CSA 12a, 10¢ milky blue (4 margins) tied CHARLESTON SC JUN 29 1863 circular datestamp on cover to Rev. James P. Boyce, Greenville S.C. from C.L. Burckmyer with colorful docketings across face in black, magenta ad purple. Ex Raysor. $150.

Cornelius L. Burckmyer (1822-1877) and his family were living in France when he decided to return to America to support the Confederate cause in 1863, while wife Charlotte (nee Boyce) and daughter Mamie (nicknamed Cooty) remained in France. He owned stock in blockade runners. After the war, they returned to Charleston. The Burckmyer correspondence was first offered as an original find through John W. Kaufmann Auctions and heavily written up in the Confederate Philatelist. It is a correspondence between two exceptionally well educated, literate, and descriptive people who wrote a lot about the nature of corresponding by flag of truce in perfectly readable hand, thus a boon to postal historians.