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Item# 19214

CSA 12, 10¢ greenish blue (AD) with 4 large uneven margins tied blue COLUMBIA / S.C. CDS on gray and white patterned wallpaper cover addressed to Mr. W. W. Renwick, Lyles Ford, So Ca, enclosed business letter on adversity paper from R. O’Neale – printed form on one side and business letter expressing difficulty in getting cotton and writers preference to not buy unless delivered to him. Letter dated Columbia Febry 29, 1864 (leap year date), Lovely double adversity use – both cover and letter. Ex Kathleen Staples. $800.

Lyles Ford, originally an Indian Trading Post, was a settlement on the Broad River in the Newberry District of South Carolina. William W. Renwick was master of Orange Hall Plantation at Goshen Hill. His papers are in the South Carolina Library at USC. R. O’Neale was a successful cotton buyer from Columbia. In the destruction of Columbia at the end of the war, he lost 3 warehouses filled with cotton, his store and a residence used for some of his enslaved workers.

Price: $800