Vermont Post Office Pictures

For the past year I have been traveling through Vermont taking pictures of its post offices.  The goal is to be able to document all 270+ post offices.  

I think that the Fair Haven (Rutland County) post office is the most unusual design that I have photographed so far.  Definitely a modern design.

Coventry (Orleans County) is a small post office located in a private home.  But I love the gingerbread design on the eaves and on the side porches.  Such an inviting post office.

When I return home, I print the picture on envelopes and send to the post office for copies of their postmark.  Currently, I have about 90 such envelopes and hope to do at least another 90 this summer while it's easy to get around the State of Vermont.

New Pictorial Cancels in April

There are 2 pictorial cancels being used in Vermont in April.

the 1st is from Norwich and honors Hannah Kearney, a Norwich native who won the Gold medal in Ladies Moguls at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games in British Columbia this past February. A similar cancel was used the same day at Hanover, NH where Kearney went to High School.

The other is from Vergennes and is used at the Boy Scout Camporee held at Button Bay State Park to honor the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.

All the 2010 pictorials used so far are listed at my website:

http://www.glennestus.com/VTCancels/2010cancels/vt2010.html

Brookfield (Orange County) Vermont Cancel

One of the more popular postal history collecting interests are cancels that show County Names and/or Postmaster Names.

Vermont postal historian Bill Lizotte did a recap of all such Vermont cancels in the August 2009 issue of The Vermont Philatelist. In his listing Brookfield (Orange County) is one of the rarer examples from Vermont. Yesterday at the Stamp Show in Quechee, I purchased the above Return Registered-Letter Receipt. This is the only example of this postmark known. It was originally reported in The Vermont Philatelist in August 1970. As a matter of fact, lightly penciled on the back of the receipt is a notation that the example is unique and had been reported to the VPS.

This item fits into 2 of my collecting interests: County/Postmaster cancels as well as Star Cancels.

If you interested in County/Postmaster cancels, the Vermont Philatelic Society website has a complete recap of all the current information: http://www.vermontps.org/CountyPostmaster/VTCountyPostmaster.html