Lot 4274
(Route 8163) New Orleans and Louisville Passenger Packet Pacific, printed fancy corner card on light yellow circa 1859 cover to Calais Vt., bearing 3¢ dull red (26), cancelled by manuscript "X" and tied by "Cairo Ill Apr 2" cds, Very Fine, Illustrated in Milgram on page 543., ex-Floyd Risvold.Milgram No. 1045 Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
The "Pacific" was a side-wheeler of 608 tons built at New Albany Ind. in 1857 and operated in the New Orleans-Louisville trade. She was lost in 1860.
Realized: $1,150