I’ve been focused on nonphilatelic endeavors for the last 8-9 months, so my posting here has been pretty sparse. I hope to be engaging more with my revenue collection moving forward.

Am working full-time May through September, so no show excursions, but I picked up a few interesting things recently, all on eBay.

First, a lovely 1866 marriage certificate featuring a Scott #65 used improperly as a revenue stamp. Doubly illegal, as even had the payment been correctly made with revenue stamps, it would have underpaid the tax, as the tax on marriage certificates was 5 cents.

It has an attached signed statement from the parents of the bride giving permission for the marriage, so presumably she was under the age of legal consent.

I had to pick this up, as I too am a very odd fellow…an 1871 stock certificate for shares in the Odd Fellows Hall Association of Sacramento.

While not normally in my wheelhouse, a seller auctioned about half dozen Hawaii revenue stampd documents. I was shut out on most, but I was able to get two of them.

This first one is an 1895 deed to a purchase of land, with a Scott# R3 with a lovely socked-on-the-nose magenta cancel from the Oahu Registrar’s Office.

The second one below was the one I actually wanted the most out of the six. The Hawaii revenue-stamped documents I see offered the most are ones like the one above or stock certificates from various companies. What I never see are smaller format documents with Hawaii revenue stamps affixed.

This is a small document from the Port of Honolulu Office of the Collector of Customs, dated September 1898, granting permission for a boiler maker who had been in Hawaii since July 1898, to leave the island. It appears to be the equivalent of a modern day exit visa (not sure what the document would have been called at the time). Very unusual (to me anyway).