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Help With Hussey's Express Please

 
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Banana Bread
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Posted 06/07/2023   10:55 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Banana Bread to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello

I hope this is a suitable place for my question. I don't collect USA so apologies if this is obvious but I have come across this specimen and I cannot find it in any of my stamp catalogue resources. Should I class this as a Cinderella? Is, or was Husseys a private postal service in the USA perhaps similar to something like Lundy Island here in the UK?

Grateful for your thoughts. Thanks.

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pbmorris
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Posted 06/07/2023   11:25 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add pbmorris to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This was a local delivery service (more like a messenger than a post office) in New York City in the 1800's. Scott 87L75.
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Banana Bread
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Posted 06/07/2023   11:27 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Banana Bread to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you pbmorris, much appreciated.
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Petert4522
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Posted 06/07/2023   11:40 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Petert4522 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
BananaBread, one of the easiest things to do is Google the info on the stamp, like "Hussey's Express". There is all sorts of info coming up when you do that


Peter
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GregAlex
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Posted 06/18/2023   4:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add GregAlex to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
These were widely reprinted years later. I can't say whether your example is genuine or a reproduction. Perhaps another member can give it a better appraisal.
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Rob Roy
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The smaller print seems to be handwritten. Was it usual to use handwritten plates in private mail service?

edited.

I just saw in Rod's thread about the Dominican Republic another stamp with a handwritten part. How widespread was this practice?
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Edited by Rob Roy - 06/19/2023 06:45 am
NSK
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Handwritten or hand-engraved?
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Rob Roy
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I guess hand engraved? You can see that in both stamps the writing is not uniform, like the letters R O S in the first image and the letters R E A N and more in the second image. Also, the baseline of CENTENARIO in the second image isn't straight. That's why I thought it was a cheap forgery, but no one else suggested it.
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Andyrich74
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Cool "stamp" Banana; this would make a pretty nice poster, IMO.
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