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EXTREMELY FINE EXAMPLE OF THE ATHENS 5-CENT PURPLE PROVISIONAL ISSUE.
Another nearly identical cover from the same correspondence was offered in our sale of the Wishnietsky collection (Sale 1064, lot 35). It also has an untied Athens provisional stamp. Neither of the two stamps can be located in the Levi off-cover listings. It is possible that they originated on the two covers, but we are offering this item as an off-cover stamp. As such it is superb and of a very deep shade (as is the other from this correspondence).
P.F. certificate 204217 declining opinion on origination no longer accompanies (Image)
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VERY FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE EXAMPLE OF THE CHARLESTON POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL ON A BEAUTIFUL OVERALL ADVERTISING COVER.
The Calhoun census lists approximately fourteen examples on corner card covers -- some embossed without color. This is the only example identified in the census with an overall advertising design
Ex Knapp and Dr. Brandon (Image)
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VERY FINE. ONE OF THE FINEST ON-COVER EXAMPLES OF THE 5-CENT FREDERICKSBURG POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL.
Reuben Triplett Thom (1782-1868) was 78 when he was appointed to be Confederate postmaster of Fredericksburg on July 20, 1861. Thom had been postmaster since 1840, when he received his first appointment from President Martin Van Buren. Fredericksburg, a Virginia town with an 1860 population of 4,000, was situated on the Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad between the capital cities of Washington D.C. and Richmond. The town changed hands eleven times and was essentially destroyed during the Civil War, but Postmaster Thom performed his postal duties throughout the conflict.
The Fredericksburg stamps on covers are more often seen with brown gum toning and deeply cut into the design. This example ranks among the best recorded examples.
Ex Caspary. With 2002 C.S.A. certificate. Scott Retail $5,500.00 (Image)
Get Market Data for [United States (Confederate States) 26X1]
VERY FINE. A RARE FOUR-MARGIN EXAMPLE OF THE LYNCHBURG PROVISIONAL ON COVER.
Of the 25 single Lynchburg provisional stamps recorded on cover in the Calhoun census, about one-third have stamps with four full margins, while the majority is cut into on one side. The few known pairs demonstrate the extremely narrow spacing between stamps.
Ex Emerson, Brooks, MacBride, Jennings and Birkinbine. With 1957 P.F. certificate. Scott Retail $6,500.00 (Image)
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VERY FINE APPEARANCE. A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF THE 5-CENT LIGHT BLUE GREEN MACON POSTMASTER’S PROVISIONAL ON A GREEN WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE CORNER CARD COVER. THIS IS THE ONLY EXAMPLE OF THIS CORNER CARD DESIGN USED WITH A MACON PROVISIONAL CONTAINED IN OUR EXTENSIVE RECORDS.
Wesleyan Female College was founded in 1836 as the Georgia Female College with an expressed aim of granting the power to confer all such honors, degrees, and licenses as are usually conferred in colleges or universities.” The name was changed in 1843 by an act of the state legislature. In 1917 the word female” was dropped, and it continues to operate today. Wikipedia notes it is the birthplace of the first sororities in the United States.
The Macon provisional with Post Office, Macon, Ga.” added to the setting is very rare on cover. Three other Wesleyan Female College covers are known with a cameo at left (one is reduced into the design).
Ex Meroni. From our 1965 Rarities sale. With 1991 P.F. and 2003 C.S.A. certificates (Image)
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VERY FINE. ONE OF TWO RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THE MACON FLORAL-BORDER POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL USED ON A PATRIOTIC COVER -- ALSO ONE OF ONLY FIVE RECORDED 53X3 PAIRS ON COVER. A SPECTACULAR CONFEDERATE PROVISIONAL RARITY.
The person most likely to be the Macon postmaster who issued the provisional stamps is Dr. Edward L. Strohecker, a graduate of the Medical College of South Carolina, who was elected three times as Macon's mayor. He helped to organize the Georgia Medical Association, and travelled to visit and treat Confederate troops during the war. Another postmaster and possible stamp issuer is Washington Poe, a relative of the poet, who also served a term as mayor and was elected as a Union delegate to the Georgia Secession Convention in Milledgeville.
All of the Macon provisional stamps were printed from typeset forms. The 2c and two of the three 5c settings simply state the denomination and nothing else, and they were the first stamps printed. These were followed by the four-line "square" stamp, which includes the words "Post Office" and "Macon, Ga." The order of issue is confused by the Scott Catalogue listings.
Our Levi records contain two floral-border 53X3 Patriotic covers, both franked with a pair and from the same correspondence to Prince Edward Courthouse Va. The other Patriotic cover is ex Caspary and Weatherly. This correspondence also yielded a 53X4 pair on a Patriotic cover.
Ex Ballard. Scott Retail $25,000.00 (Image)
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VERY FINE APPEARANCE. ONE OF TWO RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THE MACON FLORAL-BORDER PROVISIONAL USED ON AN ILLUSTRATED ADVERTISING COVER.
Our records contain four Greer & Lake advertising covers with Macon provisionals, including two with 53X4 (line border) stamps and two with 53X3 (floral border) stamps. This cover, the 53X3 cover offered in our sale of the "D.K." collection (Sale 1022, lot 1039) and the 53X4 cover offered in the "D.K." sale (lot 1038) are illustrated designs.
Ex Hughes (Image)