1c Executive (O10). Cancelled by quartered cork with matching "Washington, D.C. Feb 12" circular datestamp on "Executive Mansion" imprint cover addressed to Alexander H. Stephens, the former Vice President of the Confederate States of America and then current U.S. Representative from Georgia

VERY FINE. BELIEVED TO BE THE ONLY KNOWN SOLO USE OF THE ONE-CENT EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

According to the Markovits sale (Bennett 2004), there have been no other recorded single franking covers.

Ex Ehrenberg and Markovits. Signed by Stanley Gibbons in 1927 stating that this was an "original find." With 1981 P.F. certificate.

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