Lot
903 
"Rough and Ready, Cal., 26 Novr 1853" (Nevada), manuscript postmark with manuscript "paid 6" rating (crossed out) on light buff cover to Seatuck, Long Island N.Y., red two-line "Steamer Winfield Scott" handstamp, F.-V.F. Estimate $500 - 750.
ONE OF THE SEVEN KNOWN COVERS RECOVERED FROM THE WRECK OF THE "STEAMER WINFIELD SCOTT".
The Winfield Scott was a 1,291-ton steamer built in New York City in 1851, which was put into service along the Pacific Coast route in 1852. Her first trip as a Pacific Mail Steamship Co. contract vessel was on August 16, 1853. On December 1, 1853, she left San Francisco for Panama, but was stranded off Anacapa Island in the Santa Barbara Channel and lost. The mails, passengers and cargo were saved, and the recovered mail was transferred to the PMSS California, which left San Francisco on December 7 and arrived in Panama on December 24. The USMSC Illinois carried the mail from Aspinwall to New York (depart December 26, arrive January 5, 1854).
Realized: $950