Worldwide Confederacy Confederacy Smuggled Mail from New Orleans.
Sale No: 34
Lot No:3171
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Cat No:4
Confederacy, Smuggled Mail from New Orleans. Folded cover datelined "New Orleans 9th April 1862" & printed message from Notaries Public smuggled out of New Orleans and posted at Selma, Ala., franked with 1862 5¢ blue (touched at right) tied by target cancel with "Selma, Ala./Apr. 14" cds and addressed to Wetumpka, Ala., Very Fine, ex-Malpass. Scott No. 4 Estimate $500 - 750. An rare cover smuggled out of New Orleans just prior to Union occupation and placed into the Confederate mails at Selma, Ala. $0 (Image)