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4252 
(Route 6103) Steamer Latona, red octagonal handstamp with fancy script on orange buff cover from the Carroll Hoy & Co. correspondence to New Orleans La., bearing 3¢ dull red (11) cancelled by circular grid, red "New Orleans May 14" cds and matching "Way 6" rating handstamp; typical filing hole, light cover creases, otherwise Very Fine; with 1999 P.F. certificate. Milgram No. 771 Estimate $500 - 750.
This letter entered the mails as a way letter on its course from Shreveport to New Orleans on the Red River. "Latona" of 197 tons ran as far as Fort Caddo, Texas on the Red River but was contracted by the trip for Shreveport to New Orleans.