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

49X1P, Lenoir, North Carolina, 5c Blue "Proof," heavily-inked impression on off-white paper, accompanied by May 20, 1911 notarized statement reading: "This impression was made on the fly leaf of an old account book used in the Post Office at Lenoir, N.C. from the original die of the Lenoir, N.C. 5 cent stamp engraved by myself in the summer of 1861 and is one of two such impressions now in existance [sic] so far as I know. My father was Postmaster at the time and I kept the Post office for him. (signed) G.W. Harper," certainly not a "proof" in the traditional sense but an interesting historical curiosity nonetheless, Very Fine and presumed to be uniqueConfederate States Postmasters' Provisionals