2c Andrew Jackson block of twelve on wrapper
National Postal Museum

2c Andrew Jackson block of twelve on wrapper

1863

paper (lined); ink (red brown) / handwritten; printed; engraved
National Postal Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
National Postal Museum

Block of twelve CSA 2-cent Andrew Jackson (CSA Scott 8), tied by Mobile, Alabama, undated double circle cancel, on a wrapper addressed to Douglas M. Hamilton in Woodville, Mississippi. These stamps, totaling twenty-four cents, paid the rate for mailing twelve circulars, per the manuscript notation "12 Circulars/24cts." The Louisiana Relief Committee at Mobile mailed the circulars.

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