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Last updated September 26, 2021 Documents with Both U.S. and Non-U.S. Revenue Stamps Affixed

One of the most interesting and elusive types of revenue documents to try and find are documents with both U.S. and non-U.S. revenue stamps affixed. They are much more difficult to find than one would expect. Cross-border transactions, transactions with multiple steps or stages each taking place in different countries... Examples from the Civil War and immediate post-Civil War era (1862-1870s) are much more scarce than those from the Spanish-American War Tax era (1898-1901). 20th century examples are not exactly abundant either.

If you have any examples of U.S. and non-U.S. revenue stamps used on the same document for trade or sale, please contact me.

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Canada — 1872

14

Sight draft from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada to Boston, Mass., with both Canadian and U.S. revenue stamps.

 

Cuba — 1863

14

Tattered and torn, but incredibly scarce. An 1863 first bill of exchange, Havana Cuba, drawn on a party in New York, in the amount of $1,400. Taxed 14 cents (short-lived Inland Exhcnage 1863 rate of 2c per $200), with Cuba 1 escudo Giro ('Draft') tax paid in 1868 to ensure legality in a long-running legal action (specifics courtesy of Mike Mahler).

 

England — 1899

14

Fragment of a Second of Exchange document from the United States Mortgage & Trust Co., sent to England, with 4-cent and 40-cent battleship documentaries and a horizontal pair of $1 commerce, along with two English 10-shilling Foreign Bill revenue stamps.

 

England — 1900

14

Bill of foreign exchange originating in England, with imprinted British revenue stamp, with vertical pair of 4-cent Battleship revenues upon redemption in the United States.

 

England ; 1902

14

R191, along with two R164 singles, R167, R168, and R169 on foreign exchange document fragment, along with two British Foreign Bill revenue stamps, one-pound and one-pound and ten shillings.

 

England — Date Unknown

14

Pair of R168, along with a single R163, on document fragment. On the reverse is a single British 5-shilling Foreign Bill revenue stamp.

 

France — 1868

14

Sight draft with a French revenue stamp applied on the reverse.

 

France — 1870

14

1870 Bank of New Orleans sight draft (foreign exchange) sent overseas, where French revenue stamp was affixed to the reverse.

 

France — 1898

14

Bank of California foreign exchange document sent to France. Same bank and destination as the document below, executed within the same week.

 

France — 1898

14

Bank of California foreign exchange document sent to France. Same bank and destination as the document above, executed within the same week.

 

Germany — 1868

14

Purchased from a seller in Germany, this is an R15c on an attractive foreign exchange with two vignettes from the European Exchange Office of C. F. Adae, a Cincinnati, Ohio banking house. Not only is there a German revenue stamp also affixed to the reverse, but the R15c is tied not only by a C.F. Adae circular handstamp cancel, but also a blue oval of Reverchon & Co., a German banking house in Trier. Fantastic document!

 

Germany — 1877

14

Doubly scarce: an illegal use of a proprietary stamp as postage on a foreign exchange document, along with German revenue stamps affixed to the reverse.

 

Italy — 1915

14

U.S #R202 or R213 along with Italian revenue stamps, on a 1915 protest of unpaid draft.

 

Japan — 1922

14

R231 with magenta oval handstamp cancel, along with a Japanese bill stamp with wonderful signature handstamp cancel, on a bill of foreign exchange.

 

Mexico — 1898

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Horizontal pair of 2-cent battleship documentary revenue stamps, along with 3 mexico revenue stamps, on an 1898 sight draft.

 

Mexico — 1899

14

1-cent, 2-cent, 5-cent and 10-cent (x2) battleship documentary revenue stamps on an 1899 sight draft, along with 4 Mexico revenue stamps.

 

Mexico — 1899

14

2-cent battleship documentary along with a Mexican revenue stamp on a document fragment.

 

Mexico — 1900

14

U.S. and Mexican revenue stamps both on a document from the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refining Co.

 

Poland — 1922

14

U.S. $2 Consular Service Fee and Polish revenue stamps used on the same document (affadavit?).

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