Details For Cover ID# 16804

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Cover Type: USA domestic stampless
Entered by: frajola
Added on:Jul 19, 10
Edited on:Jul 21, 10
 
Postmark: Mar 7, 1851
Origin: San Francisco (?), California, UNITED STATES
Destination: Houston, Texas, UNITED STATES
 
Description:

Forwarded By Dodge & Co. Express, orange red oval handstamp on folded cover to Texas, manuscript date docket, evidently carried from San Francisco via Panama and under separate cover to New Orleans and destination, only two reported examples of their handstamp
Dodge and Co. formed in 1850 to handle gold dust and mail between San Farncisco and the East. In 1851 they extended their line to Portland, Oregon. By summer 1851 their advertisements dissappear.
Add from Daily Alta California March 7, 1851 indicates probably service to New Orleans

Owner's ID: 6448
 
Certificate? No
For Sale? Yes, for US$ 1250.   Interested in this cover? Contact frajola.
Stampless? Yes