Sale 1037 — United States and Foreign Stamps and Covers
Sale Date — Monday-Friday, 10-14 December, 2012
Category — Slavery and the Civil War, Lincoln, Patriotics, Sanitary Fair
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
2910
3c Dull Red, Ty. III (26). Well-centered, tied by bold strike of "Pottstown Pa. Aug. 26" circular datestamp on cover to Princeton N.J., with "Dis chile's CONTRABAN" anti-slavery political cartoon, original enclosure "Death to Traitors." lettersheet with lengthy contents, two sides with overlapping text written in two directions, cover with trivial edgewear, Very Fine example of this scarce design, which was inspired by General Benjamin F. Butler's decision to accept slaves at Fortress Monroe as liberated "contraband" (well before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation), ex Wagshal
E. 1,000-1,500
550