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COMMEMORATING THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CIVIL WAR WITH

THE FINEST ORIGINAL SOLDIER'S LETTERS AND ARTIFACTS

Postal History & Currency

                              
Confederate Blockade Runner Bonds              Confederate States Currency

  




      
                     
      War of 1812 Cover Franked                   Great Condition Used 6th Corps,
      by Sec. of War Tobias Lear                       2nd Division Stamped Cover







                                   
     Beautiful VA. CS Patriotic Cover          Gideon Welles, Sec. of the Navy
                                                                               Official Navy Dept. Cover Sent
                                                                                 to Admiral John A. Dahlgren






    
             
        Rare State of Ga. Fort Gaines'                Rare WWII "McCoy Internment
Academy Lottery Ticket - Jan. 24, 1856       Camp, Camp McCoy, Wisconsin"
                                                                             Cover - Held Japanese Immigrants
                                                                                 & German & Italian Nationals!






     
                                  
         Citadel Cadet Letter                        1861 Charleston Letter & Cover  - Talks
          & Adversity Cover                        of Getting Supplies through the Blockade!






                         
  Union Patriotic Used Cover - Giant             Pre-Civil War Charleston Cover
      Colorful "Col. E. E. Ellsworth"               with "Ravenel & Co." Hand Stamp






                            
 CS Postal History: Green Wallpaper       Advertising Cover: Hecker's Self-Rising
      "Adversity" Cover - 22nd S.C.                   Buckwheat - Charleston, S.C. 1893 
                                                                                 with .02 Cent Columbian Stamp






                          
             Nevada: The Manhattan                             Nevada: The Manhattan         
                 Silver Mining Co. $3                                  Silver Mining Co. $100






         
                
            Nevada: The Manhattan                           Nevada: The Manhattan
               Silver Mining Co. $5                                  Silver Mining Co. $20






                                       
    Charleston ADVERSITY COVER -                    Amazing 1911 CS Philatelic    
  Made from Title Page of Rare Book!                           Society Program







                                 
    Historic "Bull Run" Cover - Only a few                5 Patriotic Covers Poking   
  known! - Printed on Cover: "Brought to                   Fun of the CS Navy!
   Brooklyn, from Bull's Run, Va. July 20,
     by A.S. Wheeler, 0f 106 Fulton, Av."





      
                                        
   Used Patriotic Cover: "The way the                  CS Post-Master Thomastown/ 

  southern loan was taken" - "Paid 3"                         Canton, Mississippi    
  Manuscript Cover with Great Comic
Illustration of Southern Businessman

                Bullying English Banker
 






                                   
           A "Humourous Upside -                   25th ME. Regimental Patriotic Cover
          
Downside" Purple Cover
                





                      
      Want Some Gold? $10 Gold               Cover Addressed to J. Henry Blakeman
        Certificate Series of 1928                    17th Conn. Vol. in St. Augustine, Fla.
                                                                               He was Wounded at Gettysburg






                              
   Point Lookout Prison POW Cover               CS Cover - Pair 5 Cent Lt. Blue
     WITH .03 CENT U.S. STAMP &                    De La Rue - Pittsylvania, Va.
 .10 CENT GREEN-BLUE CS STAMP
From J. A. Clark, Co. B, 15th Va. Cav.

                                 





                             
       8th Ga./Hampton Legion Cav.                       CS Post-Master Durant/ 
         Our Best CS Patiotic/Letter                            Canton, Miss. Receipt 
         Combination - REMEMBER                     
       BARTOW  - Battle of Bull Run






                          
    Nice Example of a Homemade                     1861 Series Confederate $20
   "Necessity" Envelope with Jeff                     Bill Showing Frigate & Sailor  
           Davis .10 Cent Stamp




 


                       
          "War with Mexico" 1846                       
         Cincinnati, Oh., Ohio Vol.               
     Militia Honorable Discharge...            
        Form Used as an envelope!