SR34

USA 3c Red Star Die BLUE Grid cancel and the BLUE Charlotte NC CDS 6 JUN (1861). Addressed to Mr. J. H. Weller, Brinkleyville, Halifax Cty NC. The cover is dated 5 days after the Confederate postal service began operations. But there is no indication on the cover that any Confederate postage was either paid or marked as due. It appears that the cover was allowed to go through with the Star Die accepted as postage. This should not have happened. Either the sending postmaster or the receiving postmaster should have marked the cover as "Due 5c" for the Confederate postage. But they did not. There is no explanation for this. There is reportedly a similar cover treated the same way also from Charlotte NC dated 17 JUN 1861. A very clean cover and a postal enigma.

$300.00 SOLD

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