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 gray paper covers are postmarked after that date. The blue paper variety is a hard paper of medium thickness. It is estimated that 40-50 examples of this variety exist, which includes 14 copies on 12 covers. There are four known pairs, of which this is the finest example.
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 shilling mark at left was the rate between a British Colony and the U.K. At Boston, the addressee paid there full 45c rate between the U.S. and British India (Burma was part of India at that time). Because it was carried on a British Packet to Boston, there was a 40c credit to the U.K.
Patriotic Cover From China
Patriotic sent from overseas are very scarce. This cover was sent from Hong Kong on September 11, 1861 via various P&O steamers to Marseilles, and from there to Liverpool where it took the Cunard steamer Niagara to Boston. It arrived on November 16, 1861 and was rated 45c as a 0-1/2 oz. letter sent by British Mail via Marseilles.
This letter was sent from Marcus L. Woodard to his wife Maria in Stoneham, Mass. Woodard had traveled as both mate and master of several ships in the China trade. He had reached China on the ship Surprise after stopping at Batavia with a cargo of ice. The crew mutinied at that post. Woodard made it to China where he described trade on the Yangtze, including problems with coastal pirates and the great profit to be made in smuggling up and down the river.
Four Color Franking to India
From the Goddard correspondence, this 1/2 – 3/4 oz. letter was sent from Nathaniel Goddard in Boston to his brother Benjamin in Calcutta.
Sent by British Open Mail on an American packet, it was prepaid 42c in stamps to prepay the inland (2x5c) and sea post (2x16c). The North Atlantic Steamship Co. steamer Adriatic left New York on June 2 and arrived at Southampton on June 12. The letter traveled to Marseilles, where it took a succession of Peninsula & Oriental steamers to Bombay, and from there overland to Calcutta. The addressee paid the remaining postage of 14 Annas, which accounted for British and French transit and steamship fees.
Do You Notice Anything New about Our Website?
Welcome to the new USPCS website! This is the result of the survey we took early last year and many, many months of design and implementation. We reviewed several visual themes and navigation schemes to come up with what we feel is a much more attractive and dynamic site and one that will more easily enable you to find what you are looking for…
Key aspects of the new site:
At the top is a brown band which contains easy and direct access to the great majority of content on the site. For example, if you hover over “Society” with your cursor, you will see sub-sections which required two or more clicks on the old website to reach. Hover over “Resources” or “Stamps & Covers”, and you will quickly recognize how vast an amount of content is on the site. I suspect that many of you will find information you did not know existed. Hover over “Members” and you will be able to log in. If you have gone beyond the home page without logging in, you can do that on any page just by scrolling down to the bottom.
Below that navigation band, you will see a “slider” which shows a number of philatelic gems provided by board members and others. These will change over time. You can click on a link in the text at the left to learn more about the material shown. By putting great material there, it will certainly make the home page more attractive. More importantly, it will draw both members and non-members to delve further into the site and recognize the wealth of information the US Philatelic Classics Society has to offer.
Below that, you will see several News items. These will change as necessary to keep you up-to-date on what is going on in the Society. Some have more information than can be put on the home page and that is accessible through the embedded link. You can also reach the News section by hovering over “Society” at the top and clicking on the News subsection of interest.
We hope you enjoy the new website and the very large amount of work that went into it, and is still ongoing.
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