Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 356

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) "I'se Contraband," "The innocent cause of the War," "Secession," "Come back here you black rascal," "By Golly Massa Butler . . . ," " The Innocent Cause of All the Trouble," "Agriculture, Manufactures and Fine Arts" (gallows), and "Him fadder's Hope, Him Moder's Joy." Group of eight patriotic union covers. Uniform size, averaging 3x5 inches; all with engraved vignettes; all unused; flaw at the flap of the "come back you black rascal" envelope. should be seen Vp, circa 1863
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A representative group of patriotic covers. Includes an unusual "contraband" cover showing a black man with stars radiating from his head with the seceded states in each point. Another, titled "The innocent cause of the War," depicting an idle black farmer, is not listed in the vast Walcott collection, catalogued in 1931 with over 3000 examples.