Robison & Co
Robison & Co.
was a relatively small local post in Brooklyn, New York. Elliott Perry
located three Robisons in the city directory listings who were in
the express business: Cornelius D. Robison at 140 Chambers, 1857-58,
Francis Robison at 707 Greenwich, 1857-58, and William Robison at
64 Cedar, 1852-53. It is not known which, if any, of these men was
the proprietor.
The most famous example of the Robison & Co. local-post stamp
is the one tied on cover to Jas. H. Watson, 231 Henry Street in Brooklyn.
The cover was discovered circa 1895 by F. E. Kneeland Jr., a Brooklyn
teen-aged boy who found it while searching through a relative's papers.
It passed to Ferrary, then to Caspary, and was later to become one
of the cornerstones of the Boker collection. Other examples of Robison
& Co.'s stamp must have been discovered in the 1860's, because
catalogues published in 1864 and 1865 contain listings for a Robison
& Co. post.
Records contain eight examples of 128L1, including seven off cover
and the one on cover.
Courtesy of Mark Scheuer of Rochester, NY |
