STEAMER GENL. QUITMAN ultramarine oval tied on 3¢ star-die entire #U27 by cancel of a mail contract packet boat which operated on the Mississippi River. This 1861 use is from the well-known Carroll Hoy & Co., New Orleans correspondence. Rare use as Confederate Use of U.S. postal entire. Usual pin holes found on all this correspondence. Listed in the CSA catalog with a dash for value. $750.