CSA #6, 5¢ blue pair used with neat clear AUSTIN/TEX. double circle cancel, Scarce, 2007 SCV $140.

CSA #6, 5¢ blue upper left sheet margin block of 4, full original crackly gum, stamps never hinged, small hinge remnant in top margin only. Superb, 2008 SCV 80.+

CSA #6, 5¢ blue pair tied on small piece with beautifully struck green MONTICELLO/Ga./SEP/6 cds, Ex-Knapp, Gem!

CSA #6, 5¢ blue block of six, full original gum, 3 never hinged, 3 lightly hinged, usual gum wrinkles, “Rebels” written on back in contemporary writing, 2008 SCV $115+ as block of 4 and a pair.  

CSA #6, 5¢ blue horizontal pair used with blue CHARLOTTESVILLE/VA double circle cancel  $35.

CSA #6, 5¢ blue block of 4, original gum, never hinged, Extremely Fine, 2008 SCV $80  

CSA #6, 5¢ blue left sheet margin block of 4, original gum, very lightly hinged, Very Fine  

CSA #6, 5¢ blue bottom right corner sheet margin block of 4, original gum, never hinged, Very Fine  

CSA #6, 5¢ blue right sheet margin block of 4, original gum, never hinged, Extremely Fine  

CSA #6, 5¢ blue bottom sheet margin block of 4, original gum, never hinged, Very Fine

CSA #6, 5¢ blue block of 4, original gum, never hinged, Extremely Fine 

CSA #6, 5¢ blue left sheet margin block of four, original gum, never hinged, Very Fine, 2008 SCV $80+  

CSA #6P5, 5¢ blue horizontal pair, plate proof on wove, ungummed as issued, signed in light pencil by L.H. Hartmann with “C32-33” plate position number, natural paper wrinkles. Only 400 printed. Copy of PF certificate for the full sheet.  Subject of a recent article in The Confederate Philatelist

CSA #6, 5¢ blue right sheet margin block of four, full original gum, very lightly hinged, Very Fine, 2009 SCV $80+ 

CSA #6, 5¢ blue full top right pane of 100 with full original gum, light hinge remnants or traces in the corners, very trivial natural gum wrinkling and one stamp with light stain, excellent condition for a large multiple; 2009 SCV as 25 blocks of four is $2,000. Full pane would not fit on the scanner bed so the 5/8” margin is cropped in the scan, but not on the sheet. Large multiples such as this are getting rarer as they are being broken up over time. $1,800.

Baltimore Section and Columbus Section of Ten Cent Altered plate – proof of each on opposite sides of paper. The altered plates, the 2¢ and the 10¢, were shipped through the blockade to Richmond. De La Rue did not print any stamps from these plates. When the plates arrived in the Confederacy, they were never used by the Confederacy. The subsequent history is speculation. One theory is that they were stored at the Archer & Daly printing facility in Atlanta and were captured by the North with the fall of the city. Another is that they may have been in Richmond and captured when that city fell. Supposedly, a federal soldier captured the 10¢ altered plate and cut it into sections to give as Rebel souvenirs to friends. Frank Baptist, who printed the 5-cent stamps for Archer & Daly in 1862, positively identified the plates. He superintended the souvenir printings of the Altered Plate. The "Columbus Section" was so called because it was moved to the Ohio State Museum in Columbus. Through the years, there have been many printings from various sections of the original plate. The Columbus Section is one of the most well known and common, the Baltimore section much more scarce. $100.

Also listed in the CSA #6 section

Click on thumbnails at left individually to enlarge. You will immediately note the differences in the two sections / sides - see the "notches" at left on the Columbus section.

CSA #6, 5¢ blue left sheet margin block of 15, original gum, never hinged, Very Fine, 2010 SCV $280.  $300.

CSA #6, 5¢ blue, original gum, very lightly hinged, light gum crazing, Very Fine $20.

CSA #6P5, 5¢ blue Plate Proof, ungummed as issued, signed by Robson Lowe with photocopy of the original 1976 PF certificate for the discovery sheet (only one known and since broken up), Position B54, RARE. $200.

CSA #6, 5¢ blue, original gum, never hinged, Very Fine $25.