1898 Revenues: July 2013

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Waxed Paper: Erie Railroad Bill of Lading

As we head towards the holidy season, candy companies are also entering one of their biggest seasons. In addition to making the candy, the firms also need to worry about packaging. Over 110 years ago, Rochester Candy Works ordered a lot of waxed paper from The Hammerschlag Manufacturing Company in Garfield, New Jersey, which shipped the lot by rail via the Erie Railroad to Rochester, N. Y.

ERIE

APR

RR. 19 CO.

1901

GARFIELD,

N.J.

Langlois scan

The Erie RR cancel above takes the diamond form of the Erie RR logo:

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

International Pulp Company

INTERNATIONAL PULP. CO.

JUN

1899

INTERNATIONAL PULP CO.

FEB

1900

Langlois scans

International Pulp was first featured on this site back in June 2012. International Pulp, like many forest products firms, also engaged in other industries that took advantage of their large land holdings. In this way Internatinoal Pulp became an asbestos firm.

Monday, July 29, 2013

International Paper Company

International Paper's +50 year old brand logo designed in the early 1960s by Lester Beall. Organized in 1898 of of sixty smaller paper firms, the company continues today as the largest paper and pulp company in the world. The company is based in Memphis, Tennessee.

INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO.

SEP

17 & 20

1898

NEW YORK.

Langlois scan

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Phoenix Paper Manufacturing Company Promissory Note

PHOENIX PAPER MFG CO

Seven 2c stamps placed "tapeworm" style on a promissory note

Seven 2c documentary stamps for a total of 14 cents were used to pay the taxes on this $620 promissory note.

Very little shows up in the historical record I have access to regarding the Phoenix Paper Manufacturing Company.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

New York Stock Brokers: Jacob Kirkner

J. KIRKNER

JAN

1902

NEW YORK.

David Thompson scan & highlight

Jacob Kirkner was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and the New York Produce Exchange.

The New York Times, December 15, 1909:

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Samuel Simpson & Company

SAMUEL SIMPSON & CO.

AUG

1899

PHILADELPHIA.

David Thompson scan & hightlight

There is little history available to me on Mr. Simpson and his company, save for the report of a legal case between owners of the firm Samuel Simpson & Company in the 1901 Pennsylvania State Reports.

Samuel Simpson & Company was reported to be in the business of importing and selling goat skins and other merchandise at 429 North Third Street in Philadelphia.

Due to legal issues in a firm in which a J. Harry Lyons was involved, he could not become a partner in a new firm. Samuel Simpson & Company was established when the mother of J. Harry Lyons, Elizabeth J. Lyons, established a firm with Mr. Samuel Simpson in which J. Harry Lyons would be employed with a salary.

The firm Samuel Simpson & Company would be reasonably successful, but with the end of the partnership in March 1899, Mr. Simpson treated Mr. Lyons as his true partner and refused to open the books of the firm to Elizabeth Lyons. Hence the court case ensued.

By the date of this cancel in August 1899 it is clear that some aspects of the firms operation were still underway after March 1899.

Sunday, July 7, 2013

F. DeHass Simonson

Front page advertisement

The Newtown Register, May 16, 1911

F. DeHASS SIMONSON

APR

1900

ELMHURST, N.Y.

Langlois scan

Monday, July 1, 2013

American Telephone and Telegraph Company

AMERICAN TELEPHONE

DEC

1899

& TELEGRAPH CO.

XXX Other ATT scans here?

Corporate structure

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.