1898 Revenues: Stamp Shows

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Sunday, August 17, 2014

2014 Minnesota Stamp Show

The 2014 Minnesota Stamp Show was the site of the American Revenue Association annual meeting this year. The timing of my annual leave this summer coincided with the show, and I managed to be in St. Paul and attend the show for a few hours on Friday and Sunday, even making the Friday night Association dinner. I had the opportunity to meet many members for the first time, and see others for the first time in several years.

Frank Sente and your correspondent with his 1898 Revenue on-document use exhibit and his many honors, including the show Grand.

Active contributors to this site over the years exhibited 1898 material at the show and experienced top level success. Frank Sente rolled out the on-document exhibit that he originally showed in Minnesota 3 years ago; this time it won the show grand. Bob Hohertz showed his Revenue Stamp paper material and took Reserve Grand, and Herman Ivester received a single frame gold for his St. Louis Provisional material.

I look forward, if timing permits, to future Minnesota Stamp Shows! It was great this year seeing old faces again and meeting new people.

Awards:

Frank Sente

A Fiscal History of the US Documentary Taxes 1898 - 1902:

Show Grand

Best Revenue Exhibit

Show Gold

Bob Hohertz

Revenue Stamp Paper of the Spanish-American War Tax Period:

Show Reserve Grand

Show Gold

Herman Ivester

The St. Louis Proprietary Provisionals - July 1898

Show Single Frame Gold

Bob Mustacich

The Rare Bookends of the 1898-1899 Documentary Revenues

Show Silver-Bronze

Bob Hohertz was also recognized in the single frame category for his 1932 check tax exhibit.

Bob Hohertz and his show Reserve Grand.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Minnesota Stamp Expo 2011, Sunday Edition

Our illustrious co-blogger Frank Sente won a host of medals and ribbons this weekend! His 10-frame 1898 on-document exhibit received a Gold, a Reserve Grand, APS, and US Stamp Society recognition. Way to go, Frank.

I had the opportunity to meet and chat with Ken Trettin, the editor of The American Revenuer, and we discussed the production of a regular 1898 feature for the Revenuer. Don't hold your breath, but we may be up and publishing by the next TAR issue.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

BALPEX and ARA Meeting 2010: 1898 Exhibits

BALPEX 2010 occurs this week from September 3 through the 5th. BALPEX is the annual stamp show of the Baltimore Philatelic Society. The event includes the annual meeting of the American Revenue Association and 13 revenue exhibits.

Three of those exhibits include 1898 material, all one-frame exhibits:

The Workhorse of the U.S. Battleship Revenues: A Study of the One Cent Documentary Issue

"I.R" Overprinted 1898 1c Franklin Postage Stamps: A Study of the I.R. Overprints of the 1898 1c Franklin Postage Stamp Arranged by the Treasury Department, Including the Production, Production Varieties, Revenue and Postal Use; and the Provisional Overprints of Dr. Kilmer & Company

Revenue Imprinted Parlor Car Tickets 1898 - 1902: A Comprehensive Look at the Imprinted Parlor Car Tickets of the Spanish American War Period

We'll see what we can do to get some of this material up online in the coming weeks -- I have it on good report that at least two of the exhibitors already contribute to this site. Good luck to all!

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.