"The Hunt Collection" 1835-1875

"Cur alii, alii non". Why, other's do not.

I did take french in school. However, I did need to
translate through google.
My late brother David was a linguist. He studied languages
at Georgetown University. He spoke six languages fluently.
They said his french was native. In high school,
he studied Russian on his summer vacation. He passed
away twentyseven years ago. I do still have his early stamp
collection.

Sorry. I probably should not have added that. It isn't French, it's Latin. It asks, "why some, not some/others?"

I liked it,

If it wasn't for that, I would not
have had an opportunity to mention my brother.
I did feel bad when I said, I was an only child!

Thanks to all of you, for your interest,

An intermission;

From my family to yours;

Truly fascinating post. Please add pictures of the revenue stamps if you have them available to do so. Thanks for showing the covers.

Almost done with intermission,
A twelfth group to follow,


To rwoodennickel,
Your welcome,
As requested three revenue stamps with the
initials of Levi Lyman Burdon, LLB My middle name
is also Lyman. Boy did I hate that as a child!
Lima beans! Ha. Ha. Now I am proud of it!

I seem to have a lot of revenue stamps.
I was not sure if they were from Levi's
Business.

I included a cover to a Thurber. Levi married
a Thurber. I do know that she was from the
"Tilden-Thurber Jewelers" Family.

A twelfth group;

After posting the revenue stamps I noticed
that the top one, the initials did not match the
second two. Someone else maybe initialed for him?

I have quite a few initialed revenues in my stockbooks. I am going to look them over to see if I might have one or two similar. Your post/ "story" is great. These are the posts I enjoy reading the most. You have covered a lot of material and postal history here, thanks again. I think it would be really cool to find one of his revenues. You are welcome to them in the rare case I find one, Lol.

Thanks rwoodennickel,

I did notice the first cover in the twelfth group
was to Jessie Metcalf. I see Free and Edwin A. Bush
Postmaster on it. Also Mill Brook on some covers .
Is that Mill Brook NY. I see that Millbrook NY,was not
founded until 1895? It is in Dutchess County.
A different cover referred to it being in Warren County?
It always appears as two words Mill Brook, where Millbrook NY
is one. Just curious!

A thirteenth group;

What source are you using that claims Millbrook, NY was established in 1895?

The PO listings on Jim Forte's website show:
Mill Brook, Warren County, 1851-1864
Millbrook, Dutchess County, 1870-present

Thanks for the clarification.
I searched google Mill Brook NY.
It combined the words.
I am not the greatest at detective work.

I googled Jessie Metcalf early RI history.

@ Brown University! The 60 most $ $ families
in the United States. Metcalf's were 27th.

They donated the land next to Brown for the benefit of
The Rhode Island School of Design.

I guess they were in the shadow of Brown University!

See you with five more tomorrow.

I'd like to see if we can identify the stamp on this cover you showed above:





The cover is dated to February 3, 1879, which is a day before the merger that created the American Bank Note Co Consolidated. It bears back stamps for Feb 4, 1879 so it was in the mail stream on the big day. It is likely this stamp is on soft paper, and if so it would be a verifiable example of Continental Soft Paper.

Could we have a good close look at the stamp?