Lot
2506 
"Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Mo.", bird's eye view of barracks design across top of cover to Galesburg, Mich., with "Union Store, Parson & Co., Dealers in Union and Military Goods, St. Louis, Mo." advertising corner card on backflap, franked with 1861, 3¢ rose (65) faulty from overlapping cover and canceled by grid handstamp, "Paducah, Ky., May 6, 1861" cds, some cover edge wear, F.-V.F., one of only two recorded examples by Bischel. Bischel No. 1379.Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Realized: $1,100