BE41

Fancy Cancel: Ridgeway (NC) Circle of Wedges -- CSA #1 Stone 1 two singles (not plated) (4-Margin with the left stamp showing minor preaffixing creases) with two strikes of the Circle of Wedges Fancy Cancel (AC-12) with the small single rim Ridgeway NC CDS at the far left 9 DEC (1861). Cover is from the Carroll, Hoy & Co New Orleans Correspondence. Printed fancy advertising boxed corner card showing a train at the upper left for the “Raleigh & Easton R.R. Co., Raleigh, N.C.” 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 stamps are also illustrated on Page 352 of the Collector's Guide to Confederate Philately Second Edition. At the request of a collector, the cover was submitted for a current PF certificate. The certificate states “It is a genuine usage, the right stamp with a covered defect at bottom right, the cover with lower right quadrant cleaned, and a small area repaired at right.” I think at the lower right corner of the right stamp they are probably talking about what looks like an ink smear covering a possible defect in the stamp. If there are any repairs at the right, they are extremely well done as I just do not see them.  The cover still has a Very Fine overall appearance with an extremely scarce usage and has been in two major exhibits (Tate and Bush).

SOLD $3,250.00