THE EARLIEST WEST-TO-EAST TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPRESS COVER RECORDED BY KRIEGER AND AN OUTSTANDING COMBINATION OF FRANKING AND WALLPAPER ENVELOPE
This is the finest of the few Trans-Mississippi covers franked with a block of the 10c 1863. Illustrated in Shenfield (p. 86) and Krieger (p. 21), ex Emerson, Brooks and Muzzy
AN EXTRAORDINARY USAGE, COMBINING THE ELEMENTS OF TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPRESS SERVICE, SCARCE ARMY OF TENNESSEE FIELD POST AND MERIDIAN TEMINUS MARKINGS, AND THE USE OF A CAPTURED NORTHERN PATRIOTIC COVER
Listed and illustrated in Krieger. Ex Moody, Finney