New York Mail Steamship Company's Star Line Of Steamships

For The Steamship "Guiding Star" New York to New Orleans

11 x 8, imprinted form printed in green and filled out in ink, with a very nice large illustration of a steamship at the upper left. New York to New Orleans. Marks And Numbers. A. Brousseau & Co., New Orleans, La. Shipped in good order and well conditioned by J. Sloane, on board the New York Mail Steam Ship Co., Steamship "Guiding Star," now lying in the Port of New York and bound for New Orleans, via Havana, in the Island of Cuba, or direct as the Company may determine, with liberty to call at any Port or Ports for whatever purpose, to sail with or without Pilots, and to tow or assist vessels in all situations. To say: One Bale Mdisc. being marked and numbered as per margin, to be conveyed upon the said Steamship until the aforesaid Port of New Orleans, in like good order and condition. Much more content. Dated November 1865. Includes a 2 cents orange George Washington, U.S. Internal Revenue Bank Check stamp at lower left. Fold wear with some archival tape repairs on the reverse. Very fine 1860's imprint. Steamship documents of the Civil War era with vignettes of ships are very popular and extremely desirable.