Lot 72466 – 1845 3c City Despatch Post (6LB5), large margins a

1845 3c City Despatch Post (6LB5), large margins all around, two “U.S” in red oval cancels, matching “City Despatch Post U.S. Jun. 20 4 o’clock” circular datestamp alongside, on locally addressed folded letter to Mrs. C.W. Lawrence, whose husband Cornelius had just been appointed by Pres. Polk as Federal Collector of Customs, datelined 1845 and written by Caroline B. Noon (nee Broome) recommending a family member with the last name Tappan (“…the nephew of Governor George Clinton and was with him in almost all of the engagements during the (Revolutionary) War…”) , be appointed to a position within Mr. Lawrence’s department, Very Fine.