NC882

CSA #4a Dark Blue Stone 2 (not plated) (4-Margin with a small part of the adjacent stamp visible at the top) tied by the integral 5 PAID Wilmington NC CDS 8 JAN (1862). This is the pre-war Wilmington 3 PAID integral postmark which was altered to "5 PAID" to reflect the Confederate rate. Orange paper cover addressed to Hon Thomas D. McDowell, Elizabethtown, Bladen County NC. Minor wear but otherwise Very Fine. Thomas David McDowell (1823-1898) was a prominent Bladen County planter and a legislator as he served in the pre-war North Carolina House of Representatives as well as the State Senate. He served in the Confederate Provisional Congress as a representative from North Carolina and was elected to the First Confederate Congress without opposition. He also served as both a pre-war and post-war Trustee of the University of North Carolina.

$650.00

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