Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut circular date stamp from October 1, 1898. I like the way the o and the e are ...

WM. LINN, ALLEN & CO. SEP 30 1898 I know nothing about this company.

Mountain Copper SEP 30 1898 Company, Limited. ------- A holder of mines in the western United States, California-based Mountain Copper ...

GEORGE BANCROFT & CO. SEP 30 1898 *** Circular date stamp from George Bancroft and Company with a neat little four point diamond at the...

As of today I've been blogging here for 6 months.  I started the blog so that I could keep active with parts of my collection, even thou...

SOO LINE. SEP 27 1900 In September 1883 a consortium of flour mill owners in Minneapolis formed the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie ...

This past weekend I drove down to Tsavo West National Park from Nairobi with my family.  Tsavo is famous for its lions and other wildlif...

ROBERT MOORE & CO. SEP 23 1898 -------- Robert Moore & Company was a brokerage firm based in New York. They were members of the N...

Plate numbers for the 2 Cent Documentary Battleship according to the BEP in 1940. Used plate number single, #8030, used by the Indiana...

M.  A.   &   C.  RY. SEP 19 1898 CANCELLED ***

C. & M. SEP 18 1899 RY. CO. *** The Connellsville and Monongahela was absorbed not long after the cancellation of this stamp by the Mono...

The Forest City Stone Co. SEP 17 1898 CLEVELAND, O. double oval handstamp ---------------- A stone quarry company based in Cleveland, the ...

I don't own this either.  Steve Wittig does, and he is currently selling it on Ebay for $3,295.  See here:  Wittig Ebay RB29 Plate Blo...

I don't own the block above.  It was sold to someone else in a Michael Aldrich auction on August 26.  The price realized page is here: ...

All the battleship sheets and contemporaneous postage stamps were printed by the Federal Government's Bureau of Engraving and Printing....

The 2 cent documentary battleship stamp above had a peculiar sort of margin marking added by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to enable...

Click on the image to download the page for better viewing. *** Plate markings/positions of the 2 cent battleship documentary. Stamps a bit...

J. W. WILSON & CO. SEP 11 1900 New York. ------------- At number 52 Front Street in the coffee and tea district in New York in 1910 (and...

Geo. T. Carter & Co. SEP 10 1898 Cohoes, N. Y. -------- Simple oval handstamp, but I can't find anything web-wise about the work of ...

N.C. CO. SEP 9 1899 St. Albans, Vt. *** The National Car Company has an interesting story.  Based in St. Albans, it was originally create...

BANK OF MANAWA SEP 9 1898 MANAWA, WIS. *** Today's date is 9-9-9. Great border on this cancel. Stamp has arrow marking and guideline at ...

Letter from a Deputy Commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue of the Treasury Department to Curtis Chapman of Cle...

Click on the images to download for better viewing.  They will download as a .jpg. *** 1940 Letter from A.W. Hall, Director of Bureau of E...

J. E. GRAHAM SEP 6 1899 FT. WAYNE, IND. *** J.E. Graham was a Justice of the Peace in Fort Wayne Indiana and was in a law parntership with...

DUCAT & LYON SEP 5 1899 INSURANCE *** Circular date stamp *** Ducat and Lyon were insurance agents based in Chicago.

Top plate block of 6, #7958. Horizontal rouletting is torqued across the block, growing more off-center to the right, especially for the rou...

F.N.B., First National Bank? from September 3, 1898. Diamond handstamp cancel. Stamp has pinhole at top. Likely removed from a bank check w...

C.B.T. CO. SEP 1 1898 K.C. MO. C.B.T. Co. was the refrigerator car company controlled by Schwarzchild and Sulzberger, the 6th largest meatin...

ISAAC KUBIE & CO. JUNE 4 1900 X8 MAIDEN LANE, N.Y. *** From the web I've been able to track Isaac Kubie & Company to the chicle ...

CLEVELAND, CANTON & SO. R. R. AUG 30 1899 *** The Cleveland, Canton, and Southern Railroad was orgininally called the Youngstown and Con...

H. T. H. & CO. * AUG * * 29 * * 1898 * Morristown,N.J. ------ An unknown set of corporate of initials but a spectacular ...

Handstamped Hocking Valley Railway with manuscript date. Logo of the Hocking Valley Railway. As in the map below, the railway ran from To...

SPENCER KELLOGG AUG 27 1899 BUFFALO, N.Y. Above is a picture of the Spencer Kellogg, linseed oil king from Buffalo, New York. For a time Sp...

Hot Springs R. R. Co. AUG 26 1898 ---------------- The Hot Springs Railroad ran from Malvern, Arkansas to Hot Springs, Arkansas and was ope...

J. PIERPOINT MORGAN 1837-1913 J.P. MORGAN & CO. MAR 28 1902 N.Y. *** J. Pierpoint Morgan was the man who made late 19th and early 20th...