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| Scott Number | 6LB5b |
|---|---|
| Date | May 13, 1845 |
| From City | New York |
| From State | NY |
| To City | New York |
| To State | NY |
| Addressee | Miss Mary Green |
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| Fake | |
| No. of Stamps | 1 |
| Off Cover? | |
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Notes
3c Black on blue glazed paper
CDS: MAY 13, no timestamp
Robert A. Siegel sale 766 lot 651 realized 300 notes stamp used on envelope, quite scarce.
Illustrated in the Kapiloff exhibit (courtesy of Richard C. Frajola) where this cover is year dated 1845.
Schuyler J. Rumsey Inc. sale 68 lot 378 realized 900 with another cover (image)
No 1 Fifth Ave. was the location of a school for young women, run by Lucy Merriam Green (1810-1893) and her sister Mary Ruggles Green Knudsen (1814-1894) (1845 Doggett’s). Mary was one of 11 children of William Elijah Green (1777-1865) of Worcester, Mass. Her brother Andrew Haswell Green (1820-1903), was a lawyer and founder of Central Park, the NY Public Library, the Bronx Zoo, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was known as “the Father of Greater New York” for promoting his idea of joining Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island into a single city.
Mary married Prof. Carl W. Knudsen (1818-1894), originally from Denmark, in 1864
CDS: MAY 13, no timestamp
Robert A. Siegel sale 766 lot 651 realized 300 notes stamp used on envelope, quite scarce.
Illustrated in the Kapiloff exhibit (courtesy of Richard C. Frajola) where this cover is year dated 1845.
Schuyler J. Rumsey Inc. sale 68 lot 378 realized 900 with another cover (image)
No 1 Fifth Ave. was the location of a school for young women, run by Lucy Merriam Green (1810-1893) and her sister Mary Ruggles Green Knudsen (1814-1894) (1845 Doggett’s). Mary was one of 11 children of William Elijah Green (1777-1865) of Worcester, Mass. Her brother Andrew Haswell Green (1820-1903), was a lawyer and founder of Central Park, the NY Public Library, the Bronx Zoo, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was known as “the Father of Greater New York” for promoting his idea of joining Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island into a single city.
Mary married Prof. Carl W. Knudsen (1818-1894), originally from Denmark, in 1864
