Macon Ga., 5c Black on Yellow Wove (53X3). Horizontal pair, large margins to just into floral ornaments at bottom and left, tied by double-struck "Macon Ga. Aug. 7" (1861) double-circle datestamp on red and blue 7-Star Confederate Flag Patriotic cover (F7-12) to Prince Edward C.H. Va., pair with some very trivial gum soaks along bottom margin

VERY FINE. ONE OF TWO RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THE MACON FLORAL-BORDER POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL USED ON A PATRIOTIC COVER -- ALSO ONE OF ONLY FIVE RECORDED 53X3 PAIRS ON COVER. A SPECTACULAR CONFEDERATE PROVISIONAL RARITY.

The person most likely to be the Macon postmaster who issued the provisional stamps is Dr. Edward L. Strohecker, a graduate of the Medical College of South Carolina, who was elected three times as Macon's mayor. He helped to organize the Georgia Medical Association, and travelled to visit and treat Confederate troops during the war. Another postmaster and possible stamp issuer is Washington Poe, a relative of the poet, who also served a term as mayor and was elected as a Union delegate to the Georgia Secession Convention in Milledgeville.

All of the Macon provisional stamps were printed from typeset forms. The 2c and two of the three 5c settings simply state the denomination and nothing else, and they were the first stamps printed. These were followed by the four-line "square" stamp, which includes the words "Post Office" and "Macon, Ga." The order of issue is confused by the Scott Catalogue listings.

Our Levi records contain two floral-border 53X3 Patriotic covers, both franked with a pair and from the same correspondence to Prince Edward Courthouse Va. The other Patriotic cover is ex Caspary and Weatherly. This correspondence also yielded a 53X4 pair on a Patriotic cover.

Ex Ballard. Scott Retail $25,000.00

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