1907 Jamestown Exposition

The Jamestown Exposition was a World's Fair held from April 26 to
December 1, 1907, in Norfolk, Virginia, to commemorate the 300th
anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English
settlement in North America.

Three commemorative postage stamps were issued. The 1-cent
features a portrait of Capt. John Smith, the 2-cent stamp depicts
the landing of settlers at Jamestown in 1607, and the 5-cent stamp
contains a portrait of Pocahontas.

Do you have any of these early commemorative stamps on cover?
Or other covers related to the Jamestown Exposition?
Please post them here!



Here are the 1c and 2c values used on a cover sent on September 7th,
1907 from the Hollenden Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio to Malmo, Sweden.



The vignette captures the turn of the century street scene in Cleveland;



and the Malmo backstamp shows the letter arrived on September 18th.

Oh, I am so jealous. What a great piece.

asshamilton - Thanks!

Here is a 1909 cover with a rather late usage of the 5c Jamestown on a registered cover
sent from NYC to Kalamazoo, Michigan.





Most would consider this a philatelic usage, since the sender was the APS Hall of Fame stamp dealer
Percy Gray Doane.

Very nice, t360! My only Jamestown Exposition issue on cover/card is a 2 cent on this postcard sent from Atlantic City, New Jersey on August 3, 1907.

Steve

Amazing! Do you know that's the first Pocahontas stamp I ever seen on cover!

Great covers gentlemen! I am jealous! Thanks for sharing...

Yet another 1-cent Jamestown stamp used on a period postcard from 1907:



I just happened to notice that while the stamp used on this postcard is severely off-center, it makes for a clean left line image on the stamp. I assume this was the edge of the pane and was normally not shown on the stamp had it been centered correctly:

tomiseksj - Great postcard showing a stormy day (not the usual perfect sunny day) at the beach! Reminds me of the movie "The Perfect Storm."

PoStat4evR - Thanks!

I_Love_Stamps - Thank you! The 5c on cover is tough to find!

However this #330 is on a stamp dealer's cover. The curmudgeon philatelist will say "Bah Humbug!" and demand to see a bona fide commercial usage of the 5c Pocahontas on a boring cover without a trace of philatelic intent! The ultimate purist will want a solo usage paying exactly a proper rate in effect during the time that the stamp was on sale at the post office.

wt1 - your stamp was likely adjacent to a guide line like the right side stamps in this arrow block:



(I don't own this nice block)

Center line -- of course! Thanks for clearing that up for me.

You know, it's not until you blow up a stamp on a scanner that you appreciate the detail in the design. (A magnifying glass just doesn't do it for me.) In the case of the 1-cent example shown above, I never noticed until now how close the comma is in the top line between "Series" and "1907". Looks as though it was a last minute afterthought. Same thing with the curved lettering "Jamestown, 1607". It wasn't until I blew up the image that I noticed how the "1 cent" denomination enclosure follows right into the "0" of "1607". Even with that criticism, I sure do miss stamps like this, as they just don't make such finely engraved images on stamps like that anymore!

wt1


I couldn't agree more wt1!

This is the only other Scott #330 on cover in my collection.



It was sent sent by Ferdinand Guttman & Co. in NYC to Holland on September 29th, 1908.



The solo 5c Jamestown stamp paid the prevailing 5c rate to Europe.



I think this is a New York routing mark on the reverse,



and it received a backstamp when it arrived in Holland on October 8th.

Wow ... move the centering of that 330 a little to the right, and it would be the largest margin 330 I have ever seen! Although, iirc, Russ has a mint copy that has unbelievable margins as well.

Geo. Haynes Stamp Co. Dec 15, 1908

Russ - nice card!

The Boody House was a hotel in Toledo. This is how it looked near the turn of the century.



Interesting how no one in downtown Toledo seemed concerned about their bicycles being stolen.