Lot
621 
Wells Fargo & Co. Express, Mexican Route, double-strike of blue oval with blue "Paid" oval handstamp and pencil "2/-" bit (25¢) express rating on paste-up cover to from J.C. Truman back to his wife in Binghampton N.Y., endorsed "pr W.F. & Co Express to San Francisco Cal" at top left, paste-up 3¢ green entire with printed "Wells Fargo & Co." paid frank, some staining, otherwise Very Fine Wells Fargo paste-up use. Estimate $200 - 300.
J.C. Truman traveled through the Southwest in 1874. He resided in Tucson as Director of the Arizona & New Mexico Express Co. He traveled southward to Guaymas on the Gulf of Mexico. This was to study the establishment of the Arizona & Sonora Railroad. Letter to J.C. Truman's wife via Wells, Fargo Mexican Route via San Francisco back east.
Realized: $140