1898 Revenues: The Fullerton LIst: Railroad 20, The C, B. & Q. R. R., or the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The Fullerton LIst: Railroad 20, The C, B. & Q. R. R., or the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

This post is part of a continuing series on Richard Fullerton's 1952 Catalog of Railroad Company, Street Railway, & Express Company Printed Cancellations on the 1898 U.S. Revenues:

RR020: The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Fullerton lists three types of this cancel, with multiple varieties, especially of type one.

Type 1 includes cancels on both R163, the one cent documentary battleship, and R164, the two cent:
One line of plain type caps and lower case letters 20.5mm long, caps 4mm high. Normally with elongated upright periods. Undated.

1ct Pale Blue    a. Normal (1) Roulette
                                           (2) HH
                        aw. Double cancel (2) HH

                        as. Varieties:   (1) Low period after Co, roulette
                                               (2) Low period after Co, HH
                                                (3) High period after Co, roulette
                                                (4) High period after Co, HH
                                                (5) Smeared period after Co, HH
                                                (6) Without period after Co, HH

RR020 Type 1, 1ct a.(1)

Normal, roulette

RR020 Type 1, 1ct as.(2)

Low Period, Hyphen Hole

RR020 Type 1, 1ct as.(6)?

No period(?), hyphen hole

Type 1 continued:
2ct Carmine Rose   a) Normal   (1) Roulette
                                                (2) HH
                             as) Varieties (2) Low period after Co, HH

RR020 Type 1, 2ct a.(1)

Normal, hyphen hole

Two examples, above and below of:

low period, roulette - unlisted in Fullerton, necessitating a new number-

RR020 Type 1, 2ct as.(1)

Is the cancel below another unlisted cancel? It appears to be a 2 cent roulette high period. Or are my eyes fooling me.

Wow - a major color difference from the previous scans, which might have something to do with Frank Sente's scanner relative to mine. This stamp comes from the following check, sent in by Frank:

Type 2: One line of plain type caps 2mm high and 23.5mm long. Undated. Initials read R. R. CO.

1ct Pale Blue   a. Normal   (2) HH
                       as. Varieties:           (2) Two periods after 1st C, HH
                                                      (4) Comma after 1st R of R.R., HH
                                                      (6) Comma after O of CO, HH

RR020 Type 2, 1ct a. (2)

normal, hyphen hole

Example of CBQRR Handstamp:

Burlington

Route

C. B. & Q. R. R.

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Unusual Ink on the 1898 Series Dollar Values

THESE STAMPS ARE BOTH SCOTT R191! From fugitive ink to color changelings with unknown origins. These are both copies of R191. Can only exposure to light produce the color changes you see in stamp on the right? Or possibly a soak in bleach or other chemical? I doubt it. These stamps have so many examples of changelings that there must be something else happening. The ink used on this dark green series of stamps was different than that known on any other BEP printed stamps, never mind the varnish square. It is likely the BEP was experimenting with ink on this issue. Inks are discussed further if you click on the stamps.

Collecting Cancels

Welcome to 1898 Revenues, a website that features the stamps used to pay the Spanish-American war taxes imposed by the US Government starting in July, 1898. But while this site features those stamps in general, a focus is on their cancels, and on the firms that applied them. Unlike US postage stamps, which were canceled by the US Post Office and now Postal Service, revenue stamps were ordered to be canceled by their users in such a way that the identity of the user and the date was included in the cancel. This makes the collecting possibilities nearly endless, so that a single variety of stamp, for example, the 2 cent battleship stamp intended to pay documentary taxes, had potentially millions of different users, and therefore as many different cancels. Please browse the site and discover the collecting possibilities, made so much more accessible now through online sales. Cancels on these stamps have become much more interesting and accessible with the massive amounts of archival and historical data available on line. Rather than hours spent in libraries or with heavy volumes to identify cancels, search engines allow for cancel sleuthing at home.

Battleship Proprietary Printed Cancels: Updating the Joyce/Chappell Lists

In the 1950s, Morton Dean Joyce updated a list of printed cancels on the battleship proprietaries compiled by Clarence Chappell. Joyce's is a very long list consisting of more than one hundred companies and thousands of cancel dates. In the years since Joyce completed his list, many new cancel dates have been demonstrated to exist, and an update of the 1950s list is needed.

This site is attempting that update. Using the Joyce/Chappell lists and the former collection of Henry Tolman (ARA #25) as a base, a gradual effort will be made to post updated lists to the best of my knowledge, making a call for those that can contribute new dates and new images of those cancels.

Following in this column are quick links to excel files of these lists by company. Also are links to the posts that I have made on this blog regarding these companies and their cancels.