revenue stamp

American  

noun

1. a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.

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Etymology

Origin of revenue stamp

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Later comes trimming, boxing, and finally sealing with the internal revenue stamp.

From Time Magazine Archive

As it is a penal offence to use a postage stamp a second time, so it is a punishable offence to attempt the use of a cancelled or torn internal revenue stamp.

From Business Hints for Men and Women by Calhoun, Alfred Rochefort

Covers and sheets of paper bearing the revenue stamp already impressed were to be sold at all post offices.

From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by Smith, A. D.

He explained the revenue stamp required upon a bill of exchange was one-eighth of 1 per cent. of the face of the bill, making the tax on my single bill 187 francs, or about $37.

From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin

Geometric lathework was used on a number of the United States stamps of the issue of 1861 and also on the $5,000 revenue stamp.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by Luff, John N.