Name: CANADA 1864 SG35 Cover from Toronto to New Orleans with 10c Prince Consort x3
SKU: P201006343
Price: 295 GBP
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CANADA 1864 SG35 Cover from Toronto to New Orleans with 10c Prince Consort x3

Stock Code: P201006343

1864 (JA 27) cover from Toronto to USA, addressed in a flowing copperplate hand to 'Dr J.B. Hunter, Asst Surgeon 60th Ind. Vols, 1st Brigade - 4th Division, 13th Army Corps, New Orleans, La.', franked at 10c, being the ½oz single letter rate to the USA, by 1859 10c (pale) brownish purple 'Prince Consort', tied by grid cancel and 'TORONTO / C.W' despatch cds. A fine and attractive Civil War period cover. [N.B. New Orleans was captured by a Federal Naval Landing Party under Admiral Farragut in April 1862 and held by the Federals until the end of the war by a garrison commanded by the notoriously brutal and corrupt Gen. Butler.]

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CANADA 1864 SG35 Cover from Toronto to New Orleans with 10c Prince Consort x3 - £295.00