BLK33

Incoming Blockade Cover from Bremen, Germany, to Richmond, Virginia, via Liverpool, New York, Nassau, and entering the Confederacy through Charleston (CC BIB-02). Full strike of the large single rim Charleston SC CDS 29 JUN 186(3) with a full strike of the handstamp STEAM-SHIP in an oval Type B and manuscript "12" (10c inland CSA postage and 2c ship fee). Addressed to James Thomas Jr., Esqr, Richmond, Va. The addressee was a prominent tobacco merchant in Richmond. The cover contains six pages of duplicate letters and ledger sheets on very thin paper all related to the tobacco business. It is amazing that everything is intact with only minimal damage with the paper being so thin. Very Fine. Ex-Kaufmann, Ex-Walske with his notations on the back concerning the routing. Listed in the Walske-Trepel book (BI-Ch-41). Cover apparently went under seperate cover through forwarding agents as there are no other postal markings on the cover. The letter is datelined "Bremen (Germany) 3rd June 1863" and made its way to Liverpool, England, where it departed on the Cunard British Steam Packet Scotia which departed Liverpool June 6, 1863 arriving in New York in closed mail June 16, 1863. The cover departed New York on the Carribean Cunard British Steam Packet Corsica arriving in Nassau June 24, 1863. In Nassau, the cover was transferred to the blockade runner Fannie which succesfully entered Charleston June 28, 1863, receiving the Charleston postal markings the next day and then sent on to Richmond. Total transit time Bremen to Charleston 25 days. The Fannie was a very successful blockade runner making 20 successful runs 1863 through Apirl 1865 and survived the war.

$2,500.00

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