Lot
4280 
(Routes 4813 & 4829) Marshall Ney, red oval handstamp on blue folded letter datelined "New Orleans May 28. 1849" and addressed to St. Louis Mo. and carried on the course of Route 4813, docketed "B/L, Marshall Ney" as bill of lading to avoid postage but actually a letter, noted as arriving June 6th; some aging, F.-V.F. Milgram No. 849 Estimate $200 - 300.
The "Marshall Ney" of 486 tons built at Louisville in 1847, and ran the St. Louis to New Orleans route and was commanded by Capt. Richard J. Lockwood. The vessel was lost in the steamboat fire at the wharfs in New Orleans on the 9th October 1849.