(El Dorado) Culloma, Alta Cal. Red double-lined cds with "Mar 26" red manuscript date and "12½" magenta manuscript rate marking on stampless folded letter to pioneer Oregon and California merchant Benjamin Stark in San Francisco, letter from a miner (Stark's cousin) is headed "Kelseys Road 23d March 1850" and notes that "The mail [is] leaving Columa in a day or two for San Francisco…" and "Mr. Marshall, the gentleman who was to call for my letters [in San Francisco], I have heard, concluded to stop till after the steamer now due arrives [from Panama]. If you have any [letters] now in your hands you will be so kind as to enclose them… care of Little + Co. "Columa" and drop it in the Post Office in time for the [next] mail [from San Francisco to Panama], which leaves about the 1st April.", Very Fine, ex-Haas, illustrated in Coburn's Letters of Gold (page 296). Estimate  $200 - 300. $0 (Image)

(El Dorado) Culloma, Alta Cal. Integral Rate Postmarks. On two stampless covers; first "Culloma, Alta Cal., Apr 28/80" red cds plus "Paid" red arc handstamp on cover to Nantucket, Massachusetts, double 40¢ transcontinental rate prepaid, corner wear at top, surface scrape affecting one letter of the address, illustrated in Coburn's Letters of Gold (page 305); second "Culloma, Alta Cal, Jan 28/40" red cds on stampless folded letter to Lansingburgh, New York, letter from a miner is headed "Rocky Chucky Jany 26th 1851" and reports that money drafts are unavailable there "as John T. Little + Co. have failed", bleach spots at top, F.-V.F., a rare pair. Estimate  $200 - 300. $0 (Image)