Prohibitively Rare 1864 Presidential Campaign Postal Cover “For President, - ABRAHAM LINCOLN.”
1864 Presidential Campaign, “For President, - ABRAHAM LINCOLN.,” Prohibitively Rare, Postally Used Cover, With Stamp, Walcott 159 variation, One of Only Three Known Examples to have been Postal-Used, Very Fine.
This exceptional and Prohibitively Rare type, Postal Cover has a Black Portrait of a Bearded Lincoln with printed verse at right, 3c stamp (Scott 65), tied on this “forwarded” Cover to Goshen, N.Y., by Target Cancel, New York 10/31 Cancel Date Stamped, pencil manuscript “due 3” with edge tear at the right edge from when opened. Cataloged by Dr. James Milgram as AL-141 in “Abraham Lincoln Illustrated Envelopes and Letter Paper 1860-1865,” this is purported to be One of Only Three Known Examples to have been Postal-Used! We particularly like the Patriotic “Resolved” statements at the top, and the fact that the original correspondent, as noted on the front panel, has a disclaimer that the Letter was sent “In Haste.”