A Revenue Collector's Blog

When I encountered this document on Eric Jackson’s website over the Independence Day weekend, I initially glossed over it as “meh, just another 2-cent banknote illegal usage”… but then I paused, reflected, and started looking through my records and my collection for a similar example… and couldn’t find one. It’s tied, which is nice; something you don’t always find, but what’s so special about it? This is actually the first example I have ever seen of one of the grilled…

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The Iron Cliffs Company drafts are well known in revenue collecting circles, most notably for their aesthetics and the wide variety of 1st-3rd issue revenue stamps that can be found affixed. Mike Mahler wrote extensively about a find of these in the November-December 1995 issue of The American Revenuer: http://tar.revenuer.org/TAR1995N10.pdf I’ve seen numerous examples offered both online and at shows, and have a couple in my yet-to-be-processed piles. However, until last week I had never seen one that had an…

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