E. S. Wells made nostrums for humans including medicines for corns, toothaches, and itching. But the company might have been best known for rat poison. I've featured this company and these stamps on this site back in 2014. Follow the link to learn more. Today the focus is on the stamps and their cancels. E. S. Wells is the first of several proprietary product companies to be presented here that used printed precancels on the proprietary series of stamps that also applied precancels to documentary stamps.
The known use of their cancel on documentary stamps is on the two cent battleship; the company used its electrotyped cancel of 1898 and adapted it for 1899 by planing off part of the bottom loop of the 8 of 1898. The block below is the only known example I know of. An example of their cancel on the 5/8 cent proprietary is provided below.
As with the Provident Savings Life and the bond cancels, the E. S. Wells cancels are not included included in Fullerton's list; Fullerton contained his list only to railroad-related printed precancels.
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