Items for Sale - Blockade-Run Mail - Item# 21813
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Item# 21813

Outgoing blockade-run use from Charleston SC to Liverpool, England on two-page folded letter in lovely script datelined Charleston July 17, 1861 and addressed to Thomas Horsey Esqr Care of Messrs. Fraser, Trenholm & Co, No 10 Rumford Place, Liverpool, England. (Click to see letter page 1 - Click to see letter page 2) No postal markings as it was carried outside of the mails. The addressee was a Confederate European agent who was trying to make arrangements for goods under the new tariff of the Confederate States. Minor tape stains otherwise very clean. Ex Rick Calhoun with 1981 CSA certificate. $450.

Price: $450