Lot Details

manuscript postmark on canvas pouch addressed to Lisbon, Maine, franked with two strips of five 3c Dull red and two strips of five 10c Green, each with neat pen cancel, small faults to be expected, an extraordinary postal relic, this pouch would have been sewn around a metal cigarette box containing gold nuggets circa 1855, the postage of $1.30 would pay for 6½ ounces (at a rate of 10c per half-ounce