GROUP OF JEFFERSON DAVIS CIVIL WAR ERA ENVELOPES: ONE PRO/SEVEN ANTI.
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Winning Bid:
$126.50 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bids:
2
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 2:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, July 15, 2015 2:00:00 AM)
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Auction:
Auction #215 - Part I
Item numbers 1 through 987 in auction 215
Value Code:
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Item Description
3x5.5". First is pro-Davis and features flanked flags around an oval profile portrait of Davis with cannons beneath. Rest are all anti Davis and feature: Davis as a child playing with a toy ship "Master Jeff-And His Navy", full color image of the lynching of a man in Confederate uniform with text "Jeff Davis In Suspense Long May He Wave", A crowd looking on as Davis is led to a guillotine, "Telegraph" of "Important News" with each headline contradicted in small type, jail cell featuring Davis shedding "Private Tears" with noose being lowered through bars and a "Death Warrant" on the floor, "All I Want Is To Be Let A Loan, $15,000,000. I'll Take Anything" with graphic of bank notes and final cover with a large rat wearing a shirt with a skull and "J.D." peering up at a cluster of grapes titled "The Washington Grape". Minor dust traces and trivial scattered light brown spots and one has "79" inscribed at extreme right center edge. All are Fine to Exc. Additional photos available online.
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