ISSUE 179 - November 7, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Yesterday in Mekeel’s:
The New Haven Provisional
by E. J. Newcomer
(From Mekeel's Weekly, May 16, 1895.)
New Haven.
Although the same catalogue that places the price of $1,200 on the Millbury only prices the U. S. Postmaster's Provisional envelope issued at New Haven at $250 it is without a double ten times as rare as the Millbury.
The New Haven envelope stamp was first discovered by Wm. P. Brown in about the year 1871. It was a cut specimen mounted in a collection of ordinary stamps, which he bought for a few dollars. Mr. Brown in speaking of the stamp sometime ago said: "I think the name of E. A. Mitchell, P. M. was in blue ink, but the rest of the stamp was in . . .
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