Lot
4146 
From Regular Freight Passenger Steamer Paul Jones, blue shield handstamp on 3¢ red on buff entire from the Carroll Hoy correspondence to New Orleans La.; typical filing holes, light wear, F.-V.F. Milgram No. 1066 Estimate $200 - 300.
The Paul Jones ran the Pittsburgh to New Orleans trade from 1855 to 1858. Said to have been the vessel that Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) took from Cincinnati to New Orleans when he became a Mississippi steamboat pilot. A side wheel steamer of 353 tons built at McKeesport Pa. in 1855. Operated under the Confederate flag until burnt on the Big Black River to prevent capture.
Realized: $280