Lot
4431 
Confederacy, T. Morris Perot & Co. Patriotic Advertising Circular, a routine full-color U.S. flag patriotic circular sent in April 1861 mailed to a client in South Carolina was promptly returned on May 20 with a number of embellishments: 1. application of two flag labels, one of CSA flag and other of SC flag with manuscript note "Gentlemens Banner", 2. inscription across the Union Jack of "Free Niggers Banner", and 3. changing the company statement "Our Country" to "Your Half Country", the outer return cover is franked with U.S. 1857, 3¢ dull red, replaced corner, tied by blue "Columbia S.C. May 20" cds addressed to T. Morris Perot & Co. at Philadelphia, corners clipped and slight toning, F.-V.F., ex-Groten. C.S.A. No. ST-unlisted Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
A WONDERFUL PATRIOTIC CIRCULAR SHOWING THE SENTIMENTS OF THE TIMES.
Subject of article in Weekly Philatelic Gossip (Feb. 6, 1960) by Captain T.S. Dukeshire titled "The Battle of Patriotic Covers".
The timing of this circular was very bad as Fort Sumter had been fired on only a few weeks before. The circular refers to the "present unsettled conditions of business matters, occasioning great fluctuations in prices.".
Realized: $3,750