Lot
4307 
Confederacy, Lenoir, N.C., 1861, 5¢ blue & orange, margins showing large framelines on all four sides, manuscript cancelled, blue "Lenoir N.C. Jan 17" cds on circa 1862 homemade buff cover to Oaks Post Office N.C., Extremely Fine; with 2017 C.S.A. certificate. Scott No. 49X1 $15,000.
ONE OF THE FINEST OF THE APPROXIMATELY 29 LENOIR PROVISIONAL COVERS EXTANT.
ONE OF THE FIRST BI-COLORED POSTAGE STAMPS TO APPEAR IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
The Lenoir adhesive stamp is one of only three bicolored provisionals issued by Southern postmasters (the others were issued at Baton Rouge La. and Greenville Ala.). Approximately 29 covers bearing the Lenoir adhesive stamp are known. The same woodcut device was applied directly to envelopes with one recorded cut square with a 5¢ impression (Scott 49XU1) and the unique 5¢ plus 5¢ entire (Scott 49XU2).