Oh-My... It's Official

There are no US Official stamps or covers on this forum! How can that be?

Let's fix this right now. Please post your O's. Classics to Mods.

I have been trying to put together a nice looking set of used classic singles for many years,
one-at-a-time, without too much progress.

This is the only Aggie in my collection. (Dept. of Agriculture)

I have a 1920s or 30s Dept of Ag cover, but it
doesn't seem to have a stamp on it. I guess the
stamp either fell off or was removed... ???
However it doesn't appear to ever have had a
stamp.

The envelope has a warning against "private use"
pre-printed on it with all the official stuff.
Did the 'official' pre-printed envelopes back
then just get mailed without franking? Or can
I assume that there was a stamp on there and it
is MIA?

Thanks
Dave

Those are called penalty envelopes. It was likely mailed with just the preprinted penalty notice (which was sufficient) and didn't need to have a stamp on it.

Here are the Department of Interior official stamps that I have.

Well alright T360 if you insist..heres a post office official 1873-1879 !!

Yes that's a classic. Why the post office department used a numeral design rather than portraits
like all the other governmental departments is unclear to me. Each department was assigned a color,
and the post office got black. I think the portraits would have looked good in black.

Here is a blue one for the Department of the Navy.

i like the orange red color !!

I am partial to the blue, so you can guess I like the Navy Stamps.

Very nice official stamps guys. thanks for sharing them with us.

I can't post any for two reasons

1. My computer and scanner/printer are'nt speaking at the moment

2. I don't have any

I hope you get your computer problems worked out, Dianne!

Here are some Department of State officials.

Very nice 7c War Department stamp with a great looking portrait of Edwin M. Stanton!

I have the 24c War Department but not any others from that series.

Nice group T.....

The yellow of the first one is really quite nice.......most have faded severely.

Thanks, Tom. I bought most of them from the APS sales circuit "US Officials."
Looking these over now I realize that I should keep adding to them,
even though it is a slow process to find nice used copies.
Covers seem almost non-existent for these.

Here is a parade of Treasury Departments. I am only missing the 2c and the 30c in this series.