"Fred Holabird's Grand Finale": Mining, Americana, & Numismatics Live Auction (2025 October)

Lot of 2. 1) Aug. 2nd, 1855 cover to FW Page (of Page & Bacon in San Francisco). Red oval Wells Fargo express Sacramento cancel over red three c...

Lot of 4. 1) 1861 Virginia City, Nevada check signed by Charles Strong for the Gould & Curry Mine. 2) 1879 San Francisco for $1,000 for coin by ...

Lot of 8 different WF checks. Includes: 1891 Independence; 1873 Columbia; 1865 Folsom; 1891 North Bloomfield; 1902 and 1904 Taylorsville; 1854 San Fra

Lot of 14. Includes: 1870 First of Exchange, San Francisco; 1893 Second of Exchange, San Francisco signed by Frederick Lipman; 1869 COD express envelo

Lot of 2 different. 1) Extremely rare (only one seen by FH) Second of Exchange for the California Express & Exchange Office of Wells Fargo, New ...

Lot of 3 bills of exchange or certificate of deposit: 1) San Francisco, 1871 First of Exchange payable "In US Gold Coin" in New York. This...

Lot of 2. 1) 1909 Pacific Express Co. pass for DT Mervine, Supt. of Wells Fargo. In holder. Formed from the Kansas Pacific and Union Pacific Express C

This is a very clear photograph of a horse drawn wagon detailed as "Allens Express" Company about 1909. A court case develops where Allen...

Lot of 2 different. 1) Early Wells Fargo cover sent to WE Elliott Esq. in Stockton. Blue oval cancel Wells Fargo & Co. Express Aurora. Not dated...

Very early Carson City! Wells, Fargo & Co. Express, Carson City, June 3rd, 1861 (a few months after Nevada Territory was created). Receipt for C...

Only a few known. Dateline Carson City, Nev., March 7th, 1872. Issued to Wells Fargo agent (and second supt. of the Carson City Mint) HF Rice for $175

Lot of over 45 checks written on the Wells, Fargo & Company of Carson, Nevada in 1875. Printed by Bacon & Company of San Francisco. None of ...

Extremely rare cover. This is a post office envelope with overprinted Wells Fargo express bar next to the red six cent stamp. The cover has an orange

Early Nevada Territorial Pony Express postal cover dated September 3, (1862.) Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Virginia Pony Express began operations on...

Lot of 3 different. 1) Preprinted cover for the superintendent of the Silver Hill Mining Company. This was a mine in Silver City, Nevada. Not postally

Very rare. Second of Exchange for two pounds sterling to be paid at Wells Fargo's London office. Issued to VC agent CC Pendergast. Signed by Wad...

Rare. Second of Exchange issued November 4, 1880 to CC Pendergast for $50. Signed by Wadsworth. 4.5 x 9" Pendergast was a Wells Fargo agent in ...

This unusual oil painting arrived in a Reno antique shop in the 1980s and was immediately captured by an advanced collector of Wells Fargo. The oil pa

Original wax sealer for the Pacific Union Express Co, which ran lines throughout the West in direct competition to Wells, Fargo & Co. This seale...

Lot of 5: 1861 Wells Fargo blue check, Virginia City handwritten, signed by Charles Strong for the Gould & Curry Mine; Candelaria Water Works ch...