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(This is from a mail sent by Virgilio Ferrari)

About Italian tax stamps may be that I can help you about different stamps and dates of use. I am sure about years but I don't mention months because I am not sure of them. In any case usually there is a second stamp with the date (at least month and year, in the circular stamps also the day). This second stamp is circular from 1880 to 1922 and from 1943 to 1945 (in northern Italy), from 1922 to 1972 is rectangular.

The first value I mention is for 40 cards packs and the second one for packs with more cards (52 cards, tarot packs etc.) even if you can find decks with the wrong stamp, normally the less expensive on 52 cards and tarot packs.

1863 - 1874	Mercury (full-length portrait) sitting on a throne looking to the left	Regno d'Italia	centesimi 30 round stamp	centesimi 50 round stamp
1874 - 1879	Mercury (only face with no hatch in the design) looking to the right	Regno d'Italia	centesimi 30 round	centesimi 50 octagonal
1880 - 1882	Mercury looking to the right	Regno d'Italia	centesimi 30 round	centesimi 50 octagonal
1883 - 1914	Mercury looking to the left	Regno d'Italia	centesimi 30 round	centesimi 50 octagonal
1914 - 1916	Mercury looking to the left	Regno d'Italia	centesimi 50 round	centesimi 80 octagonal
1916 - 1922	Mercury looking to the left (no value on the stamps)	Ministero delle Finanze	R. Privative round	D.G. Monopoli round
	(I have in my collection 40 cards packs with the first or second stamp and 52 cards packs with the second one. So I am not sure about their use)
1922 - 1923	Mercury looking to the left	Regno d'Italia	lire 1.50 round	lire 3.00 octagonal
1924 - 1925	Mercury looking to the left	Regno d'Italia	lire TRE round	lire CINQUE octagonal
1925 - 1943	Mercury looking to the right	Regno d'Italia	lire TRE round	lire CINQUE octagonal
1943 - 1945	Mercury looking to the right	Regno d'Italia	lire VENTI round
	(I think that this stamp was used in the part of Italy not under the fascist government)
1943 - 1945	Figure (full-length portrait) with raised arm (like the statue of Liberty in New York)	Regno d'Italia	lire TRE round	lire CINQUE round
	(I think these were used in northern Italy, under the fascist government)
Between September 1943 and the end of 1945, due to the war, you can find the 1925-1943 tax stamp or 1943-1945 stamps without date etc.
1946	Mercury looking to the right	Regno d'Italia	lire VENTI round	lire TRENTA octagonal
	(I have a pack dated January 1947 but I am sure that was only a mistake due to the confusion of those days)
1947 - 1948	Mercury looking to the right	Repubblica Italiana	lire VENTI round	lire TRENTA octagonal
1948 - 1954	Mercury looking to the right	Repubblica Italiana	lire CENTO round	lire DUECENTO octagonal
1954 - 1972	Mercury looking to the right	Repubblica Italiana	lire TRECENTO round	lire CINQUECENTO octagonal