Sale 1090 — United States, Possessions and Confederate States Stamps and Postal History
Sale Date — Wednesday-Friday, 17-19 December, 2014
Category — Civil War: Correspondences, U.S. Post Office thru C.S.A. Handstamped Paid
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
2373
MAILS SUSPENDED. Partly clear oval handstamp on legal-size cover to E. B. Cilley, a prisoner at Salisbury N.C., sender's notation "Prisoner of War from the 5th N.H. Reg.", 3c Rose (65) pen cancelled, blue "Hill N.H. Aug. 27" circular datestamp, missent to Salisbury New Hampshire with blue "Salisbury N.H. Aug. 29" circular datestamp and manuscript forwarding notation, vertical folds clear of stamp, Very Fine, mailed in August 1862 after prisoner-of-war exchanges were suspended, thus the "Mails Suspended" marking, ex Walske (see Siegel Sale 988, lot 111 for P.O.W. cover from same correspondence), with 1990 P.S.E. certificate
E. 750-1,000
550