SR39

CSA #1 Stone 1 Position 13 (4-Margin) pen-cancel and not dated. USA #U10 3c Red Nesbitt postal stationery lined through adversity use paying no postage. Mississippi River Steamboat Cover which did not go through a regular CSA post office, but the proper postage was paid on a contract steamboat by using the stamp. From the Lousiana Raynand Correspondence addressed in French to Bruley Landing. Bruley Landing, on the Mississippi River near West Baton Rouge, was a scheduled stop for the mail contract steamboats plying the river between St. Francisville and New Orleans since the 1850's. Origin of this cover is not known since there is no enclosure, but the cover would have been placed directly on a steamboat, most probably as a loose letter at a landing or a plantation, where the stamp was cancelled and then delivered to Bruley Landing without going through a regular post office. Very Fine. Ex-Tate.

$500.00 SOLD

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