(MILITARY CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVERS) UNION Dixie

Sale 2342 - Lot 418

Price Realized: $ 531

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVERS.) UNION Dixie! hand-colored cover depicting the South as a naked woman being devoured by an enormous snake. Fine and un-cancelled. Np, circa 1861-1865

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This dramatic cover, the tone unusually sympathetic to the South, shows her as a victim, rather than a perpetrator. Quite rare to begin with, it is the only recorded example with hand-coloring. Provenance: private collection, acquired from the Gordon Bleuler Collection of Postal Covers.