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

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

The cellophane came unsealed with surprising ease: so did the revenue stamp.

From The Mercenaries by Piper, H. Beam

I should say Nahant,--well, at some watering-place, I really forget precisely where,--we have no taxes, and know not what a revenue stamp is like!

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870 by Various

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.