For over 200 years, Plattsburgh NY was a major military base in the Champlain Valley of Northern NY. In the mid 1990s the Air Force Base was closed. Here's a nice military cover from the mid 1850s with a PAID 3 in arc. Beautiful corner card also.
1842 from Gibraltar to Cadiz apparently at a rate of 6d. Backstamped 23 September 1842 at Cadiz. Interior notations indicate sent on 22 September, received 23 September, replied to 27 September. The letter is in English and addresses a change in commodity prices under a past contract that have caused the writer to demand a credit in gold.
Glenn: Always nice to put a face with a name, in this case Charles B. Richards (1832-1917), the same "Major C.B. Richards" as in the addressee of your cover:
He had quite a fine business career and was said to be a millionaire by the time of his death in 1917:
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Posted 01/25/2015 6:50 pm
