Industrial Cancels: Buhl Sons & Company of Michigan

BUHL SONS & CO.

11/10/98

Menominee, Mich.

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Buhl Sons produced and sold sporting goods and hardware.

Baseball bat branding

Industrial Cancels: Oneonta Milling Company of Oneonta, New York

ONEONTA MILLING CO.

DED

28

1898

NEW YORK.

Industrial Cancels: Sattley Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Illinois

SATTLEY M'F'G Co.

OCT

28

1899

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Industrial Cancels: The Rising Sun Brewing Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey

THE RISING SUN BREWING CO.

OCT

28

1900

ELIZABETH, N.J.

Industrial Cancels: T. C. Williams Company of Richmond, Virginia

T. C. W. Co.

AUG 17 1898

RICHMOND, VA.

T. C. Williams Company specialized in chewing tobacco, especially for export.

T. C. Williams

Industrial Cancels: Ligget & Myers Tobacco Company, Durham, North Carolina

L & M TOB. CO.

MAR

28

1899

Industrial Cancels: Waterbury Clock Company

 

Industrial Cancels: Coffee Exchange of the City of New York

COFFEE EXCHANGE OF THE CITY OF N.Y.

FEB

1

1901

 

Industrial Cancels: David Williams Company

DAVID WILLIAMS COMPANY

NOV

14

1899

The David Williams Company published trade journals including:

The Iron Age

The Metal Worker

Carpentry and Building

David Williams

Industrial Cancels: Alfred Field & Company

ALFRED FIELD & CO.

APR

11

1901

from The Iron Age, 1901

Industrial Cancels: Goff, Horner & Company of Pittsburgh

GOFF, HORNER & CO.

SEP

24

1898

PITTSBURG PA.

Iron and steel dealers.  

In 1898 the official spelling of the city was "Pittsburg" without the final "h".

 

Industrial Cancels: Phelps, Dodge & Company

PHELPS, DODGE & CO.

11

NOV

1899

NEW YORK.

 

Industrial Cancels: Bucher & Gibbs Plow Company of Canton, Ohio

B&G PLOW CO.

JAN

7

1899

CANTON, O.

 

Industrial Cancels: The Commercial Cable Company

 

THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY

MACKAY-BENNETT SYSTEM

The Commercial Cable Company was founded in New York in 1884 by John William Mackay and James Gordon Bennett, Jr.  The company was created to break the near monopoly of Jay Gould on transatlantic telegraphy.

The Mackay-Bennett system provided telegraph services between Europe and North America using a visual indicator code. 

Foreign Cancels: The Bank of Montreal

 

BANK OF MONTREAL

OCT

31

1899

MONTREAL.

Poor's Manual, 1901:

Foreign Cancels: Osler & Hammond of Toronto

OSLER & HAMMOND,

?? ?? 1900

TORONTO.

From Canada Today, 1920:

 

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: Nye & Jenks Grain Company

 

James N. Jenks was Chicago Board of Trade member 6862.

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: Charles T. Merritt

Charles T. Merritt was Chicago Board of Trade member 4252.

Chicago Board of Trade of Companies: W. F. Johnson & Company

The Grain Dealers Journal, July 10, 1900

Willis F. Johnson was Chicago Board of Trade member 809:

Sale memo for 5 contracts of December Oats and 5 contracts of September corn.

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: L. R. Fyfe

 

Louis Rosse Fyfe was CBOT member 5178.

Fyfe spent most of his life trading grain in Milwaukee.

A $58 Steamboat Cancel on R154

NEW HAVEN

JUL

18

1898

Steamboat Co.

An auction on eBay concluded yesterday for a fine copy of R154, made special by a nearly perfect handstamp cancel by the New Haven Steamboat Company.  Seven bidders participated, with five willing to go above $20 in their bids for the stamp.  Documentary cancel collecting is alive!

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: E. W. Bailey & Company

Edward W. Bailey was CBOT member 2616

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: Hutchinson & Shaw

 

American Elevator & Grain Trade, May 15, 1901

William Ingalls Hutchinson was CBOT member 6751

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: George H. Phillips

G. H. P.

DEC

16

1901

From The Grain Dealers Journal, January 10, 1902: