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Arkansas CSA section of covers is complete!

I have completed my listing of Arkansas CSA covers, including the Postmaster Provisionals mailed into Arkansas, and all the patriotics from and to Arkansas.

2-15-2010

ALERT: CSA cover scans needed

I am editing the Arkansas Stampless section of the new Confederate States Catalog to be published by the Confederate Stamp Alliance. I need scans of all Arkansas CSA covers, especially stampless. I need this in 300 dpi TIF format if possible. The new catalog will publish scans of the handstamp rates in color. There are still many covers for which I do not have acceptable color scans. If you have Confederate Arkansas stampless covers and can provide a 300 dipi TIF scan of them, please use the comment box below and let me know what you have. Scans in the TIF format are needed for publlishing quality. They are usually too big to email, so you would probably have to bun them onto a CD and mail them to me. Your contribution will be acknowledged (here and in the catalog) if you wish. Please let me know what you have. Thanks.
Bruce Roberts

Updated 6/21/08

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Welcome To the Arkansas Postal History Website

This site is dedicated to the accumulation and dissemination of information about the Postal System in Arkansas and in Indian Territory. The site is still under construction so many pages are blank, but will be filled as time goes on.

The main menu pages are active as well as the subpages that appear when you click on a main menu, so look both places. You will find sections about:

1) Arkansas History.
2) 19th Century Postal History
    a. Territory-Non-Little Rock Covers
        *Little Rock Shield usages
        *Little Rock Non-Shield covers
    b. State 1836-1845
    c. State 1845-1851
        * US 1847 Adhesive usages
    d. State 1851-1861
        * Butterfield Overland Mail
    e. Independent Statehood and CSA in the US system.
    f. Confederate Arkansas
        *CSA Postoffices
        *CSA Stampless Covers
        *CSA Adhesive uses
        *Postmaster Provisonal Uses into Arkansas
        *CSA Patriotics to and from Arkansas
    g. Union Occupation
    h. State 1865-1899
        * 1869 Adhesive Issue    i. Inland Waterways
    j. 19th Century Fancy Cancels
3) Award winning Arkansas Postal History Exhibits
4) 20th Century Arkansas Postal History
    a. RFD Cancels
    b. Doane Cancels
    c. Arkansas Precancels
    d. Air Mail
        -Air Mail Week
        -First Flights,
        -Crash Covers,
        -Air Port Dedications
    e. 20th Century Fancy Cancels
    f. First Day Covers & Cachets
5) Railway and Highway Post Offices
6) Auction records and scans of significant Arkansas Postal History Items.
7) References and Bibliography for Arkansas Postal History
8) Links to useful web sites
9) Award winning Arkansas Postal History Exhibits - NEW 4/25/08. Pages can be viewed one at a time (best resolution) or as a slide show. Check this out!

The site is still being built. Visit often for updates. Updated 2/15/2010
Bruce Roberts, Knoxville, Tennessee

Acknowledgments

The following firms and individuals have generously granted me permission to use cover images from their auctions, stock, or collections. This site would be much less useful without their assistance. Those with active websites can be clicked to link to their website.

Cherrystone Auctions
Chris Winters, MD (dec)
Conrad L. Bush
Deane Briggs
Don Tocher
Douglas Weisz Covers
Garry Hendershott
Jerry Palazolo
John W.Kaufmann, Inc.
John Kimbrough, MD
Larry Baum
Leonard H. Hartmann
Pam Owens
Regency-Superior Auctions
Richard Frajola
Robert Siegel Auctions
Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auctions
Stephen T. Taylor, England
Trish Kaufmann

Updated 3/8/2010