Uniontown Ala., 5c Green (86X4). Position 4, large margins at top and bottom, clear to barely touched at sides, tied by usual faint "Uniontown Ala." circular datestamp on yellow cover to Montgomery Ala., from the Cobbs correspondence, close examination reveals a tiny scuff in the stamp at right which is not mentioned on accompanying certificate

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. ONLY 19 COVERS BEARING THE UNIONTOWN 5-CENT ON WHITE PAPER ARE RECORDED IN THE CROWN CENSUS.

The Cobb correspondence was found by R. S. Nelson of Birmingham, Alabama. According to reports at the time of the discovery, Mrs. Cobb had been ill in a Montgomery hospital, and her husband wrote to her from Uniontown “daily, and sometimes twice a day, for some three weeks” (Crown book, page 344).

Ex Caspary, Antrim and Gross. With clear 1997 C.S.A. certificate.

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