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13 August 2018 Update - The sale is over.
Any unsold items have been moved to regular inventory
on the census site. Page is
here.
Section 3. Santa Fe Trail, 1851
to 1864
For background information, see my
one page summary PDF file here
also, Chapter 10 in MWE book
here
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Ordering Information - Items that have grayed-out stock numbers and
prices have been sold but prices will remain online as a value guide and
reference. Please email me to
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#4065
sold
$4,500 |
 [1851
Inbound to Santa Fe] Jerseyville, Illinois 26 March postmark and
"10" due rate handstamp on 1851 folded letter addressed to "Dr. Saml.
Woodhouse, Santa Fe, Texas, Attached to Capt Sitgreaves exploring
party" with the Texas lined out, it would have reached Dr. Woodhouse
before he left Santa Fe on 15 August 1851, he reached Ft. Yuma in
November
from Wikipedia: The Sitgreaves Expedition Down the Zuni and
Colorado Rivers in 1851 was a combined American scientific and
military mission to explore the Zuni River, the Little Colorado River
and the Colorado River in 1851. Setting out from northern New Mexico,
the expedition traveled west across Arizona and then south along the
Colorado to Fort Yuma in California.
ex Vogel and Walske
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#4066
sold
$2,750 |
 [Santa
Fe, New Mexico] manuscript Santa Fe N.M. November 1 territorial
period postmark and "5" due rate on 1851 folded letter of Col. A.R.
Wooley to Liberty, Missouri, letter dated at Santa Fe mentions,
"Stationed at Anton Chico on the River Pecos - 30 miles below Anton
Chico," very fine
(MWE Figure 10-3) ex Dike, Alexander and Walske
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#4067
sold
$3,500 |
 [Taos,
NM, 1855 letter mentions Kit Carson] Don Fernando de Taos, Mew
Mexico, November 22, 1855 dateline on letter with original cover
addressed to Connecticut, entered the mails with Santa Fe Dec 1
postmark and "Paid 3" datestamp, letter includes, the very descriptive
letter includes "Today Kit Carson told me I need not expect to find
the snow less than ten feet deep in the passes of these mountains (the
Sangre de Christo mountains)" (letter transcript
here)
ex Vogel and Walske
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#4068
price
$2,500
now
$2,000 |
 [Santa
Fe to France, 1858] strip of three 10c green (#33) tied to double
rate cover to Clermont - Ferr, France by Santa Fe, New Mexico Dec 13
territorial postmark, New York Jan 15 exchange datestamp, French entry
and boxed "PD" handstamp, and early overseas use from New Mexico
ex Vogel and Walske
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#4069
price
$700
now
$500 |
 [Fort
Union, New Mexico, 1864] cover to Connecticut prepaid with 3c rose
(#65), manuscript Ft. Union N.M. June 4 1864 territorial postmark and
cancel, with atypical "July 6" arrival marking of Wallingford
Connecticut
ex Walske
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Richard Frajola (July 29, 2018)
