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Big Shanty Straight Line -- CSA #1 Stone 1 (not plated) Off-Cover (4-Margin but close at the top right with a little edge gum toning and has not been removed from the exhibit mounting) with an excellent strike of the Big Shanty (Georgia) Straight Line cancel (SL-02) March 29 (1862). The Big Shanty Straight Line was only in use March-May 1862. Relatively few examples survive most of which are on the 5c Blue Lithograph. This is currently one of only two recorded examples on a 5c Green Lithograph off-cover with one additional known example on-cover with the 5c Green Lithograph. Illustrated on Page 343 of The Collector's Guide to Confederate Philately Second Edition.

SOLD $500.00