Lot
4201 
Confederacy, Charleston S.C. '24' Mar 8 1861, clear strike of cds with 24¢ integral due rating on folded letter to Edinburgh, Scotland, blue Tobias Sons company oval, "N. York Br. Pkt. '5' " integral exchange cds, although endorsed per Cunard Line Australasian, actually carried by Galway Line Adriatic from New York Mar. 13th to Queenstown arriving Mar. 23rd, Edinburgh (3.25) backstamp and manuscript "1/-" shilling packet due rating; vertical file fold, F.-V.F. Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
A RARE CONFEDERATE USE TO SCOTLAND WITH EXCELLENT CIVIL WAR CONTENT.
Great Civil War content written only four days after Lincoln took office, "…On 4th March President Lincoln of the United States delivered his Inaugural & from its tone regarded by many as a declaration of war. The commissioners from Southern Confederacy are now at Washington to demand the surrender of all the forts held by United States in our Territory & upon result this mission hangs either a peaceable separation or a bloody one. Since our last report the State of "Texas" has also seceded & joined the "Confederate States" & then "Arkansas" seceded, we will have all the cotton producing states with us…".
The Cunard Line "Australian" broke down enroute to New York and returned to Queenstown. Her mails were transferred to "Arabia". Cunard Line engaged Galway's "Adriatic" to carry mails for the scheduled return trip eastbound.
Realized: $675