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21 c   image(26) 1857–61 3c dull red Washington tied by small pen stroke on Mercer University red cameo corner-card cover addressed to Miss Jennie C. Robinson, Newnan, “Republic of Georgia.” Mailed during Georgia’s 117-day period of U.S. postage use in the Confederacy (February 4–May 31, 1861) and confirmed by contemporay April 1861 docketing on reverse. The sender, George W. Ramey, used the evolving nomenclature “Republic of Georgia” as the state navigated its brief status as an independent nation following secession and prior to full Confederate postal autonomy. This cover reflects that transitional identity and is dated barely six weeks before the Confederacy’s postal system took effect. Backflap missing, otherwise a fine and a scarce example of early an Confederate-era cover from an institution of higher education. (Image)

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22 c   imageColumbus, Georgia stampless cover sent to Hon. A. H. Stephens, Vice President, Montgomery, Alabama, bearing a clear “PAID 3” in-circle handstamp with matching “Columbus, Ga. May 18” (1861) cds. Mailed during Georgia’s 117-day period of U.S. postage use in the Confederacy (February 4–May 31, 1861), and posted shortly before the Confederate capital moved from Montgomery to Richmond on May 29. The address and handling are classic hallmarks of a Stephens correspondence cover. Stephens’ long-standing practice was to have his secretary docket the envelope with a brief summary of the contents—visible here at left—and nearly all known covers received by him show removal of the top flap, as on this example. Docketing identifies the writer as H. Lockhart of Columbus, the holder of Box 149 at the Columbus post office, from which postage was charged. The letter concerns local events in Columbus during the rapidly changing political environment during the spring of 1861. A fine and desirable stampless cover addressed to the sitting Vice President of the Confederacy, displaying quintessential characteristics of a Stephens-received letter. Signed by John L. Kimbrough (8-28-1994). (Image)



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Independent State Use of U.S. Postage & Stampless
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23 c   image1860 3c Nesbitt “Star Die” stamped envelope used from Bonner, Louisiana to New Orleans with manuscript “Bonner, La. / Jany 28” postmark, two days after Louisiana adopted its Ordinance of Secession. The 1861 year date, though faint, is confirmed by the use of the “Star Die” envelope, first issued in October 1860 and valid for postage until demonetization of U.S. issues in the South on May 31, 1861. Believed to be the earliest recorded use from Bonner, Louisiana, a post office whose exact location is now lost to history but was likely situated two miles south of present-day Ruston in Lincoln Parish. At the time this cover was mailed, the Bonner post office was under the supervision of Postmaster Francis McLeroy. The cover is addressed to John T. Hardie & Co., a prominent New Orleans cotton factoring firm founded by John Timmons Hardie (1829–1895), an Alabama-born businessman who became one of the city’s leading commercial figures and civic leaders. Hardie’s firm survived the war and continued to thrive into the late 19th century. A very fine and historically important example of a Louisiana Independent State usage, mailed just two days after Louisiana’s secession and representing the earliest known usage from Bonner. (Image)



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24 c   imagePair of 1860 3c Nesbitt “Star Die” stamped envelopes sent from New Orleans to Joseph Embree Esq., Clinton, Louisiana, each bearing matching New Orleans cds - January 29 and January 31, 1861 - both mailed within days of Louisiana’s secession from the Union. The earlier letter discusses staple supplies for Embree’s cotton plantation; the second acknowledges receipt of five bales of cotton. The 1861 year-dates are confirmed by use of the “Star Die” envelopes, first issued in October 1860 and valid for postage until demonetization of U.S. issues in the South on May 31, 1861. Both covers are fine and neatly struck, illustrating the busy commercial correspondence flowing through New Orleans during Louisiana’s brief nine-day period of Independent State Usage before formation of the Confederate States of America on February 4, 1861. The addressee, Joseph Embree, was a Mississippi-born cotton planter who relocated to Clinton in 1859. He later served in the Confederate Army, was captured and paroled in 1865, and returned after the war to operate his plantation employing newly freed laborers. A desirable matched pair of early Louisiana Independent State commercial covers demonstrating merchant-to-plantation owner correspondence on the eve of Confederate postal administration. (Image) (Image 2) (All Images)

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Confederate Use of U.S. Postage & Stampless
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25 c   image1860 3c Nesbitt “Star Die” stamped envelope used from Red River Landing, Louisiana to New Orleans, on February 5 (1861), the first full day of the Confederate States of America, following the formation of the new government at Montgomery on February 4. "Red River Landing Feb" cds at top center with manuscript "5" for day added at time of sending. The 1861 year-date is established by the use of the “Star Die” envelope (issued October 1860) and confirmed by contemporary docketing at left. A nice example of U.S. Postage Used in the Confederacy, posted while the newly created Confederate Post Office Department was not yet operational and the Southern states continued relying on the U.S. postal system during the transitional weeks before the June 1 takeover. Red River Landing, a key steamboat transfer point on the Mississippi, saw frequent commercial correspondence—very little of which survives from these earliest days of the Confederacy. Backflap tear extending to top near Nesbitt, though still a fine appearing early Confederate-period usage, mailed on the first full day of the new nation and illustrating the continued dependence on U.S. postal stationery in the immediate aftermath of secession. Signed by John L. Kimbrough (12-22-2008). (Image)



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26 c   image(24) 1857–61 1c blue Franklin Type V horizontal pair, tied by “New Orleans La. 21 Mar” (1861) cds on printed prices circular to La Ferté-Macé, Orne, France, with red “Calais Apr. 24” French transit at right and red “15” décimes due handstamp on arrival. Slight wrinkling, but still a fine Confederate circular-rate use to France. This printed circular was mailed from New Orleans on March 21, 1861, during the brief transitional period after Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, and was admitted to the Confederacy on February 4, 1861, but before the U.S. ceased postal operations in the Southern states. During this interval, outbound foreign mail from Confederate ports continued to move under residual U.S. postal accounting practices, producing a narrow and well-defined category of transitional Confederate States foreign mail. A fine and desirable example of Confederate State foreign circular mail, documenting international postal operations during the opening weeks of secession. Signed by Patricia A. Kaufmann & Stanley Ashbrook on reverse. (Image)

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27 c   image1860 3c Nesbitt “Star Die” buff stamped envelope used from St. Francisville, Louisiana to Laurel Hill Post Office, tied by a crisp “St. Francisville, La. Mar 25” (1861) cds. Mailed during Louisiana’s 117-day period of U.S. postage use in the Confederacy (February 4–May 31, 1861), when U.S. postmasters remained in place but operated under strict instructions from Confederate Postmaster General John H. Reagan to continue fulfilling their federal duties until the June 1 postal transfer. St. Francisville, seat of West Feliciana Parish, sits on a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and was historically significant as the brief capital of the short-lived Republic of West Florida—a disputed region of the Louisiana Purchase claimed by Spain until ceded to the United States in 1810. Laurel Hill, the destination, lies 13 miles north of St. Francisville in a sparsely populated area near the Mississippi state line. The addressee, William B. Hamilton, was the son of Col. William Sutherland Hamilton, a prominent Louisiana politician and plantation owner of the period. A clean and appealing Louisiana U.S. postage use in the Confederacy period showing a desirable early-Confederate St. Francisville origin. Signed by John L. Kimbrough (1-26-2001). (Image)



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28 c   image1860 3c Nesbitt “Star Die” buff stamped envelope used from Minden, Louisiana to John T. Hardie & Co., New Orleans, Louisiana tied by “Minden, La. Apr 3” (1861) cds. The 1861 year-date is confirmed by the contemporary docketing at lower left, “Mailed 2/4/61,” and by the use of the “Star Die” envelope, first issued in October 1860. Mailed during Louisiana’s 117-day period of U.S. postage use in the Confederacy (February 4–May 31, 1861). A fine and appealing Louisiana U.S. postage use in the Confederacy cover, showing a desirable early Confederate-Minden origin and addressed to one of New Orleans’ most important antebellum commercial houses. (Image)



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29 c   image(24) 1857-61 1c blue Franklin Type V irregular strip of three with left two stamps having a straightedge. tied by bold “New Orleans, La. Apr 7” (1861) cds on cover addressed to F. W. Miner, Attorney at Law & Editor, Paris, Lamar County, Texas. Year-date is established by the original enclosure - a letter dated April 6, 1861 - which remains with the cover. Mailed during Louisiana’s 117-day period of U.S. postage use in the Confederacy (February 4–May 31, 1861). In the accompanying letter, the writer, identified only as “T. B. Stevenson”, recounts having been defrauded of $765, a substantial sum, by a traveling companion encountered en route to New Orleans. Stevenson writes to Miner, a business associate and fellow Mason, explaining his financial predicament and promising repayment once he could raise the necessary funds. The addressee, Frederick W. Miner, was then a lawyer in Paris, Texas, and editor/publisher of the Paris Press. Later that year he would join the 22nd Texas Cavalry and subsequently serve with Indian troops in the Cherokee Nation before being discharged in 1863 due to disability. Despite later Northern rumors that Miner acted disloyally while in Confederate service, he was commended under fire at the Battle of Newtonia (Missouri) by his commanding general. A very fine and interesting Louisiana U.S. postage use in the Confederacy cover carried from New Orleans to northeastern Texas just days before the outbreak of hostilities at Fort Sumter. Initialed by Patricia A. Kaufmann. (Image)

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30 c   image(30A) 1857-61 5c brown Jefferson Type II vertical strip of three stamps tied by partial New Orleans cds and red "New York Apr 29 PAID 12" exchange cds on cover to Madame Vve. (Veuve/Widow) Bault, Rue St. Denis 13, Belleville, Paris. Posted April 23, 1861, during Louisiana’s 117-day period of U.S. postage use in the Confederacy (February 4–May 31, 1861). The year-date is confirmed by the red French "P.D" handstamp and May 16, 1861 exchange cds at center. Additional black May 16 Paris receiving backstamps. The strip has a crease through the middle stamp from being laid over the edge of the cover at the time of sending along with some small cleaning and restoration to cover, through still a nice appearing and desirable transatlantic cover with an attractive strip of three U.S. 5c stamps paying the 15c treaty rate to France from the Confederacy. With 2001 CSA certificate. (Image)

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31 c   image(26) 1857-61 3c dull red Washington, two singles, tied by New Orleans cds on a double-rate cover sent to Trevillians Depot, Louisa County, Virginia in late March 1861. The 6c franking correctly pays double the 3c letter rate for a letter weighing between ½-1 ounce. Year-date is confirmed by the contemporary docketing on the face, which records receipt on April 3, 1861, and identifies the sender as the New Orleans firm Moon & Brother, forwarding an invoice for supplies and a current statement of account. Mailed during Louisiana’s 117-day period of U.S. postage use in the Confederacy (February 4–May 31, 1861), this cover illustrates the extensive commercial correspondence between New Orleans merchants and planters across the South during the fragile transitional months before the postal transfer on June 1. The addressee, Thomas Shelton Watson, was a prosperous planter and attorney living at “Brackett’s Farm” near Trevillians Station. Within four months of receiving this letter, Watson enlisted as a private in Company D (“Louisa Blues”) of the 13th Virginia Infantry, later serving under A. P. Hill at First Manassas. He survived the war and died in 1895 at age 76. Stamps are lightly soiled and affected by edge placement along with backflap partially missing resulting in tears at top, but still an intruiging double-rate cover from New Orleans to rural Virginia, combining excellent commercial context with a well-documented recipient sent during the early-Confederate usage period. (Image)

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Independent State Use of U.S. Postage & Stampless
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32 c   image1860 3c Nesbitt “Star Die” buff stamped envelope used by black grid cancel sent from Lexington, Mississippi to Danburg, Georgia with "Lexington, Miss. Jan 28" (1861) cds, sent one week before the formal creation of the Confederate States of America on February 4. A fine example of Independent State Usage during Mississippi’s brief 26-day period between secession (January 9, 1861) and the establishment of the Confederate government. The “Star Die” envelope, first issued in October 1860, represents one of the final U.S. postal stationery types valid for use in the seceded states before the Confederate Post Office Department assumed control on June 1, 1861. The recipient, Miss Mary L. Anderson, was the eldest daughter of Edmund Anderson, planter and Justice of the Peace in Danburg, Georgia. Living at home at age twenty-two, she later became a schoolteacher and is not believed to have married. An appealing Independent State usage from Mississippi, posted within days of its secession and the birth of the Confederacy, fine. Signed by John L. Kimbrough (4-1-2006). (Image)



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Confederate Regular Issues & Stampless Period
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
33 c   image1860 3c Nesbitt “Star Die” buff stamped envelope, cancelled by decorative manuscript pen strokes around the central image of Washington, and sent from Coffeeville, Mississippi to New Orleans, Louisiana with clear “Coffeeville, Miss. Feb 19” (1861) cds at bottom right. This cover was mailed just two weeks after the formal creation of the Confederate States of America on February 4, 1861, placing it squarely within the earliest transitional period in Mississippi, when U.S. postal stationery remained in use prior to the Confederate Post Office Department assuming control on June 1, 1861. The Nesbitt “Star Die,” first issued in October 1860, represents one of the final U.S. postal stationery types valid for use in the seceded states, and examples used during this narrow interval are especially desirable. Tiny filing holes, typical of Carroll Hoy correspondence, still a very fine example of an early Confederate-period usage illustrating the continuity - and impending disruption - of postal operations in the Deep South at the outset of the Civil War. Signed by John L. Kimbrough (6-19-2010). (Image)



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34 c   image(26) 1857-61 3c dull red Washington used from Canton, Mississippi to New Orleans, Louisiana, tied by a beautiful strike of the distinctive “Canton Lyre” fancy cancel with matching “Canton, Miss Apr 6, 1861” cds at left. Mailed during Mississippi’s 117-day period of U.S. postage use in the Confederacy (February 4–May 31, 1861). 3c stamp scissor cut at right from intial separation from sheet. The cover exhibits the characteristic filing pin holes found on virtually all correspondence addressed to Carroll, Hoy & Co., a prominent New Orleans commercial firm that maintained frequent business communication with upcountry Mississippi. The “Canton Lyre” is among the best-known 19th-century fancy cancels and is attributed to Canton postmaster William Priestly, whose creativity produced multiple unique canceling devices during the 1850s. Priestly’s "Lyre" fancy cancel was used only briefly before Mississippi’s secession and did not continue into the Confederate postal period, making examples from the first part of 1861 especially desirable. A fine and striking example of the "Lyre" fancy cancel used on cover from Canton, Mississippi during the period of U.S. postage use in the Confederacy. (Image)

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35 c   image(18) 1857-61 1c blue Franklin Type I used from Canton, Mississippi to New Orleans on May 8, 1861, paying the unsealed circular rate, tied by parial impression of the "Canton Lyre" fancy cancel with matching “Canton, Miss May 8, 1861” cds at left. Mailed during Mississippi’s 117-day period of U.S. postage use in the Confederacy (February 4–May 31, 1861). The cover bears the characteristic filing pin holes seen on nearly all correspondence sent to Carroll, Hoy & Co., the major New Orleans commercial firm that maintained heavy business traffic with upcountry Mississippi. A clean and desirable 1c circular-rate usage tied with the "Lyre" fancy cancel from Canton, Mississippi to New Orleans during the final weeks before the Confederate postal takeover. Ex Antrim, with 1999 Philatelic Foundation certificate. (Image)

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Confederate Regular Issues & Stampless Period
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36 c   image(26) 1857–61 3c dull red Washington used by blue circular grid cancel with matching “Raleigh, N.C. May 20, 1861” double-circle cds on first-day of North Carolina Independent Statehood cover addressed to Carroll, Hoy & Co., New Orleans, Louisiana. Opening tears at top, otherwise a fine appearing. This cover was mailed on May 20, 1861, the exact day North Carolina formally adopted its Ordinance of Secession and withdrew from the Union. North Carolina thereafter remained an independent state for only seven days, from May 20 until its admission to the Confederate States of America on May 27, 1861 - making Independent State usages from North Carolina some of the rarest of all Confederate Independent State mail. Despite the political rupture represented by secession, postal operations continued under United States administration, with U.S. adhesives remaining valid until Confederate postal authorities assumed control on June 1, 1861. The continued use of a United States 3c Washington adhesive on the precise day of secession vividly illustrates this brief but critical transitional phase, when sovereignty had shifted but postal infrastructure had not. Addressed to the well-known New Orleans mercantile firm Carroll, Hoy & Co., the cover reflects active Southern commercial correspondence at the moment North Carolina entered the Confederacy. A scarce North Carolina Independent State cover, capturing the state’s withdrawal from the Union during its fleeting seven-day period of independence. (Image)

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37 c   image1860 3c Nesbitt “Star Die” buff stamped envelope used from Beaufort, North Carolina to Hamilton, Harris County, Georgia, canceled by “Beaufort, N.C. May 28” (1861) cds and addressed to James M. Mobley, Esq. Period manuscript docketing at left - “From Perry at Beaufort May 1861". Small sealed tear at top left from backflap tear, not affecting the overall fine appearance. This cover represents a scarce Independent State / transitional USA-in-the-CSA usage mailed during a remarkably brief and historically charged interval. North Carolina formally seceded from the Union on May 20, 1861 - just eight days before this cover was sent - and was admitted to the Confederate States of America on May 27, only one day prior to mailing. Confederate postal authorities assumed control of the mails four days after on June 1, 1861, leaving a very narrow window in which United States postal stationery was used - after succession (seven days) and while part of the Confederacy (4 days). The addressee, James M. Mobley, resided in Hamilton, in southwest Georgia, while Beaufort lay on the North Carolina coast - underscoring the continued functioning of long-distance internal Southern mail routes even as political allegiance and postal governance were rapidly shifting. A notably scarce and historically resonant cover from the fleeting period between North Carolina’s secession and the Confederate postal takeover, illustrating the complex overlap of Union postal systems and Confederate sovereignty in late May 1861. (Image)



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Independent State Use of U.S. Postage & Stampless
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38 c   image1860 Nesbitt 3c "Star Die" entire used from Fayetteville N.C. with double-circle Dec 25, 1861 cds, addressed to Port Gibson Miss., additional “PAID 10” in circle rate handstamp at left as U.S. postal stationery was no longer valid under Confederate postal regulations. This cover represents an 1861 Confederate use of invalidated U.S. stationery requiring full 10c rate payment for the over 500-mile journey, some toning and backflap tears, overall in fine condition. (Image)



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39 c   image(26) 3c dull red Washington used by manuscript cancel on cover with matching “Monticello S.C. / Dec. 20” manuscript postmark, addressed to Miss Sallie E. Chase, care of Mr. Wm. Miller, Charleston, S.C. Mailed on December 20, 1860 - the exact day South Carolina adopted its Ordinance of Secession - marking the beginning of the state’s 46-day period as an independent republic before the formation of the Confederate States of America. The date is confirmed by the original enclosed letter, dated December 18, 1860, from Theodore Smith to Sallie Chase, discussing the smallpox outbreak in Columbia that forced the Secession Convention to convene in Charleston. Smith expresses relief that his family left the city before the epidemic spread, noting its proximity to his home. A historically profound usage posted on the very first day of the rebellion. Fine and exceptionally significant as a postal artifact with original contents directly linked to South Carolina’s secession and the origins of the Confederacy. (Image)

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40 c   image(26) 1857-61 3c dull red Washington tied by neat “Charleston S.C. Jan 2 1861” cds on cover addressed to Rev. J. H. Cornish, Aiken, S.C., less than two weeks after South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union. A fine example of Independent State Usage during South Carolina’s brief period as a self-declared republic prior to joining the Confederate States of America on February 4, 1861. The addressee, Reverend John Hamilton Cornish, served as the first rector of Saint Thaddeus Episcopal Church in Aiken from 1846 until 1869. Born in Michigan Territory and educated in the North, he settled in South Carolina as a young man, later becoming a fervent secessionist. Cornish reportedly spoke at the public rally in Aiken celebrating the adoption of the Ordinance of Secession and soon thereafter omitted the customary prayer for the President from his church services. Stamp affected at right from edge placement and cover wear from original opening, still a significant early South Carolina usage illustrating how citizens continued correspondence through the U.S. mails even as the state stood alone in secession, fine. (Image)

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