Items for Sale - Postmasters' Provisionals on Cover, Section Two
15388

Item# 15388

Price: $1,500

Nashville, Tenn. 5¢ brick red #61X1, plated by previous owner as position 3 from the top row, tied by blue Sep 10 [1861] town postmark with day slug inverted, on cover to Wm. E. Baird Esq, Cornersville, Tenn. Reduced a bit at right and cover repairs top right and center right. 2005 CSA Certificate 04628. SCV $3,500. $1,500.  

Per the 1860-61 Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory, William E. Baird was a “Dealer in Dry Goods, Yankee Notions, Queensware, Hardware and Castings, Family Drugs, Boots, Shoes, Etc.” Per the 1855 List of Post Offices in the United States, he was also the postmaster for Cornersville. The 1861 edition does not show the name of the postmaster.

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