November 2009, Volume 61, No. 4, Whole No. 224

THE EDITOR'S PAGE In This Issue, by Michael Laurence
PRESTAMP & STAMPLESS PERIOD Civil War Patriotic Covers Addressed to President Abraham Lincoln by James W. Milgram, M.D. and Thomas E. Greene
CARRIERS AND INDEPENDENT MAILS Mystery Pen Markings of Cheever & Towle, by Gordon Stimmell
THE 1847 PERIOD The Turner Correspondence, by Gordon Eubanks
THE 1861-69 PERIOD Fancy Cancels from Union-Occupied New Bern, North Carolina, by Michael C. McClung
THE BANK NOTE PERIOD Death Throes of the New York Foreign Mail Fancy Cancellations: 1875-1877, by Nicholas M. Kirke
OFFICIALS Production Plate Varieties and the Nature of Opaque Inks, by George G. Sayers
THE FOREIGN MAILS Conflict Between Thurn & Taxis and Prussia OVer Prussian CLosed Mail, by Heinrich Conzelmann; A Nantucket Prepaid Ship Cover, by Douglas N. Clark
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August 2009, Volume 61, No. 3, Whole No. 223
THE EDITOR'S PAGE In This Issue, by Michael Laurence
PRESTAMP & STAMPLESS PERIOD Domestic Postmarks Showing Integral Rate Within the Townmark: California Rates, by James W. Milgram, M.D.
CARRIERS AND INDEPENDENT MAILS Gray's Anatomy, by Gordon Stimmell
THE 1847 PERIOD 10˘ 1847 Bisect Mailed in New York City: A Drop Letter?, by Gordon Eubanks
THE 1851-61 PERIOD Note from the Section Editor, by Gary W. Granzow
THE 1861-69 PERIOD Eight 3˘ D-Grills on a Single Cover, by Michael C. McClung; "G.I." Postmark Year-date Confusions of "1863" with "1862", by Richard B Graham
OFFICIALS Constant Plate Varieties of the 1873 Official Stamps: Navy Department, by George G. Sayers and Alfred E. Staubus
THE FOREIGN MAILS Paid All Markings: Postal Conventions with Pacific Rim Countries, 1867-86, Part Two, by Dale Forster; Additional Steamship Covers, by Theron J. Weirenga
IN REVIEW Piskiewicz book on U.S. Supplementary Mails, by Richard B. Graham; Pullen book on North American Packet Sailings, 1818-1849, by Richard F. WInter
IN MEMORIAM Charles J. Peterson (1933-2009), Floyd E. Risvold (1912-2009), Carl Walske (1922-2009)
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May 2009, Volume 61, No. 2, Whole No. 222
THE EDITOR'S PAGE In This Issue, by Michael Laurence
PRESTAMP & STAMPLESS PERIOD Domestic Postmarks Showing Integral Rate Within the Townmark, 1851-1855, by James W. Milgram, M.D.
CARRIERS AND INDEPENDENT MAILS Making Strides with Hartford Mail Route Pioneer Precancels, by Gordon Stimmell and John Bowman
THE 1847 PERIOD Underpaid and Accepted: These Got Through, by Harvey Mirsky; Myersburg Census Update, by Harvey Mirsky
THE 1851-61 PERIOD E.S. Zevely postmaster Markings, by James W. Milgram, M.D.
THE 1861-69 PERIOD Union-Occupied New Bern, North Carolina: Some Unusual Covers, by Michael C. McClung
THE 1869 PERIOD Is this 30˘ 1869 Cover to France Really a Fake?, by Scott R. Trepel; 24˘ 1869 Cover to Chefoo, China, by Jeffrey M. Forster
THE BANK NOTE PERIOD Side Imprints on the 1˘ and 2˘ Values of the 1890 Issue, by Peter Stafford
ESSAYS & PROOFS The 5˘ Garfield Memorial Essay of 1882, by Michael Plett
OFFICIALS Constant Plate Varieties of the 1873 Official Stamps: Justice Department, by George G. Sayers
THE FOREIGN MAILS 12˘ Bremen-Hamburg Rate to Oldenburg?, by Dwayne O. Littaeur; Additional Steamship Covers, by Theron J. Weirenga
In REVIEW
OBITUARY Hubert Skinner
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February 2009, Volume 61, No. 1, Whole No. 221
THE EDITOR'S PAGE In This Issue, by Michael Laurence
PRESTAMP & STAMPLESS PERIOD Unofficial Registration of Mail in the United States 1845-1855, by James W. Milgram, M.D.
THE 1847 PERIOD Remarkable Markings, by Harvey Mirsky
ESSAYS & PROOFS The Discovery of a Lifetime: A New 10˘ 1847 Essay, by James E. Lee
THE 1851-61 PERIOD E.S. Zevely and the 185 New York World’s Fair, by Cheryl R. Ganz
THE WESTERN MAILS Steamboat Mail on the Colorado River, by Richard Fajola
THE 1861-69 PERIOD Banks Division—Last Reported Day of Use, by Jim Cate; Union Soldier’s Mail from Occupied Eastern North Carolina, by Michael C. McClung
THE 1869 PERIOD 10˘ 1869 Covers to Spain "Paid Only to England"—Including the 10˘ 1869 EKU, by Michael Laurence
THE BANK NOTE PERIOD An Extraordinary New York Foreign Mail Cancel, by Nicholas M. Kirke; Major Double Transfer on the 2˘ Jackson Stamp of 1873, by Matthew Kewriga
OFFICIALS Constant Plate Varieties of the 1873 Official Stamps: Interior Department, by George G. Sayers
THE FOREIGN MAILS Mail Between the United States and St. Pierre and Miquelon, by David D'Alessandris
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