The lowly quarter cent proprietary, common and cheap.  Unused copies sell for no more than a dealer would charge to recover his costs and ma...

SOUTH EASTERN LINE JAN   30   1899 ATLANTA,  GA.

HORLICK'S FOOD CO. JAN 29 1901 RACINE, WIS. The Jonathan Richman song "Double Chocolate Malted" refers to using only Horlick...

C. Co. Savgs Bank JAN 28 1899 Beautiful bullseye on an R155. 

C. W. Rasey, JAN 28 1899 *** C.W. Rasey was the county recorder in Santa Barbara at the time of this cancel and must have used the sta...

Heather of the Links was a Ladd and Coffin product. Who wants to smell like a golf course? LADD & COFFIN, JAN 26 1899 NEW YORK ...

 STAR UNION LINE. JAN  25  1899 A Pennsylvania Railroad fast freight line. 

HENRY BELIN, JR. JAN 24 1899 Scranton, Pa. *** What was this stamp used for? Look up Henry Belin IV in the Scranton area today and yo...

Like the Wells Fargo receipt book page posted earlier this month, this post has a document with a famous military officer's name include...

CALLENDER & CO JAN 23 1900 *PEORIA, ILL.* *** The Callender & Company insurance agency was established in 1861 and still exists as...

W F  CO JAN 21 1899 WALTHAM  MASS. Likely a cancel for the Waltham Foundry Company but not confirmed.

C.  &  O.  RY.  CO. JAN 20 1900 Comptroller Chesapeake and Ohio Logo

J.  W.  E.  B.        JAN 18   190X Louisville, Ky.

P M JAN 17 1899 M.  C.  Ry. Is this a railroad cancel and am I reading the Ry. portion correctly?  And if it is, is it for the Michigan...

C.  H.  B. JAN  16   1900 A U D I T O R Almost certainly the cancel of a railroad company auditor.  Working on determining whose initia...

Several months ago the receipt below was offered in an auction by Eric Jackson on Ebay.  While I found it attractive for its railroad associ...

H. W. DENNINGTON JAN 13 1899 *** H. W. Dennington Sr. was the second vice-president of the the Schenectady Savings Bank in 1917. I hav...

N. Y. C. & W. RY. CO JAN 12 1899 Are these letters for the NYC & W, and was that a railway? April 8, 2011 Editors note:  See the e...

JAS.  xxxxxxIKAN JAN 11 1899 CINCINNATI. Need help identifying this one. 

Dividend check for the Philadelphia City Passenger Railway Company Stamp from check upper left: P. C. P. R. W. CO. JAN 10 1899

A couple days ago on January 8 I posted the image of a 1/8 cent proprietary stamp cancelled "BIG 4".  Today I will go a bit more i...

C.  B.  SEGER JAN 9 1901 XXXXX C. B. Seger was the auditor for the Southern Pacific Railroad in San Francisco in 1901.  It appears a...

Three days ago on January 5 in a post regarding 1/8 cent proprietary prices I mentioned that there were cancellations on these stamps that i...

CONTINENTAL JAN  7     1901 FRUIT EXPRESS As posted previously, the CFX was controlled by the Armour Corporation, one of the largest me...