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Lot 2927

Fort Wise C.T. Oct 6/61 manuscript postmark on 1857 3c Dull red cover to Bristol, Rhode Island, extremely fine, one of just two recorded examples of this marking, a wonderful postal artifact of early Colorado, Fort Wise was constructed in 1860 and named for Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise, it was renamed to Fort Lyon in 1862, ex-Jarrett