Lot
3421 
Confederacy, Big Island, Va. Apr 21 (1862), cds tying franked with 1861, 5¢ green, large margins including top sheet margin (small margin tear at top), on homemade turned cover address to "Mr. James E. Page, Shanadore Mountain, Augusta County, in the care of lieutenant Arther"; inside use is a clean handstamped "Paid 5" of Monterey, Va. addressed to Big Island, bottom back flap missing, Very Fine, A key cover to the Camp Shenandoah story. Scott No. 1 Estimate $300 - 400.
This cover is central to the oft-studied case that Camp Shenandoah was a place to receive mail. Included with this lot is the Stamp Specialist Forest Green Book article by Van Dyk MacBride "Camp Shenandoah, VA., Were There TWO?" which explains the confusion of what appears to be both a logging camp and a military camp by that name in central Virginia. It has long been a subject of interest by Virginia postal historians and was also written up by the late Col. Harvey Sheppard. The camp had many interesting spellings created by the less educated soldiers.
Realized: $525