Items for Sale - CSA 12, 10¢ Blue Intaglio - Type II on Cover - Section Three - Item#18048
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Item# 18048

CSA 12-AD, 10¢ blue (3 large margins, roughly separated and with gum stains at upper left) tied nicely struck scarce straightline Goodson [Va.] postmark (CSA catalog type SL-03C with month removed, CCV $1,000) on cover to “Capt. Jas. A. R. Hanks, State Quarter Master, Atlanta, Geo, with endorsement “From A. M. Norris, Capt. & ACS, Wofford’s Brigade.” The Hanks correspondence is well known. Capt. (later Col.) Hanks was Asst. Quartermaster in the 22nd Georgia Infantry Regiment.

Andrew M. Norris served in Company B of the Confederate Commissary Department. Ex Van Dyk MacBride and Kohn. $675.

Goodson straightline postmarks: prior to September 1863, Goodson, Virginia, used a standard steel-rimmed circular datestamp canceling device. Goodson was the site of a cavalry raid by Union General Stoneman on September 18, 1863. In the process, the post office was burned. Apparently, the straightline canceller was carved locally to replace the one lost in the raid. The straightline was used from mid-September 1863 until the area came under full Union control in late 1864. Mail volume from Goodson was quite limited and thus few straightline marked mail from Goodson survives.

12-3

Price: $675