Show Your US 1851-57 Imperforate Stamps

According to google and Wikipeda, "For many years, printed records gave the name as Milwaukie".
And, "The spelling "Milwaukie" lives on in Milwaukie, Oregon, named after the Wisconsin city in 1847, before the current spelling was universally accepted".

Gotta love those circulars. Thanks for Sharing CC.

Very nice circular. Hard to find that clean.

The KIE spelling on the postmark is well-known during the 1850s.
It's common enough, but always fun to see.

Classic, the stamp on your circular is a Relief B, double recut at bottom with a long inner recut (extends past the C of CENT). Should be fairly easy to plate.

I find it interesting that the circular spells it 'KEE', while the postmark spells it 'KIE', so it appears that the change in spelling didn't happen at one time. It probably morphed from one to the other over time. I live on the west coast, and I am aware of MILWAUKIE, OR - I always assumed the different spellings were due to some moron that named the city in Oregon. I guess not. Thanks for the history lesson.

Could be a worn letter slug?

Wow, Thanks for all the interesting comments, friends!

Moyock13, Thanks for researching the spelling history. Very interesting.

mootermutt, Good eye, spotting the Milwaukee spelling on the circular. I hadn't noticed that.

dudley, Thanks for your observations on the relief and recuts for the #9, helping to narrow the possible positions down. I'll see about plating it soon.

Picked up some more covers, here are two of my favorites:





And one from Cobham, Virginia, which no longer exists:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobha...ty,_Virginia

I need some help with this cover though, is it Williamsburg, Virginia?

It seems like it wouldn't fit, but I couldn't find anything else that does fit. Is it abbreviated?

To me, if it were an abbreviated form of Williamsburg, I would expect something like "WMSBURG", but it looks like there's an extra letter in there. I thought it looked like "Wellsburg". When I google (yes, there's one of us left) Wellsburg, up pops "Wellsburg, WV" --- WV didn't split off from VA until 1863, I believe. So.... my money is on "Wellsburg Va", in current day WV. YMMV.

Thank you! I think you're spot on.

Those are some very interesting covers, Ecostic.

I like the H. G. Borel & Co. corner card with the Nassau Street, New York City address. As most here know, Nassau street was a Mecca for stamp collectors for about a century up until the 1970s, and Herman Herst wrote a very popular book on it.

http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1571

dudley, Thanks to your tips on the #9 on the "Milwaukie" circular, I was able to plate it to sheet position 24R1L.

For what it's worth Herman Herst Jr signed my copy of Carol Chase's book.
Just kind of a neat thing.

For what it's worth, mine is signed by Alan Cohen. I wish I knew who that was. Just kind of a neat thing, but not as neat as your's. I ASSUME Mr. Cohen was a previous owner of my copy.