Lot 1355
Nouvelle Orleans 20 Ju 1747, dateline on folded letter to Bordeaux, France, with straight line "De Rochefort" French entry handstamp at upper right, Very Fine, a very rare early usage from New Orleans during the French period.Estimate $1,500 - 2,000.
La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded in Spring of 1718. The French colony was ceded to the Spanish Empire in the 1763 Treaty of Paris.
Realized: $3,500