The Springfield Union reported that Plimpton Manufacturing Company had not lost the contract for stamped envelopes

10/08/1874 |

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The Springfield Union reported that Marshall Jewell had neither taken the contract for stamped envelopes from the Plimpton Manufacturing Company nor awarded it to George H. Reay of New York, as had been reported by other newspapers.

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Jewell had also issued a circular stating that production of stamped envelopes would be temporarily suspended.
Jewell additionally advised local postmasters who required envelopes for official use that they would be “furnished with the ordinary post office unstamped envelopes, and with the ordinary postage stamps to be affixed thereto.”

Trust but verify

The Springfield Union article was reprinted in the Courant on October 9, 1874.

The past recalled

The post office department received the executed contract from Plimpton Manufacturing Company on October 3, 1874.

The future foretold

On October 10, 1874, Linus Plimpton will return to Hartford from Washington, having gained approval for his new dies for the production of stamped envelopes.
On October 11, 1874, the post office department will give Plimpton one more week to comply with the stamped envelope contract.

Caught my eye

“The Washington correspondents have several times awarded the stamped envelope contract to Mr. Reay of New York, because the Plimpton company of Hartford (with whom the Morgan company of this city are associated) failed to make all its preparations in the short time intervening between the 18^th of last month and the first of this.”

Source

Unattributed. “The stamped envelopes,” Hartford Daily Courant, October 9, 1874, page 2.

Linus B. Plimpton

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