Articles and Video

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 Mercury Project
(an archive site for contributed articles)		 Postal History Resources

(links to postal rates, maps, etc)		 California Private Mails, 1849-1856

Richard Frajola		 Ashbrook's Special Service Link to searchable PDF files by year British Packet Sailings: 1755-1790, New York-Falmouth (by John Olenkiewicz)
Great Britain Penny Stars Used Abroad

Michael Batty		 Postal History Resources


 Cholera, Politics and the Mail Service to Rome in the 1860’s

 Deconstructing the Jackass Mail Route

From Chronicle #220

 Kearny's California Mail Route


From Chronicle #225

 Steamboat Mail on the Colorado River

From Chronicle #221

searchable PDF

 
VIDEO (40 min) requires QuickTime

Fur Trade Rendezvous Mail

Steve Walske talk at TPR 2010

 VIDEO (40 min)
requires QuickTime

Baltic Sea Mails


Dr. Armando Grassi talk at TPR 2010

 VIDEO (40 min)
requires QuickTime

Directives on Western Mails

Michael Perlman talk at TPR 2010

 Private Mail Systems in the United States

by Richard Frajola

from PF Seminar Series Textbook #3

 China Mail by American Clipper Ships

by Richard Frajola

 
A reconstruction of a gift Missionary Cover. A cover that was stolen by Indians from the Pony Express in July, 1861. Postal Station at Polemonos, Egypt in 253 BC

A study of the various methods used to pay postal rates in the United States between 1776 and 1921.

 Selling Stamps on Ebay.

Do It Yourself Expertisation

 
William L. Goggin Proposes a Three Cent Postal Rate (1849) A letter from Ft. Vancouver on the Pacific Coast that traveled overland to Massachusetts in 1833. A Discussion of Hawaii Missionary Stamps and the Grinnells Some simple steps you can take to help determine if a cover has been faked or altered. Private Mail Systems in the American West

self published 2001 (30 pages)
1775 Censorship
An analysis I did of the fake Consul Klep cover before it was offered in Siegel auction of Zoellner collection. Birth Of The US Navy the Machias (Maine) Committee Of Safety In 1775 An 1825 Taos New Mexico cover A Great Salt Lake City Forged Cover

A cover believed to have been manufactured by Mark Hofmann. 		Expertising A Mexico-US Combination Cover
1782 Philadelphia cover With the Tibetans in Kumbum during the Mohammedan Rebellion The California "Ocean" Penny Post California Penny Post fakes Adams & Co. Express
Spotlight on Harnden's Foreign Letter Express Van Reed
US Legation in Japan		 "Hialeah" fakes Classic Antigua with plate varieties, etc Revenues on Express covers
British P.O at Boston A collection of stamp related songsheets Colorado Territory Gold Coinage

The Frederick Mayer collection		 The Northern Liberties News Room Carriers Harrisburg Precancels
searchable PDF  
Colorado Postal markings to 1900
(select counties)

Richard Frajola

from Laposta

 

 Sperati Index

images of Sperati forgeries of the world

William L. Goggin Proposes a Three Cent Postal Rate (1849)

A collection of stamp related songsheets  

Richard Frajola (September 2011)