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2. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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   The 5-cent stamp paid for a letter weighing less than 1/2 ounce and traveling up to 300 miles, the 10-cent stamp for deliveries to locations greater than 300 miles, or, twice the weight deliverable for the 5-cent stamp. Each stamp was hand engraved in what is believed to be steel, and laid out in sheets of 200 stamps.

3. Pre-adhesive mail - Wikipedia

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   In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland pre-adhesive mail was the norm before the Penny Black and Two pence Blue stamps were issued for use by the General Post Office on 6 May 1840, and in other countries, to mail used prior to each country's postal administration adopted adhesive labels to indicate postage had been pre-paid.

4. Imprinted stamp - Wikipedia

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   An imprinted stamp on an Irish pre-paid envelope, used 1970. An example of an embossed postage stamp, called an indicium, on an 1861 U.S. letter sheet. Note the raised portions. A Hungarian telegram form with an imprinted stamp from the later part of the nineteenth century. An imprinted stamp on an 1898 Cuba postal card.

5. American Credo postal issues - Wikipedia

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   The American Credo stamps were printed by the U.S.Bureau of Engraving and Printing in sheets of fifty. Each of the American Credo stamps paid the postage for a one-ounce letter mailed within the United States.The symbols depicted by the stamp issues relate to the credo inscribed in the stamp designs. [3]

6. Revenue stamp - Wikipedia

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   An 1898 £1 revenue stamp of Western Australia Revenue stamps on smuggled tobacco seized by the British tax authorities.. A revenue stamp, tax stamp, duty stamp or fiscal stamp is a (usually) adhesive label used to designate collected taxes or fees on documents, tobacco, alcoholic drinks, drugs and medicines, playing cards, hunting licenses, firearm registration, and many other things.

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