BRATTLEBORO POST OFFICE.
Issue of 1845 or 1846.
"F. N. P.", the initials of the postmaster, Frederick N. Palmer, in fac-simile, with flourish beneath, on a vertically lined ground, in an oblong with cut corners, bordered by a heavy colored, a colorless and a finer colored line in a band lined diagonally, (from right above, to left below) and bordered by another fine colored, a colorless and heavier colored line, forming an oblong rectangle, and inscribed above "Brattleboro, Vt.," in colored black letters, "P. and O." on left and right, in ordinary colored capitals, and "5 Cents" in outline capitals below.
Plate impression 21 by 19 mm., in color, on brownish paper.
5 cents, black.
VII.
Stamp of the New Haven Postmaster.
This stamp was discovered in an old collection by Mr. Wm. P. Brown, and described by him in his Curiosity Cabinet in May, 1871. The New Haven Palladium of May 11, 1871, has the following account of the discovery, which, though it contains some errors as to the former postal rates, and some ignorance as to the history of the stamps of the United States, is worthy of insertion here.