Lot
2426 
Confederacy, Charleston, S.C., 1861, 5¢ blue, huge margins showing outer frame lines all around, rich color, tied by "Charleston S.C., Dec 19, 1861" double-circle datestamp on blind embossed "Reeder & Desaussure, Factors and Commission Merchants" corner card cover to Mrs. Susan Dukes, Rowe's Pump S.C., Very Fine, ex-Calhoun. Scott No. 16X1 $2,000.
A SCARCE USE OF THE CHARLESTON POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL ON AN EMBOSSED ADVERTISING CORNER CARD COVER.
This cover is postmarked one week after the Great Fire of 1861 decimated 15% of the city.
References: Illustrated in the Calhoun book on p. 79.