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J. Wanless & Co. Shell Card [152923]

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J. Wanless & Co. Shell Card [152923]
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J. WANLESS & CO / GENERAL / WHOLESALE / & RETAIL / DEALERS / FORT SANDERS D.T
(liberty head to left, 13 stars around) / 1868; Rd., 35 mm. Curto lists as "rare". Fort Sanders was a wooden fort constructed in 1866 on the Laramie Plains in southern Wyoming, near the city of Laramie. Bowers says this is the only issuer for the Dakota Territory. (Guide to U. S. Shell Cards 1867-1880, by Q. David Bowers)

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State: Dakotas
City: Fort Sanders
Provenance: Gary Bracken Collection