Imprints used to pay the bank check tax prior to 1883 were redeemable in that year and were demonetized shortly thereafter. In 1898 a decisi...

P. C. C. & St. L. APR    18    1900 Ry.    Co. "The Panhandle Route" of the Pennsylvania Railroad Commonly called the Panhan...

J. F. HARRIS APR17 1899 CHICAGO From The New York Times , December 13, 1895: SUSPENDED FROM THE BOARD Punishment of a Chicago Broker f...

Next to bank checks and sight drafts, bills of lading are perhaps the most commonly available documents from the Spanish American War tax er...

P. & R. Ry. APR  14  1900 manuscript 14 over handstamped 10 One of the game of Monopoly's four railroads (own all four and you can...

C. & N-W. Ry. APR 12   1901 ------------------ 1900 The printed cancels of the Chicago and North Western feature in this site's rev...

E. W. W. APR 12 1901 According to Henry Tolman, E. W. Warrick was an auditor for the Ohio River Railroad.  The ORR was built in the 1880s,...

H. W. BROWN & CO. APR  11  1901 PHILADELPHIA. The New York Times, December 1, 1907: BROWN IS WINNER OF LAKEWOOD CUP _____ Defeats Til...

Receivers B. & O. S. - W. Ry. APR 10 1899 By 1883 the Baltimore and Ohio was a major shareholder of this railroad.  But for years the B...

Over a month ago I received an Ebay lot that I had bid on due to the presence of two printed cancels of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and So...

Roanoke Railway & Electric Company David Thompson sent in this scan of a Roanoke Railway and Electric Company cancel.  And then today h...

On January 12, 2010, I posted a cancel similar to the one below. I labelled the cancel as the N.Y.C. & W Railway.  I was a bit off.  Aft...

J.  J.  L. APR  8  1899 CHICAGO Unknown initials.  Any ideas?

April 1901 page from a 2 Cent Battleship Calendar.  The calendar, purchased in the Tolman sale a few years back, is virtually complete Mond...

In an earlier blog I discussed the fact that imprinted checks sent in to the IRS in 1901 for rebate of the tax were not returned until somet...

As an introduction to this series, and a follow-up to Frank Sente’s posting on March 30, 2011, which references “Keeley’s Cure,” the Keele...

A Modest Proposal for a Further Examination of the Companies Utilizing Proprietary Battleship Cancels Editors Note : Malcolm A. Goldstein...

I was ever so pleased when Dave Thompson and John Langlois took special note of the "Maiden Vignettes" on several of the stocks I ...

A little known moment in US fiscal history finally comes to light today at 1898 Revenues.   As the title of this post indicates, President ...

Dave Thompson cropped these images from two of Frank Sente's stock certificates from his post from yesterday.  Seems Dave couldn't h...

MAR  31  1900 A.  V.  T.  &  L.  Co. The Arkansa Valley Town and Land Company was a part of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad...