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Item# 19719

US 3¢ dull red #26 tied grid with matching postmark of CHARLESTON / S.C. // MAR / 10 / 1861 CDS on blind embossed Hayden & Whilden Charleston corner card to Rev. James P. Boyce, Greenville C.H., So.Ca., Confederate State Use of US Postage. Ex David Kohn and Doug Baker. $350.

Listed in both Advertising and Independent State Use, Section 1

James Petigru Boyce (1827-1888) was an intellectually gifted Southern Baptist pastor, theologian, author, and educator who was a chaplain for a Confederate regiment of volunteers from Greenville, a Representative to the S.C. Legislature, and aide-de-camp to the governor of South Carolina. Boyce was founder (1859) and first president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The seminary was forced to close during the war but he restarted it after the war. His legacy lives on to this day through the seminary he devoted his life to establishing and preserving. Hayden & Whilden were importers of British jewelry and silverware. Today Confederate antiques with their mark are some of the most coveted in the world. During the war, the firm expanded their military supply business and numerous invoices and receipt related to the business that the company conducted with the Confederate government exist in the Confederate Citizen files at NARA. The war proved to be the death of the company in May 1863. Details in long printed sheet that accompanies.

Price: $350