The Lancaster MARCH  12  1899 BANK. March 12 in 1899 was a Sunday.  Years of searching might not yield a bank cancel on a Sunday on these i...

Scott R184 1 Dollar Documentary S.  C.  L.  & CO. MAR  12  1902 CHICAGO. Not sure what these initials stand for.  This site has many...

R185 $2 Documentary FLOYD - JONES & ROBISON. MAR 11 1901 NEW YORK. New York Bankers and Brokers.

K. C. F. S. & M. R. R.  CO. MAR 10 1899 The Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad was an amalgamation of several Missouri-bas...

RB24 One Cent Green Proprietary pair with prominent screw head impression in upper right. Close up of screw head.  This image was sent to...

C. P. & ST. L., Treas. MAR 8 1900 Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad Treasurer's office cancel on R164 2 cent documentary.  Si...

THE UNION PACIFIC COAL  COMPANY MAR    7    XXXX CARBON  STORE Payment voucher from the Union Pacific's Carbon, Wyoming Store for a ...

BANK OF NEW YORK, MAR 7 1902 N.B.A. From the book "The English Manual Of Banking", by Arthur Crump: "This was the first ...

THE LORAIN STEEL COMPANY MAR 5 1901 From the January 27, 1904 edition of the New York Times: ANOTHER STEEL MERGER ________ National Tube ...

C. L. & W. RY. CO. MAR     4      1899 In 1909 the CL&W would be absorbed by the B&O, yesterday's cancel of the day.  In 1...

B. &  0. R  R. MAR  3    1899 ACC'T DEPT. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the longest lived railroads in the United ...

Heeman, Kranz & Co. MAR 2 1901 Toledo, O. A real estate, loans, and insurance firm in Toledo, Ohio.

MANHATTAN MAR 2 1899 TRUST CO. A J.P. Morgan controlled company

Sam'l D. Luckenbach, MAR   1   1899 So. Bethlehem, Pn. The Luckenbachs are easy to trace in Bethlehem PA more than 100 years before thi...

QUACKENBUSH FEB 28 1899 PORTLAND, ORE. E. QUACKENBUSH FEB 28 1899 PORTLAND, ORE. The handstamps on the 10 and 4 cent stamps differ.  See...

Printed Cancel: I  &  G  N  R  R Handstamp Cancel: I.  &  G.  N.  R.  R.  CO. FEB 27 1900 Many railroads used printed cancels ...

United States FEB 23 1900 Mortgate & Trust Co. From the book "The Story of the Trust Companies, by Edward Ten Broeck Perine: Th...

R.  P.  FISH FEB 16 1899 CHICAGO R. P. Fish was once the Treasurer of the Chicago Baptist Social Union.  Don't know anything else...

RARITAN WOOLEN MILLS, FEB 15 1899 RARITAN, N.J. The old Raritan Woolen Mill that no longer exists. The mill, at one time in Raritan...

The 1898 series of US revenue stamps entered use on July 1, 1898 after passage of the tax act a few weeks earlier.  But a major cause of the...

ALBERT LOEB & CO. FEB 13 1901 N.  Y. Albert Loeb and Company was a banking firm located in New York.  Albert Loeb died about two yea...

THE MALONE STONE CO. FEB 13 1899 CLEVELAND, O. The Malone Stone Company was sandstone company located in Ohio. 

H.J. BOWELL, FEB 11 1899 MERRILL, WIS.

JOHN F. BRIGG & SONS, FEB 10 1900 xxx John F. Brigg & Sons was a dealer in woolen goods and was located at 43 East 19th St. in New...

THE WHEELING AND LAKE ERIE R.R. CO. FEB 8 1901

LOGAN  &  BRYAN FEB  -  5  1902 Logan & Bryan was famous as a "private wire" brokerage house.  With major offices in bot...

THE LORAIN STEEL COMPANY FEB 4 1901

CORNPLANTER FEB 3 1900 REFINING CO. While "Cornplanter" is obscured in this cancel from February 3 1900, it is clearer in the exa...

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...