Lot 2020
(Mail Routes) Via Nicaragua, In Advance of the Mails., exceptional strike of double line oval handstamp on fresh cover to Lynchburg, Va., with additional manuscript "pr Steamer Pacific, via Nicaragua" endorsement at lower left, franked with 1851, 3¢ dull red, horizontal pair (small scuff in left stamp) tied by "New York, Oct 27" cds, Extremely Fine, illustrated in Coburn's Letters of Gold (page 93) and in the Chronicle (no. 220, page 319), ex-Jessup, Polland, Oakley, Salzer & Jarrett.Scott No. 11A Estimate $2,000 - 3,000.
A WONDERFUL STRIKE OF ONE OF THE RAREST "VIA NICARAGUA" MARKINGS.
Realized: $24,000