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Confederate States continued...

Very Late Uses
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
680 cover   imageMissouri in the Confederacy - Late Use, The letter inside this cover is datelined ''New Orleans March 10th 1865"; the cover was hand carried by an exchange agent (notation at lower left: ""Care of W.H. Hatch Asst Agt of exchange") from Union-occupied New Orleans inside a larger envelope as civilian through-the-lines mail; it traveled up the Mississippi, hand-carried via St. Louis to Richmond where it was removed from its outer envelope and placed into the mail - the 10¢ type II Keatinge & Ball tied by a March 27 c.d.s. only a few days before the fall of Richmond on April 3rd; stamp and cover a bit stained, Fine to Very Fine. One of only six recorded covers to or from an officer in the Missouri State Guard.


Included is the original letter from Mary Burd who, early in 1865, temporarily moved from St. Louis, Mo. to New Orleans. It is written to her good friend, Capt. John J. Miller, an assistant surgeon with the Missouri State Guard in Richmond. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction
681 cover   imageLatest Recorded Use of a 10¢ Engraved Stamp, a pen-canceled, large-margined 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) on an orange cover to Baltimore, Md. with a manuscript postmark "Marion Miss, May 28, 1867" — two years after the end of the war!; though the stamp was accepted for postage at the mailing post office in Mississippi, it was not accepted in Baltimore, where a "Due 3" handstamp was applied. Very Fine.


Included is the original two-page letter (separated along the horizontal folds) datelined "Marion Station Miss, May the 27/67" from the sister of a wounded Confederate prisoner of war (held at Johnson's Island, Ohio until his release). He had been befriended by the addressee, Miss Sallie Fulton and, from his deathbed (two years after the war) he had requested that she be informed of his death, and thanked for her kindness to him. Miss Fulton had been a notorious Southern sympathizer during the war. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

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Estimate $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $2,200.00
Will close during Public Auction
682 cover   imageLate Use - Galveston, Tex., June 8, 1865, Folded letter hand-carried from Lynchburg, Va. to Galveston, Tex., nearly one month after Confederate forces had surrendered at Appomattox on April 9th; franked with a 10¢ type II (Keatinge & Ball) and placed into the mail at Galveston as an overpaid drop letter, the stamp tied by a very faint Jun 8 Galveston c.d.s. Unusual mail from and to areas of the Confederacy no longer operating a mail service (Galveston was surrendered by Gen. Kirby Smith on June 2nd). The letter, which is datelined "Sampson [Masonic] Lodge, No 231, Lynchburg, May 6th 1865", is about Lodge business; the left edge of the letter (and part of lodge seal) is missing, otherwise Fine. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction
683 cover   imageLate Use - Petersburg, Va., April 1, 1865, brown homemade cover franked with a 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a black Apr 1 Petersburg, Va. c.d.s. - two days before the fall of that city; sent by Private Francis H. Anderson of the 42nd Virginia Infantry to his wife in Loving Creek, Va.; top flap missing, stamp very lightly soiled, Fine to Very Fine. The black Petersburg postmark was only in use from December 1864 through the end of the war. Prior to that it had been blue - until early September 1864 - then red.


Private Anderson's regiment surrendered eight days later at Appomattox. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $450.00
Will close during Public Auction
684 cover   imageLate Use - Greenwood, S.C. April 17, 1865, sheet margin 10¢ milky blue type II (Archer & Daly) pen-canceled on a folded letter postmarked with a Greenwood, S.C. c.d.s. Apr 17 (1865) c.d.s. eight days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House and nine days before General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to General Sherman at Greensboro, N.C.; stamp slightly toned, otherwise Very Fine, signed Kimbrough.


The letter, datelined "War Rest near Greenwood SCa, April 14, 1865", is to the Bank of Charleston in Greenville, S.C., and concerns bank business. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $350-500
SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction
685 cover   imageLate Use - Milledgeville, Ga., May 3, 1865, cover from Georgia Governor, Joseph E. "Joe" Brown franked with a 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a Milledgeville, Ga. c.d.s. (May) 3 (month not struck up), endorsed manuscript on "Ex. Dept." (Executive Department) to Louisville, Ga.; the enclosed original letter, dated "April 17th 1865" places the date of the postmark as May 3, 1865 - only two days before the final meeting of the C.S.A. Cabinet on May 5 in the town of Washington. Ga., 55 miles away; cover quite fresh but with light wrinkling, Fine to Very Fine, signed P. Kaufmann.


As a courtesy typical of his kindness, Governor Brown was returning to Miss Alice Baldie a copy of the letter she had sent to him thanking him for helping her brother attain admission to the Georgia Military Academy in Milledgeville. This explains why the letter is dated more than two weeks prior to the copy being returned to her. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction
686 cover   imageLate Use - Pine Bluff, Ark., July 25, 1863, folded letter franked with a 10¢ type II (Archer & Daly) tied by a mostly clear Pine Bluff c.d.s., Jul 25, 1863, to Benton, Ark.; the three-page letter between friends contains excellent War content, relating, among other things, "…we are somewhat low spirited here on account of our recent disaster [referring to the fall of Vicksburg, Miss., on July 4] …we are very uneasy about Lee's position…we have reason to believe our state is now or will shortly be invaded by a hearty federal force…we cannot possibly muster much of a force to resist…", Fine to Very Fine, signed Kimbrough. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $450.00
Will close during Public Auction
687 cover   imageLate Use - Prisoner of War Use, February-April, 1865, a particularly uncommon P.O.W. usage franked with pen-canceled 10¢ type I (Archer & Daly) and U.S. 3¢ 1857; from a Union prisoner - possibly imprisoned in the Confederate P.O.W camp between Staunton and Fincastle, Va., where the cover was mailed (Feb 9 c.d.s.) - to Wheeling in the new Union State of West Virginia; the envelope was given to a civilian or a prison guard for mailing outside the camp; the camp examiner's initials are in pencil at the right; also, apparently, the cover was examined en route at the C.S.A. "War Department Richmond." (manuscript at the bottom), then through the mail exchange point at Old Point Comfort, Va. (Feb 23 c.d.s.), and on to Wheeling. Sender's written instruction at the left, "Pleas post master if he is not their publish this in the paper of town In hast if you pleas"; a blue Wheeling target duplex and matching "UNCLAIMED" was applied on the reverse, Apr 3 '65 - after having advertised the cover for nearly two months; handstamped "Due 6" was probably never paid; minor damp stains, C.S.A. stamp toned, Fine. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $950.00
Will close during Public Auction
688 cover   imageLate Use - Richmond, Va., Apr 1, 1865, legal size cover franked with a four-margin 10¢ type II Keatinge & Ball tied by a partial Richmond c.d.s. dated April 1 (Powell type 6p making the year 1865) - two days before the capital city fell to Union forces; manuscript "Treasury Department CSA, Second Auditor's Office" at the upper right; "1" in postmark faint, cover folded at the left for display, small opening tear at the bottom, Fine to Very Fine. One of the last Treasury Department letters to leave the city and the last recorded use of this particular postmark. (Image) (Image2)

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

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