Lot
1240 
Fort Laramie, O.R. Jun 15 [1852], weak crude black cds (as is nearly always the case) with separate matching black handstamps of date "Jun 15", boxed "PAID", and negative "3" in circle on bluish folded letter to Virginia; contents datelined "Fort Laramie June 14th 1852" with contents, in part, "I have just reached this fort and am now about 650 miles from St. Joseph and 340 from Fort Kearny…about 110 miles above Fort Kearny on Platte River. Richard Liticus died with the cholera or bilious diarhea as it is here generally called…crossed Laramie river today it is bridged. have seen more Indians on this Fork that anywhere else…A.E. Plattenburg"; very light edge toning, F.-V.F., a rare example of a "Fort Laramie O.R." folded letter with all four separate handstamps applied., written up in the Chronicle (May 2013) by Dr. Milgram.Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE SHOWING ALL FOUR HANDSTAMPS IN USE AT THE TIME IN 1852.
A Post Office at Fort Laramie on the Oregon Route or Oregon Trail across the plains was established in 1850. The Post Office was located in unorganized territory but attached to Oregon Territory for administrative purposes and was the last Post Office on the Oregon Trail going west.
Realized: $800