Lot
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Hawley & C's Express. Black oval handstamp on 1850 folded letter to Sacramento City with "Care of Mr. Hawley Exp. San Francisco" manuscript endorsement, letter datelined New York, Feb. 14, 1850, and carried by hand "By Mr. Huff," contents of letter talks of gold and other business issues and that Mr. Huff will carry aboard ship, almost Very Fine, a very scarce handstamp from this short-lived express. Estimate $750 - 1,000.
T.R. Hawley in early January of 1850, bought out his partners in Hawley's Express to form Hawley & Co.'s Express. By that November, he was bought out by the newly founded Freeman's Express.
Realized: $2,900