RO6c Allen & Powers Match Stamp, Pink Paper, VF+ jumbo

Allen & Powers was the successor organization to Orono Match Company. The Orono Match Company was es­tablished in 1865 at Orono, Maine, by Anson Allen. In 1872 the firm became Allen & Powers, and the die was so altered in January 1876. H. C. Powers seems to have been associated with Allen from the beginning, although perhaps not as, a full partner. Allen & Powers enjoyed a thriving local trade, and, unlike most others, managed to elude the clutches of the Diamond Match Company. In 1885 Powers became the sole proprietor, but about three years later Allen rejoined him, and the firm of Allen & Powers continued in business until at least 1895. Both the Orono (RO141) and and Allen & Powers (RO6) stamps are relatively common, and feature as the vignette the pine tree from the State Seal of Maine.

Bruce Miller, The American Revenuer, May 1967 p. 39