Wilmington, New Hanover County, September 6, 1860, envelope with two 3-cents 1857, dull red stamps and a 24-cents 1860, gray stamp paying the 30¢ rate by Prussian Closed Mail from Wilmington to Puschdorf, East Prussia. Wilmington applied a Type 9, 31.5 mm postmark in black and the New York exchange office credited 7¢ to Prussia for this single-rate letter with a red N.YORK AM.PKT postmark.

Chapel Hill, Orange County, September 13, [1832], folded letter marked for 12½ cents postage due at New Bern. The Chapel Hill postmark is a Type 3A, 27.5 mm black circular datestamp. This postmark with dotted inner circle and partial dotted outer circle was used only in 1832. The cover was addressed to William Gaston, a lawyer, legislator, congressman, and jurist. In 1835, while in Raleigh, he wrote the words to “The Old North State,” which was made the State song in 1927.

Salisbury, Rowan County [1859], 3-cents 1857, dull red stamp, canceled with a Type 2, 32.5 black circular datestamp used from 1858-1865. The handstamp would have come in use during Postmaster Moses A. Smith’s time in office. He served during most of the Civil War. The unusual brown embossed corner card for the Rowan House Hotel was produced by William Eaves Company of New York.

Raleigh, Wake County, 1909, Type B-14 Flag cancel used on an overall advertising cover sent to Baskerville, Virginia. This machine cancel was used from 1908-1910. The Progressive Farmer magazine cover was unsealed indicating it carried a circular. The one-cent Washington-Franklin stamp paid the circular rate.

Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, (1863), Type 5, 30.5 mm blue undated postmark, used from 1862 until 1865. The envelope was handmade from yellow, green, pink, and purple wallpaper and addressed to Hillsboro.