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Sale 59: The Robert J. Karrer Collection of Charleston Postal History

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Prisoner of War Covers, Northern Prisons

Lot 4383    

Confederacy, Fort Delaware (Delaware City, Del.), orange prisoner's cover with "By Flag of truce" endorsement at top left, entered mails with U.S. 3¢ rose (65) cancelled by four-ring cancel duplexed with "Delaware City Del. Nov 29" cds, Richmond Va. "Due 10" rating handstamp (CSA type P) for C.S.A. postage due, "26 Nov 1864" docketing at top left; small opening tears at top, F.-V.F.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

The Manigault family of Charleston, S.C., and plantations in the Berkeley District, S.C., and on Argyle Island in the Savannah River, Ga. The patriarch was Charles Manigault, merchant and rice planter, who had two sons that fought in the war, Gabriel Edward Manigault in the 4th South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, and Louis Manigault, as secretary to Confederate army surgeon Joseph Jones. This cover is from one of the brothers back home.

Realized: $325

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