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Item# 19398
Price: $2,500
CSA 5a, 10¢ carmine with 3 margins to touching frameline at left, wonderful shade and impression, tied bold neat RICHMOND / Va. // JUN / 15 / 1862 CDS on cover to Miss Mary A. Powell, Care of Thos. Powell, Greenville, South Carolina with small cover repair at top center. J.M. Molesworth signed penciled note on verso, “The True Carmine Shade.” 1984 CSA certificate 01439 as genuine carmine shade. A difficult shade to find. SCV $5,000. $2,500.
Thomas Powell emigrated from England in the 1840s. He was a house painter in Greenville after he arrived, but he but he had been trained as a brass founder in Bristol. At South Carolina’s first Civil War armory, he helped fashion brasswork for carbines at the South Carolina State Military Works.