Lot
725 
Sacramento, Cal., Mar 22, oval postmark with tall "12½" rate handstamp on cover to San Francisco "Upper California", also odd" "Paid Postage 12½, Wm. M. S."" pencil notation evidently meant to denote prepayment of the one bit rate, "Recd May 26 /50" docket on the back, edge wear and an edge stain, a couple small doodles, card reinforcement affixed inside the cover, Fine. Estimate $300 - 400.
Sacramento oval postmarks without integral rate are known used from October 31, 1949, to April 24, 1850, with 51 examples recorded. Within that group, 10 examples of the tall rate handstamp with the 12½c rate are recorded.
Realized: $240