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MAIL SENT ABROAD FROM MORRIS COUNTY
By Don Chafetz
In my collection of Morris County material, I have a number of covers sent abroad. These covers present an expanded and most challenging area of study…
POSTAL CARDS and HIRAM E. DEATS
By Larry T. Nix
I became aware of Hiram E. Deats (1870-1963), the famous New Jersey philatelist and collector and member of the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame, through my interest in postal items related to libraries. Deats had a number of significant connections with philatelic and non-philatelic libraries. In going through thousands of dealer covers and searching eBay for library related items I kept coming across postal items related to Deats.
THE FIRST U.S. WARSHIP SUNK ON 7 DECEMBER 1941
By Captain Lawrence B. Brennan, U.S. Navy (Retired)
The first and last U.S. warships sunk in the Pacific during World War II were violently destroyed with the massive loss of life; both were built by New York Shipbuilding in Camden, New Jersey; both suffered fatal damage from multiple torpedoes; both capsized within 12 minutes. The battleship, USS Oklahoma (BB 37), was sunk at Pearl Harbor on the morning of Sunday, 7 December 1941, with the loss of 429 officers and men; suffering the second greatest number of casualties that morning…
THE HISTORY of the BATSTO Post Office
By Arne Englund
The cover shown in Figure 1 is the first reported example of the stampless-era Batsto, NJ CDS. At NOJEX in 2013 I asked one of the cover dealers if he had any New Jersey covers, and he replied that he only had a few, which he’d just acquired. This cover was on the top of the small stack, where it stayed for all of about two seconds(!).
NJ STRAIGHT LINE HANDSTAMP POSTMARKS: Lawrenceville, NJ
By Robert G. Rose
The U.S. Philatelic Classics Society is in the process of completing an update of the American Stampless Cover Catalog, which was last revised in 1997. That project has been supported by the New Jersey Postal History Society, whose members have researched, collected and compiled data for the catalog’s New Jersey listings. The project has provided the author with the opportunity of taking a fresh look at the listings for the straight line postmarks which are among the most avidly sought by collectors of stampless covers. This article’s focus is on the straight line postmarks from Lawrenceville, which post office produced the widest variety of such markings.
LINCOLN FUNERAL TRAIN PASSES THROUGH NEW JERSEY
By Jean R. Walton
One hundred fifty years ago, President Lincoln’s death overwhelmed this country with grief. He died on April 15, after having been shot by Booth at the Ford Theater the evening before – a story familiar to most Americans.
