Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. Sale

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10c Light Blue, Paterson (2a). Large to full margins, tied by blue "Lynchburg Va. Nov. 5" circular datestamp on bright yellow-lined cover to Buckingham C.H. Va., Very Fine, with 2014 P.F. certificate (Image)

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E. $ 200-300

SOLD for $900.00
Will close during Public Auction

247

10c Milky Blue, Frameline (10a). Large margins all around showing full frameline at right , large part at left and small part at bottom, wonderful bright color, tied by bold "Sumter S.C. Jun. 6, 1861" circular datestamp with error of year in datestamp which should most likely be 1863, on homemade cover to Elkin N.C., slightly reduced at right

VERY FINE. A CHOICE 10-CENT FRAMELINE ON AN ATTRACTIVE COVER WITH DATESTAMP YEAR ERROR.

Ex Matz. Signed Dietz and with 2008 C.S.A. certificate calling it a No. 10 (Blue) and mentioning the date error. (Image)

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$ 3,000.00

SOLD for $1,500.00
Will close during Public Auction

248

20c Green (13). Horizontal pair, slightly irregular but mostly large margins except just touching at right, right stamp with pre-use vertical crease ending in a tear, tied by small "Shreveport La. Jul. 6, 1864" double-circle datestamp on 40c Trans-Mississippi Express buff cover to Sumpter, Tex., manuscript docketing at top "J.B. Sexton MC" and "politeness of Col Sexton" below, cover with trivial edge tears including one sealed at top

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. AN EXTREMELY RARE EAST-TO-WEST TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPRESS COVER, BEARING A PAIR OF THE 20-CENT GENERAL ISSUE.

No more than twenty covers with a pair of the 20c Green paying the 40c Trans-Mississippi Express rate are known. A majority of the known covers are heavily stained and damaged. It is believed that this particular cover was hand carried from Richmond to Shreveport where it was placed in the mails - possibly by Franklin Sexton. Sexton was a wealthy Texas planter and lawyer who represented Texas 4th District in the Confederate Congress.

Illustrated in Krieger book (No. E27). With 1982 C.S.A. certificate. (Image)

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E. $ 3,000-4,000

SOLD for $2,300.00
Will close during Public Auction

249

21 Rampart Street, New Orleans La. Prisoner-of-war cover addressed to a lady at No. 93 Camp Street in New Orleans, censored twice by Federal officers, "Respect forward Z.K. Wood Lt Commdg Prison", on reverse and "Exd. & forwarded Wm Sterling Capt. 1st U.S. Infty. Comiy of Prisoners" on front, clear "New Orleans May 23" (1865) circular datestamp and "3" due handstamp, small erosion hole in address panel

VERY FINE. A RARE PRISONER-OF-WAR COVER FROM 21 RAMPART STREET, WHICH WAS USED AS A UNION PRISON FROM 1863 TO 1865. FEWER THAN FIVE COVERS ARE RECORDED.

21 Rampart street was a residence that was used to hold Confederate officers, including those captured at Fort Hudson in July 1863 (Harrison p. 143). Captain William H. Sterling was Commissary of Prisoners in 1865 when this cover was sent.

Ex Walske. (Image)

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E. $ 1,500-2,000

SOLD for $2,500.00
Will close during Public Auction

250

Prisoner-of-War Correspondence of Union Lt. Alonzo G. Case, 1864. Collection of six covers and letters with extensive content from Union prisoner-of-war Alonzo G. Case to his wife Julia in Simsbury Conn., incl. May 4 and May 29 from Camp Oglethorpe for Officers in Macon Ga., Sep. 20 and 26 from City Jail in Charleston S.C. (only eight recorded in Harrison), Oct. 30 and Nov. 18 from Camp Sorghum in Columbia S.C., two of the covers exchanged through Port Royal and Pocotaligo (much scarcer than Old Point Comfort), appropriate prisoner endorsements and censor markings, frankings incl. C.S.A. Nos. 7, 11 and stampless, some minor flaws but overall nice condition

VERY FINE PRISONER-OF-WAR CORRESPONDENCE FROM A UNION PRISONER AT THREE DIFFERENT CONFEDERATE PRISONS IN 1864.

Lieutenant Case was a member of Company E of the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He was captured April 20, 1864, in Plymouth, North Carolina, and paroled nearly a year later on March 7, 1865. During that year he was moved between prisons in Macon and Savanna Ga., Charleston and Columbia S.C. and also served a stint at the infamous Andersonville prison. A certificate issued to him by the National Union of Andersonville Survivors can be seen on the Internet (source: http://manuscripts.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/he-survived-andersonville-prison/#more-7082 ) (Image)

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E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $2,800.00
Will close during Public Auction