Lot
1694 
Wells Fargo & Co., Palisade, partial blue oval handstamp on 1870, 3¢ green entire with tan W.L. Pritchard's Fast Freight Line all-over shaded advertising, to San Francisco, with company frank at left, Very Fine, ex-Knapp.Estimate $300 - 400.
W.L. Pritchard started the Express Business in the late 1860s at Elko, Nevada. He moved to Palisade where he had more than 500 wagons and 2,000 animals hauling supplies as far south as Pioche via Mineral Hill, Eureka and Hamilton.
Realized: $210