(MILITARY CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVERS) UNION Three very scar

Sale 2342 - Lot 425

Price Realized: $ 688

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVERS.) UNION Three very scarce and unusual covers, un-cancelled: A.L Bringing down Secession * The Confederate Ship of State * Monument to the Memory of Jeff Davis. Signs of removal from albums. All are in very good condition, signs of removal from albums. Vp, circa 1861-1865

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includes a very scarce lincoln cover and the "confederate ship of state," "freighted with rebellion, Piracy, African Slavery, Murder, Robbery, Arson, Inhumanity, Despotism. Abuno disce omnes; accursed of Man and God -- Dismantled, dismasted, disjointed, dispirited, desperate -- drifts surely to her providential destiny-the Breakers." Provenance: private collection, acquired from the Gordon Bleuler Collection of Postal Covers.