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Auction: 13050 - Postal History and Historical documents
Lot: 2089

(x) Historical Documents
1850 (29 Aug.) envelope with contents addressed to Benjamin Stark (a member of the Oregon House of Representatives); sent from Papiete, French Polynesia, the letter is from a friend, "Herewith is a bill of lading for a box of oranges ... this is a very dull place, almost as bad a Oregon ...", with the Bill of Lading for "one box". The envelope, carried privately by ship to San Francisco with faint strikes of small handstruck "2" and "san francisco/cal/17/apr" c.d.s. A fine and rare complete correspondence. Photo

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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,200