Lot
4400 
(New York via Bermuda to Cuba) U.S. Mail Steamship Fah Kee, bold strike of "Feb 17, 1866, St. Jago" shield handstamp on flap of folded letter datelined "Cuba y Feb. 16 1866" from the Lanman & Kemp correspondence to New York City, Fah Kee arrived in New York on Feb. 25th (N.Y. Times) and black "Steamship 10" cent due rating circular handstamp, fresh and Very Fine. Milgram No. 434 Estimate $750 - 1,000.
On August 10th 1865 Capt. John Sterling purchased for $65,000 the wooden screw steamer "Fah Kee" from the U.S. Quartermasters. He contracted with New York's Waydell & Co. to run a regular mail packet from New York to St. Jago de Cuba. The contract with Waydell was run under the provisions of the Foreign Mails act of 1845 but only lasted three years as opposed to the normal ten years of the Act. The vessel was sold to the Bermuda authorities in 1868.
Realized: $800