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Sale 127: The December Sale

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Inland Waterway & Foreign Mails

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.

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