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The Proud History of the USS New Jersey BB-62
by Captain Lawrence B. Brennan, US Navy (Retired)
Eighty years ago, the United States Navy ordered Battleship Number 62, ultimately to be named USS New Jersey, to be built at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.3 Today, that ship is moored across the Delaware River at Camden, New Jersey as a Museum Ship. During the intervening nearly 50 years…
JERSEY HOMESTEADS: A New Deal Community’s Postal History
By Robert G. Rose
During the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930’s, a planned community known as Jersey Homesteads was established in what was then a largely rural area in Monmouth County, New Jersey with the financial support of the federal government. Jersey Homesteads was one of 99 New Deal communities established during the depression.
PER THE MORRIS POST: Hibernia Furnace to New York City in 1774
By Tim O’Connor
The William Alexander archive in the New York Historical Society houses many letters from the pre-revolutionary and wartime eras. During an exploration of that archive I encountered two letters from Hibernia Furnace in Morris County, New Jersey which bore interesting superscriptions. They are the topic of this report.
NEW JERSEY’S MOST VALUABLE COVER
By Robert G. Rose
The recent auction of a portion of the famed William H. Gross collection included the most valuable cover in all of New Jersey postal history.1 Illustrated below is the cover on which is affixed a 4¢ brown imperforate stamp with Schermack Type III perforations, Scott 314A. Against a pre-sale estimate of $100-150,000 it sold for a hammer price of $130,000 plus an 18% buyer’s fee of $23,400 for a record total of $153,400.
A.C. ROESSLER, A JERSEY LEGEND
By John Lupia
Albert Charles Roessler, Jr. (1883-1952), 140 South Parkway, East Orange, New Jersey, coin and stamp dealer, began trading as a stamp dealer in Denver. Roessler was both a stamp and coin collector and dealer. His coin business lasted over thirty years. His stamp business was extraordinary and novel, introducing a myriad of artistic illustrations for stamps…
A HAND DELIVERED PIECE OF HISTORY
By James Wardell
The recent acquisition of an 1811 letter from a Toronto antiques dealer has sent me down a rabbit hole of research, trying to uncover historical ties to this 207-year-old piece of paper. Initially the usual Google searches uncovered very little, but a connection to the New Jersey Postal History Society has proven very fruitful.
