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VERY FINE. A REMARKABLE FOUR-FRAMELINE EXAMPLE OF THE CHARLESTON PROVISIONAL ON COVER.
Ex Caspary and Hill and from our 2005 Rarities sale (Image)
EXTREMELY FINE. ARGUABLY THE FINEST OF THE ELEVEN 2-CENT MEMPHIS PROVISIONAL COVERS KNOWN TO US. A MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE EXAMPLE OF THIS QUINTESSENTIAL SOUTHERN POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL.
Matthew Campbell Gallaway (1820-1898), a colorful newspaper editor and aide-de-camp to General Nathan Bedford Forrest, was the Memphis Confederate postmaster who issued adhesive stamps and press-printed envelopes until Memphis fell to Federal forces in June 1862. Gallaway was often referred to as "Colonel," but military records show that he was paroled on May 10, 1865, as a 1st Lieutenant and Acting A.D.C. on General Forrest's staff (www.fold3.com). In August 1866 Gallaway, after resuming his position as editor of the Avalanche, was shot through the hand in a murder attempt by a United States tax collector named G. W. Wood (New York Times, Aug. 26, 1866). Gallaway survived and continued working as a newspaper editor until his retirement in 1887. He lived another decade, almost long enough to experience the arrival of the 20th century.
Samuel Mosby is believed to have been co-owner of Mosby & Anderson Storage, listed in the 1859 Memphis City Directory. The business was located on Union between Second and Third Streets (where the Hotel Peabody is today). (http://msgw.org/desoto/bios/mosby.html ).
We have attempted to verify and locate images for each of the Memphis 2c provisional covers listed in the census by Billy Matz (Confederate Philatelist, Mar. 1967) and the Hart survey in the Crown book. We have located images for 11 of the 13 covers listed. Two of the covers are addressed to James Street Esq. in Memphis and apparently have never been publicly offered (they were shown to us by the owner). One of the Street covers has an illegible datestamp, and the stamp on the other is tied by the target cancel. We assume that the dates in the Matz census (Aug. 2 and Oct. 7, 1861) were taken from the letters in these two covers, because we cannot find any other covers addressed to James Street. The two covers which we have been unable to verify with photographs are: "November 10, 1861, to Rev. Thomas Taylor, Newcastle, Tenn." -- this entry is apparently based on the Charles J. Phillips census, which identifies the cover as coming from the Manning collection, but a cover addressed to another post office would require 5c unless it was a circular rate. We would like to see a photograph of this cover. (From the Frank Hart survey): "H. C. Crane has Hon. J. G. Ham, Gov. of Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn." -- again, it seems odd that this cover is addressed to another post office. We would like to see a photograph of this cover.
Ex Richey, Brooks, Judd, Matz and Dr. Simon. With 2013 P.F. certificate (Image)
EXTREMELY FINE APPEARING PAIR OF THE NASHVILLE 5-CENT CARMINE PROVISIONAL ON COVER.
Probably no more than twelve pairs of the 5c Nashville provisional are known on covers, including all shade varieties and in all grades of condition. This pair is one of the finest on-cover multiples of the Carmine (two or three known) and ranks among the top three pairs for any of the Scott-listed colors.
Ex Brooks, Emerson and Dr. Simon. With 2013 P.F. certificate (Image)
VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF THE RARE VICTORIA 5-CENT POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL. WE RECORD ONLY FIVE EXAMPLES, ALL UNUSED.
The five recorded examples of the 5c Victoria provisional are all unused and off cover, as follows: 1) Sound with original gum, top right corner margins, ex Ferrary, Hind, Hall, D.K. Collection, 2) Described as having original gum, top left corner margins, ex Hessel ("small faults"), 3) Described as having "some original gum", top right corner margins, vertical crease, ex Caspary, Lilly and Kilbourne, 4) Uncancelled, left sheet margin, torn into design at bottom, Albert Steves photo, and 5) Unused, no gum, bottom right corner margins, light chipping and natural paper bubble, from a recent find, ex Felton, the stamp offered here. No cancelled Victoria 5c stamps or on-cover examples are known.
Illustrated in Linn's Stamp News article in 2008. With 2007 C.S.A. certificate stating "Genuine" (Image)
VERY FINE APPEARANCE. ONE OF ONLY FIVE RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THE VICTORIA 10-CENT POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL, OF WHICH THREE ARE UNUSED.
Our records contain five examples of the Victoria 10c Type I (large thin numerals): 1) Mar. 30, 1863 cover to J. San Roman, ex Brooks, Weatherly, Kilbourne, Gross, D.K. Collection, 2) Jun. 23 (1863) cover to C. Hellenkamp, ex Caspary, Muzzy and Boker, 3) Unused stamp with small repair, ex Hessel, 4) A severely damaged stamp with one third of lower right missing when discovered by Albert Steves, and 5) Unused stamp with thin and horizontal crease ending in a small tear, from a recent find, ex Felton, the stamp offered here.
Illustrated in Linn's Stamp News article in 2008. With 2007 C.S.A. certificate (Image)
AN UNUSUAL TURNED COVER WITH AN EXTREMELY RARE COMBINATION FRANKING.
Ex Keeling and from our 2005 Rarities sale. Scott Retail for the strip of five on cover $4,500.00 (Image)