Back In The Saddle Again.

I've been focused on nonphilatelic endeavors for the last 8-9 months, so my posting here has been pretty sparse. I hope to be engaging more with my revenue collection moving forward.

Am working full-time May through September, so no show excursions, but I picked up a few interesting things recently, all on ebay.

First, a lovely 1866 marriage certificate featuring a Scott #65 used improperly as a revenue stamp. Doubly illegal, as even had the payment been correctly made with revenue stamps, it would have underpaid the tax, as the tax on marriage certificates was 5 cents.

It has an attached signed statement from the parents of the bride giving permission for the marriage, so presumably she was under the age of legal consent.




I had to pick this up, as I too am a very odd fellow...an 1871 stock certificate for shares in the Odd Fellows Hall Association of Sacramento.




While not normally in my wheelhouse, a seller auctioned about half dozen Hawaii revenue stampd documents. I was shut out on most, but I was able to get two of them.

This first one is an 1895 deed to a purchase of land, with a Scott# R3 with a lovely socked-on-the-nose magenta cancel from the Oahu Registrar's Office.




The second one below was the one I actually wanted the most out of the six. The Hawaii revenue-stamped documents I see offered the most are ones like the one above or stock certificates from various companies. What I never see are smaller format documents with Hawaii revenue stamps affixed.

This is a small document from the Port of Honolulu Office of the Collector of Customs, dated September 1898, granting permission for a boiler maker who had been in Hawaii since July 1898, to leave the island. It appears to be the equivalent of a modern day exit visa (not sure what the document would have been called at the time). Very unusual (to me anyway).

Interesting that the government was still using the republic's revenue stamps even after the US annexed Hawaii on July 7, 1898.

" The Hawaii revenue-stamped documents I see offered the most are ones like the one above or stock certificates from various companies."

While I have less experience than you, I agree the land documents are the most common and your customs document is very nice.

I assume that you checked the date of the marriage license against the tax rates, since the rate changed from 10 cents to 5 cents at some point. I am not near the rate book at the moment to check the date.

Yes, March 3, 1863 was the change.

FYI, for when out and about, I have the rates online as a searchable/collapsible table:

https://revenue-collector.com/civil...xrates.shtml

Thanks

I also love stamped documents and ephemera myself and collect these as well - the documents you posted are gorgeous! Thank you very much for including the information and explanation under each document you posted. collecting stamp ephemera is such an interesting philatelic side endeavor Thank you again for showing these...I learned a lot from reading this post