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Sale 90: Gems of Philately

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Postmaster's Provisionals

Lot 307 ()   

Confederacy, Greenville, Ala., 1861, 5¢ red & blue, unused, ample margins to touched, rich colors and strong impressions of the blue ornamental border and red town name and denomination, without gum as usual, trivial small corner creases at top and bottom left, Very Fine, ex-Brandon; with 1952 and 2006 P.F. certificates.
Scott No. 33X1    $28,000.

ONE OF ONLY SIX RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THE 5¢ GREENVILLE PROVISIONAL. ONE OF THE FIRST BI-COLORED POSTAGE STAMPS TO APPEAR IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.

There are only four off-cover stamps and two covers recorded. None of the stamps are cancelled, including the two covers that bear uncancelled singles.

The Greenville adhesive stamp is one of only three bicolored provisionals issued by Southern postmasters (the others were issued at Lenoir N.C. and Baton Rouge La.).

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