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Sale 55: United States Postal History

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Western Express Covers - Wells Fargo & Co. (Bear Valley to Oroville)

Lot 314    

Wells Fargo & Co., New York, California and European Express, 82 Broadway, blue embossed shield corner card on locally addressed to Allen Latham at Howard House, manuscript "D.N. Barry, president of this Co." endorsement at top; horizontal fold, otherwise Very Fine.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Besides serving as president and a director of Wells Fargo, Barney was also a director of John Butterfield's Overland Mail Company, organized in 1857 to provide government mail coach service from Tipton, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, by way of El Paso, Texas, and Yuma, Arizona.

Realized: $350

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