Lot 2364
Confederacy, Brigadier General Benjamin McCullough Carte-De-Visite, photograph of portrait, reverse with "Published By, E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, N.Y." imprint, Very Fine.Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot 2365
Confederacy, Confederate Paper Money, group of 31 Notes including South Carolina sheet of 16 notes 5¢ to 75¢ that has been separated into strips a single, etc. with some faults, Augusta Ga. $1, Central Bank Ala. $1 (2 diff.) and $10, CSA National Notes of $5, $10 and $50, Virginia Treasury Note $1, Alabama 5¢, 10¢, 25¢ and 50¢ treasury notes; and Georgia 25¢ and 50¢ (two) treasury notes; F.-V.F.Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $500
Lot
2366 
Confederacy, Confederate Post Office Payment Warrant, January 21, 1865 certificate for transportation of the mails with Postmaster General Reagan vignette, pay to Keyes & McKnight as assignees of N.S. Bratcher, signed by auditor and agent of the Trans-Mississippi Post Office Department, Very Fine and rare. Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Realized: $1,100
Lot 2367
Confederacy, Confederate Railroad Pass, 1864, issued by Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad & Washington & Potomac Steamboat Co., "Pass Free", to John C. Rutherford, H(ouse) of D(eputies of Va), Very Fine.Estimate $75 - 100.
Realized: $210
Lot 2368
Confederacy, Confederate States Generals Carte-De-Visite, photo mosaic of 67 numbered generals, reverse entitled "Southern Chiefs" and a matching numbered list of names, "Published By F. & H.T. Anthony & Co." imprint, Very Fine.Estimate $150 - 200.
Realized: $160
Lot 2369
Confederacy, Hoyer & Ludwig Confederate Printing Press - Collection of August Dietz, Sr., This historic hand-press is the one upon which the firm of Hoyer & Ludwig lithographed the first Confederate States postage stamps and money in 1861. According to the late August Dietz, Sr., the press and the lithographic stone with a transfer of a Confederate note were a gift to Dietz by Hudson P. Hoen of A. Hoen & Company.The Hoens were lithographers in Richmond and Baltimore. August Hoens was the first to introduce in America Alois Senefelder's discovery of printing from stone, known as lithography. Hoen was the inventor of the lithocaustic process, the basic principle of the halftone. One of the first contracts of A. Hoen & Company in Richmond was to print Confederate money.
This press came into the possession of the Hoens firm through their acquisition of the Simods and Keiningham plant, who in turn had bought out the lithography of Hoyer & Ludwig, first printers of Confederate stamps and money.
After Confederate Postmaster General John H. Reagan organized his department, he experienced great difficulty in securing artists and printers qualified to execute contracts of the magnitude of government order. A number of designs and proposals had been submitted by Northern firms, but with the outbreak of hostilities, it became impossible to entrust the printing of the South's money and postal currency to enemy institutions. Thus both the Confederate Treasury and Post Office Departments turned to the Richmond firm of Hoyer & Ludwig, local to the Confederate Government.
It is unknown just how many of these presses were in commission but, according to Dietz, this is press No. 3 of the battery. Both Hoyer and Ludwig were Germans who had located in Richmond in the 1840s. Hoyer was a goldsmith and a man of considerable means in his day. Charles Ludwig was a skilled master of his art, able to draw his own designs and do his own printing. When the big government contract went to Ludwig, Hoyer was induced to supply the capital for the increased equipment and became a partner in the concern.
August Dietz served as an apprentice to lithography in the early 1880s and learned from older men who had directly learned their art from Charles Ludwig. Frank Baptist and Richard Hendrick are two of the Ludwig employees familiar to serious students of Confederate philately. Ludwig was said to be a good natured, jovial and convivial craftsman.
For many years, this famous hand-press was on display in the museum room of The Dietz Printing Company. It has been in the hands in the Dietz family for roughly a century and has been loaned out to various important institutions over the years such as the Smithsonian Museum of American History. In August 2010, the press was the featured exhibit at the Confederate Stamp Alliance Diamond Anniversary Convention at the APS StampShow in Richmond, Virginia.
The hand-press is tiny by modern standards, quaintly old-fashioned and almost absurdly simple in design. The output appears crude by today's standards, but the many variations produced by the lithograph process are a delight to Confederate collectors.
The press is approximately 4 feet high and 5 feet long. It is cast iron weighing approximately 1000 lbs. Included with the press are four lithographic stones made by August Dietz Sr. for display with the press. These stones consist of a Confederate Money Stone with four different denomination impressions (6x14'', approximately 45 lbs), a Confederate Stamp Stone showing four impression each of the 1862, 2¢ Jackson, the 1861, 5¢ Davis and the 1861-62, 10¢ Jefferson (7x 9'', approximately 10 lbs), a Confederate Stamp Stone showing single impressions of last stone (5x8'', approximately 8 lbs) and a Confederate Stamp Stone similar to last in a different configuration (4x 6'', approximately 8 lbs), all stones ranging from 2 to 3 inches thick.
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000.
August Dietz, Sr. is widely regarded as the Father of Confederate Philately. In 1929, he published The Postal Service of the Confederate States of America. It is the scholarly work referred to by generations of students to this day. In 1931, Dietz published the first actual catalog that bore his name, a small volume of 320 pages that was followed up with a supplement of 80 pages in 1932. Subsequent editions were issued in 1937, 1945, 1959 and 1986. In 2006, the Confederate Stamp Alliance acquired the rights to the Dietz catalogs and in 2012 published the Confederate States of America Catalog and Handbook of Stamps and Postal History, the lineal descendant of the Dietz Catalogs but with new information derived from primary sources, printing in full color and more than 10,000 entries - double the size of the last Dietz edition. www.csacatalog.org
Mr. Dietz, born in Prussia, moved with his parents to Richmond in 1871 and began collecting as early as 1880. An engraver trained in lithography and typography, Dietz understood the printing processes necessary for the preparation of the various Confederate postage stamps. Dietz obtained some of his information directly from the postmasters, printers and clerks that had firsthand knowledge of many of the actual philatelic items used during the Civil War.
By 1896, Dietz was the editor of The Virginia Philatelist, a monthly stamp magazine printed in Richmond. In March 1901, he started his own company, the Dietz Printing Company in Richmond.
In 1924, as an avid researcher and collector, he began writing informative articles on the subject of Confederate postal history to aid the increasing number of Confederate collectors. In subsequent years, he operated his printing firm with his son, August Dietz. Jr. as business manager, and published The Southern Philatelist (1924-1929), The New South Philatelist (1929-1933), Stamp and Cover Collecting (1933-1936), and Stamp and Cover Collecting Review (1937-1939).
Each of the publications on which he worked contained articles related to Confederate philately, including new finds, plating research, illustrations of postal markings, and answers to questions from collectors.
By mid-1934, a small group of serious Confederate collectors was beginning to emerge. In February 1935, Dr. Marye Y. Dabney, another enthusiastic Confederate collector and friend of August Dietz, wrote to Dietz and suggested that an organization be formed for the more intensive study of Confederates, the exchange of relevant data, and the dissemination of acquired knowledge. The name of the organization suggested by Dr. Dabney was the Confederate Stamp Alliance, a name that has continued to this day. See www.csalliance.org for more information.
The Berlin Philatelic Club bestowed the Lindenberg Medal on Dietz in 1938, and he received the first Luff Award in 1940 for Exceptional Contributions to Philately, as well as the Lichtenstein Medal in 1955 from the Collectors Club of New York. Dietz died in 1963 and was inducted into the APS Hall of Fame the following year.
Lot
2370
Confederacy, "J. R. Anderson, Brig. Genl. C.S.A.", manuscript endorsement on orange cover with "Wilmington Jan 22" cds and matching "5" paid rating, addressed to his wife in Richmond Va., pencil 1862 year docketing; top right corner faulty, F.-V.F. Estimate $300 - 400.
Lot
2371
Confederacy, Official Business To General Lee's Command Corps., turned orange buff cover with "O.B." endorsement at top and addressed to Commanding 54th Va. Regt., Lieut. Gen. Lee Commanding Corps, inside turned use bearing 1863, 10¢ blue, four margins, tied by cds to Indian Valley, Va., Very Fine. Scott No. 12 Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $200
Lot 2372
Confederacy, Slave Bill of Hire of "Negro Boy Jim", 1855, legal document formalizing the hiring of negro slave from Mrs. Mary A. Bucktrout for a quarterly payment of seventy dollars and "to furnish said Negro with good and sufficient Summer and Winter clothing…and a good blanket"; note manuscript addition at bottom stating "This is how my grandmother hired out her slaves"; some damage from folding does not detract, Fine.Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $200
Lot 2373
Confederacy, Slave Bill of Hire of "Negro Woman Hannah", 1855, similar to previous lot, legal document formalizing the hiring of negro slave from Mrs. Mary A. Bucktrout for a quarterly payment of forty dollars and "to furnish said Negro with good and sufficient Summer and Winter clothing…and a good blanket"; some damage from folding does not detract, Fine.Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $190