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Lot 1123

straight-line handstamp in blue on 1862 cover to Waukegan, Illinois, 1861 3c Rose (65) tied by blue "Chicago Ill Oct 1 1862" double circle datestamp and target, matching "Due 2 cts" handstamp (DU-4), original patriotic enclosure datelined "Milwaukee Sep 29/62", fine, the letter reads in part: "I would have ben glad to see you in Chicago but we don't stop very long in Chicago. We get in about five o clock in the morning and stay un till nine o clock the same day.", illustrated in Piszkiewicz (page 356)