Lot 18
"Via Nicaragua / In Advance of the Mails / Sullivan", blue double-oval datestamp on cover to Keene, N.H. with "Mining Scene" illustration of miner paning for gold, Hutching imprint, bearing 1851 3¢ dull red (11) vertical pair, margins to cut in with small tear, tied upon arrival with "New-York Jun 9" c.d.s., manuscript "Sacramento May 15"; reduced at right and sealed tear, cleaned, Fine.
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000
A SPECTACULAR ILLUSTRATED MINING SCENE COVER BEARING THE "VIA NICARAGUA" FORWARDER'S MARKING.
This cover left San Francisco on May 16, 1854 for San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua on the "Brother Jonathan", then from San Juan del Norte on the "Star of the West", arriving in New York on June 8.
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