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The purchase price payable by the buyer will be the sum of the final bid and a commission of 18% of the final bid (“buyer’s premium”), together with any sales tax, use tax or customs duties due on the sale.
Lot 3234 Confederate States
- Scott 21X1
Danville Va., 5c Red on Wove (21X1). Rectangular-cut margins which are large to just impinging on bottom ornament's point, tied by "Danville Va. Oct. 9" (1861) circular datestamp on buff cover to R. A. Sullivan at Richmond Va., sender's directive "care of E. H. Cunningham" and in a different hand "4th Regt Texas Volunteers Col. Hood" (John Bell Hood, later General of Gettysburg fame), slightly reduced at left and some edge faults, slight soiling VERY FINE STAMP TIED ON AN ATTRACTIVE COVER. ONLY FOUR DANVILLE POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL STAMPs ARE DEFINITELY ON THEIR ORIGINAL COVERs—OF THEse FOUR, ONLY THIS STAMP HAS RECTANGULAR-CUT MARGINS. one of the two FINEST OF THE DANVILLE PROVISIONAL STAMPS KNOWN ON COVER. THIS OUTSTANDING CONFEDERATE PROVISIONAL COVER GRACED THE COLLECTIONS FORMED BY CASPARY, LILLY, BOKER AND HAUB. Our records and the CWPS census record only 10 examples of the Danville adhesive on or off cover: Rectangular-cut margins: DAN-VA-A01-002 [Off]: Wove paper, rectangular margins, tied on piece by Oct. 3 datestamp, ex Ferrary, Caspary, Lilly, Boker, Haub ("Erivan") DAN-VA-A02-005 [Off]: Laid paper (Scott 21X2), rectangular margins with bottom right corner clipped, off cover, datestamp cancel, ex Hind and Brooks (Sale 954, lot 3199) DAN-VA-A01-006 [Cov?]: Wove paper, rectangular margins, Oct. 4 datestamp, affixed to a cover to Alexander Donnan, Petersburg Va., to which it might not belong, ex Hessel, Kilbourne, Dr. Agre (Sale 933, lot 919) DAN-VA-A01-009 [Cov]: Wove paper, rectangular margins, tied by Oct. 9 datestamp on cover to R. A. Sullivan, Richmond Va., ex Caspary, Lilly, Boker, Haub ("Erivan"), the cover offered here Octagonal margins or cut to shape: DAN-VA-A01-001 [Off]: Wove paper, octagonal margins, off cover, Oct. 3 datestamp, ex Caspary, Kirkman, Wiseman, Gorham (Sale 1255, lot 1174) DAN-VA-A01-007 [Cov]: Wove paper, cut to shape, tied by Oct. 29 datestamp on cover to Dr. John Beckwith, Petersburg Va., ex Emerson, Weatherly and Dr. Brandon (Sale 1073, lot 230) DAN-VA-A02-008 [Cov]: Laid Paper (Scott 21X2), cut to shape, tied by Oct. 30 datestamp on cover to Miss Carrie T. Mapic, Rapid Ann Station Va., ex Kimmel, Dr. N. Johnson ("Old Oak") DAN-VA-A01-003 [Off]: Wove paper, cut to small oval shape, Oct. 11 datestamp, ex Deats (Sale 1104, lot 2112) DAN-VA-A01-004 [Off]: Wove paper, cut to shape, Dec. datestamp, offered in this sale as lot 3232 DAN-VA-A01-010 [Cov]: Wove paper, octagonal margins, tied by Oct. 3 datestamp on mourning cover to Mrs. Thomas Bruce, South Boston Va., private collection (CWPS) This cover is arguably the finest of the four genuine Danville adhesive provisional covers, by virtue of the stamp's rectangular margins. The cover listed in the CWPS census as no. 010 is potentially an equal, by virtue of the stamp's large octagonal margins. The other two covers have stamps with margins cut close to shape. CWPS census no. DAN-VA-A01-009. Ex Caspary, Lilly, Boker and Haub ("Erivan"). With 2006 P.F. certificate. SCV $32,500.
(app. 17247 EUR)