Lot
1305 
Georgetown Col. T., Jan 8, cds with red manuscript "Paid" rating on fresh orange cover to Ripon Wis., original 1868 enclosure with interesting content "…In Central City about two weeks ago a (man) poisoned his wife…some four or five years ago I wrote to you that I was going to get married and the girl rather played off on me. That was the same girl and (on) her dying bed she told her mother that she would like to see me and talk to me but I was twenty miles away and she did not send for me…I can forgive her…but let her go to the place where she may enjoy everlasting bliss or anything else", Very Fine. Estimate $400 - 600.
This unusual stampless use is probably due to a temporary shortage of stamps. This is the earliest recorded use of this postmark.
Realized: $425