STEAMER/WINFIELD SCOTT. Two-line handstamp in red struck on 1853 brown cover to Auraria Ga., red "Culloma Cal. Nov. 29" circular datestamp and "10" rate handstamp, refolded at top, stained and repaired at bottom right

ONE OF ONLY SEVEN KNOWN COVERS RECOVERED FROM THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY STEAMER WINFIELD SCOTT.

The Winfield Scott was a 1,291-ton steamer built in New York City in 1851, which was put into service along the Pacific Coast route in 1852. On December 2, 1853, she was stranded off Anacapa Island in the Santa Barbara Channel and lost, but the mails, passengers and cargo were saved. Our Levi records contain nine examples of the two-line handstamp, of which two were carried before the Winfield Scott was commissioned into the Pacific service.

Ex Knapp, Wiltsee and Hahn

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