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

Item# 19386

Price: $1,200

Statesville N.C., 5¢ black entire #79XU1 with bold PAID 5 provisional handstamp, STATESVILLE / N.C. // OCT / 2? CDS with additional "Deep Well N.C. Oct. 21" manuscript postmark on cover to Mssrs. Morrsion, Gaither & Co., Eagle Mills, S.C., fresh and Very Fine. Scarce provisional with ONLY 19 RECORDED IN THE CROWN SURVEY, Very unusual with the cover originating in another town and posted in Statesville -- Deep Well (post office ceased to exist in 1866), Statesville, and Eagle Mills are all located in close proximity to each other in Iredell County N.C. Eagle Mills Cotton Factory was established in 1850. The firm name or Morrison, Gaither & Co. It was burned by Stoneman’s soldiers. SCV $1,500. $1,200.

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