single with rectangular margins, uncanceled on cover to Miss Lucy E. Simpson at Laurens Courthouse, South Carolina, address in the hand of Lizzie Dean as are all known covers with this stamp, expertly cleaned, extremely fine, one of just six recorded Limestone Springs provisional covers and the only example with a single rectangular stamp, a great rarity of Confederate States postal history, 2022 Civil War Philatelic Society certificate (Scott $10,000)
Provenance: A. Earl Weatherly (R.A. Siegel Sale 420, 1972)
Rarities of the World (R.A. Siegel Sale 824, 2000)
Dr. Karl Agre (R.A. Siegel Sale 850, 2002)