Vol. 42 No. 3 Whole number 195 August 2014

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  • President’s Message by Robert G. Rose
  • MERPEX!
  • Garden State Postcard Show
  • Earliest Reported Burlington cancel: 1767 by Ed & Jean Siskin
  • NJ Stampless County Postmarks by Robert G. Rose
  • NJ Soldier Letters in the Civil War by Dennis Buttacavoli
  • Newly Discovered NJ Express Memorabilia, Part IV by Bruce Mosher
  • NJ Locals: Bradway’s Despatch by Larry Lyons
  • NJ 1st All NJ Air Mail 1937 by Don Chafetz
  • Hometown Post Offices: Green Village, NJ by Jean R. Walton
  • Web Site Update by Warren Plank
  • Member News: Annual Meeting Minutes, Membership Changes, Obituaries
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NEW JERSEY’S NEGATIVE LETTERED STAMPLESS POSTMARKS

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by Robert G. Rose

During the period that domestic stampless mail was permitted ending in 1855, two New Jersey post offices employed negative lettered handstamped postmarks. As a branch of postal history known as “marcophily,” these markings are avidly collected for their eye-catching appearance.

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Vol. 42 No. 2 Whole number 194  May 2014

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  • President’s Message by Robert G. Rose
  • NOJEX and Annual Meeting
  • NJ’s Negative Lettered Stampless Postmarks by Robert G. Rose
  • Newly Discovered NJ Express Memorabilia, Part III by Bruce Mosher
  • NJ & Lincoln’s Re-Election In 1864 by Richard Micchelli & Jean R. Walton
  • Jenkins’ Camden Dispatch by Larry Lyons
  • The Valley: A Tale of Three Post Offices by Jean R. Walton
  • Hometown Post Offices: Cape May, NJ by Doug D’Avino
  • Member News: Len Peck Obituary, Donors, Membership Changes, Dues
  • Treasurer’s Report by Andy Kupersmit
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BRIDGETON FORERUNNER, 1694

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By Ed & Jean Siskin

The excellent articles on the Bridgeton Post Office and its postmasters by Doug D’Avino started with its first United States post office in 1792. As a prequel to those articles, it is worth discussing a letter from the Bridgeton area a century earlier.

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Vol. 42 No. 1 Whole number 193  February 2014

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  • President’s Message by Robert G. Rose
  • Bridgeton Forerunner, 1694 by Ed & Jean Siskin
  • Where Can I Mail A Letter? The History of Postal Service in Maplewood by Gail R. Safian
  • Paulsboro NJ Via Philadelphia Transit by John D. Dowd
  • Philatelic Morris Canal, Part 2 by Don Chafetz
  • USS LING, SS 297, New Jersey Memorial Submarine by Prof. Mark Sommer
  • Beemersville, 1841 by Ed & Jean Siskin
  • Communications with Secretary of the Navy Southard by Jean R. Walton
  • Hometown Post Offices: Griggstown, NJ by Doug D’Avino
  • Member News: Thanks, Membership Changes, Dues
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JERSEY CITY AND THE BEGINNING OF BIG TOBACCO

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By John A. Trosky

P. Lorillard & Company, one of the most iconic names in the tobacco industry in America, had its beginnings in the New York City area in the mid 17th century. The company was founded by Pierre Abraham Lorillard, a French Huguenot, in the year 1760. Its small beginnings were from a rented home on Chatham Street, now Park Row, in lower Manhattan. The company began as a snuff grinding factory. Lorillard is recognized as the first man to make snuff in America…

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Vol. 41 No. 4 Whole number 192  November 2013

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  • President’s Message by Robert G. Rose
  • Jersey City and the Beginnings of Big Tobacco by John Trosky
  • Recently Discovered Private Express Memorabilia Used In NJ: Part II by Bruce Mosher
  • National Air Mail Week 1938: Revisited by Jim Walker
  • Philatelic Morris Canal by Don Chafetz
  • Member News: Thanks, Membership Changes, Dues
  • Hometown Post Offices: Watchung, NJ by Doug D’Avino
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UNOFFICIAL REGISTRATION OF NEW JERSEY STAMPLESS COVERS

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By James W. Milgram, M.D.

From November 1, 1845 to June 30, 1855 there was an unofficial type of Registration of valuable letters at most post offices within the United States. The first marking is the large blue “R” applied on receipt at Philadelphia beginning in 1845. Later beginning in 1847 some post offices began to mark valuable mail at the post offices of mailing. There were other post offices which applied markings on receipt and a few which applied markings on transient mail that was registered. The author has written several articles and a book on this subject.

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Vol. 41 No.3 Whole Number 191 August 2013

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  • President’s Message by Robert G. Rose
  • MERPEX XXXVII
  • Unofficial Registration Of New Jersey Stampless Covers by James W. Milgram, M.D.
  • An Announcement from Trader’s Express by Bruce Mosher
  • Legislative Franks of NJ: Supplemental Information by Ed & Jean Siskin
  • Correspondence between NJ & Tennessee by L. Steve Edmondson
  • On the Auction Scene: Pan-Pacific FDC by Robert G. Rose
  • Civil War Soldier’s Letters by Richard Micchelli & Craig Mathewson
  • Hudson Heights: Another Small Post Office by Gene Fricks
  • Recently Discovered Private Express Memorabilia Used In NJ: Part I by Bruce Mosher
  • Free Franks Of Samuel Southard by Jean Walton
  • Hometown Post Offices: Summit, NJ by Doug D’Avino
  • Member News: Annual Meeting Minutes, Spellman Symposium, Donors, New Members
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STAGE OPERATIONS AND THE MAILS IN NEW JERSEY

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By Steven M. Roth

This completes the two-part article on New Jersey stage lines, begun in our last issue, by Steven M. Roth (see NJPH, Feb. 2013, Vol 41, No. 1, Whole number 189 for a comprehensive introduction to the subject). See also our May 2013 Featured Cover page.

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