Lot
4319 
Confederacy, Uniontown, Ala., 1861, 5¢ green on gray blue, position 3, even margins mostly clear of ornaments all around, tied by "Uniontown, Ala." cds on cover addressed to Mrs. R. A. Cobbs, care of Rev. J. M. Mitchell, Montgomery, Ala., Very Fine, ex-Caspary, Hart, Telep, Dr. Maffeo & Sharrer; with 1990 P.F. certificate. Scott No. 86X3 $15,000.
ONLY THIRTEEN COVERS WITH THE UNIONTOWN 5¢ GREEN ON GRAY BLUE PAPER ARE RECORDED IN THE CROWN CENSUS.
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, page 344).