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13009

Item# 13009

Price: $2,000

AM. LETTER EXPRESS CO. / LOUISVILLE KY. / 307 GREEN, CSA Catalog ALS-01c, blue circular datestamp on back of 3¢ red Star Die entire #U26 to Joseph Wenger Sen., Edom, Rockingham County Virginia;  blue NASHVILLE / Ten. // AUG / 24 / 1861 cds with matching "PAID" straightline and "10" handstamps, manuscript "Due 5" with large pencil "X" below it; another pencil mark cancels the indicia, edge wear and soiling, Very late southbound through-the-lines cover carried by private express, mailed only four days before the final American Letter Express trip left Nashville and had its letter bags seized in Louisville by a U.S. marshal, the Special Routes census records only one later exampleThis cover not recorded and is listed as “unsupported” in the CSA Catalog, thus this is the listing copy and only one recorded. [KY] [VA] 1984 PF certificate 1300546, CCV $4,000.  $2,000.

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