The Boston Stock Exchange
This site has focused on firms canceling stamps that were based at the New York Stock Exchange with the occasional detour. One detour was to the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange back in June of 2024. With the previous post on ambiguous "BB&Co" cancels that likely involved the Boston Stock Exchange, I thought it time to start looking at Boston Exchange cancels, though I have yet to make a definitive list of the possible brokers, or even really study who the brokers were during the tax period. Today will begin an effort to get a handle on what was happening in Boston between 1898 and 1902.
A quick check of Boston canceled stamps among the 1898 dollar values in my collection turned up several Boston Stock Exchange possibilities, including the stamp below:
J. & C.
JUL
31
1900
BOSTON
Turns out this cancel likely belongs to the brokerage firm Jackson & Curtis. Charles Jackson and Lawrence Curtis are each listed as members of the Boston Stock Exchange in 1901with their firm Jackson & Curtis. They can be found in the list below that comes from the 1901 edition of Moody's Manual, while they are also listed as trading on the NYSE with Charles Jackson as the member:
As with the NYSE, Moody's published the membership lists for the Boston Exchange for 1900, 1901 and 1902. But it means that we're missing 1898 and 1899, which are gaps that need an answer. Turns out that at least one book available online provides some help, thought it is not ideal. An 1893 hagiography of the exchange and its members provides a complete list, and a quick scan of my stamps shows at least one broker that shows up in this 1893 list that was no longer in the exchange by 1900.
Whatever the case, there is enough data to get started to organize Boston brokers. You can find the following lists by clicking on the links:
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