Spanish American War

Well the dealer who sold these to me back in around 1970, told me that Teddy Roosevelt may have used these himself being all of 13 that I was, I just knew that this piece of history for the bargain price of $1.00 was a smokin deal.That guy probably laughed all the way to the bank after he got done with me. Oh, there is a set on ebay for $4 bucks right now.

I believe Teddy used the others on ebay too, you better start bidding now!

These were of private manufacture and were actually banned for use.

FRom "Phantom Philately" by Melville, 1950 --

The "Army Frank" labels, rather attractively designed & printed after the model of the .30 cent stamp of 1869,[Scott 121] are entirely bogus, the invention of a philatelist, Major Brewster Cox Kenyon, alias Kenyon Brewster Cox, whose philatelic record as disclosed in "Filatelic Facts & Fallacies", (Sept. 1898,Vol: VI., p140) should not be allowed to be forgotten. He was at the time Major & Paymaster United States Volunteers. The "Army Franks" printed in rose, brown & blue, appeared in 1898, & Mr.W. Sellschoopp in the journal mentioned, quotes replies repudiating the stamps from the Army Headquarters & the Post Office.

They are kind of neat though. I'd like to have a set along with the writeup about them.

Well I'd always heard that if anybody could lick 'em, Teddy could!

For a more detailed story on this bogus issue, check out this link (see page 41):

http://www.texasphilatelic.org/reso...ctober07.pdf

WT1, is page 43!

...but it is printed in the publication as page 41! (See bottom RH corner of the article.)

I now have one of these in my collection, and would like to know more about it. I did a quick online search and didn't find much new info.

WT1 your link redirects you to http://www.texasstamps.org/

Is there another link???

Unfortunately, the link I posted sometime ago is no longer valid.

However, here's a related story on the stamps from "The Post Office" (1899):

Interesting... note that fredcdobbs's pic shows cancelled stamps! I saw one on cover on ebay as well... hmmmmm...