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Item# 19399
Price: $850
CSA 8, 2¢ brown red (4 close margins) tied by AUGUSTA / Ga. CDS on cover to R.D.B. Taylor Esq., Athens, Ga. with ms. “circular” at upper left. Signed (pencil) Stanley B. Ashbrook guarantee on verso. 1997 CSA certificate 03126. Circular uses are far scarcer than drop uses. SCV $1,500. $850.
Richard Deloney Bolling Taylor (1830-1864) served in Company F of Georgia 3rd Battalion State Guard Cavalry. He was son of Robert Taylor, born in Ireland, an immigrated to Savannah in the 1790s. The family were wealthy planters and slave owners. When the father died in 1859, he owned over 17,000 acres throughout Georgia and his estate was valued at more than $450,000.