A major component of paint at the time, linseed oil was a big business in the United States at the time of the cancellation of this stamp. ...

The Andrew Jergens Company was a soap and toiletry manufacturing company based in Cincinnati. The current Jergens Company is owned by Japan...

Geo. L. Story NOV. 28 1898 Portland, - Oreg. A follow-up cancel to yesterday's George L. Story post, this time on a 4 cent documentary b...

Geo. L. Story. AUG 2 1898 Portland, - Oreg. Rectangular box handstamp cancel from George L. Story, a leading Portland citizen and a fire in...

A rather difficult to read circular hand cancel form Goldman Sachs, recently famous for declaring rather large profits during the current re...

L.F. SEP 24 '01 N.Y. As a follow-up to my post of July 29, above is a Lazard Freres pair from September 24, 1901. The style of cancel di...

L.F. JUL 29 '98 N.Y. Lazard Freres ---------------- Founded in my home town of New Orleans in 1848, Lazard Freres was created by 3 Frenc...

Send your stamps today to 1898 Revenues to participate in our exclusive stamp collection degrading service. Whether you send us stamps that ...

Grand Trunk Railway appeared in a previous post here: http://1898revenues.blogspot.com/2009/04/revenue-cancels-grand-trunk-railway.html . ...

Merchants Despatch was originally created by the American Express Company (AMEX printed cancels are highlighted on this blog) in the 1850s w...

First National Bank of Watseka, Illinois from July 23, 1898. I've got a whole bunch of these and they are in the same condition. Not th...

Contintental Insurance Company can be traced back to 1852 in New York, issuing its first policy in 1853. Today the company is known as The C...

Lincoln Co. Bank, DEC    1    1898 Merrill,  Wis. A. Breslauer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Christmas Eve of 1898 Bank of Manawa, Manawa, W...

Continental Insurance Company, February 5, 1901 HD&Co, April 10, 1900 DM Co., August 17, 1899 C&S, January 21, 19xx A.O., Decemb...

Chicago, Burlington and Northern Railroad circular dated handstamp from July 13, 1898. This stamp and cancel appeared in an earlier post re...

This is a stamp that appeared nearly 3 months ago on this blog. The Blue Line and Canada Southern Line were both parts of the New York Centr...

Clear and blue circular date stamp from F.N.B., or First Naitonal Bank of Westport, Connecticut from July 11, 1900. The stamp was likely u...

Circular dated handstamp from 110 years ago today. Don't know what TCCCL&N stands for. guideline at bottom of stamp.

Toledo, Ohio: Herman Kranz Co., March 2, 1901 Lisbon, Ohio: KE Baringer, April 2, 1901 Cleveland, Ohio: The Forest City Stone Co., Septemb...

On July 15, 1900, The New York Times reported that the American Trading Company and Flint, Eddy & Co., merged to become the largest expo...

No stamp here, only information about the Lackawanna. The previous post contains a DL&W RR cancellation. The Lackawanna ran its mainli...

This stamp and logo featured in one of the first entries of this blog nearly 3 months ago. Delaware, Lackawana and Western Railroad handstam...

When the 1898 battleship stamps were first introduced they did not include the 40 and 80 cent values. These stamps were added to the series ...

Happy Independence Day! The Michigan Central Railroad was busy working on July 4 1898. The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway was work...

ST&amp Company handstamp cancelled 25 cent documentary for July 1, 1898.

According the tax act of 1898 requiring this series of revenue stamps, specific uses for the 25 cent stamp included: Certificates of damage ...