1898 Revenues: New York Stock Brokers: Charles E. Quincey & Company

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

New York Stock Brokers: Charles E. Quincey & Company

C. E. Q. & Co.

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Mr. Quincey got himself in a bit of a scrape in 1880 with a broker named Harvey Kennedy, and The New York Times took both successful men to task in the story below. As Mr. Quincey was still practicing as a broker in 1898, it is clear that the kick administered by Mr. Kennedy wasn't fatal.

The New York Times, November 11, 1881:

ALL ABOUT A KICK.

ONE WALL-STREET BROKER SUES ANOTHER FOR PERSONAL DAMAGES.

Harvey Kennedy and Charles E. Quincey are Wall Street brokers. Kennedy is a big man and Quincey a little one. They had some business together in August, 1880, which led to a dispute between them. Quincey called at Kennedy's office one day, and a controversy arose between them, which was terminated by a kick administered by Kennedy upon a fundamental part of Quincey's body. Judge Horace Russell and a jury, in the Superior Court, are now endeavouring to determine whether or not Mr. Kennedy projected his foot so that it hit Mr. Kennedy with violence, and had an intention to do him harm by the impact, and also whether Mr. Quincey shall be consoled with monetary damages for the indignity and alleged bodily harm done by him. In the suit on trial Mr. Quincey seeks $5000 damages, averring in his complaint that Mr. Kennedy's kick made him lame and ill, and that he has not yet recovered his previous good health.

Mr. Kennedy admits in his answer that he kicked Mr. Quincey, but pleads that he only gave him a little kick, which was just calculated to reprove him for his alleged insolence to the kicker in the kicker's office, and which was not delivered with force enough to hurt him. The character of the defense is best shown by the following averment made by Mr. Kennedy: "In consequence of Mr. Quincey's insulting and disorderly conduct, and because of the great provocation induced by his insults and abuse, I did give him a single kick, but I deny that I violently assaulted him except by the single kick, which was neither violent nor severe." He denies that Mr. Quincey was, or could have been, ill or injured in anyway by the kick. The trial of the case is still on. Mssrs Martin & Smith for the plaintiff, and Mr. John M. Scribner for the defendant.

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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.