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Tyner (Tennessee) 9 GEO Straight Line -- CSA #5 (4-Margin faults) tied to full cover by Tyner (Tennessee) 9 GEO Straight Line cancel (not dated) (SL-15). Addressed to Miss Kitty Shields Care of Mr. Jas McAffrey, Knoxville, Tenn. This cancel has always been somewhat of a puzzle until Gen Bush determined that the 9 GEO in the cancel was not a date but refers to Tyner being a station on the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad located 9 miles from Chattanooga and the Georgia border. Gen Bush published his findings in the Confederate Philatelist Nov-Dec 1991 issue. A copy of the railway time table is enclosed which clearly shows this to be the case. The listing in the new CSA Catalog erroneously states that the mark is a date. Why that was changed in the catalog is unknown as that was not what Gen Bush as section editor originally submitted. One of only two currently recorded examples of this scarce straight line cancel and by far the finer of the two. Cover shows a little edge wear but is complete and clean. Ex-Boshwit, PF Certificate 1962. The stamp with the straight line postmark was cropped from this cover and used as the listing illustration (SL-15) on Page 377 of the new CSA Catalog. This cover is also illustrated on Page 346 of the Collector's Guide to Confederate Philately Second Edition.

SOLD $3,500.00