Lot Details

New Ft Lyon Colo Apr. 1-08 manuscript postmark on picture postcard of Cuba, franked with 1902 1c Green, addressed to Evanston, Illinois, card with corner nick, otherwise very fine, the only recorded manuscipt from this short-lived office (January to May 1908), Fort Lyon was abandoned by the Army in 1897 and re-activated by the Navy in 1906 as a tuberculosis sanitorium