Well I Finally Done It Now! Jersey Shore Cover

Absolutely I'm interested! I'm still in disbelief..I've wanted one of those cancels on cover for as long as I've known about it! But a corner-card addressed to an interesting character is just far out!

Actually I had no idea wt1 that's awesome. I haven't researched it at all thus far. I just posted it after I had the winning bid! lol I got excited..

The Halfpenny Woolen mill was developed by Mark Halfpenny, originally a settler in Washingtonville and Muncy. Halfpenny and his sons had a woolen mill in Millheim before moving to Laurel Park in 1841. Son Mark built the Winfield Woolen Factory on Laurel Run in 1851 (having purchased Leonard Smith's sawmill operation), where he also ran a sumac mill and a store. The mills were destroyed by fire in 1866 and Halfpenny relocated to Lewisburg Pa.



Cancellation in blue ink, Jersey Shore, Pa. 5 point star with octagon cutout and center dot. (Skinner-Eno ST-D-1)

Wow! Thank you both very much! And to quig THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH! I don't care if this cover is completely valueless- I just don't care at all, what I DO care about is the Cancel and the history involved! Thanks again!

Jeff-- interesting shade on the stamp also.

If you have a scanner that can scan at resolutions as high as 9600, can you scan just the lower part of the upper left "3", and the darker area right against the lower border of the number?

Could possibly help you ID the shade......file shouldn't be much bigger than 1 MEG or so if you get just the lower half of the 3 and the border.

Thought you might like to do that if you have a scanner that can scan at that resolution........ Ray

I have a few scanners. I will when it arrives ray, That's the sellers image.

WT1 I am going to hopefully visit that Graveyard this coming month (depending on our spectacular weather here in Central PA.) and see what I can "dig up"? lol I'm in State College a lot so getting there shouldn't pose too much of an issue. Thank you for that great information too!

So far I haven't been able to find out too much about the corver-card advertisement for the Larry's Creek Woolen Mill but here is what I did find.

The Larry's Creek Woolen Mills was owned by a Captain Daniel Artman

"Mr. Knox, about 1801 or 1802, erected a mill half a mile up the stream, near his residence, which he carried on several years until it was burned. A woolen mill was erected on the site in 1848 by John Hillier. He carried it on several years and then sold out. After changing hands once or twice it became the property of Capt. Daniel Artman, who ran it until 1888 when it was destroyed by fire."

This quote was taken from the history of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.

Link:

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/pa/coun...pter-45.html

I did however locate an image of him from this page:

http://www.53rdpvi.org/history/Historygallery.html

He served in the 53rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Company C.

Wow that's really intriguing! I'll have too do some more digging I guess?
It gets even more fascinating to me because it just now dawned on me that I know precisely where that mill (now a large pile of rocks) was located.

Here is my scan fresh off the scanner bed.

Ray awhile back I sent you a high resolution image in your email if you want to take a look at it?

Those are so cool. I just love covers and the stories. Reading letters from pre-1900 are written so well. The handwriting is so much better then today.

Joe

I agree about the handwriting fonts used during that period. Almost a copper-plate style calligraphy isn't it? Do you know that the schools today no longer teach cursive?! What's this world coming too? What next a course on cell phone abbreviats? *sigh* I can promise you this however, my daughter will learn cursive! I do watercolor and pen & ink and she loves to write using the old nib/dip pens. I let her mess around with my Watermans' last evening. She's not too bad actually for being only 6 years old! impressive!