Number of Imaged Items on Entire Site: 4638

Last updated November 20, 2024 My Revenue Stamp Collection Newest Additions

These are the newest additions to my collection.

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Scott # RU4a. Added November 20, 2024

RU4a

5-cent Andrew Dougherty proprietary playing card stamp used improperly as a documentary on an 1869 one-day promissory note, tied by manuscript cancel in the same hand that wrote the note. The manuscript cancel is 'TK AP 6 1869', the unusual month abbreviation matching that used at upper right. 5 cents was the correct tax rate for this transaction. Very rare use.


Scott # R164. Added November 20, 2024

R164

Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. This is an 1899 check drawn on the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co., with a printed slip attached by the revenue stamp (the slip itself has no adhesive), which reads 'TWO CENTS added to this check for Revenue Stamp required by United States law.' You can see the pencil notation for 'Stamp 02' above the check amount.


Scott # R17c. Added November 6, 2024

R17c

Webster & Popkins. 3-cent Playing Cards with a tool gouge or plate crack at top center, plate position #14, on a CDV.


Scott # R155. Added November 6, 2024

R155

USPS. Philatelic use of provisional overprint on an advertising cover from Schwind & Garrabrant, Bicycle Building and Repairing, along with matching letterhead with a whimsical birthday message referencing the revenue stamp.


Scott # R155. Added November 6, 2024

R155

USPS. Improper use of a provisional overprint on a machine-canceled cover from July 1898.


Scott # R13c. Added November 5, 2024

R13c

All-over double transfer. Very rare. Doubling throughout design, from scrollwork to all text, to portrait. Were it not for the fact that the doubling is in different directions, this could be mistaken for a double impression.


Scott # 267. Added November 5, 2024

267

The Seager & Coryell Gold and SIlver Mining Co. of Idaho. Vertical pair, used improperly as revenues, along with a myriad of hyphen-hole perforated battleship documentaries, paying tax on a stock transfer, on the reverse of a stock certificate issued to and signed by one of the company owneers. Additionally, the 2-cent battleship documentary next to the postage stamps is also an improper/illegal use, as it is a reused revenue stamp, dated a full 2 years befoe the date this stock certificate was ever issued.


Scott # RB27. Added November 2, 2024

RB27

Peoples National Bank. 2-cent proprietary battleship revenue used improperly on a July 1898 check. 2009 APEX certificate.


Scott # R164. Added November 2, 2024

R164

USPS. 2-cent battleship documentary used improperly as postage on a Nov. 1898 dentist's commercial mail from Portland to Norway, Maine.


Scott # R154. Added November 2, 2024

R154

USPS. Block of 4 of 1-cent provisional overprints used improperly as postage on an 1898 cover.


Scott # R229. Added November 1, 2024

R229

Lincoln Bank and Trust Co. Two examples of the R229 double impression on a 1923 promissory note. These are the first examples of any of the 20th century double impressions that I've seen still on document.


Scott # 267. Added November 1, 2024

267

John W. Hastings. 2c Washington bureau used improperly as a revenue stamp on an 1899 store check from John W. Hastings drawn on the First National Bank, Wellsboro, PA.


Scott # R733. Added October 27, 2024

R733

USPS. Improperly used on cover as postage on a 1962 commercial cover.


Scott # R81a. Added October 27, 2024

R81a

Early matching usage (EMU) of a $2 Conveyance imperf, on a February 1863 indenture.


Scott # 73. Added October 27, 2024

73

2-cent Black Jack used improperly as a revenue stamp on an 1867 receipt. The writer must have been a physician: holy illegible handwriting, Batman!


Scott # 73. Added October 27, 2024

73

Nassau Bank of Brooklyn. 2-cent Black Jack used improperly as a revenue on an 1864 bank check.


Scott # R61a. Added October 27, 2024

R61a

One-of-a-kind jumbo right sheet margin example showing portions of the next stamp at top and left.


Scott # R6e. Added October 27, 2024

R6e

Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Co. Slightly munged stamp (and document), a bill of lading confirming receipt of one case of hoop skirts from Eagleton Manufacturing Co. Virtually all known documents with R6e originate from the Eagleton Manufacturing Co.


Scott # R44c. Added October 24, 2024

R44c

State Fire Insurance Co. Nothing special about the document or the stamp, but that handwriting/printing style is very unusual.


Scott # RB23. Added October 24, 2024

RB23

The Eugene Loan & Savings Bank. Three proprietary battleship revenue stamps (Scott # RB20, RB21, and RB23) used improperly as documentaries, along with Scott #R154, 1-cent Franklin provisional overprint, paying the 2 cents tax on an August 1898 check from Eugene, Oregon. A very coloful combination of stamps, with the 3 proprietary battleship revenues adding up to the missing 1 cent in total.


Scott # R13c. Added October 23, 2024

R13c

Impossibly scarce document. Vertical strip of three 2-cent Proprietary (R13c) improperly paying 6 cents tax (the correct rate) on a San Francisco 1864 promissory note. The strip features two of the three plate positions associated with the T13a major double transfer: the middle stamp is plate position 133 showing doubling of elements only at the bottom of the stamp, and the bottom stamp is plate position 147, the full T13a showing doubling at top and bottom. Ex-Bleckwenn.

To my knowledge there are no known intact multiples of all 3 plate positions. I also have an example of the full T13a along with the plate position below it (position 161) showing doubling of just the top elements, which you can see here.


Scott # R13c. Added October 20, 2024

R13c

J. C. Smith. Just a stunningly beautiful oversized packaging label with a horse vignette, with a 2-cent Proprietary revenue affixed, canceled with initials matching the business name.


Scott # R201. Added October 20, 2024

R201

Five Civilized Tribes. Very unusual document, a photostat of a 1902 homestead deed from the Muskogee (Creek) Nation, Indian Territory, filed with the department of Interior on August 22, 1916, with a handstamp cancel from the 'Five Civilized Tribes'.


Scott # R196. Added October 20, 2024

R196

West Penn Railways Co. Very scarce stamped baggage ticket, taxed as an agreement. This tax was only in effect from December 1, 1914 through the end of 1915. Like other passes and tickets (unlike financial or legal documents) virtually none were saved.


Scott # R161. Added October 19, 2024

R161

Edward C. Roth & Co. July 1898 change-of-beneficiary addendum to an insurance policy, with 21.5 cents paid in tax. The half-cent battleship printed in orange was only used for a very short period of time at the beginning of the Spanish American War tax period, replaced by the same denomination printed in gray (Scott #R162). There are fewer than 10 reported examples still on document. This document was typed on a delicate tissue-like parchment; it's amazing it survived at all.


Scott # RJ9. Added October 18, 2024

RJ9

United States Tobacco Co. Horizontal pair of RJ9, along with two pairs of RJ7, a vertical pair of RJ3, and a block 6, strip of 3, and single of RJ2, paying $14.30 tax on a 1935 memorandum of sale of 715 pounds of tobacco. Very scarce on document.


Scott # RJ9. Added October 18, 2024

RJ9

Planters Looseleaf Floor. Single RJ9 along with RJ4, RJ3, and a horizontal strip of RJ1, paying $6.19 tax on a 1935 memorandum of sale for 610 pounds of tobacco. Very scarce on document.


Scott # RJ10. Added October 18, 2024

RJ10

Martin's Warehouse. Vertical pair, along with an additional single RJ9, RJ8, RJ5, a horizontal pair of RJ3, and a single RJ1, paying $27.36 on a 1934 memorandum for the sale of 676 pounds of tobacco. Very scarce on document.


Scott # R34b. Added October 17, 2024

R34b

Clerk's Office. Very scarce, only the second example of the 10-cent Contract part perforate reported still on document.


Scott # R15c. Added October 13, 2024

R15c

B. F. Beckwith. Large stencil cancel that doubles as a backstamp.


Scott # R18c. Added October 13, 2024

R18c

J. Hughes. Large format stencil backstamp. Presumably this was also used as a cancel at some point. If you have seen such an example, please let me know.


Scott # R13c. Added October 13, 2024

R13c

Jer. B. Fies. Extremely unusual in that the 'D. N. Wentzel' stencil backstamp doesn't match the information in the printed backstamp. Did one photographer buy out another? Was the stencil applied by the purchased or a collector after the fact? We may never know.


Scott # R15c. Added October 13, 2024

R15c

P. B. Killam. Large format stencil backstamp. This may also have been used as a cancel. If anyone has seen such an example, please contact me.


Scott # R19c. Added October 13, 2024

R19c

Gilbert Brothers. One of the most beautiful stencil backstamps I have ever seen, in the form of a tree leaf. This stencil may also have been used as a cancel. If you have seen an example, please contact me.


Scott # R13c. Added October 13, 2024

R13c

S. H. Moulton. Lovely stencil backstamp. This may also have been used as a stamp cancel; if anyone has seen an example of same, please contact me.


Scott # R6c. Added October 13, 2024

R6c

Torr & Jeffries. Stencil precancel.


Scott # R15c. Added October 13, 2024

R15c

J. F. French. Large format stencil cancel also serves as an identifying backstamp.


Scott # R168p. Added October 13, 2024

R168p

A. J. Morse. Broker's call-buying privilege card.


Scott # R11c. Added October 9, 2024

R11c

Thomas R. Rutherford. Blocks of 4 are not typically found on small-size CDVs. Also unusual in that there is a mismatch between the company name on the cancel and the photographer backstamp just barely peeking out over the stamps. Possibly bought out another photographer's business?


Scott # R6c. Added October 9, 2024

R6c

Mrs. D. Sears. Another bored clerk decided to trace a charicature of George Washington. Female photographers during this period are quite scarce.


Scott # R6c. Added October 9, 2024

R6c

G. K. Proctor. Wonderful example of a handstamp cancel used as both a CDV backstamp and as a precancel.


Scott # R11c. Added October 9, 2024

R11c

N. G. Johnson. Beautiful strike in red of unusual photographer cancel with the city name 'ERIE' curved.


Scott # R18c. Added October 9, 2024

R18c

Shorey's Gallery. A bored clerk decided to draw a moustache and beard on George...


Scott # R27c. Added October 9, 2024

R27c

Horizontal block of 10, with the 4th stamp in the top row being the double transfer at top, plate position 34.


Scott # R28c. Added October 9, 2024

R28c

Erie Oil Company. Unusual combination of stamps paying the 25 cent tax on this oil company stock certificate: a 20-cent Foreign Exchange, the scarcer of the two 20-cent denominations, not frequently seen on document, and a 5-cent Playing Cards, which was not supposed to be used for documentary purposes, so this constitutes an improper usage.


Scott # R155. Added October 9, 2024

R155

Swiss Post. Not a postal use of a revenue stamp, but rather a lovely historical item. Provisional overprint sent from San Francisco to Basel, Switzerland, in September 1898, with notation that reads 'Dear Sir The stamp on the margin marked I.R. is a postage stamp turned into an Internal Revenue Stamp of the War issue, provisionally to supply the demand before the regular War issue could be got out by the Government.'


Scott # R3c. Added October 7, 2024

R3c

Mark C. Terry. Very scarce photographer stencil.


Scott # R140. Added October 6, 2024

R140

Double transfer in top stars, plate position #92. Of the 4 positions that show doubling in the top stars, this is one of the two most dramatic. Due to the muddiness of the orange ink, the double transfers are considerably tougher to acquire on Scott #R140 vs. the second issue #R113.


Scott # R27c. Added October 6, 2024

R27c

Scratched plate at left. Seeking a confirming example to establish it as a plate variety vs. simply a printing anomaly.


Scott # R3c. Added October 6, 2024

R3c

Catlin's Drug Store.


Scott # R59a. Added October 6, 2024

R59a

C. Marti & Co. Beautiful European style oval cancel.


Scott # R78c. Added October 6, 2024

R78c

Absolutely huge margins and well centered. R78c—R80c are notoriously difficult to find well centered, as they were printed very close together.


Scott # R3b. Added October 6, 2024

R3b

Hall & Ruckel. Repaired tear at lower right, otherwise a gorgeous stamp and cancel!


Scott # RB31p. Added October 5, 2024

RB31p

Block of 4 with full gum never hinged. Extremely scarce. Catalog value shown is for hinged; no pricing is given for never hinged.


Scott # R105. Added October 5, 2024

R105

Schuyler Skaats & Bros. Block of 4, tied with 3 other known blocks of 4 as the 2nd largest reported multiple per the Curtis census. Ex-Joyce.


Scott # R249. Added October 5, 2024

R249

Major double transfer.


Scott # RC20. Added October 5, 2024

RC20

Major double transfer. Faint cut cancel.


Scott # RC20. Added October 5, 2024

RC20

Major double transfer, cut cancel.


Scott # R80c. Added October 5, 2024

R80c

Edward F. Davison. Lovely European-style oval cancel.


Scott # R181. Added October 1, 2024

R181

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Stock certificate #4 from B & O Railroad Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B & O Railroad of Monopoly fame), for 200,000 shares of preferred stock ($20 million at the time, equivalent to $750 million in 2024), resulting from the railroad's bankruptcy/reorganization, issued to the voting trustees of the railroad. 9 copies of Scott #R181 (plus 1 additional stamp, serial #600 which has fallen off) paid the $10,000 tax. This is only the third known document with the $1000 Madison affixed. The other two documents only have 1 stamp each, and both are cut canceled. All 9 examples on this document are uncut. A one-of-a-kind document! Part of an incredible historical transaction find, which I have chronicled in full on this page.


Scott # R178. Added October 1, 2024

R178

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Stock certificate #1 from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B & O Railroad of Monopoly fame), for 400,000 shares of preferred stock ($40 million at the time, equivalent to $1.5 BILLION in 2024), resulting from the railroad's bankruptcy/reorganization, issued to the voting trustees of the railroad. 400 copies of Scott #R178 on the back and attached sheets paid the $20,000 tax (2 stamps have fallen by the wayside over time; only 398 remain). Part of an incredible historical transaction find, which I have chronicled in full on this page.


Scott # R13c. Added September 24, 2024

R13c

Dr. Henry Baxter.


Scott # R13c. Added September 24, 2024

R13c

Cohen, Cook, & Co. Morrissey type 2a: Last '6' created by punching out piece of upper right part of top loop of an '8'.


Scott # R22b. Added September 24, 2024

R22b

E. H. Truex.


Scott # R22c. Added September 24, 2024

R22c

Dr. Bennett.


Scott # 113. Added September 22, 2024

113

Wm. Blanchard. 1869 Receipt statement with 2-cent post horse and rider used improperly as a revenue stamp, with a socked-on-the-nose handstamp cancel.


Scott # R17c. Added July 28, 2024

R17c

J. Gurney & Son.


Scott # R27a. Added July 28, 2024

R27a

Privately rouletted, on piece. Very scarce. This is listed in Scott, but unpriced.


Scott # R25c. Added July 26, 2024

R25c

John H. Smith, Auditor. Interesting and unusual $50 war bond issued by the treasurer of Ripley County, Indiana with 5-cent Express tied by embossed cancel. Issued less than a month before the end of the Civil War.


Scott # R164. Added July 24, 2024

R164

Pleasant Valley Wine Co. 2-cent battleship with multiline handstamp cancel on 1899 draft, with slogan 'Producers of Great Western Champagne' at top, and engraving of a wine bottle on the reverse, very unusual.


Scott # 73. Added July 24, 2024

73

Ledyard & Fralick, Bankers. 2-cent Andrew Jackson 'Black Jack' used improperly as revenue on 1864 check.


Scott # 178. Added July 24, 2024

178

Improper use of 2c vermilion Andrew Jackson paying 2 cents tax on an 1879 check, subsequently caught, and an R152b affixed properly paying the tax, the latter tied via embossed cancel.


Scott # R55b. Added July 24, 2024

R55b

Extremely late legitimate use of a part perf on an 1867 Oregon quit claim deed. The overwhelming majority of genuine 1st issue imperfs and part perfs used after 1864 come from the west coast: California, Washington, and Oregon.


Scott # R152a. Added July 24, 2024

R152a

Hagerstown Bank. Ornately engraved draft on fragile onionskin paper.


Scott # R49a. Added July 24, 2024

R49a

Top margin single used on an 1863 power of attorney for shares in the Lancaster and Ephrata Turnpike.


Scott # RNG1. Added July 24, 2024

RNG1

Rochester Bank, Successors to First National Bank. Draft with bold vignette, printed on pink paper.


Scott # RNB20. Added July 24, 2024

RNB20

Miller & Elder. Previously unreported receipt. Wholesale booksellers & stationers. Interesting partial green overprint at lower left, as well as a dateline beneath the receipt. It appears this may have been part of a larger document.


Scott # R185. Added July 24, 2024

R185

J. S. Bearns & Co. Top margin pair with part of an arrow marking, nice position piece, with cut and handstamped cancels, on 1901 broker's memo.


Scott # R185. Added July 24, 2024

R185

Ellingwood & Cunningham. Uncut example on broker's memo. The open and especially closed numeral overprints are not seen as frequently on document as one would expect.


Scott # HI-R11. Added July 7, 2024

HI-R11

Office of the Collector of Customs. Small-format document, the equivalent of a modern day exit visa.


Scott # HI-R3. Added July 7, 2024

HI-R3

Registrar's Office. Hawaii revenue stamp (Scott #R3) used on 1895 deed for a parcel of land.


Scott # R46c. Added July 7, 2024

R46c

Odd Fellows Hall Association of Sacramento. 1866 Stock certificate.


Scott # 65. Added July 7, 2024

65

3-cent Washington used improperly as a revenue stamp on an 1866 marriage certificate from Sycamore, IL. Doubly illegal, as the tax was also underpaid by 2 cents, as the rate was 5 cents. There is an attached statement from the bride's parents granting permission for the marriage.


Scott # 73. Added July 4, 2024

73

Mrs. E.C. Jacobs. 2-cent 'Black Jack' postage stamp used improperly as a revenue stamp on CDV. Female photographers from this era are quite scarce.


Scott # 73. Added June 2, 2024

73

Horning & Fritz's Photographic Rooms. 2-cent 'Black Jack' postage stamp used improperly as a revenue stamp on CDV.


Scott # R14c. Added June 2, 2024

R14c

Cased daguerreotype (?) with horizontal strip of 3 of R14c affixed, photographer unknown. R14c has very few multiples known, with the Curtis census showing only 4 multiples larger than this single strip of 3, and 3 pairs. The catalogue value shown is for a pair and a single.


Scott # R22c. Added June 2, 2024

R22c

G. William Young. Beautiful 3-inch x 4-inch framed tintype with 25 cents tax paid via six 4-cent Proprietary stamps and one 1-cent Express stamp. This is the largest number of 4-cent stamps I've seen on a photo to date.


Scott # R15f. Added June 2, 2024

R15f

Two identically framed photos with gilt paint, each with bisected 2c USIR stamps, being two halves of the same stamp. Matched pairs of bisects are extremely scarce.


Scott # R71c. Added January 16, 2024

R71c

Horizontal pair with very crisp impression, the left stamp exhibiting a horizontal plate scratch running through Washington's hair, proceding part of the way into the right stamp.


Scott # R15c. Added January 16, 2024

R15c

McNeely & Co. Lovely 1866 two-color check with background vignette of various animals. McNeely & Co. was a tannery and manufacturer of various animal skins, parchment, vellum, etc.


Scott # R24c. Added January 16, 2024

R24c

Chenango County Clerk's Office. 1868 certificate of citizenship, where someone drew the name 'John T. Brownson' in multiple colored inks, simulating a 3D typography effect... a lot of effort for a legal document. Also note the dual-date formatting, indicating not only the calendar year, but also 'the year of our Independence the ninety second' since 1776.


Scott # RB26p. Added January 3, 2024

RB26p

Mint never hinged full gum block of four. Catalogue value shown is for a hinged block of four. Scott does not price NH revenues.


Scott # R44c. Added January 3, 2024

R44c

New England Screw Steamship Co. Lovely 1866 stock certificate with a steamship vignette and a bold company seal also depicting a steamship.


Scott # R155. Added January 1, 2024

R155

German Exchange Bank. Unusual document that cannot actually exist. Check dated June 6, 1898, with stamp canceled same date. The only problem is that the tax didn't go into effect until July 1, so there would have been no reason to tax this check, nor would there have been revenue stamps available on June 6. The most likely story is that the check writer forgot that the month had changed and wrote June instead of July. The check was actually written on July 6, 1898, which places it within the tax period and aligns with the processing handstamp on the reverse. Still, a fun and interesting item.


Scott # R32e. Added January 1, 2024

R32e

Palmer & Johnson. A virtually impossible (certainly improbable) and fantastic combination of document attributes: dual-nation stamped document + revenue bisect. Top half of unidentified bisected 10c revenue stamp tied across the cut by Apr. 12, 1870 datestamp on foreign bill of exchange, drawn in Liverpool, Nova Scotia for $25.00 in gold and payable in Boston Mass., 2c Nova Scotia Bill Stamp paying the proper Canadian tax, entered the United States via the banking house of Palmer & Johnson in Bangor Me. Five cents was the proper tax for this document. Ex-Bleckwenn.


Scott # R15c. Added January 1, 2024

R15c

C. F. Adae. Oversized document of foreign exchange printed entirely in French, dated March 1869, with U.S. revenue stamp tied via handstamp cancel on obverse, and French revenue stamp on reverse. Scarce dual-country stamped document.


Scott # R4a. Added January 1, 2024

R4a

Lovely vertical pair. Multiples are relatively scarce. Ex-Bleckwenn.


Scott # R73c. Added December 26, 2023

R73c

Horizontal strip of four, a very scarce multiple. Catalogue value shown is for two pairs.


Scott # R22c. Added November 12, 2023

R22c

Cavaroc & Co. Liquor dealers. Double transfer prominent at top and lower right.


Scott # R3c. Added October 31, 2023

R3c

C. O. Benton. Counterfeit Benton's Pine Tree Tar Troches pictoral cancel, first discovered and written about in 1997. In addition to the relatively coarse impression, there are several design differences between this and the real cancel, most notably (1) the word TREE at right runs right into the 68, whereas on the real cancel there is a large amount of space between the two design elements, and (2) the right stem of the second N in BENTON's is much longer than on the real cancel. Even as a fake cancel, it is quite scarce, with less than 10 examples known.


Scott # 562. Added October 29, 2023

562

20th century illegal/improper usages are much less common than their 19th century counterparts. This is an improper use of a 10-cent James Monroe issue of 1923 on a voting proxy/power of attorney document.


Scott # R21c. Added October 29, 2023

R21c

Thomas Groom & Co. Very rare negative eagle handstamp cancel, one of only 4 known examples across all stamp denominations, all of which are faulty. Stamp has been repaired and reperfed. Thomas Groom & Co. was a stationer and importer of De La Rue playing cards.


Scott # R13d. Added October 29, 2023

R13d

Wright & Siddall. Very scarce cancel for 'Dr. Fitler's Carminative for Infants and Adults. Price 35 Cts.' on a fairly scarce 1st issue silk paper.


Scott # R3d. Added October 29, 2023

R3d

Harvey Scovil. 7-line printed cancel reading 'Scovil's Worm Killer. Christie's Ague Balm. Dr. Bicknell's Bitters. 1870' on 1st issue silk paper.


Scott # RB11b. Added October 29, 2023

RB11b

World's Central Laboratory. Extremely rare cancel. Manufacturer of Father Arent's Rheumatic Plaster.


Scott # R22b. Added October 29, 2023

R22b

J.F. Henry & Co. Vertical pair, both with handstamp cancels.


Scott # RB14b. Added October 29, 2023

RB14b

Hamlin's Wizard Oil Company. Interesting and scarce 4-line cancel. The grayness of the ink as well as the edges initially caused me to believe it a counterfeit cancel, but per Mike Morrissey, it matches an example in his collection, and he believes it legitimate.


Scott # RB2a. Added October 29, 2023

RB2a

Walker & Taylor. 8-line typeset cancel that reads 'SLOAN'S Condition Powder, Horse Ointment, Family Ointment, Instant Relief. WALKER & TAYLOR.' Seen far more frequently on the 1-cent denomination than on the 2-cent.


Scott # R11c. Added October 29, 2023

R11c

Beautiful negative CB monogram handstamp with exterior double dotted circle. The previous owner attributed the cancel to Charles Bartlet, but I believe that to be inaccurate. Bruce Baryla included an example of this cancel in his CD-ROM reference on Civil War photographer cancels, as he had an example on an unmarked CDV, so it is likely a photographer, but we just don't know whom.


Scott # R6c. Added October 29, 2023

R6c

J. B. Wilder & Co. Pictoral cancel very similar to the famous Poland's Magic Powders cancel.


Scott # R3c. Added October 29, 2023

R3c

N. J. Beers' Drug Store. Not 100% sure of the cancel attribution, as the only reference I could find containing some of the phrases in the cancel was an 1881 issue of the Yale Banner.


Scott # R3c. Added October 29, 2023

R3c

Pettit & Barker. Multiline handstamp on 1-cent Proprietary affixed to piece of original packaging for 'Dr. J. Pettit's American Eye Salve' with wonderful logo and branding.


Scott # R22c. Added October 28, 2023

R22c

W. H. Jessup & Co.


Scott # R22c. Added October 28, 2023

R22c

G B & C ???. Just a gorgeous stamp and cancel with wonderful color contrast. Company unattributed. Double transfer at lower right.


Scott # R5c. Added October 28, 2023

R5c

Charles E. Abbott, M.D. Gorgeous full strike on piece.


Scott # R3c. Added October 28, 2023

R3c

Y C ???. Horizontal pair with unusual unattributed 'YC' circular handstamps with what appear to be Asian characters.


Scott # R3d. Added October 28, 2023

R3d

Cook ???. Wonderful stylized 'Cook" pictoral cancel on silk paper. Blue threads visible on both front and back of stamp.


Scott # RB14b. Added October 28, 2023

RB14b

H. J & L. JG&L stencil without the month and day slug in the center.


Scott # RB4a. Added October 27, 2023

RB4a

L. Gross & Co. Dr. Henley's Wild Grape Root IXL Bitters was first introduced to the public in 1868 under the flag of L. Gross & Company at 518 Front Street in San Francisco.


Scott # RB14a. Added October 26, 2023

RB14a

What appears to be a meticulous little manusacript cancel is actually a printed or handstamped cancel, as I have now seen identical versions in different ink colors, all with the exact same strokes, which would not be the case on a true handwrtten cancel. Unsure of exact attribution... P?rley Jeff**s.

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