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# RS207d - 1878-83 2c Proprietary Medicine Stamp - perf, wmk
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# RS207d - 1878-83 2c Proprietary Medicine Stamp - perf, wmk. Medicine Tax Revenue Stamps- Missing From Many Collections. The Tax Act of 1862 provided that companies being taxed under the proprietary schedules coul ... Read More
Item Specifics
- Country
- United States
- Catalog Number
- RS207d
- Stamp Type
- Revenues - Private Die - Medicine
- Condition
- Unused
- Centering
- VF
- Stamp Format
- Single
- Topic
- Sciences
- Year of Issue
- 1878
Item Description
# RS207d - 1878-83 2c Proprietary Medicine Stamp - perf, wmk.Medicine Tax Revenue Stamps- Missing From Many Collections.
The Tax Act of 1862 provided that companies being taxed under the proprietary schedules could propose stamp designs and submit them to the government, and when approved, pay to have the die made for producing them. In return, the company could advertise on them and buy them at a discount from the general issue ones. These stamps were often ornate and beautifully designed. They would make a great addition to your collection.
Benjamin Thompson, Count of Rumford, was born in Massachusetts in 1753 and taught in Concord, New Hampshire before emigrating to England. He was an inventor, and was married to the widow of Lavoiser. The Rumford Chemical Works had little to do with him, but his shillouette appears on the private die stamps the company had designed for them in 1880.
Professor Eben N. Horsford was the president of the Rumford Chemical Works. His specialty was use of phosphates in food production, and his products were not specifically intended to be proprietary medicines. One, Horsford's Acid Phosphate, was marketed as a drink, but was touted as preventing cholera, and in 1880 was required to bear a tax stamp. Private die stamps were issued on January 24, 1881 and May 1, 1883. 1,219,050 were printed, all on watermarked paper. An unknown quantity of the second delivery were left imperforate.
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- SLAVRU (113)
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- 08/12/2021
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- Czech Republic, Czech Republic
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