Lot
40 
Sacramento City, Cal., Sep 30. Circular postmark (Williams SAC-2520) tying 1851, 3¢ orange brown, horiz pair on cover to Marysville, Ohio, cover with corner wear and right stamp with light crease, otherwise Very Fine, the earliest known usage of any 1851 postage stamp issue from California. Scott No. 10 Estimate $750 - 1,000.
The 1851 3¢ stamps arrived in San Francisco between the 26th and the 27th of September. It would take a day to unpack, count and inventory the received stamps. The shipment to Sacramento would take time to count, inventory and package, then carried by steamer to Sacramento where again they where counted and inventoried before being placed for sale, usually the next morning. thus the 30th of September is the earliest it could be posted from Sacramento.
Realized: $1,300