Sale 1208 — The Clovis Collection of Confederate States Illustrated Covers
Sale Date — Wednesday, 25 September, 2019
Category — Adversity Use—Turned Covers
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
268
10c Deep Blue, Die B (12). Large margins to just clear, deep rich color from a Keatinge & Ball printing, tied by "Big Lick Va. Mar. 8" (1865) circular datestamp on U.S. 10c Green on Buff Nesbitt entire (U16) to Blacks and Whites Va., Very Fine, a very rare use of a Confederate stamp on an obsolete 10c U.S. entire, we have encountered only two examples of the 10c Nesbitt entire used in this way -- the other example has a No. 11 that is cut to shape and realized $8,500 hammer in our 2007 sale of the Boshwit collection
E. 1,000-1,500
2,000