Sheet Margin Revenue Stamp

Where revenue stamps perforated all the way around on a sheet of stamps? I have many revenue stamps but this one is imperforted at the top. Would these stamps be uncommon?

This happened a lot on 19th century revenues. They did not bother to perforate the ouside margin all around. Which is why the margins alone on imperf and part perf stamps are not enough, the shade, paper, and impression must also be correct. As well as the cancel date being in the correct time frame.

Thanks revcollector

I remember looking through 100's of revenue stamps on hipstamp and other websites but
I never saw one imperferated on one side. These stamps must be hard to find. I am happy I own one of these.

Paid,

Hard for me to be 100% certain due to the quality of your pic, but I believe your stamp has a "C. Hensel" canx which would indicate it was used in New York, and has something to do with an import document.

I have several slightly different versions of this canx - enough I am suspecting each line was a separate handstamp ("C Hensel", and ".C.H.", and the date; "CH" for Custom House by the way) and maybe not one multi-line handstamp. Will take some work to figure it out. I have examples with different orders (date on top, date in middle, date on bottom, etc.) as well as inverted "C.H.", which is also known as ".C.H." and "C.H." without the leading period.

That said, if your copy is Hensel, here are some related scans:


Example canx from Feb 1866

Processed scan of example canx from Feb 1866


Front of 1894 cover


Back of 1894 cover


Invoice included in 1894 cover

None of this has anything to do with your original question, but may (or may not) be slightly interesting.

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StateRevs

Here is a couple more photos of my stamp. When you say an important document can you tell me what they what kind of documents these might have been. Is this a common cancelation?

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Paid,

I wrote "import document", not important document.

As in importation of goods. Custom Houses existed around the country to charge import tax, tariffs, etc. on goods coming into the US.

Hard to wrap your head around, but at one time the Port of New York generated 75% of the US government's income. 75%. Pretty crazy.

Anyway, the canx on your stamp implies the stamp was on a tax document showing the Custom House received their due.

Hope that helps?

StateRevs-

Appreciate the input. I did not know New York generated so much money for the government . It is too bad I can't read the date on my stamp would like to have known. Do you know when this stamp was printed, is it a first Revenue printing or second?

Here's a photo of three custom house stamps I own.