Items for Sale - CSA 11, 10¢ Blue Intaglio - Type I on Cover - Section One - Item#7285
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Item# 7285

CSA #11, 10¢ blue with 4 large margins all around, tied socked-on-the-nose LOUISBURGH / N.C. cds on neat commercially made cover to “B.B. Baron Esq., Iron, Gaston Co., No., Ca.”  Barron worked for High Shoals Iron Works, founded by Swiss-born John Fulenwider in about 1795, which ran through the War and remained operational until 1875. Iron was an enormous industry in NC and made thounsands of tons of pig iron.

Price: $200