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Incoming Blockade Cover from Europe to Charleston SC via Nassau with inland delivery to Richmond, Va. Large single rim Charleston SC CDS 10 APR (1863) with oval STEAM-SHIP handstamp Type B (CC BIB-02) with manuscript "12"
(2c Ship Fee plus 10c inland postage). Addressed to Miss S. B.
Valentine Care of M. S. Valentine Esqr, Richmond, Va., America.
The Valentine family was a prominent merchant family in Richmond. This
cover is listed in the Walske Census of Incoming Charleston Blockade
Covers via Nassau as BI-Ch-33 carried by the blockade runner Ella and Annie from
Nassau arriving in Charleston 10 APR 1860. Another Valentine cover in
the Walske census originated in Berlin, and most likely this cover also
originated in Berlin. Very clean appearing cover with a little toning
on the back and missing most of the top back flap. Ex-Agre,
Ex-Kaufmann, and a Molesworth note on the reverse. Two CSA Certificates
- 1987 and 2002.
The Ella and Annie was a 747 ton side-wheel steamship constructed in 1860 in Wilmington, Delaware. The original name was the William G. Hewes. The
steamship operated as a blackade runner out of New Orleans until the
city was captured by the Union and then the steamship was relocated to
the Carolinas. At some point the name was changed to the Ella and Annie. The Ella and Annie
continued to run the blockade in the Carolinas until captured by the
Union 11/9/1863 while attempting to enter the port of Wilmington NC and
incorporated into the Union Navy as the USS Malvern. After the
war, the steamship was sold at auction and reverted to its original
name and entered the commercial trade until she was wrecked off Cuba in
1895. |
$1,500.00 |
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