SR36

CSA #62x4 New Orleans 5c Red Brown on Bluish Paper (4-Margin) by the “PD 5 CTS/N.O.P.D.” two line postmaster’s handstamp with the “J. M. Riddell PM” straight line handstamp at the left and the small double circle New Orleans, La River Mail CDS 7 NOV 1861. Scarce use of the postmaster's handstamp to cancel a provisional stamp with only a small handful of covers known and even fewer with the name of the Steamboat. Cover was placed on a steamboat for delivery to G. J. Hook Esq, Providence, La. Manuscript “Quitman” at lower left identifies the steamboat as the General John A. Quitman, a contract Confederate Mail Packet. The last run of the General John A. Quitman was 4/11/1862 not long before the fall of New Orleans to the Union. The General John A. Quitman's captain took the steamboat north of Shreveport up the Red River and hid the steamboat in Twelve Mile Bayou to avoid capture by the Union. The General John A. Quitman remained hidden for the duration of the war. This cover is illustrated on Page 474 of the Inland Waterway Section of the new Confederate catalog. Small reduction at the right but otherwise a Very Fine appearing cover. Ex-Brown, Ex-Hall.

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