Is This Scott #1 Stamped Envelope?

Color of the envelope is buff?

It looks a lot more like Type U5, with its wider labels with curved ends. I would say it's #U10, which is also on buff paper.

Thanks, Doug2222. I will check your suggestions in the Scott US specialized catalog

where is the picture?

As to the addressee on the cover shown, this is probably the person:



Nice South Hadley, Massachusetts postmark, too, back in the day when they used "Ms." to abbreviate Massachusetts rather than the more modern abbreviation of "Mass."

Mary didn't marry until she was 24 -- practically an old maid by the standards of that era.

I can't read the year date on the cancel (if there is one), but that would seem to be a very late usage, surely 25 years after issue?

it seems that only a day/month is on this postmark... not the year...

on the other side of the envelope someone wrote in pencil: "no. 16"... but I don't know is it some remark connected with the stamped envelope/additional stamp, or with the correspondence which once also used to be there.


edit: btw. isn't 6 cents was a pretty large rate for the 19th century, and for the receiver in the same state - Massachusetts?

In 1855, the domestic letter rate was 3c per 1/2 ounce not over 3,000 miles and 10c per 1/2 ounce over 3,000 miles.

On July 1, 1863, the rate was changed to 3c per 1/2 ounce to all parts of the U.S. and stayed at that rate until October 1, 1883, when the rate per 1/2 ounce was reduced to 2c.

Do you have a rear scan. Some of the first stamped envelopes had the Nesbitt seal on the point of the back flap and was in use for a very short time before being discontinued.

I don't see any seal on the back side... but I can scan it anyway, if you want to see it... but nothing special, just some mold XD