
Lot
1751
Steamer Iron City (Lake Superior), oval handstamp with matching "Steam-Boat" straight line handstamp tying jumbo margin 1857, 3¢ dull red (26) on cover to Huron, O., with "Cleveland, O., Jun 7, 1859" cds below, Very Fine and attractive.Milgram No. 645 Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Although Ebenezer Ward held the contracts for the Cleveland and Chicago to Ontonagon routes from 1858 to 1865, the Star Route bid registers show a large number of single trip contracts undertaken by the Lake Superior Line.
