CB39 CSA #1 Stone 1 Plated as Position 36 (margin just in at the top and the lower right corner and showing a somewhat dry printing) canceled with a handstamp “5” in a circle which is a Mobile, Ala mark Dietz Type B. No postmark on the cover. This is actually a folded letter complete addressed to Messers Boykin & McRae, Mobile, Ala. The letter (business letter concerning a note that is due) is datelined “Elm Bluff, Ala 26 MAR 1862.” Elm Bluff was in Dallas County well north of Mobile near Selma. Letter was evidently handcarried into Mobile and dropped at the Mobile post office where the postmaster treated it as an Overpaid Drop Letter and simply canceled the stamp with whatever handstamp device came to hand which in this case was the “Circle 5” normally used as a Due handstamp. Very Fine Appearance. Cover originally included in the exhibit to show the Handstamp “5” used to cancel the stamp. This cover was used as an illustration on Page 71 of Gen Bush’s Fancy and Unusual Cancel book. SOLD

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