Sale 3039: The "ERIVAN" Collection of United and Confederate States Postal History Part IV

3X1, Baltimore, Maryland, 1845 5c Black on white, four complete framelines, manuscript canceled on blue folded letter sheet, with blue "Baltimore Md. Jan 12" cds and matching straight-line "Paid" and "5" in oval, addressed to Centreville, Penn, contents datelined "January 11, 1847," Extremely Fine, despite the stamp being untied we still regard this as one of the most attractive and fresh of all Baltimore provisional covers, no. 22 in the Hayes census, USPCS census no. 20115 (Scott $15,000)United States Postmasters' Provisionals