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VERY FINE. AN EXTREMELY RARE TRANS-CONTINENTAL USAGE WITH ALPHEUS FELCH'S FREE FRANK AND THE "VIA NICARAGUA" ROUTE HANDSTAMP. SENT FROM CALIFORNIA WHILE FELCH WAS PRESIDENT OF A SPECIAL COMMISSION TO SETTLE LAND CLAIMS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE MEXICAN WAR.
Alpheus Felch was Governor of Michigan from 1846 to 1847 and U.S. Senator from March 1847 to March 1853, when he was appointed by President Franklin Pierce to be part of a commission to settle Spanish and Mexican land claims in California arising from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican War. Felch served as president of the commission until 1856. This undated cover was mailed during Felch's stay in California and had to have been franked in his role as commissioner.
Ex Knapp, Wiltsee, Grunin and Robertson. (Image)
VERY FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE TRANS-CONTINENTAL COVER WITH ALPHEUS FELCH'S FREE FRANK AND THE "VIA NICARAGUA" ROUTE HANDSTAMP.
This is another 1853 cover and letter mailed during Felch's stay in California as special land claim commissioner. (Image)
FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE. VERY FEW ILLUSTRATED MINING SCENE ENVELOPES ARE KNOWN WITH THE "VIA NICARAGUA" FORWARDER'S MARKING. A SPECTACULAR COVER FOR THE COLLECTOR OF CALIFORNIA POSTAL HISTORY OR THE 1851 ISSUE.
This cover is reported to have left San Francisco on May 16, 1854, for San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua on the Brother Jonathan, then from San Juan del Norte on the Star of the West, arriving in New York on June 8 (it entered the post office on June 9). (Image)