Current Opening Bid: $300 $0 (Image)

Confederacy, 1861, 10¢ Blue, positions 33-34/43-44, large margins including bottom sheet selvage, strong color, some usual minor gum toning, block of four, o.g., top pair never hinged, Very Fine. Scott No. 2  $2,000+. $0 (Image)

Confederacy, 1861, 10¢ Blue, huge margins except just clear at bottom, tied by "Mobile Ala Oct 11" cds on circa 1862 homemade brown cover addressed to Lauderdale Depot Miss., original letter to sender's wife accompanies with great content: "I am sorry I did not return from the Depot on ascertaining the condition of things in a military point of view - Three trains of empty cars pass up just about the time we left - In the course of the day dince two three more passed up - The object of this dispatch of so much transportation, is to remove our military stores - wounded soldiers etc. etc. to a lower point on the R Road and to afford any other needed assistance to our defeated army … Many parent here whose sons were in companies known to have been almost annihilated are still in a state of fearful anxiety as to the fate of their sons…One regiment was sent up the road last evening - another goes today, and as many as can be spared from this point will be sent. The dread seems to be, that the enemy may reach Columbus where we have important stores and machine shops…" This was written after the fall of Corinth, Very Fine. Scott No. 2  Estimate $300 - 400. $0 (Image)

Confederacy, 1861, 10¢ Blue, four margins, light shade, small fault, tied by sharp "Savannah Ga. 'Paid' Nov 15" cds on cover to Powder Springs Ga.; reduced slightly at left, F.-V.F. Scott No. 2  Estimate $150 - 200. $0 (Image)

Confederacy, 1861, 10¢ Blue, Paterson, Stone Y, horizontal pair, margins except rounded upper right corner, tied by neat strike of blue "Columbia S.C. Mar 13" cds on cover with military address to Major General M. Lovell, Confederate House at Jackson Miss., docketed on back "E. M. Lovell, Columbia S.C., 11 March 1863"; partial flap, Very Fine and attractive. Scott No. 2  Estimate $750 - 1,000. AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE STONE Y MULTIPLE USED ON COVER, THE ONLY EXAMPLE WE HAVE SEEN. Major Gen. Mansfield Lovell (1822-1886) was in command at New Orleans when the city fell to the Union in April 1862 and was blamed for the loss of the city. He commanded an Infantry Division at Corinth and Coffeeville later in 1862, but after Coffeeville was relieved for losing New Orleans, and never given any further assignments during the war. $0 (Image)