SR38

CSA #1 Stone 2 Position 49 (4-Margin) tied by the small single rim Grand Gulf, Miss CDS 27 DEC (1862). Addressed to C. H. Barland Esq, Port Gibson, Miss. At lower left "per Natchez" which is lined through. Grand Gulf is on the Mississippi River south of Vicksburg. Port Gibson is only a few miles from Grand Gulf but is not on the river but inland. Per the steamboat notation, the cover did not originate at Grand Gulf but was placed as a loose letter on a steamboat somewhere upriver at a landing or a plantation. The sender intended it to go on the Steamer Natchez, but the cover apparently missed that steamer and was put on another unnamed steamboat instead so that the Natchez notation was lined through to show that it came on another steamboat instead. The cover was serviced at Grand Gulf as the first post office encountered for the remainder of its short inland journey to Port Gibson. Very Fine Steamboat Cover.

$500.00

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