Langton & Bros. Express, French Corral. Ornately framed handstamp struck in blue on backflap of large part of greenish blue folded cover to the Surveyor General's Office in San Francisco, blue "Marysville Cal. 5 Jul. 19" integral-rate circular datestamp, no contemporary date but pencil note "1853" is probably accurate, Very Fine, this is an extremely rare Langton's marking, the town of French Corral was founded in 1849 and named for a Frenchman who built a corral for his mules, gold was later discovered there, accompanied by a letter from Mel Nathan noting that "this is one of the scarcest of all the Langton handstamps...4 I know of"

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