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Confederate Regular Issues & Stampless Period
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
161 ng   image(1 Var) 1861 5c green Davis, Stone 2, with Baton Rouge unofficial roulette, unused without gum, strong color and sharp impression. The characteristic Baton Rouge sawtooth-style roulette is clearly evident. These unofficial rouletted stamps were first produced prior to May 1862, when Baton Rouge fell to Union forces, and again after September 1862 when the city was briefly reoccupied by Confederate authorities. The local separation reflects the improvisational measures taken by some Southern postmasters during the Civil War. Fine-v.f. for this scarce issue. With 1997 Confederate Stamp Alliance certificate. (Image)

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Confederate Use of U.S. Postage & Stampless
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
162 c   image(1) 1861 5c green Davis used on cover by blue cds addressed to Lynchburg Va., minor toned spot at left and backflap incomplete, otherwise fine. (Image)

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Confederate Regular Issues & Stampless Period
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
163 c   image(1) 1861 5c green Davis, horizontal pair with ample margins, used on cover by black June 22-dated cds, addressed to Marion C.H., S.C., right stamp with vertical crease and some toning, minor cover wear, still overall in fine condition. (Image)

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164 c   image(1) 1861 5c green Davis, margins all around, used on cover from Knoxville, Tennessee with faint cds, addressed to A.A. Patterson, Postmaster at Kingston, representing an in-state Confederate usage to a postmaster during the early period of Confederate postal operations, cover with some staining, otherwise in fine condition, ex Dabney. (Image)

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165 c   image(1) 1861 5c green Davis, tied by an indistinct Clarksville, Ark. cds on cover addressed to Mr. Isaac Towell, Covington Post Office, Tipton Co., Tenn. Backstamped at Covington with a clear “Covington, Te. July 1” receiving cds - the exact date on which the Confederate postage rate increased from 5c to 10c for single-weight letters traveling any distance. Although the Clarksville postmark is unreadable, the Covington July 1 receiving mark definitively establishes the year as 1862, since Confederate General Issue stamps were not available in July 1861 and the 5c rate would no longer be valid after July 1, 1862. The cover therefore represents a last-week-of-rate usage under the original 5c Confederate single-weight rate, traveling approximately 260 miles. The addressee, Isaac Towell, enlisted as a private in the 1st Tennessee Cavalry and later fought with Nathan Bedford Forrest’s command until captured near Memphis in June 1863. He survived imprisonment at Alton, Illinois and later at the Gratiot Street Military Prison in St. Louis. A fine & desirable Arkansas-origin usage showing the very end of the 5c rate period. Initialed by Patricia A. Kaufmann. (Image)

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166 c   image(1) 1861 5c green Davis used on cover from Bayou Sara La. with black cds, addressed to Laurel Hill La., representing an early Confederate general issue usage on an in-state route, very fine. (Image)

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167 c   image(1) 1861 5c green Davis tied by clear “Memphis, Tenn. Jan 18 (1862)" cds on cover sent to Lt. James Call, Woods Company, Douglass' 9th (Tennessee) Infantry, originally addressed Columbus, and likely forwarded with Columbus, Ky cds at left. Minor edge wear and light handling consistent with field correspondence, still fine appearing. This cover originated in Memphis during the critical winter of 1861–62, when Confederate forces were concentrated along the Mississippi River defensive line centered on Columbus, Kentucky. At the time of mailing, Columbus served as one of the Confederacy’s most heavily fortified western positions, anchoring the river defenses until its evacuation in early March 1862 following the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson. The addressee was connected with the 9th Tennessee Infantry, a regiment organized in late 1861 and assigned to defensive operations in western Kentucky and northern Tennessee. The regiment was present in the Columbus area during the early months of 1862, and its companies were dispersed among nearby camps, artillery positions, and support posts - conditions that frequently necessitated forwarding of mail as units shifted in response to Union advances. The manuscript alterations in the address reflect this fluid military situation. An intriguing and meaningful cover sent to an officer in the field, documenting early-1862 9th Tennessee service and the unraveling of Confederate river defenses in the western theater. (Image)

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168 c   image(1) 1861 5c bright green Davis, tied by a red circular grid cancel on a delicately embossed ladies’ cover with blue "Raleigh N.C. Jan ?" at left sent from Raleigh, N.C. to Franklin, Macon Co., N.C., Backflap missing, but still fine appearing. The cover is addressed to Mrs. Mary E. Bell, wife of Capt. Alfred Bell, Company B, 39th Regiment North Carolina Troops. Their wartime correspondence - later preserved in the Duke University Library - offers rare insight into the Confederate home front. This letter, however, is not from Capt. Bell, who was stationed with his company in Georgia at the time, suggesting it was sent by another family member or friend. An appealing example of an early Confederate General Issue used on ornate embossed stationery sent within North Carolina. (Image)

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169 c   image(1) 1861 5c green Davis, three margins, slightly rugged at right, used on cover from Montgomery, Alabama with Dec 8, 1861 cds, addressed to Selma, Alabama, tied by clear strike, representing an in-state Confederate usage during the first six months of Confederate postal operations, minor cover wear, overall in fine condition, ex Dabney. (Image)

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170 c   image(1) 1861 5c green Davis used on cover by blue "Columbia, S.C. April 15" cds and addressed to Mrs. Crews, Charleston, S.C. The blue strike contrasts well with the stamp and adds visual appeal to this simple but handsome usage, very fine. With 1984 Philatelic Foundation certificate. (Image)

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171 c   image(1) 1861 5c green Davis horizontal pair tied by black December 1861 Tudor Hall, Virginia cds on cover addressed to Mrs. Paulina Harden, Chester C.H., S.C. Mailed from the small and short-lived Tudor Hall post office (serving the Manassas Junction military complex). The franking pays the Confederate 10c rate for distances over 500 miles or for overweight letters; Tudor Hall clerks were known for irregular rating practices, sometimes charging more or less than the prescribed amount when handling letters to South Carolina. Uses from Tudor Hall during this brief operational window are highly desirable, a fine example of a 5c pair used on cover. Initialed by Patricia A. Kaufmann. (Image)

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172 c   image(1) 1861 5¢ olive green Davis (Stone A-B), a horizontal pair, neatly canceled by manuscript pen strokes, paying the 10c Confederate single-weight rate for distances over 500 miles on cover with "Crawfordville, Ga Dec 31" cds at left, addressed to Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, Richmond, Va. Backflap missing extending to sealed tear at top left, still fine appearing. A clear “Crawfordville, Ga.” circular datestamp at left ties the franking, with the year-date confirmed by docketing on the back—recording an enclosed letter dated December 5, 1861. This places the usage only a few months after the introduction of the first Confederate General Issue stamps and during Stephens’ active tenure as Vice President of the Confederacy. Mail to or from Stephens is always desirable, but incoming covers bearing early General Issue stamps are particularly nice exhbiting the olive green shade and Stone A–B characteristics. This example shows the routine commercial and political correspondence of the Confederate executive branch at the close of 1861 and represents a fine intersection of early lithographed production and long-distance Confederate postal rates. (Image)

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173 c   image(1b) 5c dark green Davis, Stone 1, bottom sheet-margin single with large to full margins on all sides, tied by bold manuscript cancel on cover to Richmond, Virginia. Manuscript datestamp “Farmers Grove Va Dec 18th" at top left alongside contemporary pencil docketing at left including "1861” year-date. The cover is addressed to Mrs. Alfred L. Rives. The recipient's husband, Alfred Landon Rives, was a Colonel and Chief of the Engineer Bureau of the Confederate States Army. His father, William Cabell Rives, had been a prominent U.S. Senator and later served the Confederacy as a member of the Confederate Congress and as Ambassador to France. An attractive and historically significant early-war Stone 1 usage, combining a desirable bottom sheet-margin single with notable Confederate military and political associations. Initialed on reverse by Patricia A. Kaufmann. (Image)

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174 c   image(1c) 1861 5c olive green Davis tied by Richmond, Virginia cds (indistinct month, clearly struck on the 10th day, 1863), on black-bordered mourning cover addressed in the hand of General J. E. B. Stuart to Mr. Richard Stuart, care of Samuel Schooles, Esq., Guineas Depot, Caroline County, Virginia. This mourning cover is believed to have been written in the hand of legendary Confederate cavalry commander General James Ewell Brown “J.E.B.” Stuart, addressed to Richard Stuart and routed through Samuel Schooles at Guineas Depot. The address format, handwriting style, and routing are identical to a documented Stuart mourning cover dated Richmond, Va., Jan. 29, 1862, addressed by Stuart to another relative, Calvert Stuart, likewise “care of Samuel Schooles, Esq., Guineas Depot.” That related cover is illustrated in the Monroe collection book (p. 89), is ex-Warren, and is accompanied by a 2011 Brian Green certificate attesting to the handwriting of General Stuart. The close correspondence in handwriting characteristics, recipient network, destination, mourning stationery, and routing strongly supports attribution of the present cover to the same Stuart family correspondence circle and period. The continued use of mourning stationery is consistent with Stuart’s prolonged personal bereavement following the death of his young daughter, Flora Cooke Stuart, on November 3, 1862. The routing further accords with Stuart’s known wartime practice of having personal correspondence carried by courier from the field or camp for later entry into the mails at Richmond. Guineas Depot (also known as Guiney’s Station), a small but strategically important point on the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad, served as a Confederate supply depot and is famously associated with the evacuation of General “Stonewall” Jackson after he was accidentally wounded by Confederate pickets on May 2, 1863; Jackson died there shortly thereafter of pneumonia. Almost exactly one year later, Stuart himself would be mortally wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern. A very fine, highly evocative Confederate mourning cover with compelling attribution to General J.E.B. Stuart, linking personal loss, family correspondence, and two of the Confederacy’s most storied commanders. (Image)

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175 c   image(1c) 5c olive green Davis tied on small glazed ladies cover by clear “Boydton, Va. Feb 29” (1864) cds on and addressed to Richmond, Virginia. Light overall wear and cover creases consistent with use, stamp with small fault at top right. Still a scarce and unambiguous leap-year usage, as February 29 occurred only once during the existence of the Confederate States of America - in 1864. The single use of the 5c Davis stamp is a bit of a mystery as the then-current rate for any distance was 10c. The Boydton origin adds interest, reflecting continued postal operations in southern Virginia during the late-war period. Dated Confederate covers are common, but examples tied to February 29, 1864 are distinctly elusive and are avidly sought for their calendrical rarity as well as their postal significance. A desirable and intriguing Confederate usage, notable for its leap-year date and clean strike, offering a precise snapshot of Confederate postal service in the war’s final full year. (Image)

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176 c   image(1 var) 1861 5c green Davis, showing major plate flaw between “I” and “V” of “FIVE,” margins all around, used on cover from New Orleans, Louisiana with Feb 26, 1861 cds, addressed to Port Gibson, Mississippi, tied by clear strike, representing an early Confederate usage of this pronounced and interesting plate flaw on cover, a scarce and fine overall, ex Dabney. (Image)

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177 og, bl   image(2) 1861 10c blue Jefferson, block of four, unused with original gum and hinge remnant, creases at left and small thin at bottom right, otherwise with nice margins and overall very fine appearance, ex Dabney, cat. value $1,750. (Image)

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178 c   image(2) 1861 10c blue Jefferson tied by a sock-on-the-nose “Tudor Hall, Va. Nov 20, 1861” cds on cover addressed to Mrs. Paulina Harden, Chester C.H., S.C. Mailed from the small and short-lived Tudor Hall post office (serving the Manassas Junction military complex), this cover represents the earliest recorded use of the 10c lithographed issue from that office - posted less than two weeks after the stamp was released. The franking pays the Confederate 10c rate for distances over 500 miles or for overweight letters; Tudor Hall clerks were known for irregular rating practices, sometimes charging more or less than the prescribed amount when handling letters to South Carolina. This cover was sent by Capt. Obadiah Harden of Company E, 6th South Carolina Infantry, an officer who would be mortally wounded one month later during a foraging expedition under J.E.B. Stuart at Dranesville, Virginia. Uses from Tudor Hall during this brief operational window are highly desirable - particularly those showing early use of the newly issued 10c blue General Issue stamp, fine. Initialed by Patricia A. Kaufmann. (Image)

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179 c   image(2) 1861-62 10c blue Davis, tied by a indistinct date “Company Shops N.C.” cds on a homemade cover addressed to Master William B. Hutchinson, Care of Alexander Miller Esq., Clayton, N.C., possibly used November 3, 1863. Light wear typical of homemade envelopes, still fine and attractive. Company Shops - founded around 1857 as the operational hub for the North Carolina Railroad’s maintenance facilities near Graham, N.C. - was a small railroad community that grew around the shops supporting N.C.R.R. operations. During the Civil War era the population numbered only about 300 residents. The town would be renamed Burlington in 1886 after the railroad moved its maintenance operations elsewhere. A nice Patterson printing of the 10c blue used from a small railroad-built community, showing an attractive strike of the Company Shops datestamp on a homemade envelope. Signed by Dietz & Kaufmann. (Image)

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180 c   image(2) 1862 10c blue Jefferson tied by clear “Albany, Ga. Jul 26, 1862” cds on cover addressed to Thomas Nesbit, Esq., Berzelia, Columbia County, Georgia. Small stain at lower left, but still attractive overall. Albany, in southwestern Georgia, served as an important regional commercial and transportation hub during the war, while Berzelia - located near Augusta along the Georgia Railroad - was a small but strategically situated community. Covers between such points illustrate the continued functioning of Confederate civil and legal correspondence despite mounting wartime disruptions. Ex Boshwit, initialed by James Taff. (Image)

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