Sale 1090 — United States, Possessions and Confederate States Stamps and Postal History

Sale Date — Wednesday-Friday, 17-19 December, 2014

Category — Civil War: Lincoln Designs, Patriotics

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
2362
c
Sale 1090, Lot 2362, Civil War: Lincoln Designs, Patriotics3c Rose (65). Tied by Washington D.C. double-circle datestamp on multicolored Standing Lady with Union Flag and Shield Patriotic cover to Harrisburg Pa., incl. original letter from soldier to mother with fascinating content about a battle in which he was wounded in the leg and wound up in a ditch with "thousands of musket balls flying thick as hail", Very Fine, with 1974 P.F. certificate

E. 300-400
160