BE45

Fancy Cancel: Mount Crawford (Virginia) Crossroads -- CSA #1 Stone 2 Position 34 (irregular margins) with the Mount Crawford Crossroads (AC-09) Fancy Cancel with the Mount Crawford, Va CDS to the left 8 MAR (1862). Coarse brown paper cover addressed to William F. Hooke Esq Care Capt H. Wise, Winchester, Virginia. The stamp with the cancel was cropped from this cover and used as the listing illustration (AC-09) on Page 375 of the new CSA Catalog. The cover is also illustrated on Page 354 of the Collector's Guide to Confederate Philately Second Edition. One of five recorded examples of this fancy cancel. Cover with minor light foxing, a small reduction at the left not affecting anything, and a little edge wear at thelower right corner.

SOLD $750.00