FIVE CENT 1856 STAMP ON COVERS FROM NEW JERSEY
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.
