Lot 1735
Doaksville Ark. May 27, clear c.d.s. ties 3¢ dull red (11), large margins to slightly in, on undated folded cover to Col. Peter Pitchlynn in Washington, manuscript "Paid 3" written beneath stamp, Very Fine usage.
Estimate 200 - 300
Pitchlynn, the son of a white father and Choctaw mother, became a chief of the Choctaw tribe. An influential figure in Indian affairs, this cover may have been mailed to him while he was in Washington to negotiate and sign the Treaty of Washington in 1854.
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