SR25

USA #26 (nick out at the bottom edge) tied by a Grid cancel with the matching small double circle Galveston, Tex CDS 25 FEB 1861 (period docketing confirms the year) (month logo is upside down). Addressed to Miss Sarah M. Stone, Middleburg, New Haven County, Connecticut. The Texas Secession Convention adopted the Ordinance of Secession on 1 FEB 1861. The cover is dated on the day the Texas voters approved secession by a referendum vote with the ordinance taking effect 2 MAR 1861 and Texas joining the CSA on 5 MAR 1861. Texas historians and postal historians have always recognized 1 FEB 1861 as the de facto date of Texas secession and the period 1 FEB - 4 MAR 1861 as the Independent period. The older CSA Dietz Catalogs recognized those dates. However, the new Confederate catalog no longer recognizes this period because of a strict interpretation of the written language of the ordinance and recognizes only a 3 day independent Texas period 2-4 MAR 1861. Texas collectors will have to choose which period to accept - the popular belief supported by Texas historians or the strict legal interpretation of the language of the Texas Ordinance of Secession listed in the Confederate catalog. Either way, this is still an interesting historical cover. Ex Kaufmann.

$200.00 SOLD

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