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Sale 92: The Summer Sale

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California Postal History

Lot 737    

Murphys, Cal. Jun 7, sharp cds with matching target cancel ties 3¢ green (147) on yellow cover to Philadelphia Pa., original illustrated letterhead enclosure Mammoth Grove Hotel datelined "Calaveras County, Cal., May 31st 1871" showing gazebo and cut down redwood stump, some interesting content "At last we are en route for the "Zeo Semite", having left Frisco Monday morning at 8 a.m. via C.P.R.R. arriving at Stockton about 12:30 where our carriages were awaiting us…we pushed on to Copperopolis…a distance of thirty-eight miles. This place was one time the great mining district of Copper from which it takes its name. The mine is not in operation now…we started for Murphy's, a distance of fifteen miles where we arrived…at Big Trees…Wednesday morning we rambled among the Giants of the Forest"… I measured two of them myself. One called "Pride of the Forest" measured sixty-three feet in circumference, and the other "Phil Sheridan" seventy and a half feet, and they are so beautiful…"; cover opening tear, otherwise Very Fine and attractive.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $375

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