Auction Detail
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.
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four margins including sheet margin at left, used alongside 1861 5c Green, Stone 2 (1), both tied by "Pensacola Fla Jan 13" datestamp to large-sized cover to "Col. D.W. Adams, Commdg. 1st Reft. La. Infty., Mobile, Ala.", light overall wear and small tears along top edge, very fine cover bearing the two first issues of the Confederacy paying triple-rate postage
Brigadier General Daniel Weisiger Adams was shot in the head at the Battle of Shiloh and, being thought dead, was thrown overboard from an ambulance to lighten the load. He was rescued by passing soldiers and upon recovery served for the rest of the war before surrendering to Union forces on May 9, 1865.
four margins, tied by "Atlanta Ga. Sep 13" to locally-addressed cover, refolded and franked with 1862 5c Blue Archer & Daly tied by "Atlanta Ga. Oct 6" datestamp, very fine, an extremely rare use of the 2c Green issue on a turned cover with the second use paying the 5c rate
horizontal pair with large margins all around, tied by two strikes of "Charleston S.C. Jun 24" double circle datestamp to 1862 cover to Stateburgh, South Carolina, extremely fine, with M. Hubert Judd's pencil notation on reverse (Scott $450)
92x61mm, crisp impression, very fine, pencil notation on back reads "Presented to August Dietz by De La Rue & Co. at the time of writing his book" (Scott $900)
horizontal pair with large margins, tied by circular grids, matching "Bastrop Texas Apr 25" datestamp on 1863 folded letter to Houston, charge box notation, very fine, letter mentions defeat of Sibley's Brigade at the Battle of Fort Bisland
Provenance: "Tara" Collection (Christie's, 1986)
full framelines at right and bottom, tied by bold "Mobile Ala Aug 16" double circle datestamp to US 3c Red on buff Star die entire (U27), addressed to Miss Ellen A. Shackelford in Cedar Spring, Georgia, extremely fine adversity use of a 10c Frameline on a United States stamped envelope, address written in the hand of Shackelford's future husband Lieutenant George Washington Gift, who chaired the first meeting of the "Los Angeles Mounted Rifles" in March of 1861 and was hanged in effigy in Sacramento the same month this cover was sent
large margins, used alongside US 1861 3c Rose (65), both tied by "Delaware City Del. Oct 12" duplex, indistinct Richmond postmark also ties, "Prisoner's Letter Examined, Fort Delaware Del." (Type I) oval handstamp at left, addressed to Max Meadows, Virginia, manuscript "Per Flag Truce, via Fortress Monroe" notation at top left, extremely fine, a fresh and beautiful mixed-franking flag-of-truce cover
single with three large margins to ample at bottom, red "Greensboro NC Jun 8" datestamp, very fine and attractive (Scott $600)
horizontal pair with four large margins, black town datestamp, right stamp small faults including tiny tear, very fine and attractive (Scott $900)
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.
six never hinged singles, each cut with large portions of the adjoining stamps or margin, few small faults including scuffs and inclusions, all extremely fine appearance, four stamps with 2021 PSE certificates (Scott $120)