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Sale 37: The Westpex Sale

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Vogel Western Cover Collection - Western Express: Oregon to Washington

Lot 423    

Oregon Expresses. 28 covers (most faulty or repaired) including one Adams (1853 stampless folded letter with Portland company handstamp), one F. W. Blake (with Wells Fargo frank and "Collect 25" manuscript notation, carried from California and mailed from Corvallis to Harrisburg) along with one Rhodes & Whitney (carried from California and mailed from Jacksonville to Harrisburg), one Buchanan, two Hastings (with horse and rider printed franks), one Jamison's, seven Northern Pacific Express (three with Portland handstamps, conjunctive use with [Union] Pacific Express, conjunctive use with Wells Fargo, etc.), one Pacific Express (with globe printed frank and faint Portland handstamp), two Pacific Union Express (one with shaded ad from San Francisco and mailed from Portland to Roseburg and the other mailed from San Francisco to Roseburg), nine Tracy (company handstamps from Dalles and Portland), and two Wells Fargo (one with "Paid 25 Cts." printed frank with Dalles company handstamp and one conjunctive use with Langton's with Portland company handstamp), lot also includes four collection envelopes (Cram Rogers, Wells Fargo, and Wines), a Tracy freight receipt for a money package (from Salem in 1861), two unused Beekman receipts, and two postal covers with [Union] Pacific Express printed corner cards, mixed condition, about Fine.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

Realized: $950

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