Sale 118: The Fall Sale

Lot 746    

Wells, Fargo & Co., Boise Mines--Paid 50 Cts, red printed frank on 1860, 3¢ pink entire to San Francisco, Cal., canceled by blue "Wells, Fargo & Co., Umatilla, Ogn., Nov 12" oval date stamp; slightly reduced at right, F.-V.F.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Carried from the Boise Mines to Umatilla where datestamped, then down the Columbia river by steamboat.

Realized: $400

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Lot 747    

Wells, Fargo & Co., Carson City, Perfectly struck blue dateless handstamp on 1861 3¢ pink entire with printed address of "The Mexican Silver Mining Co., Virginia City.", Extremely Fine.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

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Lot 748    

Wells Fargo & Co., Express, Deming, N.M., blue oval handstamp canceling on 1883, 2¢ red entire to San Francisco, black company frank, with manuscript "$10.00" cross out in pencil, reverse year docketed "29.4.84" and "Geo. W. Bettle, Deming N.M., sent 10" confirming money enclosure, F.-V.F., a very rare Wells, Fargo & Co. handstamp from Deming, New Mexico.
Estimate    $250 - 350.

Realized: $425

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Lot 749    

Wells, Fargo & Co., Ehrenberg, Dec 8, blue oval cancel 3¢ green entire with "Wells, Fargo & Co." paid frank from the Whipple correspondence to San Diego Cal., photocopy of original 1877 letter accompanies; restored at right slightly affecting indicia, Fine appearance.
Estimate    $750 - 1,000.

THE ONLY RECORDED WELLS FARGO & CO. EHRENBERG USE.

The winter snows of 1868 brought devastating spring floods to the Colorado River and interrupted the easy steamboat service La Paz had enjoyed. The heavy river flow scoured the mainstream of the Color River so deeply that steamers could no longer gain access to the town of La Paz by the shallow La Paz slough. Efforts to link La Paz to the mainstream nearly two miles away by a corduroy wagon road proved unsuccessful. Such isolation from steamboat traffic marked the rapid decay of La Paz as the principal supply point on the river. In a very short time the firm of Gray & Co. dissolved. The town's next largest mercantile firm, J. Goldwater & Bro., built a new store and warehouse on more solid ground near the east anchore of the Bradshaw Ferry six miles to the south. Thus began an exodus from La Paz and the conversion of the scattered adobes and jacals of Olive City and Mineral City into a new thriving community that Mike Goldwater - grandfather of Arizona's U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater - decided to call Ehrenberg for a German friend who had been murdered by Indias in 1866. By 1871, there were only two Wells Fargo offices in Arizona Territory - at Ehrenberg and Arizona City (Yuma).

Realized: $475

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Lot 750    

Wells Fargo & Co., Golconda, Sep 11, blue oval date stamp on 1864, 3¢ pink entire to Silver City, Idaho Terr., black company frank; reduced at left, Very Fine.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

Realized: $140

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Lot 751    

Wells Fargo & Co., Express, Hawthorne, Nev., red oval handstamp canceling on 1870, 3¢ green entire to San Francisco, Cal., black company frank at top, fresh and Very Fine.
Estimate    $100 - 150.

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Lot 752    

W(ells). F(argo). & Co. Express, Messenger, 91, red oval handstamp canceling on 2¢ brown entire to San Francisco, black printed company frank at top and reverse with blue "Wells, Fargo & Co., San Francisco, Jun 1, 1885" oval receiving date stamp; few small opening tears at top, otherwise Very Fine.
Estimate    $100 - 150.

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Lot 753    

Wells Fargo & Co., Paid, black company frank on 1874, 15¢ orange entire to Potsdam, Prussia, uprated with 1882, 5¢ yellow brown (205) all canceled by cork handstamps, blue "San Francisco, Cal., Registered, Apr 12, 1883" origin date stamp, registry exchange etiquette and transit backstamps; some edge toning at top of entire and one a few perfs of stamp, F.-V.F., a very rare high value Plimpton entire registered express usage.
Scott No. U198    Estimate $750 - 1,000.

Realized: $525

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Lot 754    

Wells, Fargo & Co. "Pioneerville, I.T., Aug 6", manuscript postmark on manuscript canceled 1864, 3¢ pink entire to Salem, O., black printed company frank at top; slightly reduced at left and slight soiling, F.-V.F., an early usage from the Pioneerville post office.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $400

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Lot 755    

Wells Fargo & Co. Red Frank, at center on 1860, 10¢ Star Die entire to New York City, carried by Wells, Fargo & Co. via Los Angeles over the Butterfield Route in 1861 to it's eastern terminus where it entered the U.S. mails with "Saint Louis, Mo., Oct 26" cds; minor stain and slightly reduced at left, otherwise Very Fine, a very scarce red frank usage on a 10¢ Star Die entire.
Scott No. U33    Estimate $400 - 600.

Realized: $270

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