Spanish American War Patriotics And Revenue Usages.

If I were an exhibitor, which I'm not, an artistic exhibit on Spanish American War patriotic revenue usages would make for a lovely visual presentation.

The tough thing would be coming up with enough different examples to comprise an exhibit. I've kept an eye out for the last 10 years and have only managed to acquire 3 examples, the last of which just arrived this week:

Patriotic stationery used for a banking transaction.




My other examples:

Illegal usage of R155 as postage on a Spanish American War patriotic cover.





1-Cent battleship on a patriotic cover, not illegally used as postage, as I believe the international rate was 10 cents. Rather, I believe it was used as a patriotic label/cinderella, i.e., "Remember the Maine!".

The rate should have been 5 cents; this might have been a double weight cover.

The revenue usage is from New York City, the Dry Dock Savings Bank was well known here, and still around until 1992.

nice cards

I am confident that you can make a great exhibit with these at a local show. You don't need a lot of material, just interesting material presented well, and that's what you have. I think it would make a great exhibit with some added material about history at the time.
Thanks for the images. Very interesting stuff.