1898 Revenues: The Fullerton List: Railroad 100, The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Fullerton List: Railroad 100, The Sioux City and Pacific 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.

Examples of the cancels, when available, are posted.

RR100: The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad

From the historical information at the back of the Fullerton Catalog: Chartered August 1, 1864. Road opened March 1 1868 to California Junction, Iowa; and to Fremont, Nebr. February 11 1869. Operated the FE&MVRR (RR045) since 1871 upon completion of its first 51 miles of rail. Came under C&NW (RR055) control in 1884 and operated under its own name until 1901 when it was completely absorbed into the C&NW.

The SC&PRR operated within the states of Iowa and Nebraska, and was built to connect Sioux City to the Union Pacific at Fremont, Nebraska. As stated above, the line became a part of the Chicago and North Western in 1880s. It is now a main line of the Union Pacific. The "Blair Subdivison" of what is now the Unions Pacific was part of the old SC&PRR line and was also once part of the FE&MVRR.
Fullerton lists two types, on only the 1ct denomination. An unlisted and no year date cancel is included below:

Type 1: Two lines of plain type all caps 3 1/2mm high. RR initials 23mm long. A line of 16 dashes 22mm long and 6.5mm below. Date 1899 is 2mm high, 6mm long and 8mm below RR initials. Figure 1 of date is serifed.

1ct Pale Blue a. Normal (1) Roulette

Type 1, 1ct a.(1)

1899 roulette

Sente scan

Type 2: Same as above except that date 1900 is 7mm long and 8.5mm below RR initials. Figure 1 of date is not serifed.

1ct Pale Blue a. Normal (2) HH

No image/scan available

Unlisted Type: No year date

SC&PRR - no year date, hyphen hole

unlisted by Fullerton

Richard Friedberg scan

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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.