Lot
4230 
Str. Navigator, green four-line handstamp on 3¢ pink (U58) entire from the Carroll Hoy & Co. correspondence to New Orleans La.; typical filing hole, Very Fine. Milgram No. 975 Estimate $200 - 300.
The "Navigator" was a 243 ton freighter built at Brownsville Pa. in 1862. It was purchased by Kouns Red River Packet Co. in September 1866. It was lost 30 miles down river from Shreveport with 700 bales of cotton on February 6th 1867.
Realized: $650