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2 Items
Opening: $18
Estimate: $30 - $50
Sold For $18
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
4 Items
Lot 4129 - SOLD
Bicycle Mail Route, 12L1, 25c Green on Fancy Advertising Cover
"San Francisco" Spelling Error
Opening: $250
Estimate: $500 - $750
Sold For $280
Bicycle Mail Route, 1894, 25c green, "San Francisco" error of spelling on fancy advertising cover. Purple Overman Wheel Co. handstamp
SCV $400 Unused, $2,750 if Used on cover
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
3 Items
Opening: $75
Estimate: $150 - $250
Status: Unsold
Signed in the sheet margin selvage by owner, Arthur C. Banta “on my 75th birthday”
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
2 Items
Opening: $180
Estimate: $300 - $400
Sold For $200
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
4 Items
Opening: $80
Estimate: $150 - $250
Status: Unsold
No gum as issued. These were issued by FRESPEX at the 1994 centennial of the service between Fresno and San Francisco
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
2 Items
Opening: $90
Estimate: $150 - $250
Status: Unsold
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
6 Items
Opening: $60
Estimate: $100 - $125
Sold For $60
25c Green, Spelling Error Corrected - San Francisco, Unused
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
4 Items
Opening: $75
Estimate: $125 - $150
Sold For $140
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
2 Items
Opening: $375
Estimate: $800 - $1,100
Status: Unsold
SCV $1,100 (Block of 4, plus two singles)
Provenance
Ex C.J. Alexander
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
2 Items
Opening: $40
Estimate: $100 - $200
Sold For $40
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
2 Items
Opening: $200
Estimate: $400 - $500
Sold For $200
Provenance
Ex C.J. Alexander
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
2 Items
Opening: $60
Estimate: $100 - $200
Sold For $90
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
3 Items
Opening: $10
Estimate: $20 - $25
Sold For $10
On back, GENE 35L1 TYPE III
Green
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
3 Items
Opening: $40
Estimate: $100 - $125
Status: Unsold
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
5 Items
Opening: $40
Estimate: $100 - $150
Sold For $40
Horizontal Strip of three Reprint on thick card
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
3 Items
Opening: $50
Estimate: $50 - $75
Sold For $50
"LETTER & PACKAGE EXPRESS"
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
7 Items
Lot 4144
Gahagan & Howe City Express, 70L3, Black Vertical Strip of 3 with Oval showing Horse and Rider
Very Fine and Attractive
Opening: $70
Estimate: $150 - $200
Status: Unsold
Gahagan & Howe City Express, San Francisco, (5c) Black (70L3). Vertical strip of three and single, canceled to order with the "San Francisco Letter Express" horse and rider handstamp.
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
2 Items
Opening: $18
Estimate: $30 - $40
Sold For $18
Four margins. Very fine.
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
6 Items
Opening: $120
Estimate: $200 - $250
Status: Unsold
5c black, disturbed gum
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
21 Items
Opening: $150
Estimate: $300 - $500
Status: Unsold
1851 gold on black glazed letter book, Thompson & Hitchcock imprint, printed by Nesbitt & Co.
A wonderful and rare written book, with wear and fragile cover. Fine and rare.
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
6 Items
Lot 4148 - SOLD
Holladay Overland Mail and Express, Double-Circle Handstamp (HLY-001), Helena, MON and Leavenworth, Kansas cds
Opening: $200
Estimate: $400 - $500
Sold For $200
Certificates: PF 605057
Holladay Overland Mail and Express Company printed frank on 1864 3¢ pink entire to Independence, Missouri, entered the mails with "Leavenworth, Kan." cds and carried by outside the mails from Virginia City to Salt Lake City and then east on the Central Overland Route. With Holladay double circle handstamp.
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
5 Items
Lot 4149 - SOLD
Wells Fargo & Co. California and Atlantic Express, #63 1861 1c Blue on 10c Yellow Green Entire (U40)
Greenwell Correspondence
Opening: $240
Estimate: $400 - $600
Sold For $360
Wells Fargo & Co. California and Atlantic Express red printed frank with 1861 1c on 10c Yellow Green entire (U40) to San Fransisco. Black Aug 2 New York 1862 cds.
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
2 Items
Opening: $60
Estimate: $100 - $150
Sold For $60
Original gum, heavy vertical crease.
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
2 Items
Lot 4151 - SOLD
Wells, Fargo & Co. Pony Express, 143L7, 10c Brown, Unused
4 Margins, large left and bottom margin
Opening: $45
Estimate: $75 - $100
Sold For $50
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00
2 Items
Opening: $30
Estimate: $50 - $75
Sold For $80
Hinged
When will this lot be auctioned?
Winter 2025 Sale Live Bidding.
Sale 4: Carriers, Independent Mails and Expresses | Lots 4001-4160 — Jan 04, 2025 - 02:00