Items for Sale - CSA 12, 10¢ Blue Intaglio - Type II on Cover - Section Three - Item#20140
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Item# 20140

CSA 12-KB, 10¢ deep blue with large to enormous margins on 3 sides, touched at top, tied by very light strike of LAGRANGE / Ga. // Apr / 9 / (1865) circular datestamp on homemade cover to Miss Missouria H. Stokes, Grantville Ga., part of back flap missing, Very Fine and scarce late use likely mailed on the date of General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. $650. 

Listed in both CSAS 12-3 and Miscellaneous-2 sections.

Missouria Horton Stokes (1838-1910) was an American social reformer and writer in the temperance movement. While in charge of the mission day school in Atlanta, she found herself drawn into the crusade for temperance after it expanded into the South. In 1880, she became a member of the Atlanta Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the first local union organized in Georgia. She became its secretary in 1881 and was appointed state corresponding secretary holding both offices until her resignation in 1893. She was one of the Georgia women to whose efforts the state was largely indebted for the passage of its general local option law and also for its scientific instruction in the public schools. Her name is often seen as Missouri but her given name was Missouria as addressed on this cover to her. Her papers are held in the Special Collections at the Perkins Library of Duke University.

Price: $650