MGJ Postal History

	Description	Price
	LANCASTER NEW HAMPSHIRE 1846 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO GENERAL SULLIVAN HUTCHINS, BATH NEW HAMPSHIRE 1846 letter from John Mills, Lancaster, New Hampshire, to General Sullivan Hutchins in Bath, NH, states: “I have got in my timber. There is 60 or 70 thousand of excellent quality. I wish to sell it as soon as possible. Should be glad to sell it to you if you will give me its value. It lays on my meadow & should finish downing tomorrow. Light Lancaster January 29 red postmark. Letter in excellent condition.	$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
	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
	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
	MASSACHUSETTS: 1873 CAPE ANN FISH STORE RECEIPT - DRY & PICKLED FISH + POSTCARD Historic document from Cape Ann Fish Storem George F. Brown Agent. Item is excellent condition. Bonus: contemporary Cape Ann postcard included.	$25.00
	NORWAY: OSLO 1940 CENSORED FIRST DAY COVER TO SWEDEN. SCOTT #269-271 Clean, attractive cover for stamps issued at start of WWII.	$25.00
	FIRST DAY COVER - JOHN BASSETT MOORE $5 - SCOTT #1295 1966 COVER CRAFT Clean cover. Sale price.	$25.00
	ROSENHEIM GERMANY 1947 POSTAL HISTORY COVER WITH AMERICAN ZONE OCCUPATION STAMPS, CIVIL CENSOR STAMP & TAPE, OTTO EDENHARTER MARK AND EDENHARTER INN SEALS Excellent and interesting cover. Post-World-War-II American Occupation of Germany stamps along with Civil Censorship seal 11119. Censor tape. Reverse shows cover's sender was Otto Edenharter, Wasserburg-Inn-Stadt. Otto-Erich Edenharter starred in over 50 film and television productions, including in the GDR crime series blue light , Police 110 , and the prosecutor has the floor . Wasserburg am Inn is a town in Rosenheim district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The historic centre is a peninsula formed by the meandering Inn River. Many Medieval structures remain intact, giving the city a unique air.	$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