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I was thumbing through Friedberg's "Intro to U.S. Revenue Stamps" today and came across a couple illustrations of something I'd never heard of: Revenue meter stamps. Apparently Pitney Bowes created a meter machine that printed revenues. It was only in use a few years in the mid-1960s, before revenue stamps were abandoned.
Does anyone have examples they can post? What do these go for currently?
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The only one I have, but an actual used example, still on the stock card where I bought it for 50 cents many years ago.  |
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Interesting that the two on-document examples that Eric is offering don't seem to bear out the price you'd expect for a very rare revenue. But then, demand is the real determiner of price.
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Here's an example attached to a document.  It's on a 1956 indenture executed in Illinois. Then there is this one from 1965 where the meter is printed on the document itself.  |
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| Edited by revinmn - 08/21/2019 6:27 pm |
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The information given on the Wikibooks pages is not accurate. On both stamps, used examples are more readily available than the zero cent specimens.
The eagle meter is a scarce item and difficult to find. The IRS building meter is readily available in used condition.
Documents can be found with the IRS building meter. The eagle meter is a truly rare item on document. |
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Revenue meters exist at the state level as well.
Florida, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Texas all used them. I have no doubt left out a few states as well
They paid taxes on deeds, liquor, tobacco, feed stuffs (for farm animals), driver's licenses, etc. |
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I am aware that the following states used meters in real estate transfers: Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Washington, and possibly a few others. I personally have examples from about four of these. |
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 Here is one of the meters from Massachusetts on a deed. Complete with the federal red documentary stamp. |
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| Edited by revenuermd - 08/27/2019 07:28 am |
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 Here is an additional example from Pennsylvania. This meter was used in Bucks County north of Philadelphia. |
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Pennsylvania sure charged a lot for real estate transfer taxes in the 1967 transaction. |
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| Edited by therevenueman - 08/28/2019 09:58 am |
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The PA real estate transfer tax rate has always been 1% and began in 1952. |
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