Lot
4349 
Steamer St. Ange, fancy circular handstamp showing star and rays, on blue folded letter datelined "Boonville 14 Mar 1850" and addressed to St. Louis Mo., entered mails with St. Louis red "Steam 10" straightline for under 300 miles rate; 1850 docketing at left, ex-John A. Eggen, Dr. Vernon Morris Jr. Milgram No. 1297 Estimate $500 - 750.
Steamboats carried mails on the Missouri River well before the awarding of Post Office contracts. The example below took the later course of Route 9029 from Boonville to Jefferson City, and then on to St. Louis.
Realized: $400