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

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.

"It is a very old dodge that—an apparently unopened pack of cards, every one of which has been systematically marked, and then the wrapper with the revenue stamp is carefully put on again."

From Tom Gerrard by Becke, Louis

"There's a feller which he got it such a breath, Moe, he ought to put a revenue stamp on his chin."

From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Glass, Montague