Items for Sale - Blockade-Run Mail
17221

Item# 17221

Price: $2,000

Outgoing blockade-run use from Charleston to Paris via Nassau carried by blockade runner Leopard on Jan. 14, 1863, arrived Nassau Jan. 19 where struck with blue "Forwarded by Henry Adderley & Co., Nassau N.P. Bahamas" handstamp at bottom left, red Nassau Paid JA 19, 1863 cds, red oval PD handstamp and manuscript 1/3 rate, carried on Cunarder British Queen on Jan. 21 to New York, then by Cunarder China on Jan. 28 to Queenstown, London transits, Paris Feb. 14 receiving datestamp, expertly cleaned and repaired, Very Fine appearance, Fraser Trenholm & Co. used Henry Adderley & Co. as their Nassau agent, ex Antrim and Walske, with 2002 CSA certificate. $2,200.

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