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USA 3c Red Star Die Grid Cancel and the small double circle Vicksburg, Miss CDS 31 MAY (1861) Last Day of US Mail Service in the Confederate States. "To be mailed in Vicksburg" across the top, and "Per Emma Bett" at lower left. From the Carroll, Hoy & Co., New Orleans Correspondence. The Emma Bett (built 1858) was a federal packet that worked the Mississippi River between Memphis and New Orleans. The instruction at the top indicates that the cover was placed on the packet somewhere upriver from Vicksburg at either a landing or a plantation as a loose letter and then serviced in Vicksburg on the last day of US mail service in the Confederate States and sent on to New Orleans. The Emma Bett would become a Confederate packet and was siezed and burned by the Union in May 1863. Very Fine packet boat cover.

$750.00 SOLD

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