Lot
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(Los Angeles) Tejon, Cal., Nov 20, 1857, manuscript postmark (LOS-14670, R7) on manuscript canceled 1855, 10¢ Nesbitt entire to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs J.W. Denver in Washington D.C., with original enclosure from James R. Vineyard datelined "Sebastian Sm'l Reverse, Tejon, Nov 17, 1857", Very Fine. Estimate $600 - 800.
THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF A TOWNMARK FROM TEJON, CALIFORNIA.
A post office was established at Tejon in July of 1857 at the site of the Sebastian (or Tejon) Indian Reservation (the first Indian reservation in California established in 1853) with Colonel James R. Vineyard as the resident agent at that time. The post office was moved six miles north in 1859 to Sinks.
Realized: $600