200 Cigars taxpaid revenue stamp proof sheet of five
National Postal Museum

200 Cigars taxpaid revenue stamp proof sheet of five

Henry Clay, American, 1777 - 1852 · 1883

paper; ink (black)
National Postal Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
National Postal Museum

Rather than tax farmers, the government taxed manufactured tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, snuff, pipe tobacco, and chewing tobacco.

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