Another fun area to collect is revenue multiples: pairs, blocks, strips, etc. In fact, for imperf and part-perf 1st-issue revenues, the only real way to be sure that you do not have a trimmed or reperfed stamp is to obtain a multiple.
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Horizontal pair of 1-cent Benjamin Franklin (Scott #63) postage stamps illegally used as revenues. Unusual to find multiples.
Catalogue value shown is for normal postal use on cover.
Horizontal pair used improperly as revenues on an 1867 receipt.
Just an incredible piece! Doubly illegal, with postage stamps used as revenues, and miscalculation of the tax owed. Two promissory notes (one year and two year) dated February 22, 1865, each for $450, with 15 randomly placed #65. The correct tax, five cents per $100 or part thereof, should have been 25 cents per note, or 50 cents, but the illegal attempted payment, 45 cents was based on the cumulative total of $900. The two receipts on the back are not taxable because they were on the same sheet of paper as the notes.
Horizontal pair of 3-cent Washington (Scott #65) used illegally as revenues on a sale of land.
A one-of-a-kind piece: a complete bottom margin plate block of 16 used improperly as revenue stamps, on a fragment of the original document. This is currently the only reported used plate block of any kind. Scott does not value a used plate block. An unused plate block of 8 catalogues $4,750.
Horizontal strip of 3 2-cent Andrew Jackson 'Black Jack' (Scott #73) used illegally as revenue stamps. Multiples used illegally are especially scarce.
Vertical pair, either Scott #86 (E grill) or #92 (F grill) used improperly as revenues on a March 1869 draft. While the stamps themselves have condition issues, this is an incredibly scarce piece. Not just because grilled issues used improperly as revenue stamps are very uncommon, but also in the fact that it is a Texas usage. Revenue stamped Texas documents from the Civil War era are very scarce, as there were not yet any major population centers in Texas at this time, so very few documents survived.
Vertical pair of 1869 1c Ben Franklin, used improperly as revenue stamps on document. Very rare, one of only two reported pairs used as revenue stamps.
Block of 4 and a single, used illegally as revenue stamps, paying 10-cents tax on a January 1, 1872 promissory note. Used blocks of #113 are incredibly scarce, considerably more so than mint blocks. To my knowledge, this is the only reported revenue usage of a #113 block.
Vertical pair used illegally as revenues on a bank check.
Vertical pair of 1-cent green Ben Franklins (Scott #279) used illegally as revenues.
A horizontal strip of 5 2-cent Washington postage stamps illegally paying 10 cents tax on an 1898 divorce decree.
Block of 4 with both manuscript and horizontal cut cancels. Improper usage of postage as revenue. Too bad it is not still on the original document.
Pair and two singles of the 2-cent Trans-Mississippi used illegally as revenues on a fragment of a promissory note.
2015 Philatelic Foundation certificate. Irregular reconstructed block of 14 mint OG 1-cent Pan Americans with counterfeit 'IR' handstamp overprints. Interesting aesthetic piece... would be better if it were genuine.
Mint NH block of 72 of the 60-cent Ohio Wine and Mixed Beverage tax stamp, originally issued in 1939. Catalog value shown is for 72 singles.
Horizontal strip of 5. Catalogue value shown is for 2 pairs and a single.
Vertical pair. Warren Stetson was the purchasing agent and later the paymaster for the Troy and Greenfield Railroad, in North Adams Massachusetts. Not listed in Tolman/Shellabear. Green ink cancels are exceptionally scarce.
Vertical strip of 5.
Vertical pair. Part perf multiples are quite scarce on CDVs.
Vertical pair.
Double transfer in both bottom numerals of top stamp. Extremely scarce. DT is not listed in Scott for the part perforate stamp. The catalog value shown above is just for a normal pair.
1983 APEX certificate. Very scarce short transfer (bottom of upper stamp). Interestingly, the 1866 usage is very late for a part perf.
Amazingly scarce item: A legitimate late-date east coast usage of a part perf or imperf. Typically genuine late-date usages are confined to the West Coast (California, Oregon, Washington) or are not genuine imperfs or part perfs, as supplies had been fully consumed by mid-to-late 1864. An 1868 usage is incredibly late, but this being a vertical pair makes it unquestionably genuine.
Intact top margin block of twelve. Catalogue value is for three blocks of four. Currently the second largest intact (non-rejoined) multiple of R1b.
Vertical strip of 3. The middle stamp in the strip is a short transfer.
Horizontal pair and single of 2-cent Playing Cards, used illegally as postage on an 1865 cover from Colas Mouth, West Virginia. The single and the left stamp from the pair each have a vertical plate scratch. If you digitally position the single above the left stamp of the pair, it looks like it could be one long continuous scratch crossing both stamps. Very unique piece.
Horizontal pair. Exhibits the quality-control issues from the 1860s. Unfortunately it is of minimal value due to all the faults. Very similar to lot 1912 in the Joyce collection, 1991.
Horizontal pair.
Vertical block of 6.
Wholesale druggists. Horizontal pair.
Horizontal pair.
The manuscript cancels are pretty mundane. Of greater interest is the stencil backstamp. I do not know if it was ever used as a stamp cancel. Ex-Baryla.
Mint with full gum. Horizontal block of 6.
Choice strikes of this 3-line cancel. Ex-Baryla.
Horizontal strip of 3.
Wonderful item! The Walker & Taylor 10-line printed cancel is scarcer on the 1c denomination than the 2c. Also, the 1870 dated cancel is MUCH tougher than the 1866. Lastly, this is the first multiple I have ever seen with a Walker & Taylor cancel.
Horizontal pair of 1-cent Proprietary revenue stamps used improperly for documentary purposes on a New York Central Railroad voucher.
Horizontal pair of 1-cent Proprietary, used improperly as documentary revenue stamps. Thomas Kensett & Co. was an oyster and fruit canning company.
Horizontal pair of 1-cent proprietary revenue stamps used improperly as documentaries on a holographic check.
Horizontal pair of 1-cent proprietary revenues used improperly as documentaries on an estate receipt for grave stones.
Horizontal strip of four 1-cent Proprietary stamps, used illegally as documentaries, short paying the tax (should have been 5 cents) on an 1869 payment order.
Horizontal pair of 1-cent Proprietary revenues used illegally as documentaries on an 1867 bank check.
Horizontal pair with unusual unattributed 'YC' circular handstamps with what appear to be Asian characters.
Lovely vertical pair. Multiples are relatively scarce. Ex-Bleckwenn.
Block of 4.
Nice margins.
An example of what I call 'The California Late Imperfs'. Normally imperforates and part perfs with late cancel dates are an immediate red flag for fakery... the one notable exception being a cache/hoard of imperfs that apparently resurfaced from storage late in the taxation period in California, that are legitimate imperforates and part perfs. Normally you don't find imperfs used after 1864, but California examples can be found MUCH later.
Horizontal pair with imprint capture.
Vertical pair showing a plate scratch running diagonally through both stamps.
Fancy negative 'JT' script monogram cancel, the first example I have seen in a multiple.
Block of 4. Cancel is Tolman C-12A.
2014 Philatelic Foundation certificate. Plate blocks of 1st issue revenues are quite scarce. Granted, it has been very heavily reinforced around the edges. There are blue threads on 2 of the 24 stamps, but the PF has determined that it is not silk paper, so the block is not R6d.
Tolman N-1B-2.
Horizontal pair with right stamp exhibiting the foreign entry of the 1c above and outside the top numerals. Catalog value shown is that of a normal pair.
1989 Philatelic Foundation certificate. 2-cent Express imperf pair used illegally as postage on cover, and then a 3-cent Washington (Scott #65) pasted over as actual postage. Green paid 3 handstamp cancel.
Block of 24 (8x3) on a document fragment. According to The Curtis Collection census, this is the second largest known block of R9c.
Precanceled block of 4.
Horizontal block of 6.
Horizontal pair. Valued as two singles, as Scott does not list pair or block of 4 values for silk papers.
Lovely exhibit-quality multiple, a horizontal block of 12.
Blocks of 4 are not typically found on small-size CDVs. Also unusual in that there is a mismatch between the company name on the cancel and the photographer backstamp just barely peeking out over the stamps. Possibly bought out another photographer's business?
Per the Curtis Census, this is only the ninth reported multiple of the 2-cent Playing Cards orange.
Very scarce pair of 2c Playing Cards in orange. Only the tenth reported multiple of any size. Appears to be from the same sheet and canceled by the same hand as this pair.
While R13b part perf pairs are not particularly scarce, truly mint examples with original gum are. The white spots on the reverse are not thins, but rather some gum voids.
2005 Philatelic Foundation certificate. Vertical pair.
Horizontal pair, the right stamp being the position above the T13a major double transfer, exhibiting DT elements across the bottom.
Block of 4 with multiple minor double transfers throughout. Top 2 stamps are canceled with magenta X's, the bottom 2 stamps not canceled. They appear to be precancels of some sort, as all 4 stamps have full gum.
2c Proprietary silk paper horizontal strip of 3. Severely thinned but a very scarce silk paper multiple. Per the Curtis Census, this is tied with one other strip of 3 for the second largest multiple, with only a single block of 4 larger.
Horizontal pair on CDV. There are only a handful of R14c multiples known. California CDVs are also quite scarce.
Block of 4 with perfectly centered handstamp cancel.
Very scarce cancel.
Large format oval handstamp cancel. Agricultural dealers.
L-shaped strip of 3. Top left stamp is the T15 major double transfer listed by Scott. The bottom right stamp is a different unlisted major double transfer. Here is a closeup of the two DT areas side by side to compare them.
Block of 5, vertical pair, and 3 singles of R18c used illegally as documentaries, along with a block of 10 of R15c, paying 50 cents tax on an 1871 indenture.
Vertical pair.
Vertical pair.
Vertical pair, both with handstamp cancels.
Verical pair.
Horizontal pair.
Vertical pair.
Horizontal strip of 5 with minor double transfers throughout.
Beautiful horizontal pair with centered handstamp cancel.
2005 Philatelic Foundation certificate. Vertical pair. Several silk fibers also visible on obverse of stamps.
Interesting misperf oddity. At first glance, it looks like a part perf pair, imperf vertically, but there is a line of blind perfs down the right side of the left stamp. Also, it is silk paper, so it cannot be a part perf.
Horizontal pair.
Vertical block of 6.
Horizontal pair.
Full vertical strip of 10 (the longest vertical strip possible). Note the poor quality control in the perforations from top to bottom. This is an incredibly late usage for a part perforate stamp, so my guess is that this was used in California, part of the 'Late California Imperf and Part Perf' usages.
Vertical pair.
Horizontal pair. Dry goods firm.
Very common stamp with low catalog value (the catalog value quoted above is for a block of 4 + a pair). However, given the normal poor quality control and centering found on these, the centering of the stamps in this block is actually superb.
Block of 4.
Wholesale booksellers.
Vertical pair with freak perfs.
Reconstructed block of 9 of 5-cent Certifcate silk paper, showcasing a large-format flourished '31' processing handstamp cancel.
Vertical pair.
Interesting document fragment containing a block of 6 plus 3 singles of R25a, a pair of R75c and an R15c single. An enterprising clerk partially prescored (precut actually) the R25a for easy separation at time of use. All of the R25a are valued as singles, rather than multiples (which would be considerably more valuable).
Vertical pair.
Vertical pair.
Mint with full original gum. Full OG mint 1st-3rd issue revenues are quite scarce; the vast majority sold as 'mint' or 'unused' were actually used but uncancelled stamps that were sweated or soaked from documents. Scott does not price them mint, only used. The catalog value shown is for a used block of 4.
Vertical pair.
Vertical strip of 3.
Two strips of 3 of R27b, plus several singles and a strip of 3 of R23c on a promissory note.
Very scarce boxed version of the 'SdeV' cancel. One normally finds either circular or large SdeV letter cancels from Simon de Visser.
Vertical pair.
Vertical pair.
R27b horizontal pair, along with 4 singles of R33c, paying the 50-cent tax on an 1863 warranty deed.
Despite the muddy impression of the block, the bottom right stamp appears to be the double transfer at bottom variety.
Double transfer. Listed but unpriced in Scott. Horizontal pair with both stamps showing doubling at left and bottom.
Double transfer. Listed but unpriced in Scott. Major doubling at left and bottom on left stamp.
Plate block of 4 used on a tattered document.
Block of 10 with the 5 marked positions all being double transfers.
Wholesale drug house of Boving & Witte.
Vertical pair.
October 1865 guardianship bond with 20 copies of R27c, including a block of 12 and strip of 5. The strip of 5 contains multiple examples with double transfers at bottom.
Horizontal strip of 4, each with large margins and choice centering.
Horizontal block of 10, with the 4th stamp in the top row being the double transfer at top, plate position 34.
Horizontal strip of 3.
Block of 4. Cross precancel plus manuscript cancel. Full gum.
Reinforced pair. As with many photographer cancels, they are precancels. Both stamps have full gum. Ex-Baryla.
Horizontal block of 6 plus a single R29c and a single R60c on a promissary note. Blocks of R29c are fairly scarce and nominally illegally usage to use a proprietary stamp as a documentary. The 50-cent Original Process is paying a the tax on a confession of judgement, a very scarce secondary transaction.
Horizontal pair.
Block of 4.
Block of six 5-cent Proprietaries plus 2 singles, used illegally as documentaries, on a portion of a note.
Tolman B-10.
Reconstructed strip of 3 showing railroad manuscript cancel.
Horizontal pair with indeterminate blue handstamp cancel.
Vertical pair.
Vertical pair showing bold strikes of contrasting red SdeV handstamp cancels.
Ship brokers. Vertical pair with great handstamp cancel. Unfortunately it's actually a pair of R32a that someone has added perfs to at left and right.
Faulty, but one of only two known multiples of R32b imperforate vertically. As a general rule, part perfs are normally found imperforate horizontally, and only some of them exist imperforate vertically, virtually all considerably more scarce as the latter. Ex-Curtis.
Horizontal pair with right stamp showing a double transfer at bottom. Not the 'Complete double transfer' listed in Scott.
Horizontal pair exhibiting a very vibrant shade of ultramarine.
Lovely bottom margin block of 4. These are fairly uncommon in multiples.
Vertical pair.
This one is a travesty... a vertical pair of R36a with a large-format clotheir handstamp cancel. Sadly, it has a piercing (document was stacked on a spindle on a clerk's desk) which results in severe tears to both stamps. It would have been a great showpiece otherwise.
Bottom sheet margin pair.
Part perforate stamps imperforate vertically tend to be far more scarce than their horizontally imperforate counterparts. However, some are incredibly scarce, and this is one example. To date, I have only been able to find one other reported multiple of R36b imperf vertically, that being a lone strip of three recorded in the Curtis Census. The Scott Catalogue does not currently provide separate values for imperf horizontal vs. vertical part perforates, a long overdue improvement.
Straight line handstamps in blue as well as circular handstamps in black.
Vertical strip of 5 paying 50 cents tax on a court summons. Double rows of perforations. These are the types of error perfs one would legitimately expect to see, rather than the manufactured diagonal 'freak' perfs one frequently sees.
Vertical pair.
Top sheet margin horizontal pair.
Vertical strip of 3.
Early matching usage (EMU) paying 30 cents tax on a promissory note.
Irregular block of 5. Per the Curtis Census, this is the 4th largest known multiple of R41a.
Block of 4.
Vertical pair. Horizontal crease at top, but look at those jumbo margins!
Vertical pair.
Horizontal pair.
Vertical pair.
Top margin block of 4.
Vertical pair.
Horizontal pair. Arms merchant.
Horizontal pair.
Nice horizontal pair with left stamp exhibiting a double top frame line.
Wondeful double strikes of this diminuitive oval cancel on a horizontal pair. Naylor & Co. was an arms merchant.
Block of 4 with punch, manuscript, and block LIQUIDATED handstamp cancels.
Horizontal pair. Three cancels on this one... handstamped, punched, and manuscript.
This is the largest of 4 recorded multiples of R45b imperforate vertically. Far more scarce than the normal imperforate horizontally. The catalogue value shown is for two pairs. Ex-Curtis.
Horizontal pair. Scott value is for two singles, since Scott does not list a pair value for this particular stamp, presumably due to scarcity (there is no listing in The Curtis Census for R45d). Two visible blue threads, one on the reverse of the left stamp and one on the obverse of the right stamp, both highlighted with yellow arrows. Right stamp also exhibits a faint doubling of the top frameline, however not as strong as the Scott-listed 'top frame line double'.
Horizontal pair on piece.
Gorgeous vertical pair with striking early-use cancel.
Horizontal strip of 8 on an 1863 indenture. Per the Curtis Collection Census of Revenue Multiples now maintained by Siegel Auctions, this strip is far and away the largest reported multiple of R47a, with the next largest being a single damaged block of 4 and one strip of 5.
Horizontal pair. Insurance agents.
Benjamin Tredwell Van Nostrand, a custom-house broker. Ex-Curtis.
Deputy Collector of Customs.
Very scarce position piece, a horizontal strip of four with full plate number imprint at right. Sadly torn in half and reattached. Catalogue value shown is simply that of two pairs.
Block of 4. Manuscript and punch cancels. Sheet margin imprint partially visible at lower right.
Horizontal pair.
Someone ruined a nice imperf pair in an attempt to create an R50b pair ($2,750). Those perfs wander all over the place.
Horizontal pair. Fairly tough multiple.
Tolman F-1A-2. Pair showing the printed cancels alternating in opposite directions.
Vertical pair with punch and manuscript cancels.
Vertical strip of 3.
Block of 6 and pair of R56c, along with an R69c, paying $5 tax on a warranty deed. The block of 6 is tied for the largest reported multiple.
Horizontal pair.
Horizontal pair. Custom house cancel; am unsure of the details. I have never seen a crisp readable strike of this cancel.
Lovely multiple, a vertical block of 10, a complete strip of the sheet from top margin to bottom. It is the third largest reported multiple, unlisted in the Curtis Census.
Horizontal pair.
Horizontal pair.
This scratched plate crosses several stamps. Multiples containing more than one position of the scratch are quite scarce.
Vertical pair with diagonal plate scratch crossing both stamps. Not the major long plate scratch that Scott lists, but a second scratch at a different angle.
Lovely horizontal pair.
Vertical strip of 4 with partial margin imprint at bottom.
Horizontal pair.
Two vertical strips of 5 on large indenture.
Interesting horizontal pair. Left stamp has the left frame line doubled. Note the difference in height between the two stamps.
Horizontal pair.
Bottom margin horizontal strip of 3.
Great full strike of this bank multi-line cancel, which you would not see on a single stamp.
Horizontal pair with very crisp impression, the left stamp exhibiting a horizontal plate scratch running through Washington's hair, proceding part of the way into the right stamp.
Horizontal strip of 3. Inverted day slug in cancel.
Horizontal pair.
Horizontal pair.
Very scarce horizonal pair on document, on Letters of Administration for an estate.
Horizontal strip of four, a very scarce multiple. Catalogue value shown is for two pairs.
Horizontal strip of 4.
Horizontal pair.
Horizontal pair with bottom frame line is doubled on left stamp.
Vertical pair with interesting horizontal line through top stamp. Lovely steel blue shade.
Horizontal pair of R78a along with a single R54c paying tax on an August 1863 promissory note.
Horizontal pair.
Horizontal strip of 3.
Vertical strip of 3.
Horizontal pair.
Horizontal pair on piece along with an R78c. It's too bad that this was cut down. R87c multiples are scarce and even more so on document.
Horizontal pair.
February 1863 conveyance (deed), Franklin County, Ind., in the amount $6,400, stamped with matching $5 Conveyance imperforate pair. On the reverse, a justice's jurat stamped with matching 10¢ Certificate, this a scarcer usage as this tax was rescinded March 3, 1863, nice 'double EMU.'
Horizontal strip of 3.
Vertical pair.
Horizontal pair with the left stamp exhibiting the Scott-listed double transfer.
Horizontal strip of 3.
Horizontal pair.
Mint with full original gum. Full OG mint 1st-3rd issue revenues are quite scarce; the vast majority sold as 'mint' or 'unused' were actually used but uncancelled stamps that were sweated or soaked from documents. Scott does not price them mint, only used. The catalog value shown is for a used block of 4.
Block of 4, tied with 3 other known blocks of 4 as the 2nd largest reported multiple per the Curtis census. Ex-Joyce.
Margin imprint pair with partial plate number. Ex-Morrissey.
Block of 12 with roller/waffle cancel. Stamp at upper left is an unlisted double transfer (tops of numerals, INT.REV. at top).
Block of 4 with the top left stamp containing a recently discovered double transfer at top. Ex-Morrissey.
Horizontal pair exhibiting sewing machine perforations. Multiples of the sewing machine perfs are quite scarce.
Horizontal strip of four, the stamp at far right having a double transfer at top.
1872 3rd bill of exchange, New York to London, from Louis Iken (cotton broker), showing a complete strike of a large format device that Iken used to modify his business checks upon the break-up of his partnership (the bar obliterated the previous business name). Ex-Morrissey.
Horizontal pair with left stamp showing a double transfer at the base of the letters in the top scroll.
Plate number and imprint pair. Ex-Morrissey.
Horizontal pair.
Left margin plate number strip of 4. Ex-Cleland.
Left margin plate block of 6, plate 9. Ex-Cleland.
Tolman N-25.
Nice horizontal pair with SON cancel. Interestingly, for R136, a pair is the largest known multiple.
Horizontal pair.
Horizontal pair with freak perforations.
Horizontal strip of 5. I don't normally go after multiples or play the '11th largest known multiple' game, but I made an exception for this piece. Even though it is the 3rd largest reported multiple (there is one block of 6 and one strip of 6), the quality of the individual stamps in this strip is MUCH nicer than those other multiples, with each stamp having centering well clear of the perforations, but also there is a margin imprint capture at lower right. Ex-Morrissey.
Horizontal pair.
The triangular punch was part of the canceling device, as it is perfectly centered within the circular handstamp. Unusual to see them in multiples. Ex-Morrissey.
Horizontal pair.
Horizontal pair of 1-cent Franklins with red provisional overprints, used illegally as postage on cover. Interesting CHICAMAUGA NATL PARK handstamp cancel.
Block of 4 of 1-cent Franklin with red provisional 'I.E.' overprint, used illegally as postage on cover.
1-cent I.R. provisional overprint block of 15, used on the first day of tax, July 1, 1898.
Block of 4 with inverted overprint. Ink voids create a hollow period or circle after the R at bottom left.
Large format multiline cancel on a 1-cent battleship block of 6.
Horizontal pair of 1-cent Battleship revenues used illegally as postage on a Spanish American War patriotic all-over flag cover.
1c battleship documentary block of 10 with partial margin imprint at the bottom, on a document fragment, with interesting patriotic 'Remember the Maine' sentiment written across the block.
Jersey City Station.
Horizontal pair.
Block of 4 with partial margin imprint, showing a large format multiline handstamp cancel.
Horizontal pair of 2-cent battleship documentary revenue stamps, along with 3 mexico revenue stamps, on an 1898 sight draft.
Very unusual 'deed of stock brand', the first I have seen, transferring the rights to a cattle brand, showing the actual brand symbol.
Block of 4 plus a single. Very unusual document. Not only is the date of the cancel two plus years PRIOR to the date the document was written, but the anti-protest clause at right is overly dramatic, encouraging the bank to 'PUSH VIGOROUSLY' for payment.
Irregular block of 19 of the 3-cent battleship revenue stamp with hyphen-hole perforations on a 1901 promissory note. Per the Curtis Census, this is far and away the largest reported multiple of R165p, with the second largest multiple being a block of 6.
Mint original gum margin block of 24, with 16 of the 24 stamps never hinged. Very scarce multiple, the hyphen-hole perforated documentaries are considerably more scarce as multiples than the rouletted versions, or their proprietary counterparts. The top and third from top stamps in the far right column contain double transfers.
Block of 4.
Vertical pair with dramatic shift of the rouletting.
Wide box cancel beautifully centered on a pair of R166.
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. Documents with both U.S. and non-U.S. revenue stamps are quite scarce.
2c Trans-Mississippi (286) used with two each 3c and 5c Battleship Documentary Revenues on registered cover from New Orleans to Edinburgh, Scotland, New Orleans Jul. 1, 1898 registered datestamp, transited New York with registry label applied over 2c Trans-Mississippi, London registered handstamps, Edinburgh and New York backstamps. Most unusual use to pay the 8c registry fee plus double the 5c UPU rate. Despite the illegality of using revenue stamps as postage, this cover passed through both New Orleans and New York without complaint by postal clerks. Ex Dr. Heimburger.
Pair of R168, along with a single R163, on document fragment. On the reverse is a single British 5-shilling Foreign Bill revenue stamp. Combination usages of U.S. and foreign revenues on the same document are fairly scarce.
Block of 4 of the 10-cent battleship documentary plus a 2-cent battleship featuring a fancy bold multiline handstamp cancel, paying the tax on an 1899 promissory note.
Vertical pair, along with a vertical pair of R164, along with a R168, R169, and R163.
Plate number strip of 4. Scott value above is as 4 singles. Durland lists a plate number strip of 3 at $350.
Nice block of four.
Meticulously written manuscript cancel on this moderately tough pair.
Very scarce and under-catalogued imperforate between pair. I've only seen examples come to market 2 or 3 times over the last 20 years.
Very scarce and under-catalogued imperforate between pair. I've seen less than 10 examples come to market over the last 20 years.
Attractive presentation, but cut canceled.
Nice 3-line handstamp cancel on a block of four.
Stock certificate #1 from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B & O Railroad of Monopoly fame), for 400,000 shares of preferred stock ($40 million at the time, equivalent to $1.5 BILLION in 2024), resulting from the railroad's bankruptcy/reorganization, issued to the voting trustees of the railroad. 400 copies of Scott #R178 on the back and attached sheets paid the $20,000 tax (2 stamps have fallen by the wayside over time; only 398 remain). Part of an incredible historical transaction find, which I have chronicled in full on this page.
Mint full gum block of four.
Horizontal pair. Fairly scarce in multiples.
Lovely full-gum MNH block of 4. Very difficult to value, as (1) Scott only lists used blocks of 4, not mint, and (2) Scott does not give a price for never hinged. I have simply applied a MNH premium of 100% to the value for 4 singles.
Attractive block of 4 with handstamped and cut cancels.
Horizontal strip of 3 with full gum, presumably precancelled prior to use.
R191, along with two R164 singles, R167, R168, and R169 on document fragment, along with two British Foreign Bill revenue stamps, one-pound and one-pound and ten shillings. Mixed usages of U.S. and non-U.S. revenue stamps on the same document are fairly scarce.
Hinged block of four.
Hinged block of four.
Unusual 1914 illegal use cover, with a horizontal pair of 1-cent documentaries used as postage. It appears that the postal clerk misread 'Miss' in the address as 'Mex', and the cover was sent to Mexico where it ended up in a dead letter office. The affixed Mexican postal seal and the violet handstamps match. Violet handtamp reads 'Received in the Dead Letter Department without the corresponding stamp.'
Horizontal pair of 1-cent documentaries used illegally as postage on a 1915 cover with a preprinted address.
Block of four, two stamps hinged, two never hinged.
Horizontal pair.
Tough multiple. Full gum hinged block of four.
Hinged full gum block of four.
Precanceled block of 15 with full gum never hinged.
Commission merchants. Block of four.
Precanceled block of 4 with full original gum. Precanceling an entire sheet of stamps using a typewriter must have been tedious work (note the differing horizontal and vertical spacing).
Hinged full gum block of four.
Hinged full fum block of four.
Full gum block of four, two stamps hinged and two never hinged.
Hinged full gum block of four.
Block of 4 with cut, handstamped, and manuscript cancels.
Vertical strip of 3 with provisional 'F. D.' (Future Delivery) handstamps. Unlisted in Scott but well known within the revenue collecting community. Catalog value shown above is for the normal non-overprinted stamp.
Used block of 4 showing provisional F.D. (future delivery) handstamps. This provisional handstamp is also found in violet.
Vivid double impression.
Irregular block of seven.
Double impression block of 4, 2 stamps hinged and 2 stamps NH. Scott catalog value is for 4 singles.
Nice large-format multiline cancel across a block of 6.
Mint OG block of 4 (top 2 LH, bottom 2 NH), double impression. Scott only lists used singles at $5.25 per.
Plate block of 8. The plate number 32014 is currently unlisted in Durland. Catalog value is from the 2016 Durland catalog.
Each stamp with a CNB perfin.
Plate block of 21, quite scarce. Catalog value above is from the Durland Catalog for an unused plate block of 8.
Vertical strip of 4, unpriced in Scott.
Mangled, tattered, and torn, but still unusual and interesting. A parcel fragment franked with three complete strips of R250, a strip of three R249, two complete strips of R246, a single of R246a, and several smaller denominations, totalling $13,792.65 in tax paid. Stamps are both handstamped and cut canceled. Catalog value referenced above is for cut cancels.
Very scarce block of 4. Scott lists but does not price the block of 4 either mint or used. The catalog value above is for 4 singles. This is the first block I have ever seen.
Sensitive ink. Full gum never hinged block of four.
Vertical pair with very low serial numbers.
Horizontal pair of 1st issue 1-cent Washington proprietary stamps used improperly paying the 2-cent tax on a check from the First National Bank of Sandusky.
Block of 4.
Unused (no gum as issued) strip of 6.
Right margin block of four.
Imprint margin block of 6, possibly unique position piece.
Bottom sheet margin horizontal pair.
Block of 4.
Top margin horizontal margin imprint pair.
Vertical pair of 1-cent proprietary revenue stamps used improperly as documentaries, caught and a correct revenue subsequently affixed to pay the tax.
Bottom margin plate block of 4, plate 3 mirror imaged. Full gum never hinged. Ex-Cleland.
Bottom half of a beautiful large-format druggist fancy cancel on a horizontal pair. I would love to see a complete version of the cancel.
Top plate number block of 10, plate 7. Precanceled with full gum. Ex-Cleland.
Horizontal pair.
Bottom plate number strip of 3, plate 3 mirror imaged. Ex-Cleland. Pictured in the Durland Catalog.
Precanceled block of 4 with full original gum.
Large format multi-line handstamp cancel.
2011 Philatelic Foundation certificate. Horizontal pair. One of only 8 multiples reported.
Horizontal pair of quarter-cent proprietary battleships, used improperly to make the half-cent component of a 2.5-cent rate on a fire insurance policy. Despite Hartford being a fairly large company, they must have run out of the half-cent documentary battleships.
Plate block of 9, no gum.
Top inscription block of nine, no gum.
Vertical strip of four, imperforate between.
Full gum block of four.
Block of 4.
Mint never hinged full gum block of four. Catalogue value shown is for a hinged block of four. Scott does not price NH revenues.
Full gum hinged block of four.
Line block of 4 used illegally as documentary stamps on an 1899 marriage license. Same document as the one shown on this page, also an illegal usage from the same county, dated 8 days earlier. Each document contributes to the validity of the other. Additionally, this is the same pastor and location as this improper proprietary usage I subsequently acquired.
Full gum hinged block of four.
Block of 4 with full gum never hinged. Extremely scarce. Catalog value shown is for hinged; no pricing is given for never hinged.
Vertical strip of 4 of RB45 (or RB33, no way to be certain), used improperly as documentaries, on a bill of lading.
Full gum mint never hinged block of 4 of the Scott-listed double impression ('kiss impression' technically). You can see a faint magenta cancel at the right edge of the right 2 stamps, so presumably these were precanceled.
Full gum never hinged block of four.
Full gum block of four, two stamps hinged and two never hinged.
Full gum block of four, two stamps hinged and two stamps never hinged.
Full gum block of four, two stamps hinged and two never hinged.
Reconstructed block of 4 (two horizontal pairs) double impression. Only listed as mint in Scott, no listing for used. Value shown is for 4 singles.
Full gum hinged block of four. Attractive, but thinned.
Mint full gum block of 40, with creases and heavy hinge reinforcement. By far the largest known multiple (the largest block in the Curtis Census are several blocks of six).
Full gum hinged block of four.
Hinged block of four.
Orange serial numbers. Complete strip of 4 (unlisted in Scott) with the bottom stamp being the double transfer.
Mint NH right margin block of 20. Catalog value shown is for 20 singles.
Mint NH block of 4. Catalog value shown is for 4 singles.
Lower left corner margin block of 4. Catalog value shown is for 4 singles.
Lower-left bottom margin strip of 5 with inventory control number stamped in margin. Catalog value shown is for 5 singles.
Top margin block of 4 with a red inventory control number stamped in the margin. Catalog value shown is for 4 singles.
Top margin block of 4 with inventory control number stamped in red. Catal value shown is for 4 singles.
Block of 4 with full gum, never hinged, with precancel 'DIST HAWAII COLLR. INT. REV.'
Mint NH block of 5. Catalog value shown is for 5 singles.
Unused lower left corner margin block of 4. Catalog value shown is for 4 singles.
Unused block of 10. Catalog value shown is for 10 singles.
Three different unused blocks of 10, each showing a different color shade. Catalog value shown is for 30 singles.
Unused block of 10 with margin imprint capture at bottom. Very scarce on wine stamps. Catalog value shown is for 10 singles.
Unused block of 50 (half sheet). Catalog value shown is for 50 singles.
Two unused blocks of 10, each showing a different color shade. Catalog value shown is for 20 singles.
Unused block of 10. Catalog value shown is for 10 singles.
Unused block of 50 (half sheet). Catalog value shown is for 50 singles.
Unused block of 30. Catalog value shown is for 30 singles.
Four blocks of 10 of the 1916 issue, each showing a different color shade. The block of 6 on top of them is the 1933 issue (rouletted 7) contrasting the brighter paper of the later issue. Catalog value shown is for singles.
Unused block of 20. Catalog value shown is for 20 singles.
Unused block of 30. Catalog value shown is for 30 singles.
Unused block of 50, quite scarce. Catalog value shown is for 50 singles.
Unused block of 10. Catalog value shown is for 10 singles.
Unused, but severely toned, block of 10. Catalog value shown is for 10 singles.
Three unused blocks of 10, each showing a different color shade. Catalog value shown is for 30 singles.
Unused center line block of 4.
Unused, but heavily toned block of 8.
Unused block of 4.
Block of 4 imperforate horizontally.
Mint block of 45. Catalog value shown is for 45 singles.
Unused block of 4. Ink void in lower left stamp creates 'DOILAR' variety.
Unused vertical striip of 4. Catalog value shown is for 4 singles.
Unused block of 4. Catalog value shown is for 4 singles.
Unused vertical strip of 3, type II (larger letters, circular 5).
Never hinged block of four.
Never hinged block of four.
Never hinged block of four.
Never hinged block of four.
Never hinged block of four.
Bottom margin plate block of 4. Catalog value is from the 2016 Durland catalog.
Set of high-denomination tobacco sale tax stamps: $1, $2, $5, $10, and $10, in used blocks of four.
Vertical pair, along with an additional single RJ10, an RJ9, RJ7, RJ6, two RJ4, and an RJ1 block of four on a memorandum for the sale of 1444 pounds of tobacco. Very scarce on document.
Top margin plate block of 8. Plate block catalog value is from 2016 Durland catalog.
Top margin plate block of 8. Catalog value is from 2016 Durland catalog.
Top margin plate block of 6. Catalog value is from the 2016 Durland Catalog.
Vertical pair.
Vertical pair.
Pair with double transfer in bottom label of left stamp.
USPS presentation folder given to honored guests at First Day ceremony. Contains complete sheets of 10 of the RVB1 and RVB2 boating stamps. Catalogue value is for a plate block of 4 plus 6 singles of each stamp. Note that the 2 sheets are not only matching serial numbers, but also very low 2-digit serial numbers. These sheets would have been the 10th sheets of each stamp off the press.
Mint NH complete pane of 10 of the 90-cent Ohio Wine and Mixed Beverage tax stamp, issued in 1965. Catalog value shown is for 10 singles.
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