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Welcome to StampExchange <MICHAEL>. You are clearly a victim of the Kid-In-A-Candy-Store Syndrome of which many of our members are afflicted! I've been collecting Nassau Street dealer covers since I got back into the hobby in 2015.

 

Hi Michael:

Welcome to the Exchange and yes, there is a list of Nassau Street dealers complied by the American Stamp Dealers Association. Molokai, perhaps, can provide a copy for you. He gave mine to me, which I have since misplaced. The listing is a good start for collecting Nassau Street dealers, but it is not all inclusive and the dealers residency at a given address is not dated.

There is a Stamp Dealers thread below in the U.S. stamps forum. I hope you will post some of your covers and ephemera soon and/or add your insights on the covers already posted.

Don

 

I do not know of such a list. I am compiling my own list - of Nassau Street dealers from the 1920s-1950s. I have used various sources including runs of Stamp Magazine I have for some of those years. 116 was certainly Mecca for a long time! I can tell you there are *many* NS dealers for whom I do not have covers. I have about 200 covers but quite a few duplicates. <DON> probably has more!

I have been in contact with the New York Public Library and they have given me some links to run down. Ultimately, I think it will require a trip to NYC to copy the appropriate business pages from the telephone books. Apparently they have only been digitized up to 1910 or so...I envision a large wall map of Nassau Street with small numbers and a legend matching dealers to numbers. I suppose 116 would be a separate map or drawing.

I think this is the list of which <DON> speaks. You can Zoom and see the information better. For some reason my SnagIt tool is not working properly of late...There is a better copy already posted I think either on my Blog thread or the Stamp Dealer thread.