Regular readers should note that your editor/publisher is travelling today for 5 weeks of what the State Department calls home leave .  Post...

Dave Thompson sent in this R167 block of four showing the columns to be vertically misaligned.  Black lines have been drawn on the horizon...

Dave Thompson sends in this scan of a recent Ebay purchase in which the seller misidentified the stamp type.  Which type do you think this...

R192a $5 Green Documentary Dave Thompson sent in this scan of an R192, MNH, with no surcharged numeral.  The Scott catalog lists the stamp ...

T.  D.  &  BRO. JUN   28   1899 W-B.,  PA. Help needed in identifying this cancel in full.  Who is T.D.?  And what was he doing in Wilk...

BI - METALLIC JUN  27  1899 B  A  N  K. R175 5 dollar documentary The Bi-Metallic Bank was so named in the late 19th century when bi-meta...

The G. C. M. July 1 1898 NEW YORK This stamp just sold on Ebay today for $36.  A great cancel on the first day of use, July 1, 1898.

Here is a second example contrasting the 1950s compiled list of proprietary printed cancels by Chappell/Joyce with the late 20th century ver...

In yesterday's Abbott Alkaloidal post , I mentioned that the Joyce/Buford data contains listings for handstamps for most companies.  Th...

G.  &  P. JUN 25 1900 Haverhill, Mass.

This past Tuesday, I raised the difficulties posed in trying to update the Chappell/Joyce Printed Cancels list in view of new data presented...

It isn't all that unusual to see proprietary stamps used to pay the 1898 check tax, and it is likely that if someone did it on one check...

Its been quite awhile since this site has considered proprietary printed cancels.  For a period, going back over one year ago,  I began to s...

F. C. & P. R. R. Co. JUN 20 1899  

The search for 1898 documentary printed cancels hasn’t led to many collectors volunteering scans of their stamps. I suspect there just aren’...

The sample booklet referred to in the previous two posts just sold for $1600. 

Concerning the sample book at auction in the Siegel Rarities of the World Sale, I asked Scott Trepel if he could scan a page or two for me i...

1c and 2c Orange RNX stamped paper sample book. 194 pages of different colors and paper types, each with a 1c and 2c impression In tomorrow...

L. S. & M. S. R'Y JUN  15  1900

P. A. H. JUN  14  1901 According to Henry Tolman, PA Hewitt was the Auditor of the Dayton & Union Railroad at the time of this cancel....

CENTRAL EQUIPMENT CO. JUN 13 1899 From The Official Railway Equipment Register of 1901: There is not much out there on the Central Equ...

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