1898 Revenues: March 2014

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Southern Railroads: Austell Refrigerator Car Line

Austell Refrigerator Car Line,

MAY 4 1899

ATLANTA, GA.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Southern Railroads: Atlanta Stone, Coal and Lumber Line

A. S. C, & L. L.

JAN 30 1900

ATLANTA, GA.

Langlois scan

Friday, March 14, 2014

Southern Railroads: Florida Central & Peninsular Railroad

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

MAY

1899

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Southern Railraods: Gulf & Ship Island Railroad

Gulf & Ship Island R. R. Co.

NOV

1899

Gulf Port, Miss.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Southern Railroads: Central of Georgia Railway

CENTRAL of GA. RY. CO.

OCT

1898

Tuesday, March 11, 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.

Monday, March 10, 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.

Friday, March 7, 2014

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

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Southern Railroads: Louisville & Nashville

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Southern Railroads: Norfolk & Western Railway

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Southern Railroads: Southern Railway

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

Restored Southern Railway locomotive on video from 1984

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.

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Southern Railroads: A March Tour

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.

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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