Lot
4268 
(Baltimore & Ohio Railroad - Washington Branch) Wash. & N.Y. P.R.W. Car, Jul 22, route agent postal card cds on light gray cover free franked "C. Sumner" of Charles Sumner (1811-1874) at top right to Col. F. Wentworth Higgins at Newport R.I., Very Fine. Towle No. 238-E-1 Estimate $150 - 200.
Put onto the railway post office sorting car at Washington D.C. Both men were strong abolitionists and in the Civil War, Higginson (1823 - 1911) was Colonel of the first regiment of freed slaves initially called the 1st South Carolina Volunteers.
Realized: $120