RARE Charles Magnus Lettersheet BIRDS EYE VIEW OF CINCINNATI CIVIL WAR ERA EX NR

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RARE Charles Magnus Lettersheet BIRDS EYE VIEW OF CINCINNATI CIVIL WAR ERA EX NR:
$9.99

You are offerding on AN EXTREMELY RARE UNUSED CIVIL WAR ERA CHARLES MAGNUS LETTERSHEET THAT DEPICTS A BIRDS-EYE VIEW OR CINCINNATI. This is a very valuable and collectible lettersheet of Civil War History and Postal History as well. This lettersheet has a very small loss on the bottom right edge and some minor staining around the edges but is otherwise in excellent condition.Pictorial lettersheets were an early precursor to picture postcards. Lettersheets were created to comply with, yet cleverly circumvent, postal regulations. Before 1855, postage was calculated based on the number of sheets enclosed in each envelope. Lettersheets became very popular because of their folio format, an 8.5 x 21 inch piece of paper folded in half, which provided four pages on which to write but were considered as one sheet by the Post Office. Some publishers, particularly Charles Magnus of New York, included printed illustrations on the lettersheets to increase their commercial appeal. These illustrations, often bird\'s eye views or detailed street scenes of cities, usually appeared in a rectangular space at the top of the first page of the folio.In the United States, this form of stationery was popular mainly in New York and San Francisco, perhaps because of those cities\' coastal locations and importance as ports of entry. Magnus, a German immigrant, also produced scenes of midwestern cities, like Cincinnati, Ohio and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that had large German immigrant population.Most lettersheets were printed lithographically in black and white, but occasionally colors were added by hand, or colored stock was used. Charles Magnus often used a photograph as a base to achieve an accurate perspective and architectural detail, adding hand-drawn figures and vehicles.(SEE PHOTOS: CLICK ON THEM TO SUPERSIZE THE IMAGES) This rare and collectible lettersheet would be an incredible addition to any collection and it is being offered for an insane ask.

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