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A Cellar of Fine Vintages / Re: Post Your Vintage Collection - Your Newest & Most Prized Acquisitions
« on: June 28, 2016, 08:43:00 AM »
Please also find the below tax stamp bicycle, I found some information about "how to date a deck", the tamp was in use from 1919 to 1924. Am I right?
The stamp itself was in use form 1894 to 1924. Over the years, it went from being a two-cent stamp to eight cents, through the use of overprinting to indicate the new value. If you look on your stamp's overprinting and cancellation, you can see in red that it was overprinted "8 Cts." and that it was canceled in black on "4-1-1919," or April 1, 1919 - the last nine in the year is mostly cut off, but enough of it is visible to make it positively identifiable, especially when you combine it with the period in which the card tax was eight cents - only one of the years occurred in the 1910s, the rest being in the 1920s. After 1924, the tax went to ten cents and a new stamp was finally issued, taking this one out of circulation for good.
Very clear explaination, thank you.
I hope I can find sealed deck older than 1900.