BACKGROUND; From the earliest days of the war between the States, designs began to appear on envelopes sold to the public which expressed various kinds of sentiments of patriotism and/or negative...
The Charles Magnus firm was the most prolific publisher of illustrated stationery during the Civil War, making envelopes, letterpaper, songsheets, maps, prints, games, playing cards and other items. The...
A series of oversize envelopes with Regimental designs were produced by the L.N. Rosenthal Lithographic Company of Philadelphia, with designs of various Army Camps depicted on the backs of the covers. These...
I am writing this guide to help collectors of Civil War related items place a value upon Civil War period postage stamps and envelopes with period stamps attached. This is an area so vast that I will only...
The song/poem envelopes produced by J.A. Howells of Jefferson, Ohio during the 1860-1866 period are, because they often were used by soldiers writing home, extensively collected as an important area of Civil...
Patriotic covers….politically themed designs and propaganda placed on mailing envelopes…is as American as apple pie and almost as old. Even before the first shot was fired in the War Between the States,...