Lot
4016 
(Champlain Transportation Co.) Steam Packet Franklin, wonderful bold strike of red circular handstamp on folded letter datelined Steam Packet Franklin and signed by Captain Robt. W. Sherman to Hartford Ct., entered mails with red two-line "Whitehall, Oct 11 N.Y." postmark with manuscript dating and matching ms. "18¾" rating for 154 miles to Hartford; central file fold, Very Fine. Milgram No. 470 Estimate $2,000 - 3,000.
The Champlain Transportation company was the first inland water steamboat operator to employ a Name-of-Boat cachet with the "Franklin" recorded from 1831.
Realized: $1,600