Lot 876
Wells, Fargo & Co./Candelaria, Nev., oval handstamp on 3¢ green entire with company frank to San Francisco, slight restoration at right, F.-V.F., a rare Wells, Fargo & Co. handstamp.Estimate $150 - 200.
Candelaria was known as a raucous silver mining town, which surely lived up to its sordid reputation on the day in 1880 when unarmed Candelaria Wells Fargo Agent Peter Traver was shot and killed by miner Mike Owens, who was angry over the fact that Traver had paid him for his labors by check instead of in cash.
Realized: $120