Confederate envelope

[History hoarder63]

Have something interesting. Don't know if it is worth anything but not for sale anyway. It is an envelope addressed to a Mr. Charles Holst in Chester South Carolina. It has a stamp through some research is a Jefferson Davis #12 die B. What is interesting is the dates. Looks to have been sent on April 7th 1865 and delivered on April 9 1865. The very day Lee surrendered to Grant in Virginia.

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Cool cover. Very late use of Confederate States stamp #11. Usually this late in the war you will see CS#12 on cover which is an almost identical stamp.

 

[RSMorris]

Cool cover. Very late use of Confederate States stamp #11. Usually this late in the war you will see CS#12 on cover which is an almost identical stamp.

through some research I was able to locate the gravesite of Mr. Charles Holst. still in Chester South Carolina.

 

[Pollaco]

It makes you wonder if Civil War paper relics like letters, currency, bonds, stamps,envelopes,etc will still be oohed and ahhed over 100+ years from now.In other words, will they still be around or crumble into dust.

 

[RSMorris]

ohh, lmao, I read it a different way.... Mine is behind glass mounted in a frame. hope it last a while younger. It's lasted a 156 years so far.....

 

[Pollaco]

Mine will be behind glass when I get around to doing it ..someday.

 

[Pollaco]

Mine will be behind glass when I get around to doing it ..someday.

I'm either going to buy or make a display case for my bonds and Confederate money. But it needs to be a glass that protects from harmful rays and light.

 

[RSMorris]

I'm either going to buy or make a display case for my bonds and Confederate money. But it needs to be a glass that protects from harmful rays and light.

I have each of my Confederate bonds and money in those hard plastic sleeves.

 

[Pollaco]

I have each of my Confederate bonds and money in those hard plastic sleeves.

My currency and stamps are protected by plastic but the bonds aren't..yet.Don't those plastic sleeves cut off the oxygen, like vinyl siding on a house?

 

[RSMorris]

My currency and stamps are protected by plastic but the bonds aren't..yet.Don't those plastic sleeves cut off the oxygen, like vinyl siding on a house?

I don't know.... I have vinyl siding on my house, still breathing.

 

[Pollaco]

I don't know either!