Macon, Georgia, 5c Black on Yellow Wove (53X3). Vertical pair, huge margins to full at right, tied by lightly struck Macon Ga. circular datestamp on small cover to Richmond Va., from the Howell Cobb correspondence, "John B. Lamar" docketing at bottom (Cobb's brother-in-law and a former U.S. congressman, killed at Crampton's Gap in 1862), reduced at right where missing flap, the pair is sound and choice

EXTREMELY FINE PAIR OF THE MACON 5-CENT FLORAL-BORDER PROVISIONAL AND ONE OF ONLY FIVE RECORDED COVERS WITH A PAIR.

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.

Ex Caspary, Lilly, Boker and Haub. Weil backstamp. Scott value $11,000.00

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