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Item# 18087
New 3-1-23
Price: $5,500
CSA 3, 2¢ green strip of five, light pencil markings, faint diagonal pre-use crease which is slightly rubbed, large margins all around, bottom left corner slightly irregular, tied by two strikes EUTAW / ALA // JUL / 5 / 1862 double-circle datestamp on pristine brown paper cover to Lt. A. J. Sanderson, Vaiden Artillery, Columbus Miss. Dr. Warren Census of 2¢ lithograph covers (2011 Congress book) lists only two covers used from Eutaw; this is No. ALA-001. SCARCE SHOWY STRIP PAYING THE 10-CENT RATE. Stellar provenance: Ex Brooks, Emerson, Finney, Duckworth and Kilbourne, SCV $13,500. $5,500.
Alexander J. Sanderson enlisted April 1, 1862, as a private in Company L (Vaiden Artillery), Mississippi 1st Light Artillery. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant when officers were killed in Siege of Vicksburg and he served until the end of the war.