Lot
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Music (Mississippi River), complete red oval handstamp on 1853-55 3¢ Nesbitt entire to New Orleans with red oval "Snapp & Hite New Orleans, La." route agent handstamp (Carroll Hoy corresp.) with usual staple holes, Very Fine and attractive.Milgram No. 954 Estimate $300 - 400.
Steamboat owners and Masters used agents and forwarders in major ports and landings. Snapp Hite (later George D. Hite & Co.) operated in New Orleans in the 1850s.
Realized: $350