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THE CIVIL WAR SESQUICENTENNIAL SALE continued...

BLOCKADE RUNNERS AND STATE BONDS continued...

Lot

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

CV or Estimate

461

Blockade Runners: Importing and Exporting Co. of Georgia (GA), $1000 shares, Savannah, June 12, 186(3), #311, as previous, age-toned, with some offsetting, edge wear, light fold wear, but about VF+. (Image)

Est. $1,500-2,000

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction

462

Blockade Runners: Apalachicola and New Orleans Steam Navigation Company (LA), $500 shares, June 2, 1860, #41, rigged steam ship at top, ornate borders left and right, exceptional impression of company seal, minor edge and fold wear, but an exceptional example, about EF. Louisiana would formally secede on January 26, 1861, joining five other Southern states that feared for their ways of life after the election of Abraham Lincoln. One of the first ports to be the focus of the Union blockade was Apalachicola, FL, where goods from Georgia could be shipped. One year into the war, New Orleans was captured; because Louisiana's loyalties were divided, it was treated as a regular part of the Union rather than as occupied territory. (Image)

Est. $2,500-3,000

SOLD for $1,800.00
Will close during Public Auction

463

Blockade Runners: Atlantic Steam Packet Company (SC), $1000 shares, Charleston, July 29, 1864, #631, issued to George W. Williams, vignette of blockade runner at top, palmetto at bottom, excellent impression of seal showing goods piled on a dock before a ship, on blue paper, folds, uneven toning, light edge wear, VF. George Williams would later build the Calhoun Mansion in Charleston, at the time the largest privately owned home in the city. (Image)

Est. $2,500-3,000

CLOSED
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464

Blockade Runners: Capture Document Great partly printed DS by F. Sands, acting ensign of the US Gettysburg, reporting on five person captured aboard the ""Prize Steamer 'Lillian'"" off the coast of North Carolina, 2 pages, folio, no place, August 24, 1864. Of the five, four are citizens of the UK and are not subject to detention according to Navy Department rules (which are printed on verso), and the fifth is GW Westendorff of South Carolina, who can be held under section 3 ("Citizens of the United States captured either in neutral or rebel vessels, are always to be detained" unless "they are passengers only, have no interest in vessel or cargo, have not been active in the rebellion or engaged in supplying the insurgents with munitions of war, &c., and are loyally disposed, they may be released on taking the oath of allegiance...") Westendorff is listed as being a passenger with no interest in the vessel, so clearly he has been an active rebel or supplier, as he is listed as subject to detention. Nevertheless, he is "Sent home in prize" along with the others. All are listed as having run the blockade previously. Approved by Capt "Peirce Crosby" of the USS Keystone State. Folds, soiling on verso, VG. With DS, Act of February 17, 1864, $1000 6% CSA bond, 1st series, Cr. 144, B-317, equestrian vignette, signed Apperson, CSA treasury stamp upper right, coupons from 1/65, all coupons and face canceled in red ink as contraband of war! Fold wear including a few interior holes, some repaired with paper on verso, VF. [2] (Image)

Est. $750-1,000

CLOSED
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465

Blockade Runners: Charleston Importing & Exporting (SC), $1000 shares, November 7, 1864, #2762, signed by Henry Cobia as president, blockade runner at top, bale of wheat bottom. Edge wear especially at left, two pinholes, but a strong VF. Henry Cobia's company was one of the most prominent in Charleston during the war, when any kind of importing or exporting meant running the Union blockade that had been established after the fall of Fort Sumter in April 1861. With photograph of a painting of a blockade runner. [2] (Image)

Est. $2,500-3,000

CLOSED
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466

Blockade Runners: Charleston Importing & Exporting (SC), $1000 shares, Charleston, March 17, 1864, #2400, as previous, but signed by DD Mowry, fold and edge wear including small nicks at edges, some foxing, a strong VG. (Image)

Est. $1,000-1,500

SOLD for $600.00
Will close during Public Auction

467

Blockade Runners: Charleston Importing & Exporting Interesting DS by William C. Halbeck, 1 page, oblong 8vo, Charleston, SC, July 19, 1870. He appoints CH West Jr his proxy for the Charleston Importing and Exporting Co. Endorsed by West on verso. With unusual offsetting from another document (and revenue stamp) on verso. VF. From The Holger Dreher Collection (Image)

Est. $100-150

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction

468

Blockade Runners: Chicora Importing & Exporting (SC), $1000 shares, January 9, 1863, #228, on blue paper, blockade runner top, palmetto bottom, loan and repayment note in red pen across face, fold wear including some discoloration, with light tape repair on verso, otherwise about VG. This company made money for its investors and at one point the stock price rose to $10,250 per share. It ran two steamers that completed 18 trips through the blockade. (Image)

Est. $500-750

SOLD for $600.00
Will close during Public Auction

469

Blockade Runners: Consolidated Steamship Company of Charleston (SC), $1000 shares, Charleston, December 15, 1864, #1477, issued to George Williams, blockade runner at top, dog with safe and key at bottom, red and blue, some creases, age-toned, but sharp and VF. George Williams would build the famed Calhoun Mansion in Charleston, which has been featured in several films. (Image)

Est. $2,000-2,500

CLOSED
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470

Blockade Runners: Consolidated Steamship Company of Charleston (SC), $1000 shares, July 14, 1863, #6, blockade runner top, dog's head bottom, blue and red, age-toned, with nicks at edges, folds and minor wrinkles, chip at top left edge, but very sharp and Fine. An exceptional low number! (Image)

Est. $1,500-2,000

CLOSED
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471

Blockade Runners: Importing & Exporting Company of South Carolina (SC), $1000 Shares, May 18, 1863, #251, signed by William C. Bee as president and issued to Capt. James Carlin, well toned and soiled, fold wear, a very strong Fine. William Bee and a group of other investors had formed the Importing & Exporting Company soon after the blockade was established in April 1861. Bee took personal charge of the company, purchasing among other things the steamer Cecile to run goods in and out of city. He then hired Captain Carlin to sail her. Carlin was also in the Confederate Navy, and just three months after this issue, he attempted (unsuccessfully) to sink the blockading USS New Ironsides with a torpedo spar. (Image)

Est. $1,500-2,000

CLOSED
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472

Blockade Runners: Cotton Reports Trio of printed Circulars, in German, each 1 page, 4to, New Orleans, July 7-December 30, 1854. Printed by Clason & Co (and Clason & Vles), each tells the state of the cotton market in Europe with classifications of quality, prices, etc. For example, the first tells that "Der Markt ist lebhaft geblieben und seit obigem Datum belaufen die Verkaeufe sich auf 45,000 Ballen." ("The market remains lively, and since the forementioned date, sales amount to 45,000 bales.") Each is headed with the name of the ship that brings the news, respectively the America, Pacific, and Atlantic - all three of them ships that would run the Union blockade several years later! Each with 1-penny circular handstamp. The last has some oily stains at top, otherwise all VF. From The Holger Dreher Collection (Image)

Est. $300-400

SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction

473

Blockade Runners: Fraser, Trenholm and Co (SC), $500 6% series 2 bond, 1868, #B426, binding Theodore D. Wagner and William Trenholm as trustees, signed by Wagner and Trenholm and signed on verso by George Trenholm, payable to James Robb and Charles Lowndes, trustees, no coupons, edge wear, minor fold separation at edges, about VF+. George Trenholm (1807-76) and Fraser, Trenholm & Co had financed many Confederate blockade runners during the war. He also served for a time as the CSA Secretary of the Treasury. (Image)

Est. $150-200

SOLD for $150.00
Will close during Public Auction

474

Blockade Runners: Fraser, Trenholm and Co (SC), Four 6% bonds, all 1868: $156.38, series 1, #1249, amount written in; $1000, series 2, #55; series 3, no amount, unissued, but signed by Wagner; and series 4, $200, no number, but signed by Wagner and W. Trenholm. All bind Theodore D. Wagner and William Trenholm as trustees, signed except as noted by Wagner and Trenholm, and series 1, 2, and 4 signed on verso by George Trenholm, payable to James Robb and Charles Lowndes, trustees, no coupons. Series 2 pen canceled through all signatures. Ink stains on series 2, Fine; some staining on series 4, VF; others about VF+. [4] From The Holger Dreher Collection (Image)

Est. $500-750

CLOSED
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475

Blockade Runners: Richmond & Petersburg Importing & Exporting (VA), $500 shares, capital stock, Richmond, June 23, 1863, #63, ornate left border, age-toned, edge wear some minor foxing, VG. Any war-date Confederate importer was by necessity a blockade runner, and the blockade at Hampton Roads was particularly difficult to elude. (Image)

Est. $500-750

SOLD for $2,200.00
Will close during Public Auction

476

Blockade Runners: Mercantile Trading Co, Ltd (England), 1000 pound share, 1863, #90, issued to Charles E. Thorburn, ornate left edge, choice company seal, stamped ""Value / One Thousand / Pounds"" at center. Fold, light foxing, but VF. Thorburn, a Confederate lieutenant colonel, sought to build a gunboat in England for the Confederate Navy in exchange for cotton. This very certificate was one of ten captured with the blockade runner Lady Davis in November 1863! From The Holger Dreher Collection (Image)

Est. $400-500

SOLD for $1,150.00
Will close during Public Auction

477

Georgia-Alabama Investment & Development Co (AL), $10 shares, Tallapoosa, 1891, #18688, signed by Benjamin F. Butler as president, GA state arms top, brown, edge and fold wear, soiling at folds, a strong VF. Benjamin F. Butler (1818-93) had been a pro-South Democrat before the Civil War, but soon became one of its most notorious Union political generals; his order to treat New Orleans women who were disrespectful as if they were prostitutes gained him the sobriquet "the Beast;" also known for his ineffective command in the field; later Governor of Massachusetts. (Image)

Est. $100-150

SOLD for $70.00
Will close during Public Auction

478

Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad Company (AL), $1000 8% first mortgage bond, 1869, #768, signed twice by Nathan Bedford Forrest as president on recto and verso, train arrives at station top, workers pick and tote cotton lower right, green with choice gold underprint, RN-W2 left, two RN-P6 right, 7 coupons used, pen notes on verso, age-toned, with fold wear and soiling, but a strong VF. Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-77) was probably the most stirring success story of the war, enlisting in the Confederate Army as a private and rising to lieutenant general due to his incredible success as a cavalry commander. His seeming ability to arrive out of nowhere, humiliate a larger enemy force, and disappear without a trace made him a legend. (imagea) (Image)

Est. $1,000-1,500

SOLD for $1,400.00
Will close during Public Auction

479

State of Arkansas, A group of nine small war bonds, October 1861-January 1862, in the amounts of $5 (2), $10 (4), and $20 (3). All are signed by treasurer O. Basham, with his printed signature on coupons. Three with some coupons used. Condition ranges from about Fine to VF. (Image)

Est. $200-300

SOLD for $130.00
Will close during Public Auction

480

Wilmington & Northern RR (DE), $50 shares, 18(1900), #1405, signed by Henry A. Du Pont as president, Wilmington shipyard top, PA arms left, DE arms right, punch and stamp canceled, affecting signature, stains and wear in margins, staple holes holes upper left, about VF+. Henry A. Du Pont (1838-1926) had won the Medal of Honor as a lieutenant colonel of artillery at the Battle of Cedar Creek, helping secure the Shenandoah Valley for the Union; he would later become US Senator from Delaware. (Image)

Est. $200-300

CLOSED
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