A Revenue Collector's Blog

… or so it would seem at first glance. It would be real easy to blow right past these in a lot/accumulation if you weren’t paying close attention. This diagonal “A.E. Dougherty” cancel is actually not a manuscript cancel. In fact, given the precise match of the angle between the two stamps, these are likely printed cancels rather than handstamped. Additional examples would be needed to be more certain. The manuscript markings at left and right are interesting as well:…

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I’ve seen documents with these before, but I don’t know what to call them. This document was in a lot of illegal usages of postage stamps used as revenues, but I’m sure these are not revenue-related, as there was no revenue tax in effect in 1855. The bisect and quadrisect pieces are not initialed in any way, but are positioned right next to signatories to the document. So were these used in lieu of a notary embossed stamp? What is…

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… and yet I find it interesting nonetheless. Certed by the PF as having counterfeit IR overprints, this reconstructed full OG irregular block still makes for an interesting aesthetic piece. The original submitter apparently also included a 1981 PF cert of a (supposed) genuine used example of a Mt. Clemmens (Clemens?) provisional IR overprint. The only examples I could find at the PF are the certed used example and a single unused example similar to the block, deemed counterfeit. The…

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