Patriotic Covers of The Civil War Era
By Don on Nov 28, 2007 in Items of Interest, Postal History
The Civil War patriotic covers and other printed stationery items created by the Charles Magnus Company are distinguished by their eye-catching hand-coloring. To create the covers, a pre-cut stencil pattern was laid over a black and white design and color was applied. The workers, primarily women and children paid a salary of 8-cents per day for their labors, were given free reign in their color selections. As a result, Civil War patriotic covers with designs created by the Charles Magnus Company may be truly unique.
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Margaret Richards | Jan 30, 2008 | Reply
I have a large collection of Civil War Covers, approximately 500. It includes many by Charles Magnus, black and white as well as hand colored. Many of Pres. Lincoln also maps,ships,flags and camp scenes etc. colors and black and white. I know nothing of there worth and am interested in selling the entire collection. I would appreciate any and all the help you can give me as to how one goes about doing this. If you would like I can send some pictures to you, however there is no way I could ever take them all. Thank You .
Sincerely, Margaret
Bill Weiss | Feb 2, 2008 | Reply
Margaret,
I am the Author of “Union Civil War Patriotic Covers” and some of the information about Civil War Patriotic material on this site comes from my book. If you wish to contact me at my email address (wrw43@hotmail.com), I will try to help you.
Bill Weiss
CFarley | Jan 11, 2009 | Reply
Yes please send pictures, I have some old cachet covers myself and do not have any idea as to where to get references on these, no artist is indicated on any of them they seem to be of confederate war and Lincoln in content. I think by looking at one they seem to be printed in the 40′s but not sure of that either as one refers to period of 76 and 41 only. Can you help here?
Very much appreciate any assistance I can get!
Carol
Terry Donahue | Nov 3, 2009 | Reply
according to the Smithsonion Inst. postal Dept. I have a catched cover that is the first day cover of the civil war, and the only one to exist according to all the organization’s that should know, plus many desirable cover;s collected for three generation’s and I inherited them.many siged, lindenburg from cuba, broken leg veriety of pony express, Captians of many war ships before and up to ww2. cell 712-994-9334 ect, ect,
Greg Balagian | May 18, 2010 | Reply
Hi all,
I am looking for civil war patriotic covers with images of lions or other wild cats. If anyone has any for sale, feel free to contact me at gregbalagian@cox.net
Thanks
John Geisler | Jun 8, 2010 | Reply
For Margaret- I am an old stamp collector, & used to have a fairly good collection of Civil War covers, both Patriotic & Confederate, which I sold over 20 yrs ago. However, I’m interested in starting this again, & I noticed your ad of 1.30.08 wherein you stated you had about 500 Civil War Covers. Still have them? If so, I’d be interested in buying them. Regards, John
John Geisler | Jun 8, 2010 | Reply
Hi Margaret- do you still have your 500 Civil War covers? If so, I would like to buy them. I am a former collector of these covers, but sold that collection over 20 yrs ago; however, I would like to start another collection. Regards, John