For nearly two months I've covered the subject of these precancels; this will be the last post for the time being.  The next step with t...

Philatelic Literature Review Though Richard Fullerton published in 1952 what has been the definitive list of 1898 documentary printed canc...

 

The day after posting the Kahului Railroad printed precanceled stamp, a seller on Ebay from Golubie, Poland, listed two stamps that appear t...

K . R . R .  HAWAII From Frank Sente's collection is this example of a possible railroad printed precancel.  This stamp and cancel was n...

Squarely belonging in the contrivances section of an updated version of the Fullerton list, the Waymart, PA precancel looks like a cancel ma...

Occasionally, the active 1898 collector might come across cancels that appear to have been made with a typewriter.  Sometimes actual typewri...

The Windsor County Clerk's Office cancels come in two known varieties, one with J. R. Pember as the Clerk and Karl A. Pember as the Depu...

The Elgin National Watch Company was one of America's great watch companies; it closed operations in 1968.  Occasionally cancels like th...

Charles E. Cornell was a manufacturer of products that required the payment of proprietary taxes during the 1898 tax period, including cosme...

Richard Fullerton limted his documentary printed precancel list to railroad related companies, perhaps because so few other firms chose to u...

E. S. Wells made nostrums for humans including medicines for corns, toothaches, and itching.  But the company might have been best known for...

The United New Jersey Railroad & Canal Company was under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad, but issued their own bonds.  The stam...

In the 1898 War Revenue Law, bonds (the financial instrument version, as a opposed to insurance surety or guarantee bonds), were taxed at a ...

The Provident Savings Life Assurance Society (PSLAS) produced the most significant array of printed precancels of any company, including rai...