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Letter from USS Merrimac, Dated 1856.
Currency:USD
Category:Everything Else / Other
Start Price:NA
Estimated At:150.00 - 250.00 USD
NOT SOLD (BIDDING OVER)
0.00USD+ applicable fees & taxes.
This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2002 Dec 11 @ 09:00UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT
1 page letter from crewman James Pierce, headed USS Merrimac, Norfolk, VA, March 16, 1856. Letter on blue paper measures 10" x 8" and mentions yellow fever on board as well as loss of men to disease and falling overboard. Letter exhibits chipping to edges.
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