Show Us Your US Revenue SOTN/Bullseye Cancels!

The X.B. on the proprietary is a perfumery provisional of Xavier Bazin who had a private die stamp which was never placed in use. Usually it is in black, a blue example is not common.

Awesome, let's keep this thread going. Here's some more I pulled out while looking for double transfers:

first is a company with a great name - Savage Mining Company. I found this too:
"Part of the Middle Mines of the Comstock Lode, the 800 foot Savage Mine was staked in 1859 by A. O. and L. C. Savage and others between the Hale & Norcross and the Gould and Curry Mines. Operations began in 1860. The North Potosi and the Birdsall Companies' claims were annexed by the Savage as the result of a lawsuit. Mining commenced in 1863; little ore was located during the period 1865-1873."



Thos. J. Carson was a secessionist from VA and was jailed in Baltimore in 1861. Apparently he stuck around after getting released.



The Hoffman House was a hotel in NYC:



I haven't found anything about these yet:

Loce the Hoffman House cancel! Haven't seen that one before.

The Hoffman House was on Broadway between 24th and 25th streets beginning in 1864, right neat Delmonico's the famous restaurant. The Savage Mining cancel is very well known.

I have this one but don't know much about it.

I'd love to hear about it. Hawley the name on my Mom's side of the family.

How about the Morris Run Coal Co? According to the Google, it operated from 1864 to 1874 and mined 3,176,181 tons.

I probably paid too much for this one, but I would have eventually regretted passing it up.

Nice cancel. Examples of R41c are tough to evaluate when buying, IMO, as it's in that stratum where you're unsure how much to pay for stamp vs. cancel.

Nice stamp, nice cancel, but a fairly common type of cancel (banker a bit less than just bank, but still). If it's completely sound it's probably worth about catalog to many collectors.

rustyc, very nice stamp and outstanding cancel!

Top notch!

Cheers

Dave

I've been looking for one of these cancels. Stamp could be a nicer example however.

Very nice! You can see part of overlapping strike at bottom and right side. These were precanceled and then affixed to CDVs after the fact.

Great cancel, southpaw. Always nice to see this thread bumped.

Here are a couple of recent acquisitions. The check is one of 4 consecutively numbered checks dated July 31 and August 1, 1863. (Acknowledgement: I have seen similar sets, probably from the same seller and the same cache, on Dan's web site and thought they were so cool that when this set came along, I couldn't pass it up). The R64a has a cancel that is not entirely legible, but it is a bulls-eye.

Nice Rusty - I really like the RR vignettes you find on checks. May have to pick some up. Charpex is coming up in a couple of weeks. Hopefully we can keep this thread bumped with some more finds.