Lot 1111
Confederacy, Salisbury, N.C., envelope with soldier's endorsement "From a Prisoner of War, John A. Durley, ADC", to Gray, Maine (Dill correspondence), pencil examiner's marking "Ex N.K.", bearing 5¢ blue, lithograph, Stone 2 (4), large to clear margins on three sides, in at right, tied by "Salisbury N.C./Jun 8 1861" c.d.s. (actually 1862 since the year slug was never changed throughout the war), handstruck "Due 3" (U.S. postage of 3¢ due on arrival), interesting contents: the writer was transferred from Richmond by railroad and thinks he will pass a comfortable summer in Salisbury if he is not exchanged or paroled. "I think however this will be done and that you will see us at home sooner than if we had remained in the army." He also asks his father to check with the postmaster at Portland as to proper procedure on sending mail subject to censorship and encloses "a confederate postage stamp which must be put on with ours." Stamp gum stained and envelope a little roughly opened at right, Fine and rare usage of this adhesive on a P.O.W. cover. Illustrated in Harrison, p. 40.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
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