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Sale 78: The Westpex Sale

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State Postmarks - Louisiana to Mississippi

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

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