Lot
1176 
1850 (Jun. 10) "Off Charges, Panama, On Board Steamer Crescent City", folded letter with black two-line "Steam Ship 20" rate sent from the Steamer Crescent City to New Haven, Conn, interesting letter from brother to brother with California Gold Rush content, with interesting anecdote of the George Gordon Association that sailed from New York in February of 1849 bound for the California gold fields via Nicaragua, Very Fine. Estimate $200 - 300.
Josiah W. Blake was the leader of a company of prospective gold miners en route to California by way of the route across the Isthmus of Panama.
Realized: $190