
Lot
626
Regular Cincin'ti, Louisville, Cairo, Memphis, Vicksburg & N. Orleans Passenger Packet, Monarch (Ohio and Mississippi Rivers), large boxed corner card across top of cover to Boston, Mass, franked with 1851 3¢ Dull Red tied by "Fulton, O. Sept 7" cds, Extremely Fine and choice, Illustrated in Milgram.Milgram No. 924 Estimate $500 - 750.
This "Monarch" was built in 1853 and traveled on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers until the Civil War when she was converted to a ram. She sank in 1864.
Realized: $2,300