Lot 2009
Envelope, 1854, 3¢ red on buff, die 5 (U10), used entire, size 7, knife 20, watermark 1, cancelled by blue "Columbia S.C. Jan 17" (1861) c.d.s. to Hillsboro, N.C., a Very Fine Independent State usage. UPSS 18. Estimate $150 - 200
South Carolina signed an Ordinance of Secession on December 20, 1860 and used U.S. postage as an Independent state until it was admitted to the Confederacy on February 4, 1861. U.S. postage was prohibited from use in the seceded states after May 31, 1861.
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