Revenue Dies For Sale: California State Tax Stamps - Other States And Countries Too

I have been watching these printing block dies (NOT die proofs) being sold for some time and yes they do sell. I finally realized that the sale of such items would interest some revenue collectors here. Thus, one can collect "it all" from printing plate through used examples and everything in between.

The title used for the ebay lots is "American Bank Note Company: California Printing Plate (State Seal)" and I have seen only this one seller listing the items. Currently he has five values listed. The prior listings and sales no longer show.







As time allows I will post the other values such that a record exists.


Be aware that in this sellers completed listing as well as current listing, there are many US State Tax Stamp printing dies as well as stamp printing dies for various foreign country stamps. If this interests you, I strongly suggest coping the photos of the material while it is posted by this seller. If you do copy the images, be a SCF friend and post them here in the appropriate category.

Me, I am sorry I missed the Michigan Trout Stamps.







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WOW. I do find this interesting. I have a dozen or so press blocks from Scott and Gibbons stamp catalogs but never even thought about looking for actual production blocks/dies. Kinda pricey, but no surprise there.

Thanks for posting this.

When these are listed at auction on ebay, they usually bring a small fraction of their previously listed Buy It Now prices. I have never seen one that goes at auction for more than $250.

These large California items have.

But for current sold AUCTION listings of the 193 printing plates items, the range in price from $767.57 down to $16.81 (for a stamp plate) with four non-stamp down to $1.76. Nineteen of the list sold for over $250.

There are an additional 7 BIN/MO items all priced at $700 with one sold at full price and six sold by accepted offer.

Here are the other California Tax Stamp items:










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I too have several Scott press blocks. If you won US Parcel Post, Parcel Post Postage Due, Special Handling or Special Delivery blocks, you then beat me.

As to actual lead type printing stuff, I have several small cliche of a Germany military parcel post stamp. Now back to the OP...

The seller in question has 538 printing dies from mostly the American Bank Note Company currently listed. The highest price one is for a China item, "Only one from China" per description. This is the most expensive at $18,200 or best offer:








For the low end, the current auction price is $0.99.

This material was dispersed through auctions beginning in 2006/2007 and continuing for a number of years. If you do the work you can see what things went for. Not too many items went for the prices asked for now.

https://www.coxrail.com/abn-archives.asp

The plate for the post 1898 tax label for Hazeltine went for well over $250; about 3X as much as I recall.

I went through a lot of these when they were first posted. There is a vast number of American Bank Note steel printing plates out there. One company in particular has a warehouse full of numismatic plates in L.A. I believe this seller is the designated consignment dealer for all the philatelic plates. I think they are asking far too much for these, but maybe they don't mind sitting on them for a while longer.