1898 Revenues: The Fullerton List; Railroad 45, The Fremont, Elkhorn, & Missouri Valley Railroad

Monday, October 4, 2010

The Fullerton List; Railroad 45, The Fremont, Elkhorn, & Missouri Valley 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.

RR045: The Fremont, Elkhorn, & Missouri Valley Railroad

The Chicago & Northwestern Railway controlled the FE&MVRR at the time these printed cancels were produced, and was part of a coherent system along with RR040, the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway.

Fullerton includes at the beginning of his RR045 listings illustrations of three types of ampersands used on these printed cancels:

These ampersand types are important for distinguishing between types of these cancels. The heavy ampersands are designated with an "H", medium with and "M," and thin with a "T."

Type 1: Two lines of plain type all caps 3mm high. RR initials are 20.5mm long. Line of 16 dashes is 22mm long and 6.5mm below. Date is 6mm long, 2mm high, and 8 1/4 mm below. Figure "1" of date is serifed. Ampersand is style H.

1ct Pale Blue a. Dated 1898 (1) Roulette

Type 2: Two lines of plain type all caps 3mm high. RR initials are 20mm long. Line of 16 dashes is 22mm long and 6.5mm below. No date. Ampersand is style M.

1ct Pale Blue a. Normal (1) Roulette

Type 2 a. (1)

No date, M style ampersand, roulette

scan courtesy of Frank Sente

Type 3: Same as above except with date 2mm high. 1899 is 6mm long and 8 1/4mm below. Figure "1" of date is serifed. Amersand is style H.

1ct Pale Blue a. Dated 1899 (1) Roulette

Type 3, 1ct a.(1)

Roulette, 1899, Heavy Ampersand

Ron Lesher scan

Type 4: Two lines of plain type all caps 3mm high. RR initials on the 1900 issue are 21mm long; on the 1901 and 1902 issues are 22.5mm long. Line of 16 dashes is 22mm long and 6.5mm below. Dates are 2mm high; 1900 is 6.75mm long, 1901 is 5.75mm long and 1902 is 6.75mm long. Date is 8 1/4mm below. Figure "1" of date is not serifed. Ampersand is style M.

1ct Pale Blue             a. Dated 1900        (2) HH
                                 b. Dated 1901        (2) HH
                                bs. Varieties:            (2) Split cancel, 1901 above, HH
                                 c. Dated 1902         (2) HH

Type 4 a. (2)

1900 hyphen hole

scan courtesy of Frank Sente

Type 4 b. (2)

1901 hyphen hole

Type 5: Two lines of plain type all caps 3mm high. RR initials 20.5mm long. Line of 16 dashes is 22mm long and 6.5mm below. No date. Ampersand is style T.

1ct Pale Blue a. Normal (1) Roulette

Type 6: Same as above except with date 2mm high. 1899 is 6mm long and 8.5mm below RR initials. Figure "1" of date is serifed. Ampersand is style T.

1ct Pale Blue a. Dated 1899 (1) Roulette

Type 6

Thin Ampersand

Ron Lesher scan

Unlisted: Type ?: Same as above, 1899 year date, with medium ampersand:

unlisted by Fullerton

1899 with medium ampersand

Ron Lesher 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.