$5.00 Federal Retail License to Sell Liquor (RM400), clear impression on partly printed Sept. 13, 1794 (seventeen days before the law took effect) license to sell "Foreign distilled spirits", document bears printed imprint of "F. Bailey, Printer, Philadelphia" - who was the first printer of The Declaration of Independence and the engraver who produced the stamp die (the "F.B." initials show clearly at B. of the die), 12½x7½", usual file folds, very fine, this is especially scarce with the Bailey imprint, also an extremely early and rare Rhode Island usage, Scott retail $350.00+     photo
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$5.00 Federal Retail License to Sell Liquor (RM400), clear impression on partly printed Sept. 13, 1794 (seventeen days before the law took effect) license to sell "Foreign distilled spirits", document bears printed imprint of "F. Bailey, Printer, Philadelphia" - who was the first printer of The Declaration of Independence and the engraver who produced the stamp die (the "F.B." initials show clearly at B. of the die), 12½x7½", usual file folds, very fine, this is especially scarce with the Bailey imprint, also an extremely early and rare Rhode Island usage, Scott retail $350.00+ photo

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$5.00 Federal Retail License to Sell Liquor (RM400), clear impression on partly printed Sept. 13, 1794 (seventeen days before the law took effect) license to sell "Foreign distilled spirits", document bears printed imprint of "F. Bailey, Printer, Philadelphia" - who was the first printer of The Declaration of Independence and the engraver who produced the stamp die (the "F.B." initials show clearly at B. of the die), 12½x7½", usual file folds, very fine, this is especially scarce with the Bailey imprint, also an extremely early and rare Rhode Island usage, Scott retail $350.00+ photo