Lot
4290 
Confederacy, Spartanburg, S.C., 1861, 5¢ Black, cut to shape as always, tied by straightline "Paid" handstamp on cover with "Spartanburg, S.C., Jul 4, 1861" dcds, addressed to Mrs. Edmund Bryan at Rutherfordton, N.C., some light staining at right, otherwise Very Fine, ex-Brooks, 'Beverly Hills'; signed by Stanley B. Ashbrook and P. Kaufman on reverse. Scott No. 78X1 $22,500.
THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW OF THE APPROXIMATELY TWENTY KNOWN COVERS BEARING THE SPARTANBURG POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL NOT FROM THE DEAN CORRESPONDENCE.
General Edmund Bryan (1791-1874) was of the North Carolina State Militia and a participant in the 1814 Creek Indian Campaign in Alabama. His daughter married Confederate Gen. Collett Leventhorp, who was the only English born rising to this Confederate rank.