New Acquisitions From Nashville Show This Weekend

Our Nashville show was this weekend, and I made a couple of nice finds-- one from my own album that I had overlooked for a number of years. I posted a couple of these on VSC earlier tonight:

An illegal use cover-- the 1851's and 1857's were no longer allowed to be used after September of '61 due to the succession of the Southern states-- this one is dated 1867:


A nice #25, that was sold as a #26 for $4.00:


Jury is still out on this one-- I have not yet confirmed, but am hopeful that this one is a Type Va, not listed as a major Cat number in Scott, but where a Type V (24) is about $40 CV, the Type Va is shown as $250:


And the best was one I found in my own album! I've had it in the space for a 25 for about 10 years, and never noticed that both sides have an inner line-- making it a 25A, NOT 25 ($550 vs. $125):


Enjoy! Ray

Very interesting cover and stamps. Thanks for posting them and the information you gave.

Alas....but the cover, and I should've known this, is probably not genuine. The stamp isn't tied to the envelope, and not possible to certify as genuine without it being tied.

Also, the 24 is a Type V, not Va.......so I'll keep searching.

Ray