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FINE. A RARE PAIR OF THE NASHVILLE 5-CENT BRICK RED PROVISIONAL ON COVER.
Ex Manning and Hart. The Crown survey reports only six pairs for all of the Red shades (61X2 and 61X3), there are probably two or three pairs known on cover (Image)
VERY FINE. A MAGNIFICENT EXAMPLE OF THE 5-CENT VIOLET BROWN NASHVILLE PROVISIONAL AFFIXED OVER AN OBSOLETE 3-CENT UNITED STATES ENTIRE. ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL USAGES OF THIS PROVISIONAL IN EXISTENCE.
Ex Caspary. (Image)
FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE EXAMPLE OF THE 5-CENT VIOLET BROWN NASHVILLE PROVISIONAL USED ON AN ILLUSTRATED ADVERTISING COVER.
Our records of Nashville provisionals contain only four advertising covers bearing singles, and two with pairs. (Image)
VERY FINE APPEARANCE. A SPECTACULAR STATE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT COVER BEARING THE RARE NASHVILLE 5-CENT VIOLET BROWN PROVISIONAL STAMP.
Ex Seybold. A similar cover bearing two singles of the provisional realized $21,000 hammer in our Sale 810. (Image)
VERY FINE APPEARANCE. THE GRAY SHADE IS FAR RARER THAN ANY OF THE OTHER 5-CENT NASHVILLE PROVISIONAL SHADES.
Only seven on-cover examples of the 5c Gray are recorded in Crown. Ex Everett (Image)
VERY FINE APPEARANCE. THIS IS THE ONLY RECORDED COVER WITH BOTH DENOMINATIONS OF THE NASHVILLE POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL ISSUE. ONLY TWO CONFEDERATE STATES COVERS ARE KNOWN WITH DIFFERENT PROVISIONAL ADHESIVES USED TOGETHER, THIS BEING THE ONLY COMBINATION WITH A 10-CENT. A SPECTACULAR COVER AND OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE IN CONFEDERATE PHILATELY.
Combination frankings involving two different stamps are extremely scarce in Confederate philately. Even among the General Issues, covers showing 2c, 5c and 10c stamps used in any kind of combination are elusive, and those involving 10c stamps are exceedingly rare. We know of only two Confederate provisional combination covers: the Nashville Tenn. 5c and 10c combination offered here, ex Caspary, and the New Orleans 2c and 5c combination, ex Dr. Hubert C. Skinner (Siegel Sale 832, lot 3060). This Nashville cover is a three-times 5c rate and has been skillfully reduced and restored. The New Orleans cover was prepaid at the 10c rate, with a 1c overpayment.
Ex Caspary, Lightner and Freeland. (Image)