Items for Sale - CSA 11, 10¢ Blue Intaglio - Type I on Cover - Section Three - Item#11228
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Item# 11228

CSA #11c, 10¢ bluish green used on homemade cover with manuscript cancel of “Green Pond SC / F[ebruar]y 22 to Mrs. Jeanie M. Waller, Care of Lieut. Wm. G. Waller, Augusta Arsenal, Georgia (an ordnance officer). Now the Augusta College Campus, this land served as a US arsenal for more than 128 years. First commissioned by President George Washington in 1793, the first arsenal was located near the river in 1816, near where the future Confederate Powderworks was to be located. During the Civil War, the arsenal manufactured a variety of ordnance for the Confederate Army.  $180.

Price: $180