1898 Revenues: Boston Stock Brokers: NYSE Brokers Listed as Primarily Boston-based in the NYSE 1898-1902 Database

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Boston Stock Brokers: NYSE Brokers Listed as Primarily Boston-based in the NYSE 1898-1902 Database

Quite a large number of brokers trading on the NYSE also kept offices or traded in Boston. In the case of the brokers listed below, Boston was their main base, while one of the firm's partners maintained a seat on the New York Exchange. So this list is not complete with regard to firms that did business in both places, as firms like Brown Brothers and Blake Brothers, mentioned in recent posts, did not identify themselves as primarily Boston firms, and I did not classify them that way in the NYSE broker database.

Whatever the case, this is another starting point for looking for Boston broker cancels, as David T and I have been methodically collecting the NYSE cancels for years.

The battleship stamps above are clearly canceled "Boston" rather than New York

Elisha D.	Bangs & Company	Boston
William	Bassett	Boston
John W.	Belches & Company	Boston
George C.	Brooks & Company	Boston
George F.	Brown Jr.	Boston
	Brown, Reilly & Company	Boston
	Chase & Barstow	Boston
	Curtis & Motley	Boston
	Curtis & Sanger	Boston
	Dillaway & Company	Boston
	Dillaway & Starr	Boston
	Downer & Company	Boston
Walter H.	Edgerly	Boston
	Edgerly & Crocker	Boston
	Emery & Tucker	Boston
	Estabrook & Company	Boston
	Hale & Company	Boston
	Hayden, Stone & Company	Boston
E. C.	Hodges & Company	Boston
	Jackson & Curtis	Boston
	Kidder, Peabody & Company	Boston
	Lee, Higginson & Company	Boston
E. E.	Leland & Company	Boston
S. D.	Loring & Son	Boston
F. S.	Mead & Company	Boston
E. Rollins	Morse & Brother	Boston
	Norman & Company	Boston
	Paine, Webber & Company	Boston
	Pearmain & Brooks	Boston
John	Pickering & Moseley	Boston
F. H.	Prince & Company	Boston
	Richardson, Hill & Company	Boston
	Schofield, Whicher & Company	Boston
	Sutton & Bowen	Boston
	Tower, Giddings & Company	Boston
	Towle & Fitzgerald	Boston
	Tucker, Anthony & Company	Boston
H. C.	Wainwright & Company	Boston
Andrew N.	Winslow	Boston

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Unusual Ink on the 1898 Series Dollar Values

THESE STAMPS ARE BOTH SCOTT R191! From fugitive ink to color changelings with unknown origins. These are both copies of R191. Can only exposure to light produce the color changes you see in stamp on the right? Or possibly a soak in bleach or other chemical? I doubt it. These stamps have so many examples of changelings that there must be something else happening. The ink used on this dark green series of stamps was different than that known on any other BEP printed stamps, never mind the varnish square. It is likely the BEP was experimenting with ink on this issue. Inks are discussed further if you click on the stamps.

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.