Vintage cigar boxes continue to provide me with creative visual pleasure. Today, it’s all about the tax stamps. Those strips of blue on most all of the old boxes in my collection, upon close examination, behold richly engraved flourishes, typography and history. 
I scanned a few of mine for your crafty projects and included a few other cool stamps to finish off the sheet. Download by clicking the image below. Print using your printers finest settings (reducing to fit 8.5″ x 11″), trim out each, run through a sticker maker or use a paper adhesive and embellish containers, collages or scrapbook layouts. Enjoy!
Ooooohh! I love this. Thank You Cathy!
Thank you so much!
I love this. Thank you!
These are awesome – Thank you!!
Another beautiful download! Your talent and generosity never cease to amaze me – thanks!
Thank you so much for these, x
These are beautiful, Cathe! I already have some ideas floating around my head — thanks so much for the download!
Well, these are very cool – thanks a lot.
Sometimes, when I look at things like this, I think about the people who saw them every day back when they were mundane objects of no particular interest and who never in a million years could have imagined what we’d be doing with them today. Makes me smile.
Just gorgeous! Thanks for sharing.
You find the neatest things! I don’t have any room to store things, so I don’t look for things like that. I really enjoy seeing yours, tho.
Thank you so much Cathe. These are wonderful!
Elaine Allen
Thanks Cathe! Love Love Love these!
wow, how nice! tnx a lot!
Love these, thanks Cathy!
Thanks for sharing these Tax Stamps. The page is awesome!
These are gorgeous! Thank you for sharing!
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Weeee! Thank you! They remind me of my stamp collection. Does anyone even collect postage stamps anymore? They’ll soon become a thing of the past… haha!
Today I discovered your blog and think it’s wonderful to be here.
Thanks for the great inspiration !
Greetings from Munich/Germany
♥BunTine
Those are so cool! Thanks for sharing them!
I found you through Karen at the Graphics Fairy. While looking for the botton down load I found these they are awesome! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for sharing with others. This collage is very nice. I can’t wait to use.
Thanks for the labels – I can use them on my mixed media journal!
Carmen L
It has shot up in popularity ever since it
has reached the mainstream markets. Oolong tea has a pleasant aftertaste and a sweet, but fruity aroma.
White tea is made by drying the freshly harvested tea leaves and buds.
Cathe: how many of these tax stamps do you have and are they for sale? Am interested, as I collect cigar,cigarette and snuff tax stamps along with all other old tax stamps.Your display is very, very nice. Thank you.