B.  &  P. MAY 10 1901 Stylized but unknown cancel.  Need some help identifying this one. 

Its been awhile since I've run a post on 1898 values.  I never purchased the 2011 Scott US Specialized, so I never reviewed price change...

AM. EX. CO.           1900 Just a reminder that the search continues for new examples of printed cancels on the documentary 1898 stamps.  O...

BURG-BREME MAY 8 1899 E  INS.  CO. The Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Company was ordered to discontinue business by the President of the Un...

Most of you reading this blog are familiar with promissory notes taxed at two cents per hundred dollars or fraction thereof, such as the fol...

This post is part of a  continuing series on Richard Fullerton's 1952 Catalog of Railroad Company, Street Railway & Express Company...

ADAMS EX. CO. MAY  6  XXXX New York Another Adams Express Cancel!  Find other posts on Adams Express here.

When it rains it pours!  An inquiry into the scarcity of the use of half cent gray battleships on checks has produced multiple examples.  He...

This past Saturday I ran a  post on a check from Dave Thompson written by a J. W. Grim of Harissonburg, Virginia, upon which Mr. Grim had a...

Austell Refgr. Car Line, MAY   4   1899 ATLANTA, GA. Alfred Austell 1814 - 1881 Alfred Austell was an important banker and financier in A...

Continuing with a look at imprinted checks that have had an adhesive revenue added, I can only offer two examples that would bear out the id...

Consideration of R181, the $1,000 James Madison Portrait Issue leads to another Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad stock. We considered two...

Here are cancels on May 1 from 1899, 1900, and 1901 by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.  All of these come from Henry Tolman...

Dave Thompson has sent a recent barrage of interesting material to post on the site.  The most interesting is a check made out to a prominen...

We continue our review of high value stocks by considering ones bearing the $500 Alexander Hamilton Portrait Issue, Scott R180. I've alw...