Auction # 57 - The Hugh V. Feldman Collection

(Champlain Transportation Company) 1850 (Oct. 16) Plattsburgh N.Y. to Malone N.Y. Datelined blue folded letter bearing 5¢ red brown (1), large margins including part of adjoining stamp at bottom, corner just trimmed at top right, cancelled by unusual small dotted grid cancel in red, matching red "Lake Champlain S.B. Oct. 16" route agent's cds and manuscript "Paid" endorsement by sender for prepayment under 500 miles, clean and Very Fine.
Towle No. F-1a; Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.

A SCARCE LAKE CHAMPLAIN STEAMBOAT USAGE OF THE 1847 ISSUE.

This letter was probably carried on Route 943 to Rouses Point since it is addressed to Malone, which was 10 miles south of the Quebec border. From Rouses Point it traveled 50 miles west on the post roads to Malone.
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