New 210s (2c Red Brown of 1883)

I want to thank Elwyn and Annie Doubleday of Doubleday Postal History for being the conduit through which I added about 40 new post offices to my already extensive Scott #210 collection.

There are certain stamps that collectors have zeroed in on to collect as a speciality.  In the USA, such stamps are the 3c imperf 1851, the 3c 1869 Locomotive and the 2c 1883, all stamps that were issued to meet a first class rate and therefore were probably available from almost every contemporary post office.  At the current time, I have about 250 different post office examples in my collection out of the 400+ post offices that were in operation in Vermont during the 1880s.

Here are a few highlights of what I was able to add to my collection.  All are on full envelopes even though some of the scans show smaller versions.

An interesting killer from Chester.

Clarendon is misspelled Clarend"E"n

on this letter to New South Wales

A double oval from Gassetts

A nice shield cancel from Hinesburgh

An example from Pearl #1

Royalton "Star of David"

A duplex cancel with an oval and a scarab killer

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New York State Postal History (pre-1900)

New York State Postal History (20th & 21st Centuries)

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GREEN UVM Postal Card FDOI cancel

In 1991, Vermont had two First Day of Issue Ceremonies.  It was the 200th Anniversary of Statehood so the USPS issued a postage stamp in March to honor that occasion. 

The University of Vermont was founded in 1791 and later in the 1991, a commemorative postal card was issued in Burlington showing The Old Mill one of the oldest building on the campus.

But, the above postal card has the FDOI hand cancel in green not in black.  I don't remember where I acquired this card, but it was probably at a stamp club meeting in Burlington many years ago. I think that somebody from the stamp club was at the first day ceremony and arranged to have the cancel done in green ink.  Perhaps someone at the FD location had a green ink pad and was adding a rubber-stamped cachet to their postal cards and used the opportunity to add the FDOI in green also.

Any one have any other ideas?

As I was preparing for this blog I found the postal card below. Obviously, it was created by a zealous cancel collector or a U/O collector.  The cancels are from Burlington, South Burlington Station, North Burlington Station, and Reading, a post office about 110 miles southeast of Burlington.