1898 Revenues: March 2014

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Southern Railroads: Austell Refrigerator Car Line

Austell Refrigerator Car Line,

MAY 4 1899

ATLANTA, GA.

Southern Railroads: Atlanta Stone, Coal and Lumber Line

A. S. C, & L. L.

JAN 30 1900

ATLANTA, GA.

Langlois scan

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Southern Railroads: Florida Central & Peninsular Railroad

F. C. & P. R. R. Co.

MAY

1899

Friday, March 14, 2014

Southern Railraods: Gulf & Ship Island Railroad

Gulf & Ship Island R. R. Co.

NOV

1899

Gulf Port, Miss.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Southern Railroads: Central of Georgia Railway

CENTRAL of GA. RY. CO.

OCT

1898

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Southern Railroads: Georgia & Alabama Railway

The Georgia & Alabama ran from Montgomery, Alabama to Savannah, Georgia, straight through the heart of the old south. On July 1, 1900, the Georgia & Alabama was merged into the Seabord Airline Railway.

GA. & ALA.

DEC

1899

RAILWAY.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Southern Railroads: St. Louis Southwestern Railway, "The Cotton Belt Route:

ST. L. S. W. RY. CO.

ST. L. S. W. RY. CO. OF TEX.

T. S. E. RY. CO.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Southern Railroads: Mobile & Ohio Railroad, "The Rebel Route"

Friday, March 7, 2014

Southern Railroads: Louisville & Nashville

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Southern Railroads: Norfolk & Western Railway

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Southern Railroads: Southern Railway

Pre-Norfolk & Western logo above; Norfolk Southern logo below.

Restored Southern Railway locomotive on video from 1984

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Southern Railway Bill of Lading

SO. RY. CO. ???? Agt.

FEB

1899

Southern Railway bill of lading for a consignment of tobacco products from Winston, North Carolina, to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Winston and Tuscaloosa were both stops on the Southern Railway.

Monday, March 3, 2014

Southern Railroads: A March Tour

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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.

Criteria for Cancels Included in these Updated Lists

The updated lists on this site will not include handstamped cancels. Printed and typed cancels will be included. This differs from the Chappell and Joyce criteria for inclusion.

Joyce used criteria for including cancels in his lists based on Chappell's original criteria. From the introduction of Chappell's original list: "Only the printed and typed cancels will be given consideration in this list. The only exception being those firms who also had private die stamps in this period. The handstamps of these few companies are of general interest and I feel they should be included." I don't think the "general interest" consideration is a strong enough reason to complicate an already complicated set of lists. The handstamps listed by Chappell and Joyce are not printed by definition, they are likely not exhaustive, and by virtue of being handstamps are prone to innumerable types and subtypes. I reason that if a new list is of printed cancels, we should keep it that way, and let others that have have done more work on the subject of proprietary handstamps handle those cancels.

Thus, if you are interested in the handstamp cancels of any of the firms in the updated printed cancel lists, please refer to the excellent work of Robert Mustacich and his Battleship Desk Reference at http://www.battleship-revenues.com/.

The practice of eliminating handstamp cancels from the updated lists will have implications for the revision of cancel types from the Joyce lists. For example, the first few Antikamnia cancel types according to both Joyce and Chappell are handcancels. These cancels will no longer be included as cancel types.

The goal will be to minimize confusion for those who come to collect these cancels and make sense out of them.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

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