The first issue revenues of the United States are some of the world’s most attractive stamps and would be far more popular among US collectors if it wasn’t for the perf, imperf, part perf problem. These stamps were issued to pay taxes on everything from bills of sale to stock and property transfers and the initial plan was to issue revenue stamps for each type of transaction. But from the first this proved impractical and
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