Lot
159 
(Mail Routes) Chorpenning Route. "Carson City U.T. (Utah Territory, now Nevada), April 21st 1859" manuscript postmark on 1853-55 10¢ Nesbitt entire with pencil strokes cancelling the indicium, to Middletown, Rhode Island, "Via San Francisco" sender's endorsement, Very Fine, with transcripts of the letters that were once enclosed photocopied from a July 1990 Western Express article. Estimate $500 - 750.
Carried on the Chorpenning Route from Carson City via San Francisco to Rhode Island. Carried over the Sierras by Snowshoe Thompson for Chorpenning (see Across The Sierra Nevada Mountain by Snow-Shoe, by Risvold and Frajola in Chronicle #215).
Realized: $1,900