Sale 1037 — United States and Foreign Stamps and Covers
Sale Date — Monday-Friday, 10-14 December, 2012
Category — Slavery and the Civil War, Slave Related, Liberia, Anti Slavery
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
2883
"Bassa Cove (Liberia), 6 July 1841". Dateline on lengthy folded letter from Louis Sheridan to Benjamin Coates in Philadelphia, contents notes "We have no gardens this spring for want of seeds" and also asks for nets as "Our rivers abound with fish & we have no means of taking them", blue octagonal "6" rate handstamp, some soiling, Very Fine, ex Fosdyke Ray
E. 200-300
200