Lot 1476
3¢ rose (65), vertical pair paying the 6¢ ship rate tied by bold circle of wedges cancel on cover postmarked "New York Jun 22, 1863" c.d.s. (illegible date contemporaneously clarified with pen), to "Dr. Grenville M. Weeks. Str Florida., North Atlantic Blockd'g Squadron, Off Wilmington N. Carolina, care Captain Carr, Storeship Badger off Beaufort, N. Carolina; stamps slightly damaged from edge placement, Fine. Weeks had been the assistant surgeon aboard the Union ironclad Monitor when it sank a year prior to this.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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