The United States has the lowest tax rates it has had in generations, and one of the lowest effective tax burdens in the world of developed ...

Dave Thompson scan Roswell P. Flower was a powerful man in New York.  His political career included two stints in the US Congress and a te...

Southern Iron Car Line AUG 7 1899 ATLANTA, GA. Back home after more than 24 hours of travel.  More complex posts to come when I've rec...

C. T. BOWRING & CO., Ltd FEB 23, 1901 NEW YORK David Thompson scan From The Ships List: Founded at St. John's Newfoundland in th...

Current R163 offering on Ebay Coincidence?  Two days ago I browsed the APS sales website for the first time, and found an R163 pair liste...

We are on our way back to Kenya today and will arrive late Saturday night.  Back online in a day or so...

On Monday I wrote about an IRS webpage that referred to the telephone tax that was begun under the 1898 war tax act.  Over email, Bob Patett...

A few days ago, Dave Thompson sent in this scan of stamp cancelled by Henry Belin Jr.: HENRY BELIN, JR. APR 25 1899 Scranton, Pa.   Back...

Everybody's favorite website, IRS.gov, has a series of webpages on Understanding Taxes for students.  Under the subject, the WHYS of TA...

K. O. C. 7-30-98 Bridgeport, Ct. Penciled notes by Henry Tolman Listing can be found in extension section of the Chappell/Joyce list Th...

THE G. H. H. CO. JUL 29 1898 G. H. Hammond was a large meat packing firm that also maintained a fleet of refrigerated railroad cars.   ...

Editor's Note:   Malcolm Goldstein is a contributing blogger for 1898 Revenues.  this post is part of a continuing column  on the compa...

Penalty envelope addressed to G. R. Furman & Company of Russell Hill, Pennsylvania by the Treasury Department's Tax Collection ...

FAIRMOUNT COAL & COKE CO. JUL 26 1899

C. O'H. NOV   5   1898 CANCELLED. This stamp and cancel first appeared on this site in 2009.  At the time, I could not identify the i...

N.  M.  &  CO. JUL 25 1900 CHICAGO   Nelson Morris was one of the great Chicago-based meat packing firms of the 19th and early 20th ce...

W. B. WHEELER Dave Thompson sends in this R173 pair with W. B. Wheeler cancels.  I'm not sure who this W.B. Wheeler is at this time.  ...

Macy Bros. & Herbert JUL 23 1898 New York Charles Alexander Macy and William Herbert were the partners in this New York banking house....

FIRST  NAT'L BANK JUL 23 1898 NELIGH,  NEB. Not long after the use of the stamp, the First National Bank would have the regulators cl...

R194, 2x, from Harmer Schau Sale 90, the APS StampShow Auction Dave Thompson brings to our attention these copies of R194 listed in the cu...

Manchester St. R. R. JUL.  20  . 1899

Joplin National Bank July 18 PAID handstamp over a users handstamp that appears to read: G. PACKER JUL  15 1898 From A History of Jasper...

Our illustrious co-blogger Frank Sente won a host of medals and ribbons this weekend!  His 10-frame 1898 on-document exhibit received a Gold...

Co-bloggers Frank Sente and Bob Hohertz are represented at the Minnesota Stamp Expo this year.  Bob is a judge while Frank is an exhibitor. ...

Last night, while looking through some of Frank Sente's 1898 material, we discovered a copy of R184, the gray $1 commerce stamp, with th...

C. P. Ry. JUL  15  1899

The Antikamnia Company is one of the best known users of printed cancels on the 1898 proprietary series of battleship stamps.  The company p...

As I am in St. Paul this week I wanted to post at at least one stamp with St. Paul as the subject.  Railroad historians and buffs know that...

I spent part of the day with co-blogger Bob Hohertz at his home in Northfield, Minnesota, talking stamps, stamped paper, exhibiting and the ...

I left another series of blogs unfinished during my two month hiatus from the 1898revenues blog. I last had been blogging about on-document ...

This post belongs in the category of documentary printed cancels.  Here is an example of a cancel from the Elgin National Watch Company in a...

For the past two years of publishing this site, I've endeavoured to keep the blog neutral politically.  But every once in a awhile there...