Lot
4372 
Buffalo "Steam Boat 12", manuscript rating and indistinct red "Perrysburg Nov 1" cds on folded letter datelined "Buffalo Oct. 28th 1837" to Defiance Oh. located on the newly opened Wabash & Erie Canal, content states "I now forward you by the SB Com. Perry 1 bundle of pear trees", carried by water from Buffalo to Perrysburg where rated 12¢ due for 10¢ inland postage plus 2¢ ship fee; light edge toning and wear, F.-V.F., an early Great Lakes steamboat use. Estimate $150 - 200.
Although the first steamboat, the "Walk-on-the-Water" was put onto Lake Erie in 1819, examples of letters carried on these waters are rare before the 1840s.
Realized: $110