Lot 2029
Confederacy, 1863, 10¢ blue, two singles affixed on top of one another as this Confederate Naval cover was used twice, manuscript cancelled & postmarked "Manchester S.C., Oct. 19/ Nov. 7" and sent to Augustine Smythe on the C.S. Palmetto State in Charleston, S.C., flap torn, Very Fine.Scott No. 11 Estimate $400 - 600.
Augustine Thomas Smythe served on the CSS Palmetto State as part of the Confederate Signal Corps. Augustine was posted in the steeple of St. Michael's Episcopal Church over looking Charleston, SC.
The Palmetto State was an ironclad ram built in January 1862 and joined in the defense of Charleston, during Admiral Samuel Du Pont's unsuccessful attack on the harbor forts, 1-7 April 1863. Palmetto State was burned by the Confederates upon the evacuation of Charleston, SC on 18 February 1865.
Realized: $1,350