• Login (enter your user name) and Password
    Please Login. You are NOT Logged in.

    Quick Search:

  • To see new sales and other StampAuctionNetwork news in your Facebook newsfeed then Like us on Facebook!

Login to Use StampAuctionNetwork.
New Member? Click "Register".

StampAuctionNetwork Extended Features

StampAuctionNetwork Channels


 
You are not logged in. Please Login so that we can determine your registration status with this firm. If you have never registered, please register by pressing the [Quick Signup (New to StampAuctionNetwork)] button. Then Login. Listen to Live Audio!

 
logo

Confederate States Stamps and Covers, United States Postal History, General Foreign Stamps and Cover continued...

Confederate States: Handstamped Paid and Due: Kentucky
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
540 c ImageNashville Ten., Sep. 11, 1861. Circular datestamp perfectly struck in blue with matching "Paid" and "10" handstamps on buff cover originating in Confederate-occupied Columbus Kentucky and sent to C.S.A. Vice President Alexander Stephens in Richmond, carried to Nashville where it entered the C.S.A. mails, back with ms. "John. G. Burch Columbus Ky., Sept 9th 1861 - Desires a change of position in the Army", missing backflap as usual with Stephens covers, Extremely Fine, Kentucky proclaimed its policy of neutrality on May 20, 1861, but the pro-Confederate and pro-Union citizens within the state were wary of an invasion force throughout the summer months, with each side accusing the other of breaching neutrality, finally, to preempt a Federal occupation of Columbus, General Leonidas Polk ordered General Gideon Pillow to move on Sep. 3 on Hickman and Columbus (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

E. 750-1,000

SOLD for $650.00
Will close during Public Auction
541 c ImageMemphis Ten. Dec. 25, 1861. Bold circular datestamp with yeardate inverted, ms. "Due 2c" on blue commission merchant's corner card cover from Hickman Ky., carried from Hickman and placed into mails at Memphis as a drop letter, small waterstain at bottom left, otherwise Very Fine, an extremely rare cover from Kentucky into the Confederate city of Memphis (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

E. 1,500-2,000

SOLD for $1,900.00
Will close during Public Auction
542 c ImageBowling Green K.Y. Oct. 29 (1861). Bold blue circular datestamp with inverted date, ms. "Due 10" with "10" changed to "5", on cover to Columbus Miss., soldier's endorsement at top "C.C. Malone, Co. K, 14th Miss. Regt." (Beauregard Rifles), with original letter (split in two) in which Malone writes of his company being reduced by sickness, very cold and in need of shoes, some minor edge toning, Very Fine use with original content from the Confederate post office at Bowling Green (occupied Sep. 18) (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

E. 750-1,000

SOLD for $650.00
Will close during Public Auction
543 c ImageBowling Green Ky., Dec. 7 (1861). Blue circular datestamp with black "Due 5" handstamp applied in Memphis en route and struck over ms. "Due 5" on orange cover to Osceola Ark., soldier's endorsement at top left, missing part of top flap, Very Fine usage during Confederate military occupation of Bowling Green, ex Boshwit (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

E. 500-750

SOLD for $650.00
Will close during Public Auction
544 c Image"Bowling Green Ky. Feb. 19th" (1862) -- Earliest Reported Federal Use After Occupation. Manuscript postmark on U.S. 3c Red Star Die entire to Williamstown Mass., endorsed "Soldiers letter & no new stamps -- H.H.S. Ast Surgeon", obsolete embossed stamp cancelled by Louisville "DUE 3" straightline handstamp applied in transit, backflap removed, Very Fine, ex Schwartz, this is the earliest reported cover posted at Bowling Green after U.S. occupation, the Confederates evacuated completely by February 14, 1862, this was mailed just five days later (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

E. 1,000-1,500

SOLD for $800.00
Will close during Public Auction
545 c Image"Camp Beauregard Ky." Ms. postmark with matching "Paid 5c" on brown Jefferson Davis Medallion and Verse patriotic cover to Warren Ark., light strike of "Columbus Ky." circular datestamp and "Paid" in oval handstamp, with ms. "5" rate, slightly reduced at top and missing top flap, some staining at top, otherwise Fine, ex Boshwit, mail from Camp Beauregard was brought to the nearby post office at Columbus (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

E. 750-1,000

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
546 c ImageColumbus Ky. Nov. 20? (1861). Circular datestamp with matching "Paid" lozenge handstamp and ms. "20" on Capt. G.K. Miller correspondence cover to Equality S.C., pencil dating on back "Nov. 14th, 1861", some mended edges, otherwise Very Fine and scarce usage from Confederate Kentucky, the destination was over 500 miles so this represents a double rate cover (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

E. 400-500

SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
547 c ImageHickman Ky. Sep. 5, 1861. Double-circle datestamp with manuscript "Pd 5" C.S.A. rate on small cover to Laconia Ark., pencil soldier's endorsement "John B. Abercombie, Fourth Reg. Tenn. Vol.", rate overstruck "DUE 5" at Memphis, backflap partially removed and small mended nicks at top

THE EARLIEST RECORDED COVER FROM CONFEDERATE KENTUCKY, POSTMARKED JUST TWO DAYS AFTER THE SEPTEMBER 3, 1861, INVASION OF KENTUCKY BY THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.

Kentucky proclaimed its policy of neutrality on May 20, 1861, but the pro-Confederate and pro-Union citizens within the state were wary of an invasion force throughout the summer months, with each side accusing the other of breaching neutrality. Finally, to preempt a Federal occupation of Columbus, General Leonidas Polk ordered General Gideon Pillow to move on Hickman and Columbus, Pillow's troops entered Hickman on the morning of September 3. In response, General Ulysses S. Grant seized Paducah on September 6, and the Unionist movement in Kentucky gained momentum, ending neutrality.

This cover, postmarked at Hickman on September 5, is an extremely early Confederate occupation date. There is no record of an earlier postmark from any Confederate post office in Kentucky.

Ex Gallagher, Agre and Schwartz. (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

E. 1,000-1,500

SOLD for $850.00
Will close during Public Auction
548 c Image"Moscow Ky. Jan. 10" (1862). Manuscript postmark with matching "Paid 10" on Capt. G.K. Miller correspondence cover to Equality S.C., edge wear and staining, still Fine and scarce use from Confederate Kentucky and reported to be the only known example from Moscow (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

E. 300-400

SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction
549 c ImageRussellville Ky. Jan. 27 (1862). Circular datestamp clearly struck on brown cover to Handeboro Miss., soldier's letter endorsement from member of 20th Regt. Miss. Vol., sender's directive "Via New Orleans La." -- a circuitous route down the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville R.R. and back up the Mississippi (Federal troops controlled the upper portion of the river) -- two-line "DUE/10" handstamp applied at Memphis, blue crayon "Due 10", overall dampstaining but still Very Fine, a rare Confederate cover from Russellville, the site of the first Confederate convention of the provisional government of Kentucky, ex Gallagher (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

E. 750-1,000

SOLD for $950.00
Will close during Public Auction

Previous Page, Next Page or Return to Table of Contents


StampAuctionCentral and StampAuctionNetwork are
Copyright © 1994-2022 Droege Computing Services, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Mailing Address: 20 West Colony Place
Suite 120, Durham NC 27705
Back to Top of Page