THE FAR. & SHIP. L. TOB. WH. CO. JUL 29 1898 CINCINNATI.O. Dave Thompson sent in this cancel this morning that he found hiding behind a...

AM.  EX.  CO. FEB 12 1901 E.  LIPPMAN. In 1984, American Express merged with Lehman Brothers.  By 1994 AMEX had spun off Lehman.  And by 2...

Most of us who collect revenues of the Spanish-American War Tax era have a few covers mailed using the tax stamps of that period. I do, and ...

RICKER NAT'L BANK FEB 10 1900 From Representative Men and Women of Quincy , Illinois , 1899: So long as Quincy stands the name of Mr....

I've had a battleship bisect used on a check for some time before I found this one, but I'm virtually certain that it was a philatel...

Where do I start?  Bob Patetta just sent a truckload of R161, half cent orange battleship stamp scans, all used.  Bob has an impressive col...

H.  B.  & CO. FEB   6   1899 S.   F. I'm looking for some help with these initials.  Anybody have any ideas?

I picked up this wire transfer recently on eBay, thinking that it might be a good subject for a blog post, as well as an interesting additio...

ALASKA PACKERS ASSO. FEB 3 1899 SAN FRANCISCO The Alaska Packers Assocation was a San Francisco based canner of Alaskan salmon that operat...

Tetlow Manufacturing Company check signed by Danel Tetlow Following Bob Hohertz'  post from yesterday on the Henry Tetlow Company, Fra...

The Henry Tetlow Company was "founded" in Philadelphia in 1849 to manufacture and market toiletries. One source (see link at end o...

AETNA On January 21 I posted a dated Aetna cancel.  I found an additional Aetna cancel in my collection yesterday.  From the Aetna websit...

This is a continuation of a series of posts about Ocean Passage tickets. Florida East Coast Steamship Company Ocean Passage Ticket Jacksonv...

I spent a little time yesterday grouping these "bullseye" cancelled R155s, and I liked the look of them together so much that I th...

United States Casualty Company Limited Travel Accident Policy Dayton, Ohio August 16,1898 We previously mentioned the existance of this doc...

This is the third of three posts on the 2 cent documentary battleship calendar in which all 36 months of the calendar are posted. This post ...