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VERY FINE. A HANDSOME FOUR-MARGIN EXAMPLE OF THE LYNCHBURG POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL USED 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 are cut into on one side.
Ex Kimmel (Image)
VERY FINE AND RARE ON-COVER EXAMPLE OF THE MACON FOUR-LINE PROVISIONAL WITH COMMA AFTER "OFFICE".
The Macon provisional with Post Office, Macon, Ga.” added to the setting is very rare on cover (Peter W. W. Powell reported 24 on cover in the Confederate Philatelist, Sep.-Oct. 2000). Overall, the Comma after "Office" variety is approximately twice as rare as the period variety.
Ex Emerson. Ashbrook guarantee backstamp with his signature (Image)
VERY FINE. A RARE LETTER FROM ROTTERDAM TO CONFEDERATE RICHMOND, LIKELY CARRIED ACROSS THE BORDER AND MAILED AT MEMPHIS AFTER THE MAILS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND THE CONFEDERATE STATES WERE SUSPENDED.
Mr. Wishnietsky regarded this as a blockade-run cover, and as such a unique example franked with the Memphis provisional. A letter from the same correspondence, dated December 29, 1861, was carried by Costa's Express from Tampico to New Orleans (see Special Routes, p. 166). This letter and its separate enclosure entered the Confederate mails at Memphis, which indicates that it either crossed the lines from the North and was carried privately to Memphis (probably via Louisville) or that it entered a southern port on a blockade-runner and was carried to Memphis by a land route, or, less likely, by a river route. Whichever way it travelled to Memphis, the two 5c Provisionals were affixed there for the over-500 miles rate to Richmond by regular government mail. (Image)