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Adversity Mails

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Lot Description

625

Homemade Cover from a Captured Union Army Ration Report Form, Ohio Volunteer Infantry "Consolidated Rationing Form" made into an envelope, franked with a 10¢ blue, type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a New Market, Va. c.d.s., Mar 9 (1864); to Harrisonburg, Va., Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction

626

Turned Cover with Both 10¢ Types, homemade envelope initially franked with a 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) and used from Raleigh, N.C. to Richmond, Va., then turned, franked with a 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) and used from Richmond to Summerville, Va., exceptionally clean and Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $200.00
Will close during Public Auction

627

Homemade Cover Made from Lined Paper, franked with a four-margin 10¢ milky blue type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a neat Aug 4 Monroe, La. c.d.s., to Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $150-200
SOLD for $190.00
Will close during Public Auction

628

Homemade Cover from Tallahassee, Florida, small envelope made from a used ledger sheet franked with a 10¢ blue, type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a weak Tallahassee, Fla. Mar 15 (inverted month) c.d.s., to Graniteville, S.C., Very Fine. Very scarce Florida adversity cover. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction

629

Turned cover from Lake City, Fla., initially used from Savannah, Ga. (stamp missing) to Capt. Z.A. Fowler, Co. E, Geo. Vols. in Lake city; turned and franked with a 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a mostly complete Mar 21 Lake City c.d.s., to Byron, Houston Co., Ga.; small repair at the upper right and stamp slightly damaged, Fine. Very scarce Florida adversity cover. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $150.00
Will close during Public Auction

630

Turned Cover Initially Used Pre-War, franked with a U.S. 3¢ 1857 (26) tied by a New Orleans c.d.s. and sent to Lagrange, Tenn.; then, years later, turned and franked with a large-margined 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a May 15 Savannah, Ga. c.d.s. and sent to Orangeburg, S.C., Very Fine. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction

631

Turned Cover Initially Used Without a Stamp, postmarked manuscript "San Marino [Va.], June 6/63" and "Paid 10^c/" to Petersburg, Va.; then turned, franked with a large-margined 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a mostly clear Jun 5 Petersburg c.d.s. back to San Marino; top flap missing, otherwise Very Fine, signed Kimbrough. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $150-200
SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction

632

Turned Cover - Double Rate, Then Single Rate, initially franked with a 20¢ green (13) tied by a Richmond, Va., Jul 28 c.d.s. (type 7 - 1863) and sent to Petersburg; then turned, franked with a 10¢ blue, type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a partial blue Petersburg c.d.s. and sent to Bremo Bluff, Va., Very Fine. A rare combination. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $850.00
Will close during Public Auction

633

Homemade Cover - Non-Existent Rate, homemade cover franked with a 5¢ Richmond print (7) and a 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) tied together by an Oct 1863 Richmond cover, paying a non-existent 15¢ rate to Crab Orchard, Va.; damp stain at the lower left, minor edge wear, Fine to Very Fine and most unusual. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $250-350
SOLD for $140.00
Will close during Public Auction

634

Turned Cover with Green Lynchburg, Va. Cancel, a homemade cover, the second use franked with a 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) tied by two typically incomplete green Lynchburg c.d.s.'s to Amherst C.H., Va.; the original use franked with two 5¢ Richmond prints (7) tied by a Knoxville, Tenn. c.d.s. to Lynchburg; reduced a bit at the left, subsequently resealed so that the initial usage cannot be displayed (a low resolution image, made prior to resealing, is available online), Very Fine, signed Kimbrough. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction

635

Homemade Cover from Camden, Arkansas, small cover made by turning a letter, dated Jun 28, 1863, from Capt. Alvan Reed, C.S.A. Provost Marshall at Galveston, Tex. franked with a 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) tied by an enhanced Mar 5 Camden c.d.s., to Anderson, Grimes Co., Tex., Very Fine.

Because of the Union's Mississippi River blockade in mid-1863, fewer uses of the engraved issues are recorded from Arkansas than from any other state in the Confederacy. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $475.00
Will close during Public Auction

636

Homemade Cover from Camden, Arkansas, small cover made from a lined ledger page franked with a 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) tied by an Aug 23 Camden c.d.s., to Washington, Ark.; opened at the left with a small opening tear there, Fine to Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $400-600
SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction

637

Homemade Cover Made from a Druggist's Promotional Circular, small envelope franked with a large-margined 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a clear red Chester C.H., S.C. c.d.s., Sep 22, 1863 (also tied by docketing), to Columbia, S.C., Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction

638

Homemade Cover Made from a Recycled Newsprint, franked with a huge-margined 10¢ milky blue, type I (Archer & Daly) (two sheet margins) tied by a blue Jul 26 Columbia, S.C. c.d.s., to Flat Rock, Kershaw Co., S.C.; tiny flecks of black type can be seen throughout the surface of the paper; small, insignificant tears at both left corners, still Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction

639

Homemade Cover Made from a "Tic-Tac-Toe" Game Sheet, franked with a 10¢ milky blue type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a red Aug 3 Smithfield, Va. c.d.s., to Pittsylvania C.H., Va.; top edge cosmetically refolded slightly, Very Fine, signed Kimbrough. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction

640

Homemade Cover Made from a Printed Legal Document, franked with a 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a Jul 6 Anderson C.H., S.C., to Jefferson C.H., Ga., Fine to Very Fine, signed P. Kaufmann. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $150-200
SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction

641

Homemade Cover Made from a Maritime Form, a blank ship's crew recruitment contract cut and folded and franked with a four-margin 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a neat Jun 20 Georgetown S.C. c.d.s., to Society Hill, S.C., Very Fine, signed P. Kaufmann. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $150-200
SOLD for $200.00
Will close during Public Auction

642

Homemade Cover Made from a Blank Promissory Note Form, an illustrated form, franked with a four-margin 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a Jul 4 Sumter, S.C., to Anderson, S.C., Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $190.00
Will close during Public Auction

643

Thrice-Used Cover - Without Turning, homemade cover used three times to the same addressee, William S. Smith, Signal Capt., Savannah, Ga.; the first two times the franking stamp was placed at the upper left and canceled, then removed for the next use; the final time the stamp was placed at the upper right and tied by an incomplete Grahamville, S.C. c.d.s. and forwarded to Capt. Smith "Care Capt A.S. Barnwell, Isle of Hope" [Ga.], Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction

644

U.S. 3¢ Star Die Entire Used as an Envelope, 10¢ greenish blue type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a mostly clear Marshall Tex. c.d.s., to Nacogdoches, Tex., Very Fine, signed Kimbrough. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $250-350
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction

645

Turned Cover with Handstamped "PAID" Second Use, the initial use, a Soldier's Letter to Arnolds Mills, S.C., was franked across the flap with a 10¢ dark blue type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a Jan 14 Richmond c.d.s. (Powell type 6p - 1863); the second use, bearing blue Columbia, S.C. c.d.s., May 14 (1864) and mg "PAID" in circle & "10" (C.S.A. type M), is addressed simply to Capt. Co. 'K' Hampton Legion, S.C.V., Richmond, Va." with manuscript Official Business endorsement "O.B. Ch Box 135", Very Fine. A most unusual combination. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction

646

Turned Cover - First Use in December 1861, small cover, the initial use franked with a 5¢ green (1), margins close to just in, tied by a blue Dec 27 Petersburg c.d.s., to Kennedy's P.O., Va.; turned and franked with a close-cut 10¢ milky blue type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a Nov 30 Louisburg, N.C. c.d.s. to Lt. Chas. W. Lovelace, Selden's Battery, Mobile, Ala.; top flap nearly separated and hinge-reinforced, Very Fine. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $150.00
Will close during Public Auction

647

J.C. Schreiner & Sons, Macon, Ga., rubberstamped oval corner card on a clean orange cover franked with a 10¢ milky blue type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a Sep 4 Macon c.d.s., to Athens, Ga., Very Fine, signed P. Kaufmann. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $250-350
SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction

648

Twice-Used Cover - Second Stamp Over First, originally franked with a 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a Jun 24 Marietta, Ga. and sent to Savannah, Ga.; then another stamp of the same type was placed over the first, tied by a Jun 26 "Savannah, Geo. Paid" c.d.s. and, apparently, sent to the original addressee, only now in Marietta; second stamp now hinged in place, Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $250-350
SOLD for $600.00
Will close during Public Auction

649

Turned Cover to Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, two copies of 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) on turned cover used between a brother and sister; the initial use was canceled Raleigh, N.C., Apr 7 (1864), and sent to ''Miss Mary B. Pettigrew, Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, Va."; the second use was canceled Apr 16 in Richmond and sent to William S. Pettigrew in Summerville, N.C.; right side flap replaced, slight damp staining, Fine.

Chimborazo was the largest military hospital in human history—either ancient or modern. Mary Blount Pettigrew was the sister of Brig. General James Johnson Pettigrew. In March 1864 she became a Matron at the Chimborazo Military hospital and was the chief of the hospital's Virginia division. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction

650

Wallpaper Cover, gray & white floral wallpaper fashioned into an envelope and franked with a four-margin 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a partial rimless Forest Depot, Va. c.d.s., to Fredericksburg, Va.; included is the original, well-written four-page letter, datelined "Norwood [VA], Sep 29th /63", from a young woman with friends and family in the North, to her mother in Fredericksburg, mentioning that ("…many exiled families in Lynchburg are living on rice and bread…my dear Mammy Nancy is still alive in Washington." and "What a glorious victory we have had in Tennessee…", referring to the initial Confederate victory at Chickamauga, Sep 18-20; exceptionally well preserved, Very Fine, signed P. Kaufmann. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $800.00
Will close during Public Auction

651

Wallpaper Cover, a marvelous cover, fashioned from red & blue on tan wallpaper and franked with a large-margined 10¢ milky blue type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a mostly clear Chattanooga, Tenn. c.d.s., Aug 27, 1863, to Buck Head, Ga., unusually clean and Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $600.00
Will close during Public Auction

652

Wallpaper Cover, made from pretty pink, green & tan floral wallpaper; franked with a a 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) just tied by a light circular grid, postmarked with very nice strike of a "Flat Rock, N.C., Sept 29" (1863) c.d.s., to Columbia, S.C., Very Fine. A most attractive cover, the tan color of the flowers bleeding through from the inside, Ex-Weatherly, signed P. Kaufmann. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction

653

Cover Opened and Used As Writing Paper, a quadruple rate cover originally franked with two pairs of 10¢ milky blue type I (Archer & Daly) tied by blue Oct 7 Columbia, S.C. c.d.s.s and addressed to John B. Moore, Orr's Regt Rifles, McGowan's Brigade in Richmond; the somewhat oversize envelope was then opened up by a different soldier in Orr's Rifles, one D.F. Anderson, who used both sides to write a letter to his wife and family, in part, "We are a little fearful of being sent to the west yet this fall, some think our corps will be sent if any are sent."; slightly reduced with multiple splits along folds, but a most unusual example of the severity of the paper shortage. (Image) (Image2)

Estimate $400-600
SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction

654

Homemade Cover Made From a Printed Insurance Form, a blank fire insurance application from the Insurance Co. of the City of New-York, franked with a sheet margin 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) tied by a mostly clear Jul 8 Sumter, S.C., to Charleston S.C., Very Fine. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate $350-500
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction