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拍項 54 同盟國郵政處長票
(5X1) Athens, Georgia 1861 5c purple Postmaster's Provisional,
Types I & II top-right sheet corner horizontal pair, used by black
grid cancels on cover to Lieut. John B. Cobb, Cobb’s Georgia
Legion, Yorktown, Virginia with “Athens Ga. Paid Oct. 14” (1861)
cds at right. Minor corner crease at bottom right of stamp and and
cover slightly reduced at right, still very fine appearing in every
respect.
Printed locally by The Banner Watchman from two side-by-side
woodcut designs, the Athens provisional is one of the most
distinctive and recognizable of all Confederate Postmasters’
Provisional issues. The deep purple shade of this pair is
especially vivid, and its placement from the top-right corner of
the sheet is easily confirmed by the characteristic rough-cut
margins on two sides.
Lieutenant John Boswell Cobb, the addressee, was the younger
brother of Confederate generals Howell Cobb and Thomas R. R. Cobb,
serving in Company D of Cobb’s Georgia Legion. He participated in
the Peninsula Campaign, including the Battles of Yorktown and Lee’s
Mill in April 1862, and the Seven Days Battles that summer, which
helped save Richmond from McClellan’s army.
An important example of this iconic Confederate Postmaster's
Provisional, representing one of only 21 recorded covers bearing
Athens 5c pairs (Crown census). A standout item with an illustrious
pedigree.
Ex Ferrary, Emerson, Brooks, Duckworth and Wulfekuhler; signed
Ashbrook, cat. value $7,000
(app. 2163 EUR)