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California Express Wells Fargo Gold Rush - "California Express" and Collection Envelope (123722)

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Wells Fargo & Express Co's Memorabilia Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 800.00 USD
California Express Wells Fargo Gold Rush -  California Express  and Collection Envelope  (123722)
SOLD
225.00USDto p***********w+ buyer's premium (49.50)
This item SOLD at 2020 Dec 19 @ 09:20UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Great Lot! The California Express quickly became the operative phrase for all correspondence going west during the gold rush. These two documents are visually very attractive, and well illustrate the period. The earliest piece is an 1854 Collection envelope from New York to San Francisco that went to California via Nicaragua. The second is a very rare blue print form of the WF & Co.'s "California Express" in bold across the top. For a package sent from Boston to San Francisco in 1865 by John E. Earl. There was a John E. Earl associated with the Gould & Curry? . This is a very attractive, historical, showy pair, with vignettes of steamers and trains.

Date: 1854, 1865
Country (if not USA):
State: California
City: San Francisco
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