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Confederate Patriotic Label.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:45.00 USD Estimated At:90.00 - 120.00 USD
Confederate Patriotic Label.
Genuine pictorial label as used on envelopes during Civil War (now valuable and scarce). Postage-stamp-size, 25 x 30 mm, crimson red and water blue on eggshell white, showing Southern sailor nailing the fluttering 11-star flag to mast. The eleventh star was added after admission of Tennessee - the last state to wholly secede from the Union - on July 3, 1861. Two very wide margins, slender at right, and touching hairline border at top; interesting stray red printer's ink spot at lower left, else fine plus. Listed in 1959 Dietz catalogue as Type J-B-1 (now referred to as Type ST-4), even then valued at 40.00.