Lot 1888
War Dept., 1879, 2¢ rose red (O115), horizontal pair, tied by bold negative 5-point star cancel duplexed with "W. St. Louis Stat. Mo. May 29" c.d.s. on small cover to Carthage, Mo., addressed in the hand of William Tecumseh Sherman, famed Civil War general and one of President Grant's Secretaries of War, Sherman's printed return address is at upper left; minor ink smears in the address, Very Fine, single 2¢ domestic rate.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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