by Bennett D. Kitts, Don Ross, Lawrence Clay & Fred Bok
Not long ago an article appeared in the Scouts on Stamps journal (SOSSI) which Gene Fricks brought to our attention – “Treasure Island Continued,” by Bennett D. Kitts.1 It explored the history of this summer post office which existed on a Scout Reservation on Treasure Island, a New Jersey island in the Delaware River below Frenchtown, accessible only by boat.
View this issue online… President’s Message by Robert G. Rose NOJEX and Annual NJPHS Meeting Treasure Island – A Boy Scout Camp Post Office Reprinted from SOSSI An “Elisabethport” Misspelled Postmark by Robert G. Rose Hunterdon County Postal History: RFD in Hunterdon County by Jim Walker From Russia with Love: US Return Card to New […]
by Captain Lawrence B. Brennan, JAGC, USN (Ret.)
This is the final entry in a series of articles begun in the summer issue of NJPH, Aug. 2008, Vol. 33, No. 3, Whole No. 171 and continued in the November 2008 (Whole No. 172) and the February, May, August & November 2009 (Whole Nos. 173 – 176) issues. Because of the length of service of Kitty Hawk, we have found it necessary to subdivide Part VI into parts A & B – through Viet Nam and after Viet Nam.
View this issue online… President’s Message by Robert G. Rose Samuel Dodd, Engraver of a Hackettstown Postmark by Steve Beare New Jersey Origins of the NBA by John A. Trosky More New Jersey Military Cancels by Gene Fricks The Holcombe Farm Cancellers by Jim Walker Notes on New Jersey Highway Post Offices by William A. […]
by Jim Walker
This article takes a very limited look at the operation of the APO during the Vietnam War. As can be seen, all mail is to or from New Jersey addresses. All but one of the outgoing covers make use of the free franking privilege for military personnel serving in a combat zone which included most of Southeast Asia.
View this issue online… President’s Message by Robert G. Rose APOs ~ Vietnam-New Jersey Correspondence by Jim Walker A Second LZ-127 Cover! by Len Peck New Jersey Highway Post Offices by Jean Walton Some Closed Base Post Offices by Doug D’Avino Hunterdon County Postal History: Part 10 – Current POs Q-Z by Jim Walker NJ-Built […]
by John Trosky
The Graf Zeppelin was built in Friedrichshafen, Germany and first flew on September 15, 1928. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Hugo Eckener, head of Luftshiffbau Zeppelin, commanded the mighty airship on its first intercontinental passenger flight from Germany to the USA, departing on October 11, 1928 and arriving at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station only four days later after flybys of Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD and New York City.
View this issue online… President’s Message by Robert G. Rose Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127) Maiden Flight Cover from the USA, with a Jersey City NJ Cancel by John Trosky New Jersey Supplementary Mail by Leonard Piszkiewicz David Stryker – First Postmaster of Ironia In Randolph, NJ and the Ironia Post Office by Gail Hari w/Larry Lowenthal […]
A December 4, 1905 cover from Maurer, NJ, which is also shown below with the inside invitation to a Metzelsuppe visible.
A pretty little letter sheet invitation from a local hotel in Maurer (now part of Perth Amboy, Middlesex County), NJ turned up at the Garfield-Perry Show in Cleveland, in JWF (Jim Faber’s) stock. Used in 1905, it is from a community that literally does not exist anymore. The location is now the site of a large “tank farm” belonging to Chevron.
View this issue online… President’s Message by Robert G. Rose NOJEX and Our Annual NJPHS Meeting! New Jersey’s Ornamented Mortised Postmark by Robert G. Rose Hunterdon County Postal History: Part 8 – Current POs A-F by Jim Walker NJ-Built U.S. Fast Aircraft Carriers: Part IV by Lawrence Brennan Development of Sussex POs: Hamburg & the […]
