Lot
1481 
(Colorado) Southern Overland Mail & Express Co., Barlow & Sanderson Proprietors, Principle Office, Pueblo, Col. Ter., corner card on cover with illustrated design showing Six Horse Stage on Mountain Road, Stage with "Overland U.S. Mail, B.&S." imprint, to Auburn N.Y. bearing with 1¢ blue (156) tied by blue segmented cork cancel, matching "Del Norte, Colo., Nov 13" cds duplexed with additional strike of cork; stamp corner nick and missing two other 1¢ stamps, F.-V.F. appearance, A rare illustrated stagecoach design from this Colorado Stage and Express company., ex-Perrson. Estimate $500 - 750.
Barlow and Sanderson operated Southerland Overland Mail, a dominant express company started in Sedalia, Missouri in 1862, moving into Kansas and then into Colorado Territory in the late 1860s. They established offices in Pueblo and Canon City serving the Front Range and San Luis Valley. It eventually gave way to the advancing railroads.