Stampless folded circular - Mobile, AL - 09/27/1847 - Fine strikes in red

In 1847, this commodities report ("Merchants and Planters Price-Current") was a standard, vital feature published by Sanford & Wilson in the daily pages of the Mobile Register and Journal. As Mobile, Alabama was one of the busiest global export hubs of the antebellum era, Thaddeus Sanford and Sumner F. Wilson provided daily and weekly intelligence tracking the regional arrivals, wholesale prices, and shipments of key goods.

Excellent condition, on blue paper, completely legible