Lot 796
San Francisco (San Francisco), origin on four folded business letters from the same correspondence sent prepaid via Panama and carried to Valparaiso, Chile by British ships, interestingly none of the letters was both postmarked at origin and fully rated at both origin and destination, first 1854 with San Francisco large cds and only red 24 credit, second 1854 with no origin cds but pencil 96 rate (double rate) and red 48 credit plus pencil 25 centavos collect for local delivery, third 1855 with no origin cds and pencil 48 rate and red 24 credit plus pencil 25 centavos collect for local delivery, fourth 1857 with San Francisco large cds in red and only pencil 34 rate, Very Fine group, with three from the 1853-56 48¢ rate period and one from the 1856-70 34¢ rate period.Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $200