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Hunt & Hart's Warrens Express - Paid, 50c., fancy ornate frank on 3¢ pink (U59) buff entire cancelled by manuscript "John Day Creek, Decr 4" Idaho Territory postmark to San Francisco Cal., trivial corner nick at lower right, Very Fine and rare Idaho Territory express use, ex Dale-Lichtenstein. Thomas No. HHW-001 Estimate $2,000 - 3,000.
ONE OF ONLY THREE RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THE HUNT & HART'S WARRENS EXPRESS FRANK.
W. P. Hunt and Frank G. Hart combined forces and established an express service between the Lewiston and Warren mining areas in Idaho Territory. This partnership lasted a short time, possibly a year, but most likely less. Hunt continued operating and was still active as late as 1871 as W. P. Hunt's Warrens Express.
John Day's Creek was located on a tributary of the Salmon River, there is no connection to the same named area in Oregon.
Realized: $2,300