I haven't started to understand what is happening with these and the Adams Express use of St. Louis Southwestern Railway printed cancels...

It's an interesting challenge to try to illustrate the square of varnish on R194 and its siblings, but here's a go at it. The varni...

Several days ago, in this post, I wrote about the varnish square said by Scott to have been placed on some of the green commerce dollar re...

Following my post from this past week on the so-called varnish square on the green dollar commerce stamps, Dave Thompson sent in a scan of t...

A. K. & Co. JUN 6 1899 From the Official Railway Equipment Register of 1901:   A. Knabb & Company was a cooperage business esta...

  A most useful tool for understanding the railroad business at the beginning of the 20th century, The Official Railway Equipment Register ...

Lot 951 listed for $36,716.05 The upcoming Robert Siegel sale June 21-24 includes lot 951 , described as:   "Twelve items, including...

ARMENIA INS. CO., JUN 4 1901 Pittsburg, Pa. In 1906, this Pittsburgh-based insurance company merged with Conestoga Fire Insurance of Lancas...

N. B. of N. E. JUN 1900 The Bank of New England was founded in 1854 in the town of East Haddam, Connecticut.  The Bank no longer exists. ...

Just before the listings in the Scott Catalogue for R190 to R194, the green commerce dollar values, the editors provide this marginally scru...

An auction lot that I acquired several years ago included an old quadrille page with a set of round-perforated battleship proprietaries.  On...

From an obituary in the Kingston Daily Freeman, Thursday evening edition, February 1, 1917: "Mark Shultis,… formerly a merchant at Saug...

Dave Thompson doubts that the last figure in the cancel featured in Saturday's post (May 28) is an E.  I am inclined to think he's r...

W. L.  S.   E. MAY  28  1900

On May 14, I posted an article in Chambers Stamp Journal  written by Charles Metz in 1951 about his efforts to list documentary railroad pri...

Dave Thompson sent in this scan of an RB20 pair with a three digit number stamped in the margin.  Just what is this number?  Was this a cont...

Editors Note : Malcolm A. Goldstein is a contributing blogger for 1898 Revenues. This post is part of a continuing column on the companies t...

In the pursuit of cancels that might qualify as "printed" on the 1898 documentaries, the cancels of Provident Savings Life have co...

I had forgotten that I have a second example of the Merchants National Bank draft that I used in Part 2 of this saga. When I ran across it I...

WILLARD H. JONES & CO. MAY  21  1902 NEW  YORK Willard H Jones memorandum of sale for ?? Looks like somebody bought a stock begining w...