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Fancy Cancel: Canton (Mississippi) Circle of Diamonds -- CSA #1 Stone 1 Position 9 (clipped lower right corner) tied by the Canton, Miss Circle of Diamonds (AC-03) Fancy Cancel wth the Canton, Miss CDS to the left 6 MAR 1862. Orange paper cover from the Carroll Hoy and Co New Orleans Correspondence. One of two recorded examples of this fancy cancel. The stamp with the cancel was cropped from this cover and used as the listing illustration (AC-03) 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. Very Fine Cover.

SOLD $1,000.00