Lot Details
January 2023
Our January 2023 sales include the "Erivan" Collection of United and Confederate States Postal History Part VIII, as well as a general sale of United States and worldwide stamps, covers, and collections.
Confederate States General Issues
single used with 10 Deep blue (12, Keatinge & Ball) on 1865 cover franked by US 1861 3c Rose (65), each tied by matching quartered cork cancel, "Old Point Comfort Va Apr 6" datestamp, addressed to Medina, New York, sent by a Union soldier from occupied Richmond, very fine, a spectacular and attractive use, the CSA stamps were applied by a Union soldier and did not represent any rate, posted just three days before Robert E. Lee's surrender
The enclosure (which no longer accompanies) originally stated: "We are situated in this rebel Capitol, the possession of which has cost the lives during the last three years of so many score thousands...Hear we are not to remain in Richmond, but to push on after the retiring rebel army...I would like much to appropriate some little pretty toys lying around loose...though we are ordered not to touch them," potentially referring to the stamps on this cover.