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tobacco, alcoholic drinks, drugs and medicines, playing cards, hunting licenses , firearm registration, and many other things. typically businesses purchase the stamps from the government, and attach them to taxed items as part of putting the items on sale, or in the case of documents, as part of filling out
once widely collected by philatelists and given the same status as postage stamps in stamp catalogues and at exhibitions. after world war one, however, they declined in popularity, possibly due to being excluded from catalogues as the number of postage stamps issued rose rapidly and crowded revenues out...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_stamp