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UNITED STATES LOCALS Overview

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Boyd City Express and Boyd's Dispatch - D.O Blood & Co

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ATTENTION: many of the local stamps of the United States are reprints or forgeries! I have never seen an area with more forgeries, reprints and even bogus issues than the locals and carriers of the United States. If I do not specifically state that an item is genuine in this catalogue, then I'm not sure that it is!

Specialist distinguish between postmaster issues (official issues before the general issues of the United States in1847), locals, carriers, express company labels etc. A usefull introduction on locals, carriers etc. can be found on: http://www.pennypost.org/Collecting%20US%20Locals%20by%20Hahn%201976%20Updated.pdf.

The most common locals are those of Blood's, Boyd's, Hussey's and Swart's. Most others are rare to extremely rare. I have decided to list these stamps anyway (even if only a few copies are known), so collectors can be warned against the many forgeries of these stamps.

In the following table I have tried to assemble all the locals, carriers, postmaster and bogus issues known to me.

Name	Year of issue	City	Status	Remarks
3rd Ave Post SR			Local
8th Avenue Post office paid	?	New York	?	Colour red, see under Russell
Adams & Co Express	1854		Local
Adam's City Express	1850	New York	Local
Alexandria	1846	Alexandria	Postmaster
Allen's Dispatch	1882
Alliance Business College	?	?	?	Bogus?
American Express Company	1856	New York	Local
American Letter Mail Co	1844	New York	Local
Annapolis	1846	Annapolis	Postmaster	Could be bogus
Athens	1861	Athens Ga	Confederate
Auner's Despatch Post			Local	Extremely rare
Bakers City Express Post	1849		Local	Very rare
Baldwin's Railroad Postage	?	?	?
Barnard's Cariboo Express			Local
Barnard's City Letter Express	1845		Local
Barr's Penny Dispatch	1855
Baton Rouge	1861	Baton Rouge	Confederate
Bayonne City Dispatch	1883		Local
Beaumont	1861	Beaumont Tex	Confederate
Beckman's City Post	1860	Charleston	Semi-official	Extremely rare
Bentley's Dispatch	1857	New York	Local
Berford & Co	1851		Local
Bicycle Mail Route	1894	Fresno and San Francisco	Local
Bishop's City Post	1854	Cleveland	Carrier
Blizzard Mail to N.Y.P.O	1888	New York	Local
Blood	1843	Philadelphia	Local
Boscawen stamp	1846	Boscawen	Postmaster	Only one copy known to exist
Bouton Manhattan Express	1848		Local
Bouton City Dispatch Post	1848		Local
Bowery Post Office	?	?	Bogus	Made by S.Allan Taylor
Boyce's City Express Post			Local
Boyd's City Express		New York	Local
F. Bradley PM Paid	?	-	Bogus	Bogus confederate stamp
Brady & Co	1857	New York	Local
Bradway Despatch		Millville	Local
Brainard & Co		New York	Local
Brattleboro	1846	Brattleboro	Postmaster
Bridge Despatch	?	Columbia and Wrightsville	?	Bronze on orange or bronze on yellow
Bridgeville	1861	Bridgeville Ala	Confederate	Extremely rare
Brigg's Despatch			Local
Broadway Post-office	1849(?)	New York	Local
Bronson & Forbes	1856-57		Local
Brooklyn City Express	1853	Brooklyn	Local
Brown(e) & Co	1852		Local
Brown(e) & Mc Gills	1857	Louisville	Carrier
Brown's City Post			?	Made for stamp collectors
Browne's Eastern Despatch Post	1857		Local
Buchanan (James M.)	1846	Baltimore	Postmaster
Buck's Express Richmond	?	-	Bogus	Bogus confederate stamp
Bury's City Post			Local
Bush's Brooklyn City Express	1848-50	Brooklyn	Local	Extremely rare
C.&W. Bridge Despatch	?	?	Bogus?
California City Letter Express			Local
California Penny Post Co			Local
Mc Callaway	1861	Memphis Tenn	Confederate
Carnes	1864	San Francisco	Local	Bear
Carrier's Dispatch	1856	Baltimore	Carrier	'Eye' stamp, actually a 1 c coin
Carter's Despatch			Local
Central Post Office				1 c black on yellow
Charleston	1861	Charleston SC	Confederate
Charleston P.O Paid	?	-	Bogus	Picture of fort
Cheever & Towle		Boston	Local
Charlton (C.H.)	1861	Knoxville Tenn	Confederate
Chicago Penny Post	1862	Chicago	Local
Cie Franco Americaine				Steamship to right in oval, listed in Cd 2
Cincinnati City Delivery		Cincinnati	Local
City Dispatch	1841	New York
City Dispatch	1851	St.Louis	Local	Only two copies known
City Dispatch	1847	New Orleans
City Dispatch Delivery	1860	Philadelphia	Local	Figure of justice in oval
City Express Post		New York	?	Numeral of value in octagon
City Express Post		Philadelphia	Local	Extremely rare
City Express Messenger	?	Australia	-	Issued in Australia
City Letter Express			Local
City Letter Express	1856	Newark	Local	Extremely rare
City Mail Free Stamp	1845	New York	Local	Extremely rare
City Post	1854	Charleston	Semi-official	Extremely rare
Clark & Co	1857	New York	Local
Clark & Hall	1851	St.Louis	Local	Extremely rare
Clarke's Express	1865(?)	New York	Local	Extremely rare
Clinton's Penny Post	185?	Philadelphia	Local	Only two genuine stamps, many forgeries
Coleman W.D.	1861	Danville Va	Confederate	Extremely rare
Colman & Law	1861	Gonzales Tex	Confederate	Extremely rare
Columbia P.O. Postage Paid	?	-	Bogus
Cook's Dispatch	1853	Baltimore	Local	Only 5 stamps known
Cornwell Post Office Madison Square	1856	New York	Local
Crawford PM	1861	Athens Ga	Confederate
Cressman & Co's Penny Post	1856	Philadelphia	Local
Crosby's City Post	1870	New York	Local	Not very rare in unused condition
Cumming's City Post	1844	New York	Local
Cutting's Despatch Post	1847	Buffalo NY	Local	Only 1 copy (maybe 2) known

 

Name	Year of issue	City	Status	Remarks
Davis (R.E.)	1861	Pleasant Shade Va	Confederate
Davis Penny Post	1847	Baltimore	Local	Extremely rare
De Ming's Penny Post	1854	Frankford, Pa	Local
Donaldson's Despatch	?	?	Bogus	Made by S. Allan Taylor
Douglas City Dispatch	1879	New York	Local
Down's Dispatch	?	?	Bogus?
Dupuy & Schenck	1846	New York	Local
Dutch Flat Express	?	?	Bogus	Made by S.Allan Taylor (after a similar envelope)
Eagle City Post	1847	Philadelphia	?	Adam's Express 80 Chestnut st.
Eagle Post Paid		Phildelphia	Local	at Adam's Express 48 So. 3rd.
East River P.O. 18 Ave D.		Philadelphia	Local	Steamship
Emory	1861	Emory Va	Confederate
Empire City Dispatch	1881	New York	Local	Not rare
Essex Letter Express	?	Essex	Local
F.B.S (Friend's Boarding School)	1877	Barnesville, Ohio	Label?
Faunce's Penny Post	1885	Atlantic City	Local
Florida Express	?	-	Bogus	Bogus confederate stamp
Floyd's Penny Post	1860	Chicago	Local
Flynn's Penny Post			?
Franklin City Despatch Post	1847	New York	Local	Bogus designs exist
Frazer & Co	1845	Cincinnati	Local
Fredericksb'g	1861	Fredericksburg Va	Confederate
Freeman & Co	1855?	New York	Local
G.&H. Paid	1849	San Francisco	Local
Glen Haven Daily Mail	1848	Glen Haven N.Y	Local
Galatin	1861	Galatin Tenn	Confederate
Galveston	?	-	Bogus	Bogus confederate stamp
Goliad	1861	Goliad Tex	Confederate
Gordon's City Express	1848	New York	Local	Rare
Government City Dispatch	1851	Baltimore	Carrier	Man on horseback
Grafflin's Despatch	1856	Baltimore	Local
Mc Greeley Express	1898	Alaska	Local?
Greenville	1861	Greenville Ala	Confederate	Extremely rare
Grove Hill	1861	Grove Hill Ala	Confederate	Extremely rare
Gumm's Despatch Paid			?
Guy's City Despatch	1879	Philadelphia	Local
H&B (Hackney & Bolte)	1886	Atlantic City	Local
Hale & Co	1844	Boston	Local
Hall & Mill's Free Despatch Post	1847	New York	Local
Hall & Neill's Free Despatch Post	?	?	?
Hampton T.A.	1847	Philadelphia	Local
Hanford's Pony Express	1845	New York	Local
Hanley's Express Post Letter Stamps			?
Harris G.S	1847	Philadelphia	Local	Extremely rare
Hartford	1844	Hartford Conn	Local	Man walking with bag of mail
Hartford Daily Mail	-	-	Bogus	Made by S.Allan Taylor
Helena	1861	Helena Tex	Confederate	Extremely rare
Hill's post	1849	Boston	Local	Very rare
Hinckleys Express Co	1855	New York	Local	Never put into use
Homan's Empire Express PAID	1852	New York	Local	Extremely rare
Honour's City Post	1849	Charleston	Carrier
Hopedale Penny Post	1849	Milford, Mass	Local	very rare
Hourly Express Post Letter Stamp	Before 1864	-	Bogus	Made by S.Allan Taylor
Houston Tex Post Office	?	-	Bogus	Bogus confederate stamp
J.A.Howell's City Despatch	184?	Philadelphia	Local	Extremely rare
Hoogs & Madison Dispatch Post	?	-	Bogus issue	No picture available yet
Hoyt's Letter Express	1844	Rochester	Local	Very rare
Humboldt Express	1863	Nevada	Local
Hussey's		New York	Local
Independance	1861	Independance Tex	Confederate
International Letter Express	Before 1864	-	Bogus
International Express	Before 1864	-	Bogus
Mc Intires City Express	1859	New York	Local
Jefferson Market Post Office	1850	New York	Local	Extremely rare
Jenkin's Camden Dispatch	1853	Camden N.J.	Local
Johnson (J.P.)	1861	Pittsylvania CH Va	Confederate	Extremely rare
Johnson (M.F.)	1861	Tellico Plains Tenn	Confederate
Johnson Box	Before 1864	Philadelphia	Label	'To the Post Office Every 2 Hours'
Johnson & Co	1848	Baltimore	Local	Extremely rare
Jones City Express	1845	Brooklyn	Local
Kellogg's Penny Post & City Despatch	1853	Cleveland	Local
Kers City Post	Before 1864	Supposed to be in Canada	Bogus	Made by S. Allan Taylor
Kidder's City Express Post	1847	New York	Local
Kingman's City Post	?	?	Bogus issue	With image of train
Kingman's City Post	1851	Charleston	Semi-official	Extremely rare
Kingston	1861	Kingston Tenn	Bogus Confederate
Knoxville	1861	Knoxville Tenn	Confederate
Kurz E.H.L. Union Despatch	1853	New York	Local	Extremely rare
Mt Lebanon	1861	Mt Lebanon La	Confederate
Le Beau City Post	?	?	Bogus	Made by S. Allan Taylor
Ledger Dispatch	1882	Brooklyn	Local
Letter Express Free	1844	-	Local
Lenoir	1861	Lenoir NC	Confederate
Livingston	1861	Livingston Ala	Confederate
Lynchburg	1861	Lynchburg Va	Confederate
Lynchburg VA Paid	?	-	Bogus	Bogus confederate stamp
Lockport	1846	Lockport NY	Postmaster
Locomotive Express Post	1847	New York	Local	Extremely rare
Macon	1861	Macon Ca	Confederate
Magic Letter Express	1865	Richmond Va	Local	Extremely rare
Marion	1861	Marion Va	Confederate
Martin's City Post
Mason's	1850	New Orleans	Local
McCallaway	1861	Memphis	Confederate
McIntire City Express	1859	New York	Local
McMillan's Dispatch	1855	New York	Local	Extremely rare
Mearis M.W.	1846	Baltimore	Local	Rare
Memphis	1861	Memphis Tenn	Confederate
Menant & Co	?	New Orleans	Local
Mercantile Library Delivery Stamp	1870	New York	Local
Messenkopes	1849	New York	Local
Metropolitan Express	1855	New York	Local
Metropolitan PO	1852	New York	Local
Millbury	1846	Millbury	Postmaster	Head of Washington
Mill's (G.A.) Free Despatch Post	1847	New York	Local
De Ming's Penny Post		Philadelphia	Local
Mobile	1861	Mobile Ala	Confederate
Moody (J.A.)	1861	Victoria Tex	Confederate
Moody Penny Despatch	1856	Chicago	Local
Murr's Express Utah	?	?	Bogus?

 

Name	Year of issue	City	Status	Remarks
Newburgh American Express	?	Newburgh	?	Crossed American flags in circle (blue on red)
New Jersey Express	?	New Jersey	?	Envelopes?
New York City Express Post	1847	New York	Local
New Smyrna	1861	New Smyrna Fla	Confederate	Extremely rare
Mc Nish	1861	Nashville Tenn	Confederate
New York Post Office	1845	New York	Postmaster
New Haven	1845	New Haven	Postmaster	Envelopes only
NY City Post	?	-	Bogus	Made by Taylor
Overton & Co Letter Express	1844	New York and Boston	Local
Page & Keyes, City Letter Express	?	?	Bogus?	2 c blackon lilac, 2 c black on blue
Pence D.	1861	Rheatown Tenn	Confederate
Penny Post	1850	Boston	Carrier
Penny Post	?	?	Bogus	With portrait of Washington
Penny Express Company	1866	?	?
Petersburg	1861	Petersburg Va	Confederate
Pinkney's Express Post	1851	New York	Local	Extremely rare
Pips Daily Mail	?	New York	Local
Pomeroys Letter Express	1844	New York	Local
Post Office Despatch	1852	Baltimore	Carrier
Prices City Express	1857	New York	Local
Price's Post Office	1854	New York	Local	Very rare
Priest Despatch	1851	Chicago	Local
Prince J.H. Letter Dispatch	1861	Portland (Maine)	Local	Steamship
Prince E.D. Letter Dispatch	?	-	Bogus	Steamship
Providence	1846	Providence	Postmaster	'Post Office Prov. R.I.' in an ellipse
Providence Despatch	1849	Providence	Local
Publishers PAID STAMP W.F. & Co's Express	1876	San Diego?	Local
Reed's City-Despatch Post	1853	San Fransisco	Local	Extremely rare
Richmond City Post	?	-	Bogus	Bougs confederate stamp
Richmond Postage	?	-	Bogus	Bogus confederate stamp
Rickett & Hall	1857	Baltimore	Local	Extremely rare
Riddell (J.L.)	1861	New Orleans	Confederate
Roadman's Penny Post			?	Surrounded by a chain border
Robinson & Co	1855	New York	Local
Roche's City Dispatch	1850	Wilmington Del	Local	Extremely rare
Rogers' Penny Post	1856	Newark	Local	Only one stamp known to exist
Russell Post Office	1854	New York	Local
St.Louis bears	1845	St.Louis	Postmaster
St.Louis City Delivery	1883	St.Louis	Local
Salem	1861	Salem Va	Confederate	Extremely rare
Selma Ala PO CS Postage	?	-	Bogus	Bogus confederate stamp
Smith's City Express	Before 1864	?	Bogus	Several bogus labels
Souter and Co City Letter Express			?	Head to right in oval
Sparta Alabama W.Beard P.M	?	-	Bogus	Bogus confederate stamp
Spartanburg	1861	Spartanburg SC	Confederate	Extremely rare
Spaulding's Penny Post	1847	Buffalo	Local	Extremely rare
Spence & Brown Express	1848(?)	Philadelphia	Local	Extremely rare
Squier & Co	1859	St. Louis	Local
Squire's City Express Post	?	-	Bogus (Taylor)	Star in ellipse
Stait W. of the City Despatch	?	New York (?)	?	'48 S 3rd St. will call for contributions, by authority of the cheap postage committee'
Stait's Despatch	?	?	?	'STAIT'S DEPATCH S.Third Street PAID'
Staten Island Express Post	1849	New York	Local
Statesville N.C. Prepaid	?	-	Bogus	Bogus confederate stamp
Steinmeyer's City Post	1858	Charleston	Carrier
Stringer & Morton's City Despatch	1850	Baltimore	Local
Sullivan's Dispatch Post	1853	Cincinnati	Local
Swarts	1849	New York	Local
Tabernacle Fair	?	-	Bogus	Made by the forger Taylor
Teese & Co	1852	Philadelphia	Local
Telegraph Despatch	1848	Philadelphia	Local	Rare
Thompson and Co	?	Albany	?	American Express, no value
Tuscumbia	1858	Tuscumbia Ala	Postmaster	Envelope
United States City Despatch Post	1841	New York
Uniontown	1861	Uniontown Ala	Confederate
Union Despatch	?	Chicago	Local	Many forgeries exist
Union Square		New York	Local
US Mail Prepaid	1846	New York	Carrier
US Penny Post	1849	St.Louis	Carrier
U.S.P.O	1849	Philadelphia	Carrier
W.F.&Co's Express	1876	?	Local	See under Publishers' Paid Stamp
Walton&Co City Express	1846	Brooklyn NY	Local
Wand & Davis' Express	?	?	Bogus?
Warwick City Dispatch Post	?	?	Bogus	Made by Taylor?
Washington Despatch	1856	Washington and Baltimore	Local	Also exists with 'Washington City' erased to be used in Baltimore
Weldon	?	-	Bogus	Bogus confederate stamp
Wells Fargo and Co	1861		Local
West Town		Philadelphia	Local	(Boarding School)
Westervelt's Post		Chester NY	Local
Whittelseys Express	1857		Local
Wilmington Paid	?	-	Bogus	Bogus confederate stamp
Winan's City Post	Before 1864	?	Bogus
Wood&Co	1856	Baltimore	Local	Extremely rare
Wyman W.	1844	Boston to New York	Local	Train with carriage
Zieber's Dispatch	1851	Pittsburgh	Local	Extremely rare

Sanitary fair stamps and Bazaar post

Sanitairy fair stamps are unofficial stamps issued by the Sanitary Fair Commission in order to raise funds for the Union troops (sometimes these stamps are considered as a forerunner of a red cross issue). The first sanitary fair stamp was issued in 1863 with inscription 'Young Ladies of Brooklyn Bazaar'. Examples:

(Images obtained from a Rumsey auction, I have seen forgeries of this stamp)

There are other sanitary fair stamps with inscription 'NATIONAL SAILORS FAIR' (10 c green, issued in 1864, sorry no picture available yet).

Bazaar Post Office

The above stamp was issued in 1864 for a army relief bazaar in Albany, New York. A 10 c red and 10 c black exist. I have seen reprints (forgeries?) in the colours blue, black, green and red. Stamps with inscription Tabernacle Fair were made by the forger Taylor.

(Image obtained from a Siegel auction)

Some other bazaar stamps with inscription 'Bazaar Post Office' stamp were issued in 1864 with an eagle in the design (value 10 c; colours blue, red or black).

Again another design with an eagle with the text 'CENTRAL FAIR POSTAGE SANITARY COMMISION' was also issued in 1864 (values 10 c blue, 20 c green and 30 c black).
Be careful when acquiring cancelled stamps (these stamps are worth about 10 times more in cancelled condition). Even quite recently (October 2002), unused stamps were for sale on E-bay, to show up one month later in cancelled condtion on the same internet auction platform ! (source: http://www.pcug.org.au/~sheryll/Forgeries/Fraud/Forgeries_article_Fraud.htm ).

Finally there exist some Soldier Fair stamps:
1) Inscription 'SOLDIERS FAIR Springfield Mass' (value 10 c lilac, 1864)
2) Inscription 'SOLDIERS FAIR STAMFORD' (value 15 c brown, 1864)

Forgeries exist, examples:

(Forgeries of the Stamford Soldiers Fair, reduced sizes)

(Forgery)

Express company labels

Examples:

(Fiske & Rice's Express, train: express company label, found on http://alphabetilately.com/US-trains-00.html )

At least one forgery is known of the Fiske&Rice label.

'Bigelow's Express', image found on http://alphabetilately.com/US-trains-00.html

Bigelow's Express operated in Boston (1848-51), it then sold its route to Fiske&Rice (see label above). No forgeries are known of this label.

RETURN STAMPS

Inscription 'IF NOT DELIVERED IN 6 DAYS RETURN TO NATIONAL LETTER RETURN ASSOCIATION CHICAGO'.

(Reduced size)

Essays of local stamps

(Essay with image of Franklin, inscription 'ALBANY OFFICE POSTAGE' and another essay in the same design)

Later issues

1960, triangular stamp, 'Shrub oak (N.Y.) local post', trees

Army Frank Stamps

(Reduced sizes)

The above stamps with inscription 'ARMY FRANK OFFICIAL BUSINESS ONLY', are bogus issues. They were made by a certain Major Brewster Cox Kenyon in 1898. Remainders were sold in 1903. They only exist in the colours blue, red and brown (as above shown).

College Labels

The next stamp has the inscription 'COLLEGE STAMP', I have no further information about its origins:

Literature

Larry Lyons: 'Identifier for Carriers, Locals, Fakes, Forgeries and Bogus Posts of the United States' (3 volumes)

Donald Scott Patton: 'The Private Local Posts of the United States', (1967)

I have unfortunately not yet been able to read one of the above books myself.

Scott Specialized Catalogue.

The carriers and locals society website: http://www.pennypost.org/

Copyright by Evert Klaseboer

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