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| Scott Number | 03Xvar |
|---|---|
| Date | April 6, 1846 |
| From City | Baltimore |
| From State | MD |
| To City | Hagerstown |
| To State | MD |
| Addressee | Elie Beatty |
| Cert Author | |
| Cert # | |
| Fake | |
| No. of Stamps | |
| Plate Position | |
| Initials | |
| Others | red PAID |
Notes
US STAMPLESS COVER Baltimore, Md. to Hagerstown, Md. invoice 1846
US Stampless Cover from Baltimore, Md to Hagerstown, Md. Red Paid stamp in a block and a second red "Paid" stamp. Handwritten 15. Fully hand written invoice from company April 1846
Cover dated 4/6/1846
from Sam Harris & Sons
EBAY LOT (larrye72) - image
The 1845 edition of John Murphy’s 1845 Baltimore business directory lists Samuel Harris & Son, exchange brokers at 185 ½ West Baltimore.
Denwood Kelly, a Baltimore local stamp specialist, believed this handstamp was applied to the top cover of bundles of covers mailed to the same address. The manuscript 15 supports this idea since it is unlikely that this cover would have been charged the triple rate for mail under 300 miles. (only 2 of the covers have a ms. 15 rate)
In CCP, Vol 49, No 3 in Part 5 of The 1845 Provisional Postage Stamps of James M. Buchanan by Murial Bemis Hayes, an April 1962 article (Still a Mystery after 115 Years?) by Denwood N. Kelly is quoted, starting on p.160. Some facts inclused:
1. All the handstamp PAID covers originated from the offices of Samuel Harris & Son.
2. The two covers to New York are fakes, with the labels cut from other letters to Elie Beatty in Hagerstown, Md.
3. The earliest known cover, in 1962, is dated 9/29/45 and the latest is dated 1/10/47.
4. If the boxed red PAID handstamp had any meaning, the Baltimore postmaster would not have felt the need for additional PAID markings.
5. Kelly knew about 2 dozen of these covers so a majority of them are listed herein.
The inclusion of these covers in this census does not mean that I consider these as Postmaster Provisionals from Baltimore. Only that I find them interesting and others at the USPCS recommended that this is a convenient place to enumerate them, rather than creating another separate online census.
US Stampless Cover from Baltimore, Md to Hagerstown, Md. Red Paid stamp in a block and a second red "Paid" stamp. Handwritten 15. Fully hand written invoice from company April 1846
Cover dated 4/6/1846
from Sam Harris & Sons
EBAY LOT (larrye72) - image
The 1845 edition of John Murphy’s 1845 Baltimore business directory lists Samuel Harris & Son, exchange brokers at 185 ½ West Baltimore.
Denwood Kelly, a Baltimore local stamp specialist, believed this handstamp was applied to the top cover of bundles of covers mailed to the same address. The manuscript 15 supports this idea since it is unlikely that this cover would have been charged the triple rate for mail under 300 miles. (only 2 of the covers have a ms. 15 rate)
In CCP, Vol 49, No 3 in Part 5 of The 1845 Provisional Postage Stamps of James M. Buchanan by Murial Bemis Hayes, an April 1962 article (Still a Mystery after 115 Years?) by Denwood N. Kelly is quoted, starting on p.160. Some facts inclused:
1. All the handstamp PAID covers originated from the offices of Samuel Harris & Son.
2. The two covers to New York are fakes, with the labels cut from other letters to Elie Beatty in Hagerstown, Md.
3. The earliest known cover, in 1962, is dated 9/29/45 and the latest is dated 1/10/47.
4. If the boxed red PAID handstamp had any meaning, the Baltimore postmaster would not have felt the need for additional PAID markings.
5. Kelly knew about 2 dozen of these covers so a majority of them are listed herein.
The inclusion of these covers in this census does not mean that I consider these as Postmaster Provisionals from Baltimore. Only that I find them interesting and others at the USPCS recommended that this is a convenient place to enumerate them, rather than creating another separate online census.
