Navigate from drop-down boxes above or TABLE OF CONTENTS
In lot descriptions:
SCV = Scott Catalogue Value
CCV = 2012 CSA Catalog Value
Unused = no gum unless noted
Content anywhere underlined in blue is a clickable link - follow it
CSA Catalog vs. Scott Color Designation Chart
Click on thumbnails to enlarge
and see full item information
Please use Secure Interactive Order Form and carefully read the
Ordering and Sales Policies page before ordering.
Item# 15667
Price: $600
Columbus, Ga, 5¢ blue provisional entire #19XU1, no town cancel as frequently the case, but addressed and no doubt delivered to John A. Cobb, Esq., Athens, Ga, to whom it is addressed. Reduced at right with restoration strip at right just into the address. ONLY 27 RECORDED in the Crown surveys. SCV $1,200. $600.
John Addison Cobb, Jr. (1783-1885) the father of Georgia Governor and Confederate Major General Howell Cobb as well as Confederate Brig. Gen. Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb who is crediting with writing the Confederate Constitution.