Lot 30
Regular Saturday Packet, Alice Vivian, for Demopolis & Merriwether's Landing (Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers), bold and complete blue oval on 1853-55 3¢ Nesbitt entire to Demopolis, Ala., second bold strike on reverse, minor edge soiling, Extremely Fine and attractive.Milgram No. 29 Estimate $400 - 600.
The "Alice Vivian", a 376 ton side wheeler built at New Albany, Ind. in 1856, home port Mobile Ala. Captured as a Confederate steamer and renamed the "South", February 3, 1866 and was abandoned in 1867.