Lot 1064
1857, Professor Wise Balloon Cachet, type I handstamp cachet on 3¢ red on buff (U10) entire cancelled by "Lancaster Pa Apr 21" c.d.s. and addressed to Eilliam Markoe at St. Paul Minn. Terr., docketed "John Wise, April 20th 1857, Recd April 29th" at right, Very Fine.
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000
ONE OF ONLY A FEW RECORDED EXAMPLES OF PROFESSOR WISE'S TYPE I BALLOON CACHET.
Professor John Wise used three different types of balloon cachet handstamps. He is famous for carrying the first United States official air mail in Balloon "Jupiter" that ascended from Lafayette Ky. on Aug. 17, 1859 carrying a bag of mail sealed by Postmaster Thomas Wood destined for New York. The mail was dropped near Crawfordsville due to adverse wind and reached final destination by train. William Markoe was a fellow pioneering balloonist who in September 1857 would be the first to rise above St. Paul in a balloon.
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