Uniontown Ala., 5c Green (86X4). Position 1, full margins to slightly in, tied by typically unclear “Uniontown Ala.” circular datestamp on blue cover to Mrs. R. A. Cobb, care of Rev. J. Mitchell in Montgomery Ala. VERY FINE. ONLY 19 ON-COVER EXAMPLES OF THE UNIONTOWN POSTMASTER’S 5-CENT PROVISIONAL ON WHITE PAPER ARE RECORDED IN THE CROWN CENSUS. The Cobb correspondence was found by R. S. Nelson of Birmingham, Alabama. According to reports at the time of the discovery, Mrs. Cobb had been ill in a Montgomery hospital, and her husband wrote to her from Uniontown “daily, and sometimes twice a day, for some three weeks” (Crown book, page 344). Note on back indicates Economist Stamp Co. Jan. 25, 1923 sale and from our 1964 Rarities sale. With 1986 C.S.A. certificate. SCV $15,000
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