Lot 966
Kennedy, Long & Co.'s Express and Transfer Co., blue printed frank (KEL-001) on 3¢ pink entire to San Francisco, entered the U.S. mails with blue San Mateo cds with matching target handstamps canceling, docketing indicating "Half Moon Bay" as origin; cover wrinkling and reduced at right into indicia, Fine and rare, with only five examples recorded, illustrated in Thomas The Western Express Companies 1850-1890 (page 463), ex-Mader.Estimate $250 - 350.
Realized: $200