Items for Sale - Mourning Covers - Item# 22729
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Item# 22729

CSA 1, 5¢ green (4 margins) tied FREDERICKSBURG VA MAR 2 1862 circular datestamp on tiny mourning cover to Major R.L. Maury, 24th Va. Reg. Early’s Brigade, Manassas Junction. Customary sequential Roman numeral CVIX (109); included in the Paul Bearer census of the Maury Mourning Covers in chronological order.  Click here to see the census, survey and history of Maury, son of Navy Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury. The Paul Bearer mourning cover exhibit is also available on the Exhibits page on this site. Reduced at right on opening, customary for this correspondence, with stains and edge erosion. Ex Renate Thayer. $150. 

Price: $150