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Arizona Expresses - Wells, Fargo & Co.: A-N Towns

Lots 655-664 Lots 665-674 Lots 675-676

Lot 675    

Wells Fargo & Co. Express, Mexican Route, double-strike of blue oval with blue "Paid" oval handstamp and pencil "2/-" bit (25¢) express rating on paste-up cover to from J.C. Truman back to his wife in Binghampton N.Y., endorsed "pr W.F. & Co Express to San Francisco Cal" at top left, paste-up 3¢ green entire with printed "Wells Fargo & Co." paid frank, some staining, otherwise Very Fine Wells Fargo paste-up use.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

J.C. Truman traveled through the Southwest in 1874. He resided in Tucson as Director of the Arizona & New Mexico Express Co. He traveled southward to Guaymas on the Gulf of Mexico. This was to study the establishment of the Arizona & Sonora Railroad. Letter to J.C. Truman's wife via Wells, Fargo Mexican Route via San Francisco back east.

Realized: $230

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Lot 676    

Wells, Fargo & Co's Express, Nogales, A.T., purple oval cancels 2¢ brown entire with printed "Wells, Fargo & Co's Express" frank, unaddressed paste-up, entered U.S. mails with 2¢ green (213) tied by "Benson, Ariz. Dec 13" duplex, New York "P.O., 10-25 82" cds, fresh and Very Fine.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $240

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