Yesterday, David Thompson found an interesting item on Ebay for the canceling of battleship revenue stamps. The Wallace Supply Company of Chicago produced rubber stamp cancels in the form of a flag with the necessary identifying information to legally cancel revenue stamps. The company promoted the rubber stamps through postcards (and perhaps other means as well), as the item in question is a postcard sent to the Exchange Bank in Ackley, Iowa.
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Wallace Supply Company's Rubber Stamp Flag Cancel
Friday, April 9, 2021
New York Stock Brokers: Muller, Schall & Company
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
New York Stock Brokers: William Salomon & Company
William Salomon was born in Mobile, Alabama before the Civil War. He found his way to New York where he would eventually establish a brokerage house with one of Wall Street's best known names. He began in the brokerage business with Speyer & Company, but would open his own shop in early 1902.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company
Monday, April 5, 2021
The Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Railroad and The Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company
The Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Railroad was part of the New York Central's western division and would become totally absorbed by the NYC in a few years after the cancel of the stamp below. The II&I ran through territory experiencing rapid economic growth and would profit from freight and passenger traffic in the region.
Studebaker had been a coach and wagon builder in the 1800s. But in 1902 they began to make electric cars, making it possible that this BOL for 31,000 lbs of freight (only 1c tax for 31,000 lbs?) could be for electric cars. Most of the carriage for the trip to New Mexico was completed by the Atcheson, Topeka & Santa Fe.
Sunday, April 4, 2021
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society
Another David Thompson find. Norwich Union continues to exist, though now branded as Aviva.
Saturday, April 3, 2021
New York Stock Brokers: Lawton, Flint & Co; Lee, Kretschmar & Co; Maxwell & Scoville; McIntyre & Wardwell
Today is a catch-all day for several firms that have no representation in my usual reference books like King's View of the New York Stock Exchange. I've not found much in the way of column advertising for these firms or any pictures of their members. So instead we just have four memos plus the insets of their accompanying cancels. All of these come from the Eames and Moore pile of memos courtesy of David Thompson.
Friday, April 2, 2021
New York Stock Brokers: Arnold Leo & Company
Thursday, April 1, 2021
The Betel Nut Tax
Today we reprise a previous post:
In a written report, Leary stated that several sheets of RB21, the quarter cent proprietary, were overprinted GUAM for the use of vendors who sold nuts in pairs. There was little demand, as a local taboo kept vendors from selling their nuts by the pair. No examples of the quarter cent stamp overprinted GUAM are known to exist.
If you have an unusual 1898 Revenue item in your collection, please consider sending a scan of it to 1898revenues@gmail.com so it can be featured on this site. For an example of other material of interest, read the story of the stamp below by clicking here.
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
New York Stock Brokers: Thomas L. Manson & Company
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
New York Stock Brokers: Kelley, Miller & Company
Sunday, March 28, 2021
New York Stock Brokers: Frederick W. Perry