1869 Pictorial Issues On Cover

Great cover with a pair of 2c ponies, western1688!



This cover is part of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF)
correspondence. It was sent locally in Philadelphia from the Grand Lodge to
the Mount Airy Lodge and received a "Carrier" usage cancel.

Boy would I love to sit down over a few Beers and and browse through your collection Tom, some absolutely stunning pieces. Love the Carrier hand stamp !

Not to take the thread in a different direction, but to extend the 1869 pictorial usages, you now need to get yourself illegal uses of the pictorials as revenues on document.

They're more scarce than definitives of the era used as revenues, but not earth shattering in cost, usually in the $150-350 range.

The two I have:

Thanks stallzer!




Absolutely! I'll keep my eye out for them. Thank you for showing us yours, revenuecollector. Even though it was technically illegal to use postage stamps, I wonder if the tax auditors tended to look the other way when they came across an occasional postage stamp used as a revenue stamp.

This 3c cover was sent from Parkersburg in the recently admitted state of West Virginia
to William Morehead of Cumberland, Maryland on June 10th of (most likely) 1870.



It has a huge copy of #114 with a natural straight edge tied by a clear town cancel.



C. S. Despard was a manufacturer of stoves and steam engines. According to an industry report,
the foundry produced an impressive 5940 stoves in 1874, probably mostly by hand labor,
since this was before the advent of modern manufacturing methods.

The addressee, William Morehead, became established in the stove and tinning business in 1860.

He left his business to his sons, which continued to operate well into the twentieth century as William Morehead's Sons.

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Here is a triple-rate cover sent from New York City to Jacob G. Winant, the Sheriff of
Richmond, N.Y. It shows a combo usage of 6c Washington with the 3c Locomotive.

Wow I love them! #115 #114 on cover! I have a 114 but I never tire of seeing 2 pictorials on one cover!

Thanks ILS!

This morning I searched through several boxes of covers on Guy Dillaway's table at the Riverside Stamp Show,
held in the basement of the Spellman Stamp Museum in Weston, Massachusetts.



I found this cover sent in 1869 from S. M. Moore Fire Insurance Co., an agent for Hartford Fire Insurance.




S. M. Moore & Co. paid about five million dollars in claims resultant upon the Great Chicago Fire
which killed hundreds and destroyed four square miles of Chicago in October of 1871.

This one is a bit tattered, but I really liked the picture of the 1870s technology used to dry out clothes.

Really neat ad covers! I keep an eye out for those too! Great stuff t360!

There are some very nice 1869 issue covers posted on this thread. I thought I would add a few from my home town.

*BUMP* What a fantastic thread this is!

I'm intrigued by that last one from chipg! Really interesting and I have never heard tel of anything like that ever before? Thank you for showing it.

I only have one to share here, if I may. It isn't as snazzy as T360's, but the stationary inside is neat. I hope the scan shows, it... there is a woman embossed into the paper!