2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Confederate imprint, 1p. octavo, ordered to be printed by the Confederate House on May 26, 1864, and reads “The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the Treasurer of the Confederate States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Charles E. Stuart, Israel C. Owings and J.H. Taylor, patnntees of an improvement in instruments in sighting cannon, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, as a compensation for the use of said invention by the Confederate States of America...” VG.
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