Sale 1011 — United States Stamps & Postal History, Foreign
Sale Date — Tuesday-Friday, 21-24 June, 2011
Category — Confederate States (Independent and C.S.A. Uses of U.S. Stamps)
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
1697
3c Dull Red, Ty. III (26). Tied by "Brenham Tex. Mar. 1 (1861)" circular datestamp on orange cover to Washington, Pa., original 1861 enclosure reads (in part): "I hear that the good folks in the north are engaged in sending succor to `starving Kansas' which support is not very consistent with the popular delusion here that every one north of Mason & Dixons Line is in a state of absolute starvation, and that as soon as secession & Southern Confederacy are fixed facts, we should have the poor famishing wretches on their knees..." etc., small cover edge nick does not affect stamp, Fine, a scarce Texas Independent State use of a U.S. stamp, we record no others from this town, ex Camina
E. 300-400
375