U.S. and Worldwide; Zemstvo
November 6-7, 2013 and November 13, 2013

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #15
United States 1861-66 Issue
1861 3c rose, tied by Glen Falls, NY town cancel on "Eagle & Shield" blue patriotic cover to Perry, Ohio, minor toning and flaws, mostly fine
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Price Realized
$160.00

Lot #16
United States 1861-66 Issue
1861 3c lake, top margin single, well centered with wide margins, beautiful color, small h.r., v.f., with 2005 PFC,
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Catalog #66
Catalog Value $2,000
Price Realized
$1,300.00

Lot #17
United States 1861-66 Issue
1861 15c black, two overlapping singles, used in 1867 on FL from New Orleans to Le Havre (subsequently forwarded within France), with red New York paid postmark and various transit and arrival postmarks, fine, with 1984 Friedl cert.
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Catalog #77
Price Realized
$220.00

Lot #18
United States 1861-66 Issue
1865 Anti-Slavery, cover from Washington DC to Winthrop, Ct., franked with 3c carmine, top portion depicts a whip-wielding slave master, with cotton-picking slaves behind him, the brute exclaiming "come back here, you black rascal." The slave in turn thumbs his nose at his ex-master, points toward Fort Monroe behind him and responds: "Can't come back nowhow massa, Dis chile's Contraband," light creasing, fine and exceptional item (General Benjamin Butler had devised a politically astute policy and when a Virginia slave owner demanded the return of three slaves that had escaped to Fort Monroe, Butler refused, on the grounds that these persons (or property, as considered by the Confederacy) were being used to wage war against the Union (the term "contraband of war" was used to describe such escaped slaves)
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Unsold

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