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QUITE POSSIBLY UNIQUE (MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Lincoln Played Out His Last Card * We Laugh to Scorn the Efforts of the Rail-Splitter. Two Confederate patriotic covers, the first with the original uncanceled stamp, lacking a portion of the reverse flap, a few signs of having been in an album; the second immaculate. New Orleans: J. Mullen, [1861]; Np, [1861]
two very rare and very possibly unique confederate covers, both are sharp attacks on Abraham Lincoln. The second cover was produced in two steps over the course of the War. First printed simply as a confederate flag with the eleven stars representing the states of the Confederacy, and later over-stamped in 1863 with "We Laugh to Scorn. . .," a reference to the Emancipation Proclamation. Both of these covers were unknown to Dietz, as far as we could determine. Provenance: a private collection, obtained from the Gordon Bleuler Collection.
