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revenue stamps

n. (revenue stamp English)

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Starting in November, nearly everything written or printed on paper other than private correspondence and books--all pamphlets, newspapers, advertisements, deeds, diplomas, bills, bonds, all legal documents, ship's papers, even playing cards--were required to carry revenue stamps, some costing as much as ten pounds.

Shasa stroked the crackling, yellowing document, smoothing out the crumples in it lovingly, admiring the crimson revenue stamps and the administrator's fading signature.

Among them he found several packs of tobacco, and he checked them to make sure their revenue stamps were still unbroken.