U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
April 29-30, 2014

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Lot #140
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1861 cover with blue "Peebles, Plum Mer & Co Commission Merchants Cameo" card, sent to New Orleans, LA, blue "Petersburg VA Nov 24 5cts" pmk, straight-line "Paid" and "10" in circle, few pinholes at right, otherwise fine and rare cover, with 2002 PFC
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$450.00

Lot #141
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1861 (22 July) small cover (slightly reduced at top) from Savannah, Ga, with oval "Paid 10", addressed to Alexander J. Stephens, Vice President in Richmond, Va, endorsed on reverse "Sarah A. Lawton, Savannah, Ga, July 22, 1861 - writes in relation of Confederate States flag." The story of this Georgia Belle ?could easily have been the inspiration for many a Civil War romance novel. Sarah was the great granddaughter of Sarah Porter Hillhouse (1763-1831), the first woman editor and printer in Georgia. Sarah spent her childhood at Fairfield, the Alexander plantation, on the edge of Washington, Ga. The home apparently still stands and was spared destruction in Sherman's March to the Sea. Her brother, Edward Porter Alexander (1835-1910), was a distinguished Confederate General of Artillery ?
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Lot #142
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1861 United States 1857 3c dull red, type III (Scott's 26), tied by grids on cover to Marion C.H., S.C., matching "Charleston, S.C., Mar 12, 1861" cds, fine Confederate States usage
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Lot #143
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1861 (6 Nov) Glennville, Alabama, cover to Norfolk, Va, endorsed "Paid 10", also care of "City Light Guards" (probably of Columbus, Georgia), some backflap problems, otherwise fine
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Lot #144
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1861 United States 1857 3c dull red, type III (Scott's 26), tied by grids on cover to Union C.H., S.C., matching "Charleston, S.C., Mar 21, 1861" cds, fine Confederate States usage
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Lot #145
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1861 10c light blue, Hoyer & Ludwig, four large margins, tied by "Richmond, Va. Sep. 12, 1862" cds (Powell type 3b) on turned cover to Aurelia C.H., Va., inside usage to Richmond & hand carried, minor cover wrinkles, fine
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Lot #146
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1862 5c blue (stone 2), tied by Fredericksburg, Va, 27 Mar 1862 pmk on cover to McDowell, N.C., fine, signed Brian Green
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Lot #147
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1861 (22 Oct) Bellefonte, Ala, handstamp, with date filled in by pen, "Paid 5" alongside, cover addressed locally, fine
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Lot #148
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1862 (2 Apr) Clarksville, Georgia cds with matching straight line "Paid" handstamp & manuscript "5" rate on turned cover to High Shoals, Ga (the inside use is a pre-War 1859 usage from Philadelphia to Clarksville, Ga, franked with 1857 3¢ dull red tied by "Philadelphia" octagon postmark), fine turned usage of a pre-War United States & Confederate States; also 1861 cover with Macon, Ga, Nov 27, double circle date stamp (Dietz type V) with matching "Paid 5" in circle handstamp, addressed to Savannah; plus 1861 cover from Charleston, S.C. to Mrs. Louis Manigault (Louis Manigault was the son of a prominent wealthy rice planter from South Carolina. Manigault served as secretary to Dr. Joseph Jones, a Confederate surgeon and professor at Medical College of Georgia) in Macon, with matching "Paid 5" rate handstamp in circle, included is printed Adams Express Company, Charleston Receipt, fine lot, signed Dietz
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Lot #149
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1862 5c light blue, De La Rue printing, vertical pair, tied by Enterprise, Miss. Feb 22 pmk on buff cover to Gold Hill, N.C., fine strike
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Catalog #6
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Lot #150
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1862 5c light blue, De La Rue printing, horizontal pair, tied by Covington, Ga. Feb 12 pmk on cover to Richmond, Va., fine
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Catalog #6
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Lot #151
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1862 5c, two singles, distinct shades, cancelled on opposite sides of a small cover addressed to John C. Rutherford, Esq in Loch Lomond, Goochland County, Va, with endorsement James A. Seddon, 11 July 1862 (James Alexander Seddon was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a Representative in the U.S. Congress, as a member of the Democratic Party. He was appointed Confederate States Secretary of War by Jefferson Davis)
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Catalog #6
Price Realized
$160.00

Lot #152
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1862 5c, horizontal pair, tied by Atlanta Ga pmk on large part of a wall-paper (bank) cover addressed to Albany, Ga
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Catalog #6
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Lot #153
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1862 10c blue, bright and unusual shade, cancelled by pen, with "Butler Springs Ala, Sept 16th 1863" alongside, addressed to Greenville, Ala, signed Geo Walcott
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Catalog #6
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Lot #154
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1863 cover with Richmond, Va, blue san-serif circular postmark without date (Powell type 6f), soldier endorsed and addressed to Altavista, Va, matching straight line "Due 10" handstamp, fine and scarce Richmond postmark used for only a few weeks in May & June of 1863, only on army mail, ex Tickel
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Lot #155
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1863 10c greenish blue, tied by Barton, Ga 27 Aug pmk on cover addressed to Richmond, Va., with oval "Evangelical Tract Society Petersburg Va" in oval, corner cachet, fine
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Catalog #11
Price Realized
$160.00

Lot #156
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1863 20c green, top sheet margin example, tied by indistinct red postmark on cover (slightly reduced at left) addressed to Richmond Post Office, Va., stamp with tiny scissor cut at bottom margin only, cover cleaned, otherwise fine,
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Catalog #13
Catalog Value $1,450
Price Realized
$250.00

Lot #157
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1864 Louisville, Ky, two covers, one Apr 1, 64, endorsed "soldier's letter" and addressed to another, with Army of the Cumberland, handstamped "Due 3", other used Feb 16, 64, addressed to a Prisoner of War at Rock Island, Illinois, with 3c U.S. franking, Dept of Prisons handstamp, fine (During the Civil War, Rock Island was home to a large Union army prison camp for captured Confederate soldiers. The island facilities were converted and built in 1863 and was not yet completed in December of that year when the first Confederate prisoners were incarcerated. The construction was makeshift and was built with little notice of prisoners arriving. The first to arrive were 468 Confederate prisoners captured in battles at Chattanooga, Tennessee, although, over 5,000 total would swell the population of Rock Island Prison in that month alone)
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Lot #158
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Regular Issues
1866 (29 Jan) small cover from London, franked with 1sh green, addressed to Commodore Samuel Barron, care of L.D. Crenshaw, Richmond, Va, fine cover, with "21 Cents" and arrival pmks. In 1862, Samuel Barron was sent to Great Britain to take command of the two ships (CSS North Carolina and CSS Mississippi), that were being built for the Confederacy. After the ships were seized by British authorities the following year, Barron traveled to France, remaining in Paris as "Flag Officer" commanding Confederate States Naval Forces in Europe
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