Goliad, Texas, 10c black on rose, signed "Clarke / PM" large
margin at right, else lightly touching in places, affixed to
patriotic cover depicting a soldier, tents, and ten-star flag, to
Col. D. Hardeman, Santa Gertrudas, Kings Ranch, Texas, backstamped
"R.H.W. Co" (Raymond H. Weill), cover with some toning and trivial
edge faults, adhesive with vertical crease, yet a Confederate
rarity of great renown, having graced several of the most famed
collections ever formed; the only on-cover example recorded by
Crown, and one of only two examples extant, the other being a used
single. ex Ferrary, Hind, Caspary, and Lilly.
Illustrated in Dietz "The New Dietz Confederate States Catalog and
Handbook"
Dietz records that " these provisionals were press-printed from
typeset forms in the office of a local newspaper, the Messenger,
owned by the Rev. A.M. Cox, a Methodist minister, who set the time
and did the printing."
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