Lot
391 
Wells Fargo & Co. 1861-62 Provisional Envelopes. Three plain envelopes without printed franks, each with blue "Paid" in oval handstamp and franked with 1861, 10¢ green, two entering the mails with New York cds's (one missing backflap) and other with blue S.F. company cds and entering the mails in Boston, Mass., also an additional Marshall's Office official imprint cover to Guatemala with blue "Paid" in oval handstamp and "4" reales due handstamp (with 1857, 10¢ on cover not originating), F.-V.F. Estimate $250 - 350.
The 10¢ Star Die entires became briefly unavailable on the west coast at the very end of 1861 and adequate supplies of the Third Nesbitt Issue not having arrived in California.
Realized: $375