BE39

Fancy Cancel: Caseyville (Mississippi) Negative 4-Pointed Star -- CSA #5 (4-Margin with a little gum toning and pre-affixing faults which do not detract) with an excellent strike of the Negative 4-Pointed Star (AC-04) fancy cancel and the Caseyville, Miss CDS at the left with a SEP 1862 date. “Politeness of A. L. Fairly” at bottom left. Addressed to Miss M. Sophia McLaurin. Cover was handcarried apparently to Hamburg, Miss and then entered the mails at Caseyville, Miss and sent on to Madison Station, Miss. One of only three recorded examples of this fancy cancel. Cover with sealed edge tear top left and another sealed edge tear at right center. The stamp with the cancel was cropped from this cover and used as the listing illustration (AC-04) on Page 375 of the new CSA Catalog. The cropped stamp is also illustrated on Page 351 of the Collector's Guide to Confederate Philately Second Edition.

SOLD $1,500.00