Lot
679 
Confederacy, (Virginia) Commonwealth of Virginia./Executive Department. Imprint (Dietz type II) on from Col. S. Bassett French to Vice President A.H. Stephens in Crawfordville, Ga. and forwarded to Sparta, franked with 1862 5¢ blue horiz. pair and tied by Crawfordville, Ga. cds paying the forwarding postage, cover somewhat faulty including piece out of imprint & two flaps missing, Fine. Estimate $100 - 150.
Samuel Bassett French (1820-1898), attorney, judge, Confederate officer, and editor, was a Norfolk native and later resident of Chesterfield County and Richmond. Between 1890 and 1897, and in preparation for an intended biographical dictionary to be titled Annals of Prominent Virginians of the XIX Century, French compiled biographical information in almost 9,000 men, often obtaining information directly from the subject or from members of the immediate family.
Realized: $70