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Scott MosleyI don't think there is any question about that but I was hoping that you had an example of a box where the tax stamp was placed over the end of the box where the stamp would have been broken when opening the slide shell.
All of the Piedmont and Sweet Cap boxes I have had the stamps over the end of the box and not in the middle as the one you've scanned in does.
Out of curiousity, and I'd like to hear from Jon Canfield on this as well, what is your opinion on a box that has the 1909-1910 tax stamp but no overprint date at all?
Here is a scan of a couple of my boxes. The Hassan has the complete stamp with an early 1912 overprint. The Piedmont box on the left has enough of the stamp to show that there was no overprint date at all and the Piedmont box on the right has the stamp over the end of the box so that each side has a portion of the stamp but the middle is missing because its fallen off the slide shell.
