Lot
894 
(Rough & Ready) Where Is the Best Diggings, cartoon pictorial cover showing three miners with picks & shovels, "Noisy Carrier's, 77 Wharf, San Francisco" imprint on buff cover bearing 10¢ green, type II (14), crude trapezoidal shape, tied by "Rough & Ready Cal Oct 8 1856" cds to Ketchums Corners N.Y.; part of flap restored and mended cover tear, Fine, ex-Needham, Baker, Kutz; with 1978 P.F. certificate. Estimate $1,500 - 2,000.
THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE AND DESIRABLE NOISY CARRIER'S ILLUSTRATED MINERS COVER.
Illustrated in the Wiltsee Book as fig. 18A.
Realized: $6,750