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Scenes of Fishing -A on a Patriotic.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:55.00 USD Estimated At:110.00 - 140.00 USD
Scenes of Fishing -A on a Patriotic.
Delightfully charming hand-colored patriotic, "Fifteenth New-Hampshire Regiment," with unusually pictorial montage of a Navy ship docked at a wharf, men on the pier, flanked by a barefoot spear-fishing Indian, with a red three-feather headdress, and a white man fishing with rod, a water-powered mill in background. Both scenes evidently evoking home - New Hampshire. Scott #65, a more intense rose, not shown in McClung, very wide margin at top, generous at sides, in at bottom. With single-circle cancel, and occupied New Orleans c.d.s., Feb. 19, (1863). To Daniel Sanborn, Fremont, N.H. Both David and Joseph Sanborn, Jr. of Fremont served, the former a Pvt. in the 15th, the latter in the 11th N.H. Infantry, wounded at Poplar Springs Church, Va. in 1864. Some pocket stains at blank lower left and upper right, postal wear, else good plus, and one of the prettiest patriotics we have seen in some time.