Lot
1485 
(Texas) Wm. Bryan, New Orleans Agent of the Texan Post Office, clear strike of agent oval handstamp on folded letter to Montgomery C.H., Texas, with letter datelined "Desoto County, Mo., April 27th, 1841" (near St. Louis), letter carried to New Orleans by steamboat down the Mississippi River, with straight line "Ship" handstamp and manuscript "150" rating, Very Fine and scarce. Estimate $500 - 750.
During the life of the Texan Republic (1837-1845), the Texas post office operated in New Orleans as a forwarder of the mails to Galveston and Houston. The mails were initially handled by Samuel Ricker Jr. until December 1838 and then William Bryan until statehood in December 1845.