Insurance companies and their agents used millions of 1898 documentary revenue stamps, in particular, the 1/2 cent, 4, 40 and 80 cent stamps, though their cancels may be found on every value in the documentary series. This page, and its sister page Insurance Agents, include a list of cancels posted on this website. You are invited to browse the links below and view the scans of canceled stamps by dozens of different insurance companies.
The US 1898 War Revenue Law, in summary, taxed insurace policies as follows:
Marine, Inland & Fire Insurance: Each policy ... upon property of any description ... whether against peril by sea or inland waters, or by fire or lightning, upon the amount of premium charged [shall be taxed] one-half of one percent on each dollar or fractional part thereof.
Casualty, Fidelity & Guarantee Insurance: Each policy of insurance ... of the nature of indemnity for loss, damage or bond or obligation...transacting the business of accident, fidelity, employer's liability, plate glass, steam boiler, burglary, elevator, automatic sprinkler ... and each bond undertaking or recognizance, conditioned for the performance of any office...or guaranteeing titles to real estate or mercantile credits...[taxed] one half of one cent on each dollar or fractional part thereof.
The following list of links includes many major insurance companies, both US-based and foreign. Many of these companies would sell policies directly to clients, as well as through independent agents, so they often canceled revenue stamps with their business name or initials.
Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company
Berkshire Life Insurance Company
Caledonian Insurance Company of Scotland
Concordia Fire Insurance Company
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
Continental Assurance Company of North America
Continental Insurance Company of New York
Empire City Fire Insurance Company
The Equitable Life Assurance Society
Firemans Fund Insurance Company
Franklin Fire Insurance Company
German Insurance Company of Freeport, IL
German-American Insurance Company
Germania Fire Insurance Company
Granite State Fire Insurance Company
The Greenwich Insurance Company
Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Company
Hanover Fire Insurance Company
Hartford Fire Insurance Company, Hartford (Chicago)
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company
Holyoke Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Imperial Insurance Company of London
Insurance Company of North America
Jefferson Mutual Insurance Company
Liverpool &London & Globe Insurance Company
Lloyds Plate Glass Insurance Company
London Guarantee & Accident Company
London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Company
Magdeburg Fire Insurance Company
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Metropolitan Plate Glass Insurance Company
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
National Fire Insurance Company
National Surety Company of New York
National Union Insurance Company
New England Mutual Life Insurance Company
New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company
New York Plate Glass Insurance Company
North American Insurance Company
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company
Phoenix Assurance Company of London
Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford
Preferred Accident Insurance Company
Provident Life & Trust Company
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
Scottish Union & National Insurance Company
Security Mutual Life Insurance Company
Sun Insurance Office of London
Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum
Teutonia Insurance Company of New Orleans
United Firemens Insurance Company
United States Fidelity & Guarantee Company
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