There have been multiple examples of the so-called guide dots at the top centers of the battleship stamps in recent posts.  In this post are...

N. & S. R. S. Co. MAR   11   1899 Need some help identifying this company.  Please send an answer, if you have one, to 1898revenues@gma...

There are many examples out there of a dot in the middle of the spandle on the battleship stamps.  Here are two examples of a double dot in ...

R. J. JOHNSTON & CO. MAR 9 1900 A member of the New York Cotton Exchange.  The firm failed in 1903 as reported by the New York Times.

At Virtual Stamp Club is an ongoing discussion of guide dots.  Go straight to that discussion here.

This site has started a new theme in the past few days on the so-called layout dots and lines on the battleship stamps.  Philately has under...

SCAND. AMERICAN BANK MAR 7 1900 With cursory research I've established that the Scandinavian American Bank functioned across the northe...

Envelope received from an Ebay purchase cancelled with "Postage Due Unit" CDSs This is obviously not a revenue document.  But...

Dave Thompson sends in the following questions and comments about the guide dot post from two days ago (I've done a bit of editing): I...

I'm not much of a fly-specker, but I was reminded by John's February 25, 2011 post about about a layout dot in the "C" of ...

MELCHIOR, ARMSTRONG, & DESSAU, JUL XX 1900 NEW YORK. Here is another mystery company, but for reasons quite different than the cancel...

Helmholz & Remick MAR 1 CHICAGO. Frederick Helmholz and Frank Remick were partners in a firm with a seat on the Chicago Board of Trade.

W.  A.  MATHIES, FEB 28 1899 A W. A. Mathies was a resident of San Francisco in 1870.  I am not sure whether this cancel and that man are o...

PROV.  INST FEB  27  1899 FOR SAVINGS. The Provident Institution for Savings was established in 1816 in Boston.  It was the first chartere...

D. APPLETON & CO. OCT 3 1900 D. Appleton & Company was a publishing company located in the United States.  The company published man...

Interesting milestone for this site today as the first known page view from Havana, Cuba occurred.  There have been a few posts on historica...

A nice, clear Johnson & Johnson cancel has already been shown on the Blog. This one is barely readable, and its only claim to fame is th...

A Study of the One-Cent Documentary Issue Exhibit Synopsis Treatment The print run for the one-cent documentary issue was 1,124,972,00...

Str CHICKASAW. MAY 13 1899 Dave Thompson sent me a scan of this cancel months ago, and I never posted it because neither of us were sure at...