One of the rarest of the 1898 documentary precancels, there is only one type known and it is only known on the roulette version of the one cent battleship stamp.
T. S. E. RY. CO., one cent battleship roulette
On October 6, 1899, the Tyler Southeastern Railway was fully aborbed into the St. Louis, Southwestern Railway of Texas, and ceased to exist as an independent railroad. While there is the possibility of discovery of another example of the TSE Ry precancel on the roulette battleship, a hyphen-hole version is unlikely to exist, as the BEP began using hyphen-hole perforations exclusively by late 1899..
The 1900 Annual Report of the Cotton Belt Route included a letter from Edwin Gould, the President of the company that provided a few details of the buyout of the TSE Ry by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas:
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