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Covers From Stamp Dealers 60 Years Ago

 
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Posted 09/27/2016   11:14 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Oracle of Delphi to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
The covers below came out of a large lot picked up a while ago. Not sure of any of these names are still around; of course, it would be a great accomplishment for any business to survive for decades in these changing times, never mind the original proprietors still being on this earth.









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Posted 09/27/2016   11:34 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampcrow to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I can speak for the Sparta Stamp Company, Rochester NY, It's no longer here in Rochester.
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There is still a Modern Stamp Company in Michigan, but I don't know if it's the same one.
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Posted 09/28/2016   07:51 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add DonSellos to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Battlestamps:

Back in the 1930s there was an Ohio stamp dealer by the name of Blake Battles. A relative of yours?

Don

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It is sad, but there are so few actual brick and mortar stamp stores left anywhere. I do not know of any in my general part of the country.
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Posted 09/28/2016   1:31 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Battlestamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Don: I've seen that name before and always wondered. He's definitely not a direct ancestor, but probably a distant one since there's not many Battles out there.

Stamp stores are disappearing. I'm lucky to have two of them in the Albany, NY area.
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I've been to one in Manhattan. Champion on 54th street.
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Battlestamps,

There was a Battle Stamps dealer in Lexington, Massachusetts. I'm sure it was named for the "Shot Fired Heard Around the World" Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775.

Jack Kelley
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