Lot
631 
"Gold Dirt CT Oct 28 1865", manuscript postmark with matching ms. stroke canceling 3¢ rose (65) on orange cover to Hebron, Maine; reduced at left, Very Fine, Illustrated in Jarrett's Colorado book., ex-Persson. Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
ONE OF THE FINEST RECORDED TERRITORIAL USES FROM GOLD DIRT.
Only manuscript postmarks are known from this important but short-lived stamping mill town. Gold Dirt was located in Gilpin County south and west of Rollinsville. In its early days, Gold Dirt produced two million dollars worth of gold. The ex-Bauer faulty example of this manuscript postmark realized $1,380 in our Sale 88.
Realized: $1,350