1898 Revenues: Grain Merchants and Processors

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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

St. Louis Grain Merchants: Picker & Beardsley

from The American Elevator and Grain Trade, January 15, 1919

PICKER & BEARDSLEY,

NOV

1898

St. Louis.

Sunday, July 6, 2025

Kansas City Grain Merchants: Goffe, Lucas & Carkener

Goffe, Lucas & Carkener.

JUL

1898

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Grain Merchant Cancels: Paddock, Hodge & Company of Toledo, Ohio

from The American Elevator & Grain Trade, February 16, 1900

Paddock, Hodge & Co.

JUL 29 1898

TOLEDO, O.

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Chicago Board of Trade Companies: McRea & Waters and Waters, Patterson & Company

WATERS, PATTERSON & CO.

SUCCESSORS TO

JUN 14 1899

M'CREA & WATERS

CHICAGO.

Wiley B. Waters, CBOT Member #1680, traded with M'Crea & Waters until 1899, and then reorganized with someone named Patterson in that year. However, he was reported by The Grain Dealers Journal of April 10, 1900 to have declared bankruptcy. Following the bankruptcy, neither Waters nor Patterson were ever included in the CBOT membership lists after its organization in 1899.

from The Economist, May 20, 1899

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Bill of Exchange Fragments: Grain Merchants -- Hammond & Snyder of Baltimore

Bill of Exchange fragment for the firm of Hammond & Snyder:

HAMMOND & SNYDER

JUN

1900

BALTIMORE

Hammond & Snyder were grain exporters and receivers. William R. Hammond and John W. Snyder were the partners.

Available in wikimedia commons, The American Elevator and Grain Trade, with its fabulous title art, is a great resource for sorting through the grain firms of the 1898 tax period. Hammond & Snyder don't show up much, but they do, and just enough to confirm the nature of their business.

Saturday, December 10, 2022

Grain Merchants: J. Q. Adams & Company

It appears that there were two prominent J. Q. Adams & Company firms in United States during the 1898 tax period. One firm was a Massachusetts-based publisher, apparently associated with Mary Baker Eddy and the rapidly growing Christian Science faith. The other was a Minnesota-based grain dealer. The stamp below was canceled by the grain firm. See the post from December 1 for E. S. Woodworth & Company, also a grain dealer based in Minnesota. The canceling devices were clearly made by the same company, from design to choice of type.

J. Q. ADAMS & CO.

OCT

1898

The firm would experience financial trouble due to losses in an attempt to corner the corn market.

E. S. WOODWORTH & CO.

NOV

1898

Thursday, December 1, 2022

E. S. Woodworth & Company, Grain Traders, Minneapolis

E. S. WOODWORTH & CO.

NOV

1898

E. S. Woodworth in Minneapolis, MN, from

Amiable Liables - More Than One Hundred Sketches of Minneapolitans

published in 1916

Mr. Woodworth was influential enough to publish a piece on the record of grain trading in 1905 in the January 7. 1906 edition of the New York Times.

New York Times, January 7, 1906

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.