WANTED:
U.S. & Canadian tax stamps
 
U.S. REVENUE STAMPS Between 1863 and 1959. U.S. Internal Revenue stamps were pasted on boxes of cigars to show taxes had been paid. Tax laws changed constantly, usually requiring higher taxes, and new stamps to show that those higher taxes were paid. Hundreds of variations make stamps of great importance in dating a cigar box. As a result the National Cigar Museum owns a research collection of cigar excise and import tax stamps from the United States and Canada. To assist collectors, the Museum has posted most of their collection to the web, providing you with color pictures of most stamps for the first time. Though not complete, the collection does display almost every type revenue stamp you’re likely to find. If a particular stamp isn’t illustrated, it means we don’t own it. The TC and TD catalog numbers are those assigned by Sherwood Springer, the cataloger of these and many other non postage stamps. Since few people own Springer’s rare 25 year old catalogs, each line gives the date and denomination of the stamps the Museum needs to complete its collection. Almost every tax stamp has a clear readable date; denominations are the number of cigars being taxed and are always clear and large. TC1 - 9 1863 (undated, colored ink) any and all cigar stamps TC24-29 1865 any and all including overprints TC49 1866 250 TC50 1866 500 TC56 1868 250 TC57 1868 500 TC 58 1869 25 red-orange picturing Washington (have the black) TC 59 1869 50 picturing Sherman TC61 1869 250 TC62 1869 500 TC66 1871 250 TC67 1871 500 TC 71 1872 250 TC 72 1872 500 TC91 1875 25 overprinted on TC92 1875 50 overprinted on 1878 or 1879 issues overprinted “Act of March 3d, 1883” TC124 1883 200 TC150 1883 500 overprinted “Series of 1898” or similar TC156 1898 13 TC162 1898 500 (have 01) TC213 1901 13 overprinted “Act of 1917” TC174 1910 13 TC178 1910 200 TC 180 1910 500 1910 All except the 12 that are overprinted “Act of 1917” TC181 1914 200 and 250 (500 without 1917 overprint wanted) any 1926 issue in 12, 13, 200, 250 or 500 denominations any 1942 issue in 3, 7, 12, 13, 200, 250 or 500 denominations STAMPS for IMPORTED CIGARS TCC14 1875 100 picturing Harrison TCC33 1895 Red 50 ANY & ALL stamps for 200, 250, 500 ANY & ALL cigarette customs stamps overprinted “CIGARS” STAMPS for SMALL CIGARS TD2 1893 vertical 20 cigarette stamp overprinted "...cigars...1897" TD3 1883 50 strip cigarette overprinted “...cigars...1897" have in poor cond TD4 1883 100 strip cigarette overprinted “...cigars...1897" TD7 1897 50 small cigar strip TD8 1897 100 small cigar strip 1897 10, 20, 50 or 100 stamp overprinted “Series of 1898” TD16 1901 50 small cigars strip TD23 1910 100 small cigars strip STAMPS for CIGARETTES [Cigarette issues in red are of particular interestˆ] TA1 1868 500 TA3 1872 500 picturing Jefferson TA7 1875 500 picturing Seward TA8 1878 500 picturing DeWitt Clinton 1883 50 strip 1883 100 strip TA32 1897 10 red TA33 1897 20 red TA73 1898 20 red TA74 1898 50 red TA78 1898 50 blue strip TA79 1898 100 blue strip TA81 1901 20 green overprinted “!.25 per/M Act Aug. 5, 1909” TA83 1901 100 green overprinted STAMPS for CUSTOMS CIGARETTES 1879 Need any 10 and any 50. Have 20 and 100 CANADIAN REVENUE STAMPS Catalog numbers are from: Brandom, Lee W. CANADIAN REVENUE GROUP OF BNAPS: CATALOG OF TOBACCO TAX PAID STAMPS OF CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND. n.p.: British North America Philatelic Society, 1976. CANADIAN EXCISE (internal revenue) G-113 -147 1868* strip, black, “filagree”, many variants, want any 1880 minor interest in blank, London, Montreal, Windsor G-170 -172 1880 any yellow G-215,225-6 1883* 200 any variant or color 1883 25 Cigars inscribed “Sample Box” G-258 1897* 6 cigars G-266 1897* 50 cigars in black (have red blue green) The Museum owns most of the early Canadian tax issues but has none of the 1915 Series and none of the Series C stamps. We especially want the three most common denominations, 25, 50 and 100 of both issues so I can post them on the web. G-295 or 296 1915 3 cigars strip G-296A or 297 1915 6 cigars strip G-298 or 299 1915 10 cigars strip G-300 1915 25 cigars strip G-301 1915 50 cigars strip G-302 1915 100 cigars strip G-304 1915 200 cigars strip G--305 1922 5 cigars gold horizontal Series A 3, 4 & 10 black with shield not lion/unicorn G-346 or 347 Series C 25 G-348 or 349 Series C 50 G-349 or 350 Series C 100 1952 either 20 or 30 1960 need denominations: 20, 25, 50, 100; I have a 30 1971 denominations: 5, 8, 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 1973 any except 6 & 50 CANADIAN CUSTOMS G-500-503 1864 square 27&28 Vict G-504 1867 diamond 27&28 Vic G-507 1868 diamond 31 Vict G-510- 511 1868* square elaborate blue 1880 minor interest in Montreal, Windsor and Toronto 1885 Bonded Removal stamp, red, small with solid Roman CIGARS not outline CIGARS Please do not zip your photos. I prefer you do not “attach” your photos. Please send them as low res jpg pasted into an email whenever possible. Stamps are items on which I do not make offers. Please price what you have. Thank you. Tony Hyman <stamps@CigarHistory.info> NCM Home Wanted to Buy Dating Tax Stamps Dating Import Stamps mailto:stamps@CigarHistory.infoTony_Hyman.htmlWanted_to_buy.html../Dating/Dating_Tax_Stamps.html../Dating/Dating_Import_Stamps.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4