Dear Connecticut philatlists- Welcome and thanks for considering membership in the new Yahoo collector's group "Connecticut Stamps and Covers". As the name...
from time to time, this Group's Home Page "Photo" will change .. description of FIRST photo : ==================== US #11 with blue enclosed "box" with 3 line ...
I've uploaded a scan to the"Connecticut 19th century" photo folder. It's an 1856 transatlantic cover (via the Collins Line) to Hamburg, Germany with a Norwich,...
scan has been uploaded in photos file "STAMPS" ... CONNECTICUT TERCENTENARY COMMEMORATIVE STAMP – ISSUE OF 1935 This special postage stamp was issued in the...
NOTE SUFFIELD CHARGE PHOTO ALBUMN Many of you may have collect mail sent to Suffield and may not realize what the two diagonal slashes are on the letter. It...
John - This is very interesting and something I've never seen mentioned before, either on Suffield (incoming unpaid)letters or any other town, for that matter....
A few suggestions make help make your experience at this site somewhat better. First, "posting" a message on the Connecticut Stamps and Covers forum...
Hi Bob: I saw this mark many years ago, mis-described in one of the auction catalogs. It was described it as a letter with an additional express fee. But that...
This letter is interesting in three ways and is one of my favorites. It was postmarked From Natchug, Ct, Nov 26, 1836 with a postmasters free frank and...
I've uploaded a scan to the "Connecticut 19th century" photo folder. ... It's a Civil War patriotic cover with an August 7,1861 Hartford, Conn. double circle...
Ken - Thanks for sharing your comments and the scan of the Natchug manuscript cover from Windham county. Consuting with the published sources I'm familiar with...
Good evening Connecticutians, I am hoping you can assist me in my search to explain the Waterbury CDS' from FEB (1855) on cover that I have posted in the new...
I've uploaded several scans of Hartford Mail Route stamps and covers to the Photo Album "Stamps. ... The Hartford Conn Mail Route stamps show a top-hatted ...
John: Are the markings that you're questioning the manuscript "Way // 9". I was assuming the rating was "Way 9" and the two vertical strokes were the "charge"...
I'm wondering about the lazy S handstamp. I reposted a better photo of the cover (look at full view) as well as a close-up of the mark. It is a mark of some...
I checked to see what I have re Suffield. Found two covers from Suffield, 1797 and 1801 and two to Suffield 1833 and 1835. None had either the "S" handstamp...
I added another letter to the Suffield photos. I have noted 4 different correspondences, Phelps, Lomiss, Phillo and Norton. I'm sure others persons kept...
Rouletting of Waterbury stamps was the subject of an article in Linn's Stamp News of May 4, 1998 by Michael Lawrence. I have a photocopy of that article, but...
I don't think I'm out of line by saying that most, if not all of us have Connecticut collections and/or research projects that we'd like to advance. I...
Bob,I do not have alot of 1851 covers. Most of my collection is in later years (1860'S - 1930'S) Fancy Cancels. A quick look at some of my older covers and I...
Bob,I forgot to mention I don't have EXCEL on my computer for some reason. If you want to e-mail me a scan of list that is O K. But I do not have a lot of...
I recently bought a small lot of stampless covers and in it was this one from East Haddam, Ct, Aug 4, 1842. What is different is that it has a GREEN CDS and...
Ken, I am particularly interested in East Haddam correspondence to and from the Brownell family. Can you tell me the addressee and the writer of the letter?...
Bob The letter is addressed to Charles M. Peirce, New Bedford, Mass and is not signed by a Brownell. Ther are two signatures. One looks like C. Pouvent and the...
Bob Thanks for the info. That makes two that I know about. I wonder how many more there are? It is interesting to note that the dates of our two letters are ...
My experience is that green cancels are very hard to judge. I've been fooled many times by blue cancels (especially on yellow paper) that appear to be green. ...
