JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2016 This spot in the News section is where you will find out which Society members and their Exhibits have done particularly well at recent stamp shows. We will include speakers, those whose exhibits have won Grand, Reserve Grand or Best type in show awards, those whose exhibits have won the USPCS Medal and, […]
Archives for February 2016
NY Postmaster Provisional – Blue Paper Pair
The colors of the paper on which the NY Provisional was printed include bluish-white, gray and blue. Bluish-white accounts for perhaps 95% of all stamps. The others – blue and gray – are believed to have come from the last printing of 100 sheets which was delivered on January 7, 1847. All known blue and […]
Burma to Boston 1855 via Southampton
This 0-1/2 oz. tissue paper letter was datelined in Henthada, Burma on Feb. 17, 1855 and sent to Boston. A pair of the first Issue of India paid the rate to Calcutta, but it was unpaid thereafter. From there it took P&O steamers to Southampton and a Cunard steamer from Liverpool to Boston. The 1 […]
