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Item# 15392
Price: $4,500
New Orleans, La. 2¢ blue #62X1 with very large margins including part of adjoining stamps at top and left, tied by 31 Aug town postmark on cover to M. D. Cooper Esq, Columbia, Tenn, light vertical file fold well away from stamp. Very Fine. A choice four-margin example on a circular-rate cover, signed Dietz, Ex Powell. SCV $5,000. $4,500.
Matthew Delamere Cooper of Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee was a wealthy planter and highly successful businessman. He had a large commission house in New Orleans under the name of M.D. Cooper and Co. M.D. Cooper’s son by his first marriage was Edmund Cooper who was a prominent lawyer and legislator. Unlike his father and his brother, William F. Cooper, Edmund Cooper was a Union sympathizer during the Civil War. His letters reveal that he was arrested by the Confederates in September 1862, and confined to his home in Shelbyville, Tennessee. The most interesting Cooper Family Papers, 1716-1968, are housed in the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville.