Wells Fargo ran banking and express services in the west after the company was started by two founders of American Express, Henry Wells and ...

C. Ex. on 2 cent and 4 cent documentary stamps.

So. Ex. R. Ex. NP Ex.

The stamp below has an AMEX printed cancel, but a US Express handstamp cancel. Top guideline on one cent roulette. The form below documents ...

Blois, Andover and Lawrence Express' Lawrence, Mass. office was at the Merchants Co-op Express offiice in Lawrence. Merchants Co-op can...

The web is not providing much information on this company. I will keep looking.

Wheeler Express appears to have run between Marlborough and Boston, Massachusetts. From 1901 through 1903 the mayor of Marlborough Mass. was...

Child messengers, Norfolk, Virginia in 1911. Photograph in the public demain. In four of the five cancels shown below the Adams Express her...

According to the Revenue Act of 1898, the following taxes were levied at a rate of one cent and demanded documentary tax stamps: 1. Upon eac...

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy RR printed cancel. The 1898 tax act designated multiple taxes requiring stamps. The following documentary tr...

Controlled by Jay Gould at the time of the use of this stamp, the Missouri Pacific Railway is today part of the Union Pacific.

I know nothing about HTH Co., but I like the rosettes that run vertically down the sides of this cancel. Jay Pierpoint Morgan was running t...

Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway cancel for May 11

I started this blog with a series of railroad hand stamped cancels on the 2 cent documentary. Below is a set of three printed cancels placed...

A no roulette, imperf, or imroulette pair of the one cent documentary. Rare to the point of having an italicized value in the 2008 Scott cat...

Examples of part roulettes. The one cent documentary part roulettes are fairly common and consequently cheap. In both the pair and block o...

The one and two cent documentary stamps were the workhorses of the 1898 documentary series. Hundreds of millions wre printed, both in the ro...

I just ordered a 2009 Scott Specialized catalogue and West's Revenue Stamps of the United States. At least I'll have some printed m...

Goodmorning from Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad South Chicago Freight Office for May 9. The LS&MS ran from Chicago to the ...

1898 Revenues is pleased to announce its new stamp grading program. After careful consideration and a survey of the revenue stamp market, it...

Not too exciting here. I've got a bunch of G. Rosenblatt cancels on other values. All of these cancels are from companies that can be g...

I don't have a Scott Catalogue out here in Kenya with me. One is on its way. Meanwhile, I'm working from memory here. And I recall t...