Lot 317
Richland Jail, S.C., manuscript examiner's mark "Exd R D Senn, Capt Post Gd" on yellow cover with red, blue and green 9th Corps, 4th Division Union Patriotic design with Magee imprint (Walcott 1555 var.) to Warsaw, N.Y., endorsed "Care of Col. H. T. Oulde, Commissioner of Exchange", bearing 3¢ rose (65) cancelled by cork, additional "Old Point Comfort Va. Aug 25" c.d.s., 1864 receipt docketing, enclosure datelined "In Prison, Columbia S.C. August 12th 1864" from Lt. William H. Mix to his mother, Very Fine.
Estimate 4,000 - 5,000
ONE OF THE FINEST OF THE FEW RECORDED UNION PATRIOTIC COVERS USED FROM A CONFEDERATE PRISON.
Literature:
Illustrated, Civil War Prisons and their Covers, Earl Antrim, 1961, p. 132.
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