U.S. First Day Cover Cachet Display Catalog:
Cachetmaker: Mickey Alogna (Storrs & Bement, etc.)

(last updated .05-05-2026)

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      This page displays First Day Covers (FDC) created and serviced on General Purpose cachets from 1936 to about 1970 by Michael "Mickey" Paul Alogna (1906-2005) of Hartford, CT. Mickey Alogna was employed by the following four companies during this time period (Obituary). There is no proof, yet, that he designed and printed the General Purpose cachets displayed on this page, but he signed all known fillers. Also, no information has been found that anyone else was involved in the production of these covers.
      Storrs & Bement Co., Hartford, CT (1936-1945)
      Green & Low Paper Co., Hartford, CT (1948-1955)
      Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons, Hartford, CT (1958)
      Lindenmeyr Paper Corp., Hartford, CT (1958-1970)
Dates are approximate because corner cards, cachets and signed fillers for every serviced Scott number between #784 and #1409 (1936-1970) have not been reported yet.

      References -- What's New on this page

      Except as noted by "{A}" (my personal collection), Todd Ronnei, and "(MJS)" (Marjory J. Sente), all other displayed covers were found on the Web.

      Wanted: a 300 bpi / 600 pixel wide (or greater) .jpg scan of any unlisted cachet (ALSO any cachet marked ***)
Email it to: henkle@pobox.com
Subject for this page: Doug Henkle unlisted Mickey Alogna serviced GP cachet
      (an email with any other subject or with any other graphical format will be ignored IF it has an attachment)

1. U.S. Scott #784-89, 8-26-1936 - 1st Storrs & Bement Company Corner Card (Cachetmaker: Mickey Alogna) -- X:92
2. U.S. Scott #785-#794 -- not reported yet
795 796 797
3. U.S. Scott #795-NIP26, 7-13-1937 -- Storrs & Bement Company Corner Card (Cachetmaker: Mickey Alogna) --- (WP ***)
   
4. U.S. Scott #796, 8-18-1937 -- Storrs & Bement Company Corner Card (Cachetmaker: Mickey Alogna) --- (JHW ***)
   
5. U.S. Scott #797-CC9-NIP, 8-26-1937 -- Storrs & Bement Company Corner Card (Cachetmaker: Mickey Alogna) --- (eBay)
   
6. U.S. Scott #798-#801 -- not reported yet
7. U.S. Scott #802, 12-15-1937 -- Storrs & Bement Company Corner Card (Cachetmaker: Mickey Alogna) --- {A}
   
8. U.S. Scott #803 -- not reported yet
9. U.S. Scott #804, 4-25-1938 -- Storrs & Bement Co. Corner Card (Cachetmaker: Mickey Alogna) --- (eBay)
   
10. U.S. Scott #805, 5-05-1938 -- Storrs & Bement Co. Corner Card (Cachetmaker: Mickey Alogna) --- (eBay)
    
11. U.S. Scott #806, 6-03-1938 -- Storrs & Bement Co. Corner Card (Cachetmaker: Mickey Alogna) --- (eBay)
    
12. U.S. Scott #807, 6-16-1938 -- Storrs & Bement Co. Corner Card (Cachetmaker: Mickey Alogna) --- (eBay)
    
13. U.S. Scott #808, 7-01-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
14. U.S. Scott #809, 7-11-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
15. U.S. Scott #810, 7-21-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
16. U.S. Scott #811, 7-28-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
17. U.S. Scott #812, 8-04-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
18. U.S. Scott #813, 8-11-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay) / (eBay ***)
    
19. U.S. Scott #814, 8-18-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
20. U.S. Scott #815, 9-02-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
21. U.S. Scott #816-#826 -- not reported yet
22. U.S. Scott #827, 11-22-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with unknown filler --- (eBay)
    
23. U.S. Scott #828-#831 -- not reported yet
24. U.S. Scott #832, 8-29-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
25. U.S. Scott #833, 9-29-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
26. U.S. Scott #834, 11-17-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
27. U.S. Scott #835 -- not reported yet
28. U.S. Scott #836-GP28, 6-27-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- XV:40
29. U.S. Scott #837-GP11, 7-15-1938 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- XV:62
30. U.S. Scott #838-#851 -- not reported yet
31. U.S. Scott #852, 2-18-1939 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
32. U.S. Scott #853-118, 4-01-1939 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- XVI:53
33. U.S. Scott #854 -- not reported yet
34. U.S. Scott #855-GP54, 6-12-1939 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- XVII:194 --- (eBay)
    
35. U.S. Scott #856-#860 -- not reported yet
36. U.S. Scott #861, 2-05-1940 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with an unknown filler --- (eBay)
    
37. U.S. Scott #862-#870 -- not reported yet
38. U.S. Scott #871, 3-28-1940 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with an unknown filler --- (eBay)
    
39. U.S. Scott #872-#880 -- not reported yet
40. U.S. Scott #881, 5-13-1940 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with an unknown filler --- (eBay)
    
41. U.S. Scott #882-#885 -- not reported yet
42. U.S. Scott #886, 9-16-1940 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with an unknown filler --- (eBay)
    
43. U.S. Scott #887-#897 -- not reported yet
44. U.S. Scott #898, 9-07-1940 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with an unknown filler --- (eBay)
    
45. U.S. Scott #899-#900 -- not reported yet
46. U.S. Scott #901, 10-16-1940 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay ***)
    
47. U.S. Scott #902-#903 -- not reported yet
48. U.S. Scott #904, 7-04-1942 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet missing with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
49. U.S. Scott #905, 7-04-1942 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with unknown filler --- (eBay)
    
50. U.S. Scott #906-#907 -- not reported yet
51. U.S. Scott #908, 2-12-1943 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with unknown filler --- (eBay)
    
52. U.S. Scott #908-#925 -- not reported yet
53. U.S. Scott #926, 10-31-1944 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
54. U.S. Scott #927-#928 -- not reported yet
55. U.S. Scott #929, 7-11-1945 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with unknown filler --- (eBay ***)
    
56. U.S. Scott #930-#931 -- not reported yet
57. U.S. Scott #932, 6-27-1945 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Storrs & Bement Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
58. U.S. Scott #933-#934 -- not reported yet
59. U.S. Scott #935, 10-27-1945 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with unknown filler --- (eBay)
    
60. U.S. Scott #936-#959 -- not reported yet

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61. U.S. Scott #960, 7-31-1948 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Green & Low Paper Co. filler --- (eBay)
62. U.S. Scott #961-#972 -- not reported yet
63. U.S. Scott #973, 10-27-1948 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Green & Low Paper Co. filler -- (MJS*)
          MJS* = cover and filler is from "The Making of a First Day of Issue: 1948 Rough Riders Commemorative" by Marjory J. Sente, [The U.S. Specialist #1124, 10/2023, Vol. 94(10), p. 471-472]. The scans from this exhibit are used here with the permission of the author.
    
64. U.S. Scott #974-#985 -- not reported yet
65. U.S. Scott #986, 10-07-1949 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with unknown filler --- (eBay)
    
66. U.S. Scott #987-#1061 -- not reported yet
67. U.S. Scott #1062, 7-12-1954 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Green & Low Paper Co. filler --- (eBay)
    
68. U.S. Scott #1063-#1066 -- not reported yet
69. U.S. Scott #1067, 5-21-1955 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Green & Low Paper Co. filler --- (eBay)
70. U.S. Scott #1068-#1099 -- not reported yet

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71. U.S. Scott #1100, 3-15-1958 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons filler --- (eBay ***)
    
72. U.S. Scott #1101-#1176 -- not reported yet
73. U.S. Scott #1177, 2-03-1961 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with unknown filler --- (eBay)
    
74. U.S. Scott #1178-#1381 -- not reported yet
75. U.S. Scott #1382, 9-26-1969 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Lindenmeyr Paper Corp. filler --- (eBay ***)
    
76. U.S. Scott #1383 -- not reported yet
77. U.S. Scott #1384, 11-03-1969 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Lindenmeyr Paper Corp. back and missing filler --- (eBay)
    
78. U.S. Scott #1385-#1408 -- not reported yet
79. U.S. Scott #1409, 10-17-1970 -- Mickey Alogna GP cachet with Lindenmeyr Paper Corp. filler -- (Todd Ronnei ***)
          #1409 and filler are pictured on page 58 of Todd Ronnei's page: The 1970 Fort Snelling Sesquicentennial Stamp and Its First Day Covers (PDF). --- (eBay)
    
80. U.S. Scott #1410 on up -- not reported yet

All Hartford or West/East Hartford, CT, unless otherwise specified:
• Ralph Adcock 1097
• Carl Anderson 1384
• Robert E. Ashcraft 1230
• John Allan 795, 797, 804, 808, 811, 812, 813, 815, 837, 852, 853, 1067
• B.C. Allen 1062
• B.G. Allen 802, 804, 805, 806, 807, 809, 810, 814, 835, 838, 852, 854, 858, 895, 896, 898, 901, 904, 926, 960, 1079, 1082, 1098, 1100, 1105
• John Blaisdell 934
• Newton Hawley 905, 908
• J.W. Mason 855
• Mildred Sfreddo 903
• Philip F. Tangerone 813, 973, 1164, 1177


• George Hornby, Meriden, CT 871
• Harold Hugo, Meriden, CT 827, 832, 833, 834
• Charles E. Hull, Meriden, CT 852, 926, 932
• Harold R. Perry, Union City, CT 855, 861, 881, 886
• T.J. Leskill, New Britain, CT 929
• George T. Palmer, Middletown, CT 935
• C.M. Waff, Windsor Locks, CT 986
• unaddressed 1382

      A single example has been reported of a #797 FDC on a #10 envelope with no insert and the Corner Card:
Storrs & Bement Co. / 282 Congress Street / Boston
addressed to:
      Mr. R. B. Nichols, Wellesley, Massachusetts

I do not believe this was serviced by Mickey Alogna.

Hartford, CT to Boston, MA -- 100 miles NE
Hartford, CT to Meriden, CT -- 21 Miles S
Hartford, CT to Union City, CT -- 35 Miles SW
Hartford, CT to New Britain, CT -- 12 Miles SW
Hartford, CT to Middletown, CT -- 16 Miles S
Hartford, CT to Windsor Locks, CT -- 13 Miles N
      There is not a single reported cachet or corner card mailed in Hartford, CT on a #10 envelope. I believe the customer base of the Hartford branch was completely different from the Boston branch. This is the only reported Boston corner card. There is no record of Mickey working in Boston. Unless a printed cachet shows up with the Boston branch's return address on the front or back, or with an Alogna signed filler, I do not believe the Boston branch had anything to do with Cachetmaking.
      Also, I have several hundred GP FDCs with "First Day of Issue" text, and this doesn't match any of them. Unless this GP is found tied by a cancel, I think it is probably an add-on.

• Obituary: Alogna, Michael "Mickey" Paul [Archive], Hartford Courant, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:00 am (page deleted)
        "While still attending school at the age 13, he began a long career in the paper business working as an errand boy for the Storrs & Bement Company. Over the next 12 years, he worked his way up to become the founding manager of the firm's Hartford office. In 1956 he became Vice-President and General Manager of the Green & Low Paper Company. He was appointed Vice President, Manager and a Director of Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons, Paper Merchant in 1957, retiring in 1971."
  

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