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   Click here to see a sample screen Revenue stamps were required on photographs sold in the U.S. from 1864 to 1866, part of a taxation system to pay for the war against the Confederacy. This is the most comprehensive interactive catalogue of the markings used by photographers to cancel these stamps, with over 500 color photographs and illustrations. A valuable resource for historical researchers seeking to identify images that lack other identification or who are interested in the photographers of the era. Also included on the CD-ROM is "The Civil War Sun Picture Tax", the story of the Civil War stamp tax on photographs, told through the finest philatelic research collection on the subject. In-depth facts about the tax, the many photograph formats used during the period, and insights into studio practices are illustrated with rare and even unique philatelic gems. This Gold Medal collection has won the American Philatelic Society's Award for Research and Pre-1900 Medal of Excellence, The Philatelic Classics Society Medal, The Bureau Issues Association Statue of Freedom Award and five American Revenue Association Gold Medals. The CD-ROM itself won a Vermeil Award at the SESCAL show in 1998 and Verneil Medals at International Philatelic Exhibitions in both Paris and Nuremburg in 1999. A professionally published CD that requires no installation and is viewed with any PC, Mac or Unix web browser. No on-line connection is necessary.
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 ------------------------- This competitive exhibit was shown for the first time at the 1999 ASDA Mega Stamp Show in NYC, in three Ameripex frames that were modified to hold three shelves each. It was awarded a Gold and the AAPE Creativity Award. At Balpex 99 it received a Vermeil with "felicitations of the jury for innovation and effort", the American Revenue Association Gold Medal and the AAPE Creativity Award. It also won the Carolyn E. Cunliffe Memorial Award, awarded yearly at the American Revenue Association national meeting to the most popular Revenue exhibit as determined by show-goer balloting. TITLE PAGE Stamp collectors have continually broadened their interests, going beyond examining the physical characteristics of stamps, and delving into studying the equally rich area of their usage. For revenue stamp collectors this has primarily meant usage on document and documentary usage is a broad and deep area. But revenue stamps were also used in a second large area and were once as much a part of everyday life as simply going to the store. Although not used today, federally-issued stamps have been used to tax a wide variety of products, beginning in the United States with the taxes that funded the Civil War. It is clear that many stamp series owe their existence to the concept of taxing store-bought goods, suggesting an area of study analogous to Postal History and encompassing much of what is today considered Revenue History. My purpose here is to display a chronological rendering of the philatelic possibilities of an area that is rarely seen at philatelic exhibits, using a timeline approach to reunite as many different concurrent stamp series as possible, in their original usages. And also to enjoy the fascinating range of interesting packaging and long-forgotten brands and products that used to be found on store shelves, stamp-taxed by Uncle Sam.
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