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Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. Sale - 1186

The Kilbourne Collection of CSA Stamps and Postal History

Historic Dates
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
501 c ImageCharleston S.C. Dec. 20, 1860 - The Date of South Carolina's Secession and The Beginning of The Civil War. Bold circular datestamp, matching grid cancel ties 3c Dull Red, Ty. III (26) on 3c Red Star Die entire (U26) to Upton Mass., paying the double rate, stamp with light corner crease

VERY FINE. A RARE AND IMPORTANT COVER DATED DECEMBER 20, 1860, WHICH IS THE DATE SOUTH CAROLINA VOTED TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION BY UNANIMOUS VOTE, PROPELLING THE NATION INTO CIVIL WAR.

On December 20, 1860, a secession convention called by the South Carolina legislature voted unanimously, 169-0, to secede from the United States.

Illustrated in color in 1986 Dietz catalog (p. 145) (Image)

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 E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $3,750.00
Will close during Public Auction
502 c ImageCharleston S.C. Feb. 4, 1861 -- Provisional Confederate Government Formed at Montgomery Ala. Clear strike of circular datestamp, matching grid cancel ties 3c Dull Red, Ty. III (26) on buff cover to Lafayette Ala., missing backflap, thinning and holes on side flaps, slight waterstaining at top of cover, Very Fine appearance and scarce, used on the day the six seceded states formed the Confederate government in Montgomery, Alabama, sent from the state that seceded first (Image)

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 E. $ 750-1,000

SOLD for $800.00
Will close during Public Auction

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