Sale 920 — United States Rarities

Sale Date — Tuesday, 17 October, 2006

Category — 1851-56 Issue

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Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
31
c
Sale 920, Lot 31, 1851-56 Issue5c Red Brown (12). Rich color, top right corner cut off and repaired, tied by blue "Wells, Fargo & Co. Express San Francisco" oval handstamp, struck four additional times on legal-size buff cover with Wells, Fargo & Co. black printed frank, used as a paste-up and docketed "Recd Properly Sealed June 8 1857 Wm. Smith DepClk", corners clipped and restored

ONE OF TWO RECORDED WELLS, FARGO & COMPANY EXPRESS COVERS WITH THE 5-CENT 1856 ISSUE.

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