Lot 60508 – Postmasters’ Provisionals: Baltimore Md. 1845 5c black on bluish on cover

Baltimore Md. 1845 5c black on bluish, position 12, large margins incl. almost three complete framelines, cancelled by penstrokes on 1846 folded letter to New York, with blue « Baltimore Md. Mar. 1 » circular datestamp adjacent with matching « 5 » in oval and « Paid » handstamps, ms « Sunday morning. It is still snowing » at top left, cover has been lightly cleaned, bottom margin of stamp slightly trimmed, and extremely fine looking example of the 5c Baltimore provisional on bluish paper, cert. P.S.E. (1992).

Note: No. 12 in Hayes census.