Lot
147 
Via Nicaragua/Ahead of the Mails. Red boxed handstamp on blue cover to Massachusetts franked with horiz. pair 1851 3¢ dull red tied in transit by bold "New York" cds, Very Fine, carried from the SS Sierra Nevada which departed San Francisco on 6/1/1854 and then by the SS Northern Light which arrived in New York on 5/25/54. Estimate $500 - 750.
Realized: $525