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Some people claim that the postage stamp was an "in-vention" but such would not seem to be the case, forstamps had been used for collecting revenues for manyyears previous to the introduction of their use to collectpostage. Indeed, the Stamp Tax Act brought about the"Boston Tea Party" and, eventually, the American Revo-lution. "Taxation without representation," the ringingwords that called a new nation to arms, sprang from theuse of revenue stamps. The world's first postage stamp, Great Britain's famous"Penny Black," did present somewhat of an innovationin that it was gummed on the back. This caused consider- |
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