Mobile Ala. to Philadelphia Pa. via Havana, Cuba. Buff cover addressed to Philadelphia Pa., original enclosure datelined "Mobile Sept. 26th" (1861) from a son to his father mentioning the Civil War, no C.S.A. postal markings so likely enclosed in an outer cover, struck with New York "Steamship 10" circular handstamp and manuscript "Due 10cts", some minor edgewear, still Very Fine and very rare outgoing blockade-run cover from Mobile, Alabama, very little blockade-run mail went through the port of Mobile and all of it was carried to or from Havana, the Special Routes book records only five such Mobile outbound blockade-run covers (this one not listed)

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