421
420 (detail)
418 (detail)
421
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(MILITARY—CIVIL WAR.)
PATRIOTIC COVERS—UNION.
I’se
Contraband * Poor Old Simple
Virginia * Union * Contraband
Barricade * End of Secession. Group
of five covers.
All are unused, and only
one seems to have been previously
mounted.
Vp, circa 1861-1865
[300/400]
418
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(MILITARY—CIVIL WAR.) PATRIOTIC COVERS—CONFEDERATE.
C.S.A. Our Throne.
A nearly pristine example with the original glue on the flap.
Charleston: J.Mullen, circa 1864
[400/600]
A rare cover depicting Jefferson Davis seated on a bale of cotton with the caption “Cotton
defeated Packenham, (a reference to the battle of New Orleans) cotton will defeat Ape Lincoln.
This is only the second known whole example of this cover.
419
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(MILITARY—CIVIL WAR.) PATRIOTIC COVERS—UNION.
“We jest
seceed from de Mean-asses Junction . . . Contrabands of War or Volunteer
Sappers and miners from the ‘P.F. V.’
Cover with address to Chester PA, from
Pottsville, with “Paid 3” on the face.
Sept., nd, circa 1863
[300/400]
With a delightful caption from one of the contrabands “Massa Butler (general), we’s jest seceed
from de Mean-asses Junction, and wants to ‘list in the countraband regiment. We no great
hands at fightin’ but we kin run most fast as our old massas did t’other night.”
420
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(MILITARY—CIVIL WAR.) PATRIOTIC COVERS—UNION.
The Bragg
fruit of Palmetto Tree-son * Dixie * Jewels found at Alexandria * Jeff Davis His
Marque * The Lock and Key * Behold the Man: Group of six covers with vio-
lent themes: lynching, etc..
All covers are unused, standard size and have their original
flaps; only the last one has any glue marks from mounting on the reverse.
Vp, 1861-1865
[500/700]
Includes a rare example of a yellow, “Dixie” cover, showing an enormous snake (Secession)
wrapping itself around a nude woman, clearly meant to be the South. Other covers show a
group of shackles, General Bragg hanging from a palmetto tree, another man being hung from
the tree of Liberty, etc. All quite striking and in keeping with the more aggressive style of cover
that came later in the war.
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