Lot
149 
Via Nicaragua/In Advance Of The Mails/Sullivan. Blue-green double-lined oval handstamp on cover with "Fisher & Co. Hat & Cap Warehouse" embossed blue cameo corner card in the shape of a Top Hat with a Cap on the inside, addressed to Francestown, New Hampshire & franked with 1851 3¢ dull red pair (four large margins, trivial corner wrinkle) tied by "New-York, Mar 14" cds where it entered the mails, flap torn, Very Fine, a stunning usage, Cover illustrated in color in Coburn's Letters of Gold (page 234). Estimate $500 - 750.
Realized: $1,700