Macon Ga., 5c Black on Light Blue Green Wove, Comma after Office (53X1). Large to ample margins all around, light pre-use vertical crease, tied by "Macon Ga. Dec. 23" (1861) double-circle datestamp on green cover to Jeffersonville Ga. with "Wesleyan Female College Macon Ga." in ornate frame printed corner card, slightly reduced at bottom where flap missing, small repair at upper left with portion of corner card frame drawn in

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF THE 5-CENT LIGHT BLUE GREEN MACON POSTMASTER’S PROVISIONAL ON A GREEN WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE CORNER CARD COVER. THIS IS THE ONLY EXAMPLE OF THIS CORNER CARD DESIGN USED WITH A MACON PROVISIONAL CONTAINED IN OUR EXTENSIVE RECORDS.

Wesleyan Female College was founded in 1836 as the Georgia Female College with “an expressed aim of granting the power to confer all such honors, degrees, and licenses as are usually conferred in colleges or universities.” The name was changed in 1843 by an act of the state legislature. In 1917 the word “female” was dropped, and it continues to operate today. Wikipedia notes it is the birthplace of the first sororities in the United States.

The Macon provisional with “Post Office, Macon, Ga.” added to the setting is very rare on cover. Three other Wesleyan Female College covers are known with a cameo at left (one is reduced into the design).

Ex Meroni. From our 1965 Rarities sale. With 1991 P.F. and 2003 C.S.A. certificates

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