Sunday, December 31, 2023

Insurance Agent Cancels: Birckhead & Son of Baltimore

From Polk's Baltimore City Directory, 1901



BIRCKHEAD & SON,
AUG
9
1898
BALTO. MD.



BIRCKHEAD & SON,
SEP
29
1898
BALTO. MD.



BIRCKHEAD & SON,
SEP
29
1898
BALTO, MD.


Saturday, December 30, 2023

Insurance Agent Cancels: James H. Searles of Rome, New York

 

JAMES H. SEARLES.
JUN
2
1900
Rome, N. Y.


from The City of Rome, New York, 1896


Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Sunday, December 24, 2023

Insurance Agent Cancels: Worthington & Sill of Buffalo, New York

from the Buffalo Industrial Show program, 1915

Worthington & Sill,
MAY
29
1900
Buffalo, N. Y.

Thursday, December 21, 2023

Insurance Company Cancels: Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Company



HAMBURG-BREMEN
MAY
8
1899
FIRE INS. CO.


HAMB-BREM. F. INS. CO.
APR
8
1899
BOSTON.



 Hamburg-Bremen paperweight:


Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Insurance Agent Cancels: Edwards & Kenney of Pittsburgh

from the Pittsburgh Dispatch, September 20, 1889

EDWARDS &
KENNEY.
AUG 9 1899

EDWARDS &
KENNEY.
AUG 9 1899

Sunday, December 17, 2023

Insurance Agent Cancels: Briggs Carson of Tifton, Georgia

from The Gazette of Tifton, Georgia, June 2, 1899

BRIGGS CARSON
SEP 1 1898
TIFTON, GEORGIA

 

Saturday, December 16, 2023

Insurance Agent Cancels: Schermerhorn & Company of Schenectady, New York

The Schermerhorns either mispelled the name of their town in their cancels or their was an alternative spelling common at the time.

SCHERMERHORN & CO
FIRE UNDERWRITERS,
SCHNECTADY, N. Y.


 

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Insurance Company Cancels: National Surety Company

from The Architect & Engineer of California and the Pacific Coast, 1917


NATIONAL SURETY CO.
JUL
3
1899
N. Y.

NATIONAL SURETY CO.
SEP 27 1900
NEW YORK.

NAT'L SURETY CO.
JUN 14 1899
    New York.




Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Insurance Company Cancels: American Fire Insurance Company

from The Insurance Journal, November 10, 1898

A. F. Ins. Co
1899

Cancel needs confirmation, but American Fire Insurance Company seems likely.

 

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Insurance Agent Cancels: W. T. Durand of Milwaukee

from the American Agency Bulletin, September 1905.
Two Durands were selling insurance in Milwaukee in 1905, and in neighboring offices too.  I'm looking for a Loyal Durand cancel.

W. T. DURAND
JUN
16
1899
MILWAUKEE. WIS

W. T. DURAND
DEC
2
1898
MILWAUKEE. WIS

Saturday, December 9, 2023

Insurance Agent Cancels: Jerome Ingalls of Lynn, Massachusetts


JEROME INGALLS & CO.
AUG
29
1899
LYNN, MASS.


from The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, 1915

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Insurance Agent Cancels: Benswanger & Hast of Pittsburgh

 

from the American Exchange & Review, November 1900

Note in the ad that Mssrs. Benswanger & Hast are specialists in whisky insurance.  Curious this.  The Whisky Rebellion was fomented in western Pennsylvania by local distillers, many revolutionary war vets, who thought they were being taxed without representation.  I can't imagine the desire for insurance for whisky was a holdover from more than 100 years before.  I wonder why they sold, and people bought, whisky insurance?


BENSWANGER
NOV 3 1899
& HAST


BENSWANGER
NOV 3 1899
& HAST

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Saturday, December 2, 2023

Insurance Agent Cancels: Heeman, Kranz & Company of Toledo, Ohio

from Official Laws Regulating Construction of Buildings, City of Toledo, 1907



Heeman, Kranz & Co.
Mar
2
1901
Toledo, O.