Tax Stamps

This is a database on tax stamps used on playing cards from 1862 to 1963. Every company that I know of has it’s own page. Every type of stamp from the US Internal Revenue Service also has its own page. Here are my main sources for this information:

Peter Enderbrock’s Playing Card Pages

Match and Medicine: RU Playing Card Archives

Eric Jackson Revenue Stamps: Playing Cards

Patterson, Kristin. It’s a Wrap!: U.S. Revenue Stamps Used on Playing Cards, 1862-1883. 1st Edition ed., K. Patterson, 2003.

Scarlett, Oscar. A Complete Cyclopædia of All the United States Revenue Stamps: Including Document, Match, Medicine … and Other Tax or Revenue Stamps. William E. Scarlett, 1893.

Toppan, George L., et al. An Historical Reference List of the Revenue Stamps of the United Stamps: Including the Private Die Proprietary Stamps. Boston Philatelic Society, 1899.

McKinstry, Jason. Paper Empires: A Historical Journey of America’s Early Playing Card Makers. 2nd ed., vol. 1 1.