Lot
2646 
Confederacy, Independent State Usage for South Carolina to Edinburgh, Scotland. Trans-Atlantic Stampless Cover with the "Charleston S.C./Jan. 11, 1861" cds with bold strike of the blue oval handstamp "A. Tobias Sons Charleston S.C." company marking, endorsed at top in manuscript "per Kangaroo for Liverpool" routing instruction, sent via New York where the "New York Br Pkt 5" mark was applied 16 Jan 1861 indicating 5¢ due the USA for unpaid inland delivery as the letter would be crossing the Atlantic on a British packet, however, the letter was too late for the Kangaroo, because the Kangaroo of the Inman Line had already sailed from New York on 12 Jan 1861, instead the cover was carried by the Cunard Packet Australasia which sailed from New York 16 Jan 1861 arriving in Queenstown 26 Jan 1861, Edinburgh receiving mark is on the reverse dated 28 Ja 1861, on arrival in Scotland, manuscript "1/-" added indicating a total of 1 shilling due which was the British trans-Atlantic rate between Britain and the USA using a British packet out of which the equivalent of 5¢ was to be remitted to the USA, vertical file fold, Very Fine and rare, a scarce South Carolina Independent State Usage to Scotland. Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Realized: $950