BLK37

Outgoing Blockade Cover from Savannah, Ga., to Rome, Italy, via Charleston, Nassau and London. From the well-known and well-documented Locke Correspondence which is known to have originated in Savannah, Ga. Addressed to Madam J. L. Locke, Rome, Italy (Italian Street Address). Period docketing indicates the letter (#38 in the correspondence) was dated 3 OCT 1862 and was received in Italy 8 DEC 1862. The Locke Correspondence is known to have used Barring Brothers in London as their agent in Europe. The envelope traveled under separate cover with other letters from Savannah via presumably Charleston and Nassau to London as that was the usual route. The blockade runner that carried the cover out of Charleston is not identified. In London, Barring Brothers removed the envelope from the separate cover. A London mark in red is on the front of the cover dated 26 NOV (1862) with a London red "PD" (Paid) mark and red "1/10" (1sh 10d as that was the double weight rate Britain to Italy) indicating that all postage had been paid. Barring Brothers received the cover in London and sent it on to Italy through the regular British postal system via France. Two French transit marks on the front of the cover dated 27 and 28 NOV (1862) two more transit marks on the reverse and a partial strike of the Italian receiving mark. The cover is listed in the Walske Census of Other Outbound Blockade Mail from the CSA as BO-Oth-2. Minor sealed top back flap tears. Ex-Kaufmann. CSA Certificate 2007.

$1,500.00

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