Richard Colberg, postal historian, President of the Lebanon Stamp Collectors Club, and longtime friend of the Philatelic Society of Lancaster County presented on The Postal History of Lititz.
Lititz, a town in northern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1756 as Litiz. A post office was established there 50 years later in 1806. The earliest known Lititz cover is dated 16 years later. The spelling of the town name was changed from Litiz to Lititz in 1881. Dick shares this colorful history as a one time resident of Lititz. He displays the most extensive collection of Lititz postal history known. You will see several one-of-a-kind items and a couple of puzzles that are solved.
During the Q&A session, PSLC member Bob Noble shared one of his Litiz covers with a pretty U.S. 3 Cent 1851-57 stamp on the face and a Wafer Seal on the reverse – reminding us of Dr. DiComo’s lecture from December 2021 – available on our PSLC YouTube Channel and Society website.
Dr. Charles J. DiComo, PSLC and ESPHS President, follows with a few slides sharing an 1834 EKU “SHIP” Letter in his collection that he published in the ESPHS Journal “The Excelsior” in September 2021 entitled “From the Caribbean Carries an Earliest Known Use.” The Folded Letter was sent from St. Bart’s to the same recipient in a number of covers that Dick shared, namely the Reverend Seidel. Here is his short presentation entitled PDF Mini-Icon Mail.
Prior to the pandemic I was to give Dr. Dicomo a box of stamp albums. Someone (or Dr. Dicomo) was going to look through them to see if I should keep any of them. If not, they may be given to the young collectors. We are seriously down sizing.. Is it still possible to have them picked up and looked at? Thank you for any help. Cookie Cusick