We're looking forward to seeing your new Lincoln covers, stamperdude! You must be getting excited!
Here is another cover with Scott #77, addressed to a prominent American woman of the 19th Century.
Elizabeth DeAngelis Wells Shepard was the daughter of Chester Robbins Wells and directly
descended from Thomas Wells, one of the first governors of Connecticut; and also Mary
Griswold, one of the heroines of the American Revolution. Her grandfather was Captain Elisha
Welles, who was with George Washington at Valley Forge,
She became the wife of
Sidney Shepard of Buffalo, New York, a highly successful industrialist.
Their first child, Elizabeth Wells Shepard, died at the age of ten years; afterward the couple
traveled to Europe. Ralph Hamilton Shepard, their third child, was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main,
Germany, on October 15, 1867. This cover thus arrived from Buffalo about one month after the
birth of their new baby.
The cover was sent from Buffalo, New York to Mrs. Sidney Shepard at the Hotel Angleterre in
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. It has a black Nov 5 Buffalo, NY postmark, a faint red Nov 7
Brem Pkt PAID 12 postmark, and a blue AMERICA UBER BREMEN FRANCO transit mark.
On the reverse is a Frankfurt-am-Main receiving postmark. At the left is written "answered Wed.
Feb 19 Monday March 2nd 1868", likely in Mrs. Shepard's hand.
Posted 01/29/2009 11:03 pm
about the Lincoln stamps. I have several irons in the fire and it's getting hard to keep track of them.
