Lot
1051 
U.S. Ship Colorado (Pacific and Atlantic Oceans), fancy and near complete illustrated blue handstamp showing fully rigged ship on cover to Brooklyn N.Y., franked with 3¢ Banknote tied by cork cancel with light strike of "Key West, Fla." at left, backstamped with Brooklyn arrival cds, roughly opened at right, Very Fine and scarce.Milgram No. 265 Estimate $400 - 600.
This cover bears a private dated handstamp of a chaplain in the U.S. Navy. It also bears an illustrated handstamp of the "U.S. SHIP COLORADO" which of course was a steamship with auxiliary sail, not a sailing vessel as depicted in the handstamp.