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lot # 22 - united states postal history California Postal History & Illustrated Letter Sheets

Friday Oct 13, 2017 10:00 to Sunday Oct 15, 2017 15:00 America/Los_Angeles
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Oct 13, 10:00 BST

(Illustrated Letter Sheet) The Celebration in San Francisco, in Commemoration of the Successful Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable. (Baird 23) Sterett & Butler, Printer, Engravers and Publishers, 145 Clay Street, San Francisco, approximately 16¼x10½'', wood engraving around periphery 35 small illustrations: four stars in the corner, thirty small seals of the States, and one unidentified portrait at the top, body of the sheet are several larger illustrations, Cars carrying 120 little girls, uniformly dressed in white, and representing all the States, and principal European Nations, Rube Aldrich, just arrived, 120 days from St. Jo., Missouri, Adams with his family of Native Californians; and the men of the Knickerbocker 5 Fire Company in procession behind a float of a small boat with cable coiled on its deck, on blue wove paper, couple contemporary advertising handstamp on reverse; couple small nicks and some light edge toning, still Very Fine.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000.


Estimate: $ 750 - 1,000

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