CSA 11-AD-v6 10¢ blue chilled plate variety, position 10 upper right corner single with NAVASOTA, TEXAS, PIN-PERF VARIETY. Top right corner sheet margins with perfs complete at left and bottom, usual gum soaks, tied by NAVASOTA TEX. dateless circle on blue enamel cover to Capt. G. H. Love, Commanding Company Reserve Corps, Wheelock Tex. Sender's routing directive "By Courier Q.A.M. Dec. 2/64" for at least part of its journey by military courier and "O.B." official business endorsement; minor wear and chips in enamel and slight reduction at right where opened, Very Fine. THE ONLY RECORDED PRIVATE PERFORATION FROM NAVASOTA, TEXAS. ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING PERFORATED GENERAL ISSUE COVERS KNOWN. The officially perforated stamps were also used at Navasota (only two examples are known of the 11e – not the private perf). Stellar provenance: Ex Brooks, Freeland, Norton, Hulme, and Mandel. With 2009 PF certificate and new 2024 CWPS certificate. AN ARISTOCRAT OF CONFEDERATE PHILATELY.  $2,500.

Capt. G.H. Love was commissioned into "B" Co. Texas 3rd State Troops Cavalry on 11/1/1863, part of the Trans-Mississippi Department. The regiment was also known as the South Kansas-Texas Mounted Volunteers.