BE91

CSA #1 Stone 1 (not plated) (4-Margin) tied by the large double ring Big Shanty, Ga CDS with negative letters March 2 (1862). Cover also has a handstamp PAID (type A in the new catalog). Only three towns are recorded as having used such a postmark with negative letters -- the other two are Union City, Ten and Elkin NC. This cover is currently the only recorded example of the Big Shanty negative letters cancel. Addressed to Mr. A. S. Reeves, Bowden, Ga. The stamp with the postmark was cropped from this cover and used as an illustration on Page 350 of the Collector’s Guide to Confederate Philately Second Edition. Backflap missing but still a Very Fine Cover. Ex-Handy, Ex-Kohn, Ex-Ballard. CSA Certificate 1990.

SOLD $3,500.00