1/3 barrel Beer revenue stamp essay single
National Postal Museum

1/3 barrel Beer revenue stamp essay single

Department of Treasury · 1866

paper; ink (purple) / engraved
National Postal Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
National Postal Museum

California brewers requested the addition of the third-barrel size to the tax law. Two third-barrels of beer were the maximum mules could carry to lumbermen in the high Sierras.

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