1898 Revenues: Cancels: States

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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Cancels by State: Minnesota

In commemeration of my vacation days in Minnesota this summer, here are a few 1898s with Minnesota cancels:

Bank of Willmar

JUN 20 1899

Willmar, Minn

ST. ANTHONY FALLS BANK

NOV

1898

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

AUSTIN NAT'L BANK,

JAN

1899

AUSTIN, MINN.

ST. P. & D. R. R.

APR 11 1899

Treasurer

Cancel for the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Cancels by State: Michigan

M. S. B.

DEC 28 1898

MUNISING, MICH.

DETROIT & CLEV'D NAV. CO.

NOV

1898

DETROIT, MICH.

M. A. CO.

MAY 29 1901

Wyandotte, Mich.

M. C. R. R.

DEC 4 1898

(Michigan Central Railroad)

R. S. Mfg. Co.

Detroit, Mich.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Cancels by State: Pennsylvania

Scranton

Wilkes-Barre

Reading

Lancaster

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Pottsville

South Bethlehem

Oil City

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Battleship Cancels by State: Vermont

Windsor County

Clerk's Office

Woodstock, Vt.

J. R. Pember

Clerk

1899

N. C. CO.

NOV

1899

St. Albans, Vt.

RUTLAND R. R.

AUG

1899

Rutland, Vt.

NAT. BLACK RIVER BANK,
FEB
19
1901
Proctorsville, Vt.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Battleship Cancels by State: New Jersey

RISLEY & CAVILEER

MAR

1899

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.

CITY NATIONAL BANK

DEC

1900

SALEM, N. J.

RARITAN WOOLEN MILLS,

FEB

1899

RARITAN, N. J.

MURPHY VARNISH CO.

DEC

1898

NEW YORK

Yes, the cancel says New York. But the owner and President of Murphy Varnish was Franklin Murphy, who was at one time the Governor of New Jersey.

AM. EX. CO.

FEB

1901

E. LIPPMAN

ROBERT O'GORMAN

MAY

1900

NEWARK, N. J.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Battleship Cancels by State: Nebraska

B. & M. R. R. R.

JAN 14 1899

IN NEB.

THE C. P. CO.

JUL

1900

SO. OMAHA

E. C. ROGGY

APR 4 1900

Bradshaw, Neb.

SUTTON NAT. BANK

OCT

1899

Sutton, Neb.

FARMERS STATE BANK.

NOV

1898

Emerson, Neb.

M. P. & N.,

SEP

189X

OMAHA.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Battleship Cancels by State: Wisconsin

Lincoln Co. Bank,

DEC 1 1898

Merrill, Wis.

A. Breslauer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Christmas Eve of 1898

Bank of Manawa, Manawa, Wisconsin, September 9, 1898

H.J. Bowell, Merrill, Wisconsin, December 5, 1898

CONCORDIA FIRE INS. CO.

APR

1901

MILWAUKEE, WISC.

M. W. W. CO.

NOV

1898

MENASHA

(Menasha Wooden Ware)

HORLICK'S FOOD CO.

JAN

1901

RACINE, WISC.

WALTER FOWLER,

JAN 13

1898

W. Superior.

Anthony Giacomelli included an image of a 5 cent battleship with the same Walter Fowler-West Superior cancel in an article in the May 1984 edition of the American Revenuer. The article speculated on West Superior's location and legal status. Below is a cancel by Tennis and Greeley, also apparently located in West Superior.

TENNIS & GREELEY,

OCT

1900

W. SUPERIOR, WIS.

The Bank of Baraboo

OCT 1 1898

BARABOO, WISC.

Nat. Bank

NOV

1899

La Crosse.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Battleship Cancels by State: Ohio

Toledo, Ohio: Herman Kranz Co., March 2, 1901

Lisbon, Ohio: KE Baringer, April 2, 1901

Cleveland, Ohio: The Forest City Stone Co., September 17, 1898

Cleveland, Ohio, FPT & C0, August 15, 1898

Cincinnati, Ohio, Unknown, January 11, 1899

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.