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Item# 20437

Price: $180

Baltimore Section of Ten-Cent Altered plate – CSA Catalog U-2-3a UNOFFICIAL PRINTING. The altered plates, both the 2¢ and the 10¢, were shipped through the blockade to Richmond. De La Rue did not print any stamps from these plates. When the plates arrived, they were never used by the Confederacy. The subsequent history is speculation. In his 1929 Confederate Postal Service opus, August Dietz relates the story of a hospital steward in the 95th Ohio Regiment by the name of Richard Glenn. Somehow, he came into possession of the plate and cut it into sections as Rebel souvenirs for friends. Also according to Dietz, Frank Baptist - who printed the 5-cent stamps for Archer & Daly in 1863 - positively identified the plates. He superintended various souvenir printings of the Altered Plate. The "Columbus Section" was so called because it was moved to the Ohio State Museum in Columbus. The “Baltimore Section” ended up with Glenn’s sister, Mrs. Anthony of Baltimore, Maryland; this block produced relatively few printings. Through the years, there have been many printings from various sections of the original plate and an unbelievable number of “created” productions in every color of the rainbow – they are worth relatively little. The Columbus Section is one of the most well-known and common, the Baltimore section much scarcer. A rare opportunity to acquire a print from the Baltimore Plate. Printed on quality card stock measuring 7” x 11”. CCV $175. $180.

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