COLISEUM COMPANY, JUL   10   1899 CHICAGO. Cancel by the Chicago Coliseum Company during the first year of the Coliseum's operation Po...

TEUTONIA JUL   10   1899 INS. CO. A New Orleans-based national insurance company.  TEUTONIA INS. CO. JUL  19  1900 New Orleans.

Fellow collector Rick Lokos sent in scans of a couple of stock certificates from The Mexican Telephone Company, a firm in which J. P. Morgan...

I.  C.  RY.  CO. JUL 8 1898 Ugly stamp.  Big railroad.  

WM.  P.  CLYDE & CO., Gen. Agents JUL 7 1898 N.Y. There is much behind this cancel.  My research for this post, no more than a glance a...

LOCAL TREASURERS OFFICE JUL   6   1898 THE MO. PAC. RY. ST. LOUIS, MO. A great MOPAC cancel on an R155 paying the tax on a Boatman's ...

W. R.  K. JUL     6   1899 Fancy handstamp WRK.  Need help identifying the firm or individual.

An advertising poster that was a part of Anglo-American Drug Company's sales pitch to mothers of young children. Anglo-American Drug Co...

B. S. BK, JUL 4 1900 Happy Independence Day! What needs to be written about the B.S. Bank? 

"Ripped" cancel taken from a 1/4cent proprietary battleship. This is the design for all Centaur Company printed cancels. The Cent...

I've always had a soft spot for antique philatelic journalism (doesn't everybody?).  The Weekly Philatelic Gossip stopped publishin...