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Item# 18727

"Dyers Store Va., June 1st" manuscript postmark with matching "Paid 10" on overall lithographed Stultz & Burnett, Manufacturers of Choicest Henry County Leaf Tobacco , Dzers Store PO, Virginia, Zephaniah Stultz /  Henry B. Bunett advertising cover with illustration of LARGE TOBACCO LEAF, to Miss Loulie M. Jones, Oak Level Va., W. Eaves N.Y. imprint on flap, Very Fine, a WONDERFUL AND SCARCE TOBACCO DESIGN, Ex Dr. Warren and Schopp. $900.

Zephaniah Stultz (1815-1864) was a successful tobacco manufacturer who built the first brick factory in the county in 1860 near Dyer’s Store. Birth/death dates also seen as 1814-1865. Find A Grave shows him committed to the Western State Hospital in 1863 as suicidal where he died January 1, 1865, from cerebral disease.

Price: $900