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11064

Item# 11064

Price: $2,000

Incoming Blockade cover from France, clear strike red forwarding agent's oval "G.A. Hopley, Charleston, SO. CA." – rare incoming marking – on small clean narrow envelope addressed to "Monsieur Petigru à Charleston" to which has been added "S / C" in another hand; docketed "Rec'd 6 July 1861." Owing to the date, it is an early blockade cover from France. The blockade was announced on April 27, 1861. 2000 PSE Certificate. Ex Walske. Hopley & Co. of Charleston were factor and commission merchants (shippers) located at the Atlantic Wharf per Charleston City Directory of the time. George A. Hopley was also Charleston’s British Consul. Unusual without incoming ship marking. Apparently, the Hopley handstamp serves for this. $2,000.

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