Vol. 41 No. 2 Whole number 190  May 2013

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  • President’s Message by Robert G. Rose
  • NOJEX and Annual Meeting
  • Stage Coach Operations and the Mails in NJ, Part 2 by Steven M. Roth
  • Heaven, Hell Or Cresskill? A Jersey City/Cresskill Connection to the A.E.F. in World War I by John Trosky
  • Twelve Cent 1851 Issue Usage In New Jersey:  Revisited by Robert G. Rose
  • Stampless Prepaid Transcontinental Cover from Marysville CA to NJ by James W. Milgram, M.D.
  • Civil War Soldier’s Letters from Camp Ruff by Richard Micchelli
  • On the Auction Scene: 5¢1847 Issue with Trenton Star Cancel by Robert G. Rose
  • Hometown Post Offices:  Sergeantsville, NJ Doug D’Avino
  • Member News:  Treasurers Report, Donors, New Members
  • Member Ads
  • Literature Available

INTENDED FOR THE GRAF ZEPPELIN BUT CARRIED BY STEAMER?

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By John Trosky

The first decades of the 20th century saw the dawn of a new age in mail transport, airmail. By the late 1920s the US Post Office Department had established many routes across the continental US to speed the transportation of mail. Transatlantic mail on the other hand remained the purview of the fast ocean steamer. It was only in 1927 that Lindbergh had finally conquered the Atlantic by aircraft.

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Vol. 41 No. 1 Whole number 189  February 2013

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  • President’s Message by Robert G. Rose
  • Intended for Graf Zeppelin But Carried By Steamer by John Trosky
  • Stage Coach Operations and the Mails in NJ, Part 1 by Steven M. Roth
  • Paterson Commemorates the Emancipation Proclamation by Gene Fricks
  • Who Was Sam Miller & What Happened To Him? by Prof. Mark Sommer
  • Legislative Free Franks of NJ, Part II & A New Earliest Free Frank by Ed & Jean Siskin
  • Riverton “Wide” Precans: New Jersey’s Only Horizontal Type by Robert R. Goller
  • Amos Kendall Post PO Fire Letters to NJ Post Offices by Jean Walton
  • Hometown Post Offices:  Robbinsville, NJ by Doug D’Avino
  • Member News:  NJPH Erratum, Donors, New Members
  • Member Ads
  • Literature Available

LEGISLATIVE FRANKS OF NEW JERSEY

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By Ed and Jean Siskin The franking privilege is the right to send and or receive mail free from postage. The word frank comes from the Latin via French and Middle English and means free. Samuel Johnson’s famous dictionary of 1755 defines Frank as “A letter which pays no postage” and To Frank as “To exempt letters from postage.”

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Vol. 40 No. 4 Whole number 188  November 2012

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  • President’s Message by Robert G. Rose
  • New Jersey’s First Federally-Supplied Handstamps by Robert G. Rose
  • New Jersey’s Legislative Franks by Ed & Jean Siskin
  • Bridgeton’s Postmasters of the 19th Century by Doug D’Avino
  • On The Auction Scene: New Jersey Stampless Covers by Robert G. Rose
  • 75th Anniversary of the Hindenburg Disaster: NJ Notes by Jean Walton
  • Hometown Post Offices:  Changewater, NJ by Arnie Englund
  • Member News:  NJPHS EBay Auction, New Members
  • Member Ads
  • Literature Available

HADLEY AIR FIELD, NEW BRUNSWICK. NEW JERSEY

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By Jim Walker

Early air mail service in the New York area used an assortment of air fields on Long Island. Hazlehurst Field was the one in use at the commencement of Transcontinental Air Mail Service in 1924 and was deemed inadequate due to smoke from city industries and ocean fog.

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Vol. 40 No. 3 Whole number 187  August 2012

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  • President’s Message by Robert G. Rose
  • Hadley Air Field, New Brunswick, NJ by Jim Walker
  • Seabrook, NJ (08302) by Gene Fricks
  • Census of Early New Jersey Covers: Part 4: Town Markings by Ed and Jean Siskin
  • Ebay Discoveries – Some Nice Finds by Don Chafetz
  • Perfins for the State Of New Jersey – A Review by Fricks, Rose, Jackson, and Hoppis
  • Philatelic Shorts: Birmingham, NJ by Gene Fricks
  • James Moody, An American Loyalist & His Interceptions of Washington’s Communications with Philadelphia by Jean Walton
  • Hometown Post Offices: Bridgeton, NJ by Doug D’Avino
  • Member News: Annual Meeting, Web Resources, New Members, Obituary
  • Member Ads
  • Literature Available

FIVE CENT 1856 STAMP ON COVERS FROM NEW JERSEY

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By Robert G. Rose

Have you ever fantasized, as have I, of forming a collection of United States classic stamps used on covers from New Jersey? If so, the task to put such a collection together would be a real challenge. For unlike its neighboring states with cities such as Boston, New York and Philadelphia, where substantial commercial correspondences were preserved to the later benefit of collectors, there have been no major “finds” of covers from New Jersey bearing postage stamps from the first issue in 1847 and the second issue of 1851-56.

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Vol. 40 No. 2 Whole number 186  May 2012

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  • President’s Message by Robert G. Rose
  • NOJEX and Annual NJPHS Meeting
  • Share Your Hometown Post Offices: GSPCC Request by Doug D’Avino & Arne Englund
  • Five Cent 1856 Stamp on Covers from New Jersey by Robert G. Rose
  • From Guadalcanal to the Garden State: August 6, 1942: Part II by Lawrence Brennan
  • Women’s Suffrage in New Jersey by Gene Fricks
  • Anderson/Port Colden/Penwell/Port Murray Post Offices by Arne Englund
  • Special Delivery: Riverton NJ by John McCormick, Patricia Solin, and  Paul W. Schopp
  • Parker & Califon Cancellers by Jim Walker
  • Early Scouting Post Cards Posted in New Jersey by John D. Dowd
  • NJ Central Hauls the Mail: RPO at Bound Brook by Thomas Nemeth
  • Clarksboro Query by Gene Fricks
  • Titanic Mail Clerk John March by Jean R. Walton
  • Member News: Annual Meeting, Donors, New Members
  • Member Ads
  • Literature Available

A WONDERFUL REVOLUTIONARY WAR LETTER

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By Ed & Jean Siskin

In the Oct-Nov 1988 issue of La Posta, Tom Clarke wrote an article about a wonderful Revolutionary War cover he had. Dated February 16, 1777, from New Brunswick, New Jersey, it was from a British officer to his brother, the Earl of Lauderdale in Edinburgh, Scotland and discussed, among other things, the recent Battle of Trenton. Tom kindly let me acquire it and for many years it remained one of my favorite covers. Now that it’s moving on to a new owner, it seems appropriate to provide additional documentation of this gem.

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