Oooooo - good question! I found a Roselle post office in New Jersey. Maybe someone famous posted from there? Anyone else sleuth anything out? Wait - found this!
“Roselle was the first village in the world to be lighted by Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb. Set up as an experiment to prove that a town could be lighted by electricity from a single generating station, the generator was started on January 19, 1883.”
Sooooo, maybe special covers made up to commemorate the event?
Possible clue.
Jim Roselle owned/ran Colorano for yrs
Sold to Mystic.
That is really interesting about Colorano. But aren’t they modern? Maybe 1970s? 1980s?
Isn’t it a hoot and a half trying to solve a mystery like this? One of the great joys of postal history, yes?
I wonder if our cover expert, Roy, has any ideas.
How about this?
Source: Calvert M Hahn, Intertwining of Philatelic and Social History. Published by The U.S. Philatelic Classic Society.
“Another pioneer collector is George H Watson of Roselle. A partner in the Wall Street firm of Watson Bros. Watson was president of the Postal Card Society and edited the Postal Card newspaper which he founded. He supplied a major card exhibit to the Columbian World’s Fair.”
Thanks for participating... gotta love a mystery. And why I love old covers.
Clues include that it was sold for $5-7.50 in 1934.. that was a lot of money back then. I think a new Ford sedan sold for $11!
Considering that the buyer bought a lot of first day covers... and the reference to "common cacheted covers", cachets weren't all that common in 1934!
I like Calstamp's direction... was this a FDC for a Columbian?
Wow that could explain the very high cost! Great job finding that info. You’re right - that was a huge amount of money during the depression.
Another possibility is Edison autographed covers from Roselle lighting event. I know Edison liked to promote his events in all sorts of ways, BUT that doesn’t really get the value up to Colombian Expo levels.
Above is one of the many covers that came from one of the huge hoards of covers I've been buying and sorting. I found the below letter inside this cover. Can anyone tell me what the rare "Roselle Cover" is? I believe the parties involved in this letter are no longer available for inquiry.
re: Whatza "Roselle Cover" ???
Oooooo - good question! I found a Roselle post office in New Jersey. Maybe someone famous posted from there? Anyone else sleuth anything out? Wait - found this!
“Roselle was the first village in the world to be lighted by Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb. Set up as an experiment to prove that a town could be lighted by electricity from a single generating station, the generator was started on January 19, 1883.”
Sooooo, maybe special covers made up to commemorate the event?
re: Whatza "Roselle Cover" ???
Possible clue.
Jim Roselle owned/ran Colorano for yrs
Sold to Mystic.
re: Whatza "Roselle Cover" ???
That is really interesting about Colorano. But aren’t they modern? Maybe 1970s? 1980s?
Isn’t it a hoot and a half trying to solve a mystery like this? One of the great joys of postal history, yes?
I wonder if our cover expert, Roy, has any ideas.
re: Whatza "Roselle Cover" ???
How about this?
Source: Calvert M Hahn, Intertwining of Philatelic and Social History. Published by The U.S. Philatelic Classic Society.
“Another pioneer collector is George H Watson of Roselle. A partner in the Wall Street firm of Watson Bros. Watson was president of the Postal Card Society and edited the Postal Card newspaper which he founded. He supplied a major card exhibit to the Columbian World’s Fair.”
re: Whatza "Roselle Cover" ???
Thanks for participating... gotta love a mystery. And why I love old covers.
Clues include that it was sold for $5-7.50 in 1934.. that was a lot of money back then. I think a new Ford sedan sold for $11!
Considering that the buyer bought a lot of first day covers... and the reference to "common cacheted covers", cachets weren't all that common in 1934!
I like Calstamp's direction... was this a FDC for a Columbian?
re: Whatza "Roselle Cover" ???
Wow that could explain the very high cost! Great job finding that info. You’re right - that was a huge amount of money during the depression.
Another possibility is Edison autographed covers from Roselle lighting event. I know Edison liked to promote his events in all sorts of ways, BUT that doesn’t really get the value up to Colombian Expo levels.