District Collectors? Do you want to know how many were sold by District Collectors?

There are annual reports of the Bureau; there are annual reports of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. I have access to the BEP annual reports, which would give the quantities that the Bureau delivered.

@revenuermd - apologies for not being more concise in my request; those were very good questions indeed. I definitely would like to know how many RB23 the BEP "delivered", rather than printed, as that would be a better guesstimate to how many were most likely available for use by the IRS during the tax period.

Deliveries of 5/8¢ Battleship proprietary stamps:

1898 11,806,600 from 200 subject plates
1899 53,200,000 from 200 subject plates
1899 181,872,000 from 216 subject plates
1900 116,100,000 from 216 subject plates
1900 38,340,000 from 200 subject plates
1901 118,900,000 from 200 subject plates

The return to 200 subject plates in fiscal year 1900 probably coincides with the switch to slot perforation 7 or as the Scott Specialized calls it hyphen hole 7. The term slot perforation was the old term and much preferred terminology of my philatelic mentor, the late Ernest Wilkens. Collecting examples of all the plate numbers is a wonderful pursuit and includes the change in placement of the BEP imprint and plate number in the top and bottom margins in the first set of 200 subject plates and the 216 subject plates. In the second round of 200 subject plates the imprint and numbers were in the side margins.

@revenuermd - Thank you good sir! It is very much appreciated.

Rouletting ended sometime around December 1899 for most denominations but there is strong evidence that some denominations in both the Proprietary and Documentary series received one last roulette printing in early 1900. Your delivery info definitely supports this.

Indeed, I am hunting for a number of plate number singles... a way to goes as there are forty (40) plate numbers for RB23!