Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 394

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) PATRIOTIC CONFEDERATE COVERS. The Sunny South Our Country. Cover, 3-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches with a five cent first confederate issue stamp, in very good condition. [Richmond?, circa 1863]

Additional Details

a rare confederate cover, only one other example known, and it is used. Shows a little boy perched on a globe; in one hand the Confederate flag, in the other he is strangling a snake called "Abolition." From the Gordon Bleuler Collection of Civil War covers.