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Big Shanty Straight Line -- CSA #4 Stone 2 Position 36 (4-Margin with just a little edge gum toning) tied to full cover by the Big Shanty (Georgia) Straight Line (SL-02) cancel May 26 (1862) addressed to Matilda Stevenson, Anderson CH SC. This is the second use of a turned cover. The first use folded to the inside is another CSA #4 Stone 2 Position 14 (4-Margin but close on the left) tied by the Anderson CH SC CDS 30 MAR (1862) addressed to Mrs. Mary Stevenson, Carnesville PO, Franklin County, Ga. We (CLB and JLK) are only aware of about a dozen examples of this straight line cancel on the 5c Blue Lithograph, but there may be more. To our knowledge (CLB and JLK), this is the only example of the Big Shanty available on a turned cover. The cover is made from a very coarse brown paper and shows edge wear and a little ink erosion and has an interior fold reinforced with archival tape but has two nice stamps and an excellent strike of the scarce straight line cancel. The stamp and straight line postmark was cropped from this cover and used as the listing illustration on Page 376 of the new CSA Catalog.

SOLD $1,500.00