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Confederate Civil War Patriotic cover
Object Details
- Description
- CSA patriotic cover with flag on staff waving to right over cannon pointed to left. The twelve-star constellation represents the number of states in the Confederacy at the time. Design in black, Dietz Type CN-1.
- The cover is addressed, but it does not appear to have been postally used. It was privately carried to its destination, per the illegible inscription "in the care of ...."
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1861-1865
- Object number
- 2003.2004.28
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink / handwritten
- Place
- Confederate States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Dietz Catalog E-A-1
- Topic
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877)
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_2003.2004.28
- Usage
- CC0
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