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10 pounds Snuff taxpaid revenue stamp proof single

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10 pounds Snuff taxpaid revenue stamp proof single

Smithsonian National Postal Museum — Revenue Stamps · US · English · 1879

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LineUS
Set / seriesSmithsonian National Postal Museum — Revenue Stamps
LanguageEnglish
Year1879
Datec. 1879
Kindstamp
PlaceUnited States of America
Mediumpaper; ink
Regionus
Npm recordnpm_1999.2018.602
DescriptionAs treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton introduced "sin taxes" on tea, coffee, beer, wine, and distilled spirits. When farmers in western Pennsylvania rebelled again the whisky tax in 1794, Hamilton rode to Pittsburgh at the head of an army to enforce the tax and disperse the rebels. It is somewhat fitting, then, that his profile appears on this 1870s tax stamp for snuff.
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Source credit: Smithsonian National Postal Museum