Uniontown, Ala., 5¢ green on gray blue #86X3, position 2, the only one of four positions with lobe ornaments at top and loop ornaments at bottom, tied by usual light strike of Uniontown cds on cover to Mrs. R. A. Cobbs, care of Rev. J. M. Mitchell, Montgomery, Ala. ONLY 13 ON-COVER EXAMPLES OF THE UNIONTOWN POSTMASTER’S 5-CENT PROVISIONAL ON GRAY BLUE PAPER ARE RECORDED in CROWN CENSUS. Although Scott does not distinguish between types, the distinctive typography of position 2 should qualify it as a major variety of Uniontown provisionals. Ex Ferrary, Hind, Hall, Gross, Felton and Warren with the distinctive purple Ferrary circled trefoil handstamp at bottom right. SCV $15,000. $12,000.

The Cobbs correspondence was found by R. S. Nelson of Birmingham, Alabama. Per reports at the time of the discovery, Mrs. Cobbs 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, p. 344).