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Wonderful covers. Keep em coming, great eye candy.

An example of an advertizing cover

Wow! Great pieces of postal history. You can do an awful lot of historical research on some of the covers shown, but to simplify things, just looking at the last cover posted to Holmes Conrad, Esq., his biography and portrait are shown at the link below.

In fact, something that might be of particular interest to stamp collectors is this quote contained in his biography:




http://www.justice.gov/osg/aboutosg...age.php?id=8

It is interesting to note that the D.M. Osborne & Co. advertising cover, addressed to James Taylor is different yet similar to this one, to and from the same parties, as currently being auctioned on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1800s-D-M-O...110764018532

I was thinking. Wow! can you imagine mailing a letter for a penny, then even two cents. How cool and how long that was ago. Then I thought Gee'sh I can remember my Mom mailing letters with the 3 cent Statue of Liberty Scott # 1056 as regular postage. Tells you how old I am. These are so neat Chic thanks a million for sharing them with us. You have a National treasure here.

Wow the Osborn thing is amazing, Great attention Wt! I guess that companies, lawyers, reverends and Monsignors kept their mail for years and years so they were available to collectors in mass. I remember my grandfather combing through hundreds of boxes of letters at stamp bourses around Ohio where he would also show his covers. He also had an extensive US single collection mostly all unused after 1890.

Oh I meant to add that I do not have any sales going on anywhere so it is total serendipity that the other Osborn cover is on ebay.

Hey Tinman Imagine this letter from Warrington Florida [now a suburb of Pensacola]
going to Sandy Point Maine for 3 cents in 1852

Chic remember me telling you how quick you would get 25 posts. Congratulations your already at 26

Here's one without a stamp but marked 10 cents to go from glastenbury Ct to Yubah [sic] County California

Check out this fancy cancel used in St Clairsville Ohio in 1827

That is my post office! 32507....
Let me know if that ever goes up for sale.
I'd be interested for that reason alone. lol

Even though the PO is in Warrington, today the cancel
will say "Pensacola"... Now I feel the need to find out
when they stopped canceling as "Warrington" and went to
just "Pensacola".


Edit: I looked it up.
Looks like it was stand alone "Warrington" from 1850 until 1942, then it went to "Warrington Branch PO" of a "Pensacola" cancel.
I don't even think they say "Warrington Branch PO" anymore.
Now it's just 32507, Pensacola.

WOW! That PO has been in continuous operation since US stamps were only 3 years into use!

Chic probably when that letter went from Fla to Maine for 3cents. Postage Amt.was calculated by the distance the letter had to travel.

More on the named individual, Edward Partridge, Esq., on that Warrington, Florida to Sandy Point, Maine cover:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/f...Rid=85247759

This 1869 cover went from San Fransisco to Summit County Ohio
I am not really sure of what overland entailed at that time exactly, too late for Pony Express, must be a combination of railroad and stage.