1898 Revenues: The Fullerton List: Railroads 70 and 85

Saturday, October 16, 2010

The Fullerton List: Railroads 70 and 85

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.

RR070: The Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad

From the historical information at the back of the Fullerton Catalog: This road is a consolidation of the Platte County, the Atchison & St. Joseph, the Weston & Atchison, the Missouri Valley, the St. Joseph & Council Bluffs, and the Council Bluffs and St. Joseph railroad companies. The Platte County was chartered February 24, 1853 and was consolidated with the first three above listed lines as the Missouri Valley RR on March 6, 1867. This line and the remaining lines above were consolidated under the new name as above on July 11, 1870. Consolidated into the CB&Q (RR020) in 1880.

Fullerton lists two types, on only the 1ct denomination:

Type 1: One line of plain type caps and lower case letters 24.75mm long. Caps 2mm high. Undated.

1ct Pale Blue        a. Normal          (1) Roulette
                                                      (2) HH
                           as. Varieties       (1) "B" broken at top, roulette
                                                     (4) No period after second R of "R.R.", HH

Type 1, 1ct, a.(1)

roulette

Frank Sente scan

Type 1, 1ct, a(2)

hyphen hole

Type 2: Same as type 1 except length is 23.25mm.

1ct Pale Blue            a.  Normal            (1) Roulette

No image for type 2

RR085: The St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railroad

From the historical information at the back of the Fullerton Catalog: A reorganization on July 1, 1875 of the Mississippi Valley and the Western RR opened under the new name as above on September 11, 1879. The Keokuk & Northwestern was nominally leased but practically owned by this line which has itself been controlled by the CB&Q (RR020) since 1884.

Fullerton lists two types on cancel on only the 1ct denomination:

Type 1: One line of plain type caps and lower case letters 24.5mm long. Caps 2mm high. Undated.

1ct Pale Blue   a. Normal         (1) Roulette
                                                 (2) HH
                      as. Varieties       (1) Two periods after "L" roulette
                                                (3) Without period after second R, roulette
                                                (4) Wtihout period after second R, HH

Type 1, 1ct, a(1)

roulette

Type 2: Same as above except 22mm long.

1ct Pale Blue a. Normal         (1) Roulette
                      as. Varieties       (1) Diamond shaped period after the 2nd R, roulette
                                                (3) Period after comm after "St.", not after "L", roulette

Type 2, as. (1)

roulette, initials 22mm across, variety with diamond shaped period after second R

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.