WINDSOR LOCKS CT. Type I with scrolls under "CT" and "KS", unusually bold and detailed strike of red pictorial handstamp with Jan. 6 date in manuscript on folded letter datelined "Windsor Locks 4th January 1835" to Bremen Maine, "18-3/4" rate in manuscript, minor edge soiling

VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF THE PICTORIAL WINDSOR LOCKS HANDSTAMP AND THE SECOND EARLIEST RECORDED IN THE DUFFNEY CENSUS. A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN POSTAL ART.

Windsor Locks is the northernmost point that seagoing vessels can reach on the Connecticut River before transferring to smaller ships. The post office used two different pictorial handstamps showing a steamer in locks. The example offered here is the first type. Richard B. Graham wrote that the Windsor Locks "Boat-in-Canal" pictorial postmark is "possibly the most distinctive early handstamp of them all."

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