Thursday, September 12, 2024

A Collector's Guide to 1898 Documentary Printed Precancels: the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad Uses

Something of a north-south railroad that ran along the Missouri and Iowa side of the Nebraka and Kansas border, the railroad's cancels can be found from towns along that route.  The railroad connected with the main Burlington Route lines of the CB&Q and the Hannibal & St. Joseph which ran primarily east west.

Precancel with Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad Iatan, Missouri hand stamp


Precancel with Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad Hopkins, Missouri hand stamp.  


Precancel with Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad McPaul, Iowa hand stamp

 KCStJ&CBRR bill of lading for a bundle (?) of springs.
Consigned to the George Ertel Company of Quincy, Illinois, a manufacturer of farm equipment.

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