Price
$45.00
Condition
used
Product Condition
Front: Very good. Reverse: heavy scrapbook remnants
Size
5.125" x 2.75"
A terrific Civil War patriotic cover depicting an American flag accompanied by the powerful inscription:
“The blow at Sumter UNITED all the parties of the North, the blood at Baltimore CEMENTED them together.”
The envelope directly references two of the seminal events of April 1861 that transformed the secession crisis into Civil War: the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter and the Baltimore Riot involving Massachusetts troops traveling to Washington.
An especially desirable cover because its message is tied to specific events at the very beginning of the Civil War rather than simply displaying generic patriotic imagery. Unused and original.
Philadelphia publisher John L. Magee became noted for his colorful and frequently biting Civil War political cartoons and patriotic envelopes. This design reduces the enormous constitutional and military struggle over secession to a wonderfully simple caricature: Jefferson Davis riding his “Secession Hobby” while “Uncle Abe” announces that the ride is about to end.
$45.00
used
Front: Very good. Reverse: heavy scrapbook remnants
5.125" x 2.75"