Lot
4355 
(Yazoo River) Steamer John Strader, red intaglio circular handstamp on 3¢ red Nesbitt buff entire from the Carroll Hoy correspondence to New Orleans La., entered mails with indistinct red New Orleans Sep. 25th cds and black "Steam" straightline; vertical fold, usual filing hole, F.-V.F., ex Klein-Somdal. Milgram No. 718 Estimate $300 - 400.
The "John Strader" of 235 tons was built at California Pa. in 1852 and was lengthened by 17 feet in 1853. She ran the New Orleans to Yazoo River trade under Capt. J.C. Brown and her owner W.W. Allien as her clerk.