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The National Archives holds many files related to revenue stamps. Here are a few relating to insurance stamps.

IR 83/253: Waterlow Brothers & Layton contract for Adhesive Insurance Stamps, 1912.
PIN 4/181: NHI stamps; design, provisions, manufacture, 1911-1923.
PIN 10/4: Unemployment Insurance stamps for Agricultural workers, 1936.
PIN 10/5: Specimen Health and Pensions stamps, 1920-1946.
PIN 10/6: List of Health and Pensions and Unemployment Insurance stamps, 1912-1948.
PIN 10/10: Samples of insurance stamps printed between 1912 and 1932.
PIN 10/24: Insurance stamps in use from July 1948 to July 1970.