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Fancy Cancel: Tuscaloosa (Alabama) Cross -- CSA #1 Stone 2 Position 46 (4-Margin but close on the left) with the Tuscaloosa, Ala Cross (AC-15C) Fancy Cancel with the Tuscaloosa, Ala CDS to the left 1 JAN (1862) (New Years Day Cover). Military Address to Private John Snow Care Capt C. L. Lumsden Commanding Company F Light Artillery Battalion, Mobile, Alabama. The unit in the address was Lumsden’s Battery of the 2nd Ala Light Artillery. Believed to be the only example of this fancy cancel known on cover. The stamp with the cancel was cropped from this cover and used as the listing illustration (AC-15C) on Page 376 of the new CSA Catalog. The cropped stamp is also illustrated on Page 352 of the Collector's Guide to Confederate Philately Second Edition. Part of backflap missing bit still a Very Fine cover.

SOLD $1,500.00