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US Revenue Stamp on back of a CdV photograph<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Did you ever buy an old image and discover a stamp on its back? PHSC member, sports photographer, writer, etc., etc., Les Jones, offers one explanation in his article published in issue 24-3.<\/p>\n

In his article, “What Have CdVs Done for you Phi…Lately?” Les explains that the American government used special ‘revenue’ stamps to pay some federal taxes. The article begins, “There may be more value in those carte de visites (c.d.v.\u2019s) than you think! Run-of-the-mill cdv\u2019s are commonly available at a $1 or less, [fall 1998] though antique dealers may charge $6 or more depending on the content.<\/p>\n

“Early American examples may bring\u00a0a bonus if the photographs were taken during their Civil War. Here the revenue stamp\u00a0on the back may often be worth more than\u00a0the actual image; if you are really lucky it\u00a0could be worth hundreds of dollars.<\/p>\n

“Stamps had been in use for several\u00a0hundred years before there was general\u00a0adoption of the adhesive stamp for postal\u00a0uses in 1845. Two years later, in July 1847,\u00a0the first U.S. government stamps were\u00a0issued and in 1863 a uniform letter rate\u00a0was established.” …<\/p>\n

Members read this article in full, plus seeing the photos used to illustrate it by viewing the issue 24-3 pdf file on the free members-only DVD\/thumb drive. To join, just follow the notes above or at right under Membership. Questions can be emailed to Lilianne at member@phsc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Old images are often available at PHSC events such as our 2025 events listed at right. Next up is our annual summer trunk sale<\/a> just days away on Sunday, July 13, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Did you ever buy an old image and discover a stamp on its back? PHSC member, sports photographer, writer, etc., etc., Les Jones, offers one explanation in his article published in issue 24-3. In his article, “What Have CdVs … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[848,1418,243,220,4765,1142],"class_list":["post-31871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-cabinet","tag-cabinet-cards","tag-cdv","tag-photos","tag-revenue-stamp","tag-stamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31871"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31875,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31871\/revisions\/31875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}