Lot Details
June 2023
"Erivan" Collection Part IX and Canal Zone Stamps and Covers
Our June sales include Part IX of the "Erivan" Collection of United and Confederate States Postal History and a catalogue of Canal Zone stamps and covers featuring the collections of James W. Crumpacker and Paul F. Ammons.
Pittsylvania Court House, VA
uncancelled single with original gum, Type II (gap between "T" and "S" of "Cents"), cut rectangular just touching tips of designs, previously uncancelled on a November 11 cover to Mrs. Ruth Hairston in Cascade, Virginia, steamed from cover with original gum intact, very fine, the unique "unused" example of the Pittsylvania Court House provisional (the basis for the catalogue listing) and one of just 13 examples on either wove or laid paper, a great Confederate rarity (Scott $7,500)
Provenance: Hiram E. Deats (as cover)
Alfred H. Caspary (H.R. Harmer Sale 991, 1956)
Josiah K. Lilly (R.A. Siegel Sale 317, 1967)