Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Railroad Ticket stampers

When I was at the Northeast Postal History and Ephemera Show in Albany, NY on July 30, 2016, I was able to add a couple of new railroad ticket stampers to my Vermont ovals collection.

As I walked by Doug Weisz's table he greeted me and asked me if I would be interested in looking at some new Vermont Railroad Post Office material that he had acquired earlier in the day.  He had purchased a major collection that was sorted by state.  

One of the areas that I find interesting is the oval ticket stampers used as postmarks since in many case the local railroad agent and the postmaster were the same person.

Both of the covers were from Gassett,  Vermont a post office in Windham County





 The above cover was the basic of the listing below.   The R&BRR abbreviation is for the Rutland and Burlington Rail Road.

The numbers under the illustrations are Towle catalog numbers.