MGJ Postal History

	Description	Price
	PEEKSKILL NEW YORK 1898 COVER WITH 5-CENT TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STAMP (SCOTT 288) Covers with the 5-cent blue Trans-Miss stamp are few and far between. Stamp has straight edge on right, double circle cancel. Mailed to King at Arms, London, England. In blue marking crayon, someone has added Queen Vic Sv at bottom. Queen Victoria was the reigning monarch at the time and perhaps this was sent to her. Additional markings on back. Stamp has crease plus nibbled perfs at top right.	$25.00
	GERMANY - WURTTEMBERG 1906 GOVERNMENT ANNIVERSARY OF THE KINGDOM CACHET POSTAL STATIONERY Cachet cover includes vignettes of early Wurttemberg stamps Unused with minor toning.	$25.00
	NEW HAMPSHIRE: HINSDALE 1841 MANUSCRIPT CANCEL STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO PLYMPTON MASSACHUSETTS Clean stampless folded letter with sharp and full Hinsdale, New Hampshire, manuscript postmark. Ivory Soule writes to William Soule about family matters, especially his wife's illness. Additional information about family history was added, in pencil, in 1957 by a relative. Interesting that letter was sent FREE. Could not find any reference to Soule being a postmaster.	$25.00
	COLORADO: COLORADO SPRINGS 1908 FOLD-OUT O'BRIENS LOOP MOUNT CUTLER POSTCARD Spectacular fold out postcard showing the rough terrain challenges provided ny O'Brien's Loop Mount Cutler. Note pack mule lower right center. Do not see a human, so the mule probably belonged to the photographer. Rare item.	$25.00
	DERBY CONNECTICUT 1844 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO HARTFORD FROM LAW FIRM OF THE FOUNDER OF THE TOWN OF SHELTON Light but complete January 4 postmark with high "t" and scroll at the bottom. Fancy PAID in scroll at top center. Legal letter from Sanford & Shelton regarding default on payment. Edward Nelson Shelton, for whom the town of Shelton, Connecticut was named, founded Sanford & Shelton Company in Derby, Connecticut, in 1836, the first tack factory in the United States. Later he was president of the Housatonic Water Company. Shelton is of the fourth generation in descent from Daniel Shelton. He was born in the home of his ancestors September 4, 1812. He had the benefit of the educational advantages of his native town, and of the more important academy at Derby; and also of Captain Partridge's Scientific School at Middletown and lectures at Yale College. He commenced business at Birmingham in 1836, manufacturing tacks, in connection with Mr. N. C. Sanford, under the name of Sanford & Shelton. Mr. Sanford died in 1841, and the business was continued under the name of E. N. Shelton until 1854, when it was organized as the Shelton Company. Mr. Shelton has been president of the Birmingham National Bank since its organization in 1848. It is principally due to Mr. Shelton that the thriving village of Shelton, named in honor of him, with a business capital rated at $2,000,000, and employing 2,000 hands, exists. He was able in 1867 to see the first work done toward the construction of the great dam across the Housatonic, which was to develop the largest water power in the state, and one of the largest in New England. His long cherished project was brought to a successful completion in 1870, resulting in the founding and satisfactory growth of the village of Shelton. He has been the president of the Ousatonic Water Company, which built the dam, since its organization in 1866. Though a member of the state senate in 1869, Mr. Shelton has not cared for political life or office. His interest has been principally in the development and growth of the two villages, Birmingham and Shelton. His public spirit and desire that whatever is best for the benefit of the many should be accomplished have always been marked characteristics, as well as his unquestioned honor and integrity. His energy, perseverance and business ability have been proved in various enterprises in his own town and elsewhere, and much success for others as well as himself is due to his keen business foresight. He has always been an earnest supporter of the Episcopal church, as his forefathers were. N. C. Sanford was the brother in law of Edward Shelton. His son, Henry Shelton Sanford served as America's Minister to Belgium during the Civil War and helped secure armaments needed for the Union victory. He was also a very successful lawyer and businessman. After the war, he moved to Florida where he founded a city that now bears his name. He, David Humphreys (Ambassador to Spain) and Ebenezzer D. Bassett (Ambassador to Haiti) were all Derby residents who served in the highest ranks of the U. S. foreign service.	$25.00
	FAIR HAVEN Mas. 1845 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER. J.B. MASSE TO LEVI SNOW, HARWICH, MASSACHUSETTS. UNLISTED POSTMARK Snow has requested a new order of merchandise and Masse has agreed to send it "as soon as you can send me the balance of your account." The full, red Fair Haven postmark is not listed in ASCC with the state identification as Mas. Note soiling at lower left. No tears or separations. Snow was a prominent citizen of Wychmere Harbor. See information below. Wychmere Harbor Wychmere Harbor used to have no opening to the sea. In the early times it was called Salt Water Pond. The fisherman of Harwich tried to dig by hand a passage for their boats where a trickle of water flowed between the sea and the pond. When this did not work, they plugged the little stream and built a 3/4 mile race track all-around the pond and raced their horses there. In 1889 the state dredged a proper channel. It measured about 100 feed wide with jetties on each side and fishermen then had a safe anchorage. Fifty years later the big outer harbor was dredged. Around 1891, Levi Edric Snow paid about $250 for land at the end of the dirt road on the west side of Salt Water Pond. He built an eight room seaside cottage and had so many relatives visiting the following summer that he built a 20 room addition and began charging rent. In 1913 when Levi’s grandson Biddle was married, the hotel became a year round business. Biddie and his wife had three sons–The Clam Bar’s “Thompson Brothers.” The boys, all over six feet tall, grew up at the Inn and a place was built for them by the dock. They called it Hangover Inn or Spit ‘n Whittle. After World War II, the family began another business. Line Trawlers tied up at the dock and the fish was packed and shipped to Boston and New York. The new wholesale business had begun! Fish, clams and lobsters were unloaded on the dock. This brought many onlookers, whom all wanted to eat and purchase seafood. Thus from the top of a fish box or a barrel head, freshly opened clams were served. People started buying lobster retail, then wanted them cooked and opened. The family responded; away went the Spit ‘n Whittle and up went The Clam Bar. The fish you serve are probably direct descendants of the first ones unloaded here over forty years ago. Over the years the dirt road was paved, the salt water pond become Wychmere Harbor, a long jetty curved out into the Old Inn and Channelside Restaurant grew yearly and became known far and beyond the small village of Harwich. Thompson clam bar later was established at the Inn by Levi’s daughter, Clementine. In 1983 a developer purchased the inn, and closed it after 100 seasons in 1991. Letter is from J. B. Masse. There are several Masse’s listed in Fair Haven (now condensed to Fairhaven) historic records.	$25.00
	MARYLAND: CAMBRIDGE 1938 PHILLIPS SOUPS COLOR ADVERTISING COVER WITH METER STAMP The Phillips Packing Company began in Cambridge, Maryland in 1902 with a single plant and went on to become one of the most recognized names in seafood. As the company expanded so did its legacy on the Eastern Shore through buildings and stories. Cover franked with meter postage.	$25.00
	FIRST DAY COVER - JOHN BASSETT MOORE $5 - SCOTT #1295 1966 COVER CRAFT Clean cover. Sale price.	$25.00
	LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY BAR OVER 5 BLUE POSTMARK STAMPLESS COVER TO ELKTON Very nice cover with blue postmark.	$25.00
	MASSACHUSETTS: PLYMOUTH NATIONAL MONUMENT EARLY MULTI-TIER POSTCARD. SEE SCANS Distinctive front panel with metal fastener. Open the panel to reveal 11 additional photos of Plymouth MA area. Highly unusual and collectible. No date on postmark. However, stamp is from 1906 time period.	$25.00