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VERY FINE. THIS IS THE ONLY REPORTED USE OF A CONFEDERATE PATRIOTIC FROM KENTUCKY TO THE NORTH.
The letter is dated on the day the first shots of the war were fired at Fort Sumter. Pro-Confederate sympathizers in the border states of Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee used Confederate flag patriotic stationery early in the war. (Image)
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EXTREMELY FINE. AN IMMACULATE AND VERY RARE EXAMPLE OF THE UNITED STATES "DEAD LETTER OFFICE" DATESTAMP APPLIED TO SOUTHBOUND MAIL AFTER JUNE 7, 1861.
Tennessee voted to secede on June 8, 1861, the date this cover was postmarked at Keene, Kentucky. Pursuant to the June 7 U.S. discontinuance order, southbound letters that had previously been routed through Nashville were now diverted to the U.S. Dead Letter Office (see Walske-Trepel, pp. 5-11). This cover is noteworthy for the June 8 date and Kentucky origin.
Ex Gallagher (Image)
VERY FINE COVER AND PERFECT STRIKE OF THE RARE "SOUTHERN LETTER UNPAID" MARKING.
Postmaster General Blair's May 27 suspension order prohibited post offices from forwarding southbound mails to disloyal Southern states. However, northbound mail continued to be sent via Louisville. With the resignation of W. D. McNish as Nashville's Federal postmaster on June 12, "Louisville held the mails still being sent north by the discontinued post office at Nashville. This held mail later became the well-known 'Southern Letter Unpaid' mail" (Walske). On June 24, Dr. J. J. Speed, the postmaster at Louisville, was advised to forward letters from the South to the loyal states after removing postage. With approximately 5,000 such letters accumulating at Louisville by this date, Postmaster Speed employed a more practical means of invalidating postage by creating the "Southern Letter Unpaid" handstamp.
Immediately after receiving instructions from Washington to forward the held mail, the Louisville post office began marking letters. Some of these have circular datestamps (June 27, 28 and 29 being the most common dates), while others have no Louisville datestamp.
Ex Antrim. Illustrated in Brookman on p. 216. With 1998 P.F. certificate. (Image)
VERY FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE THRU-THE-LINES EXPRESS USAGE FROM LYNCHBURG.
One other cover from Lynchburg sent north by Adams Express is known to us (see Sale 801, lot 72). The "Paid 10" handstamp indicates prepayment of Confederate postage from Lynchburg to Nashville. From there Adams carried the letter to Louisville, where it was franked with valid postage and sent in the Federal mails to New York City. The 3c stamp affixed at Lynchburg was not accepted for postage.
Ex Grunin, Gallagher and Sevenoaks (Image)
VERY FINE. A CHOICE AND RARE DOUBLE-RATE THRU-THE-LINES EXPRESS COVER FROM NEW ORLEANS TO NEW YORK CITY.
With 1986 C.S.A. certificate (Image)
ONE OF TWO RECORDED QUADRUPLE-RATE EXPRESS USAGES WITH THE 12-CENT 1859 ISSUE. A RARE AND UNUSUAL COVER.
Ex Walcott, Grunin, Gallagher and Sevenoaks. (Image)