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Item# 10132
Price: $400
Back of cover with Shafer clothing cameo
CSA #7, 5¢ blue block of 4 tied on cover with blue FRANKLIN DEPOT / VA cds on cover to Mrs. Delia Venable, Care Col. Venable, Oxford, NC with brown advertising cameo of A. S. Shafer & Co., Clothing Bazaar, Petersburg, Va. on back flap, regrettably torn upon opening and tear extending to front of cover. Scarce use of block and only one of four recorded cameos. $400.
Abraham Watkins Venable (1799-1876) was born in Prince Edward County, Va.; educated at Hampden Sydney and Princeton; became a lawyer; moved to North Carolina in 1829 and became active in politics as a Democrat, serving as a presidential elector in 1832 and 1836 and in the US House of Representatives. Venable was a presidential elector on the Breckinridge-Lane ticket in 1860; a delegate from North Carolina to the Provisional Confederate Congress; and a member of the Confederate House of Representatives, 1862-1864. He was a close political ally of John C. Calhoun.
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