GROUP OF NINE VERY RARE CONFEDERATE NEW ORLEANS CARDBOARD RIDDELL POSTMASTER SCRIPT & STREET CAR RAIL ROAD TICKETS 1862

GROUP OF NINE VERY RARE CONFEDERATE NEW ORLEANS CARDBOARD RIDDELL POSTMASTER SCRIPT & STREET CAR RAIL ROAD TICKETS 1862

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This collection, including three 5-cent stamps, was discovered among WW Rockwell’s belongings, wrapped in paper with a note: “Each ticket…is valued at five cents and used as change in the city, or valid for one ride.” 1-2) Two 1cent yellow cardboard Post Office fractional scrip notes, both signed, 2 vignettes of cotton bales and superposed “1”. 3) 5cent on pink cardboard, signed, 2 vignettes of turkeys, superposed “5”. 4-6) Three yellow cardboard “APOLLO LINE” street car tickets, vignette of horse drawn carriage, verso “P.I.” logos. 7-8) Two orange cardboard “JEFFERSON CITY RAIL ROAD” tickets, vignette large horse pulled trolley, verso “JCJK” logos. 9) Small blue cardboard “ROUGH & READY OMNIBUSES” featuring a horse-drawn carriage vignette, with the reverse showing “N.O.C.R.R. COMPy” within an oval cartouche. New Orleans cardboard tickets are seldom seen. The street car tickets in this lot may be the only survivors as those short routes were short lived. We can not find examples of any of the survivors past this lot.

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