They Came From The Dollar Box.....

An excellent way to spend a day at a show! Some days are just good ones. I would love to see some scans of the RPO's!

Oracle of Delphi,

I saw that too, but I'm not sure its the same W. H. Taft. President Taft was from Ohio. He was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when that letter was mailed. The return address makes no mention of his public title.

Jack Kelley

That stock certificate was in a dollar box???

smh.

revenuecollector: Yep. Pure luck.

Jack Kelley: I would have to research if the he was indeed the Vice Chairman, but President Taft was indeed a member of the Yale Club at that address. It was mailed from New Haven, CT where he owned a mansion, but supposedly never lived there - maybe visited.

One doesn't have to live in NYC to be a member of the Yale Club there - I was a member for a while when I lived in CT and NJ. Still interesting to find out whether this is the one and the same WHT. It would be quite a coincidence if not. If he was acting as an officer of the Yale Club in communicating to a member by this cover, his status as Chief Justice may well not be referenced.

Also having some fun googling tho recipient Wallace R. Bostwick. There is one listed in the Montclair (NJ) Annual Who's Who of 1916 who happens to be President of the Montclair Philatelic Society. There is also one listed in the 1919-1920 Yale Banner and Potpourri as a student volunteer at Yale. Not sure if these are one and the same person since that would mean he headed up the stamp society when he was still a teenager or so. There is another Wallace R. Bostwick who lived in Pennsylvania for whom a memorial fund is named but he passed away in 2009 so he wouldn't be the one and his father was Wallace L. Bostwick.

My guess is it wasn't President or Supreme Court Justice Taft.

Well done Battlestamps. Great finds

Dianne