Summer 2025 | July 18-20, 2025

"SACRAMENTO CITY, MAR 26" postmark addressed to Trinity, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana

Red "San Francisco, Cal. May 28" circular datestamp with matching red "12½" handstamp on cover addressed to Sacramento City. The 12½ c rate for intra-California letters.

ADAMS & CO. SAN FRANCISCO SEP 19" postmark, with manuscript "SEPT. 1854" addressed to Catholic College in Santa Clara, with manuscript "PER ADAMS EXPRESS" The cover with toned spots.

Red printed "Adams Express Company, 10 Wall St. New York" frank on entire addressed to San Francisco, with manuscript "Gregory's Express" endorsement and matching red oval Gregory's Express San Francisco handstamp. A conjunctive use demonstrating east-to-west express handling between Adams Express and Gregory’s Express. Cover shows evidence of stamp removal at top right.

The addressee, R.R. Carrington, was the brother of John W. Carrington, an Adams & Co's agent in New York.

Blue Well's Fargo & Co. "JUL 8" double oval handstamp. The indica oxidized.

Three strikes of Blue "LANGTON'S PIONEER/EXPRESS/FOREST CITY" LAN‐103c oval handstamp, used as a paste-up with an attached Envelope from San Francisco to Marysville. The postal entire with wrinkles.

WC4346 in Western Cover Society Census
"Pacific Express Co. Sacramento AUG 26" oval company handstamp, addressed to Mr. Chas. E. Hinckley at Cor Montgomery & Sacramento Sts in San Francisco, Cal.

"PACIFIC EXPRESS SACRAMENTO JAN 29" postmark on front backed by another cover. Front damaged at right with tears and piece missing. No usage evident.

Illustrated in the Wester Cover Society Photo Census, WC4289
Blue "PACIFIC EXPRESS CO. SAN FRANCISCO DEC. 13" (PAC‐101) double-circle datestamp addressed to Pajaro, Cal. The cover with slight wear in corners, Very Fine

Pacific Express Co, Red : PACIFIC EXPRESS CO./PAID./SHASTA handstamp with matching framed "PAID" on 3c Red cover to San Francisco.

The Shasta town mark is unlisted in Thomas.

Addressed to Alvarado, Alameda County.
Only 6 conjunctive uses with Bamber's Express listed for this frank in Thomas.

PACIFIC STAGE & EXPRESS CO./PAID./San Francisco, Sacramento, Auburn, Grass Valley, Nevada, Eureka, Virginia. The cover with an adherence at right.

Unused, entire. U59 on buff.

Manuscript "CARE OF NOBLE & STEVENSON"

Blue oval "San Francisco Letter Express" handstamp on locally used cover

Printed frank with the more modern locomotive and two freight cars heading west. Addressed to San Jose, with manuscript "Sept 20 /65" in pencil, toning, with tear and repair at top.

Unlisted in the Thomas Census.

Struck with October 28, 1866 San Francisco circular datestamp and a bold blue boxed "COLLECT" auxiliary handstamp, with manuscript “7” in blue pencil indicating the amount due to fulfill the international rate beyond the prepaid domestic 3c. Return notice "If not delivered within 10 days..." printed vertically at left (RA-01). With "Care of American Council, La Paz, Lower California (Mexico) notation.
This is the only known Truman & Co. cover sent internationally.

With additional notes on band from Barkhausen Collection.

"BENECIA, JAN. 1, 1854" to Gold Hill, CA, missent to Sacramento with matching "5". Originated at Ophir, with manuscript "MISSENT" and Culloma, CAL datestamp, which is the post office close to Gold Hill.

From Stockton, California, "FORWARDED BY UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.'S EXPRESS FROM NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA", to Santa Cruz, Forwarded to San Jose, CA.

Addressed to Miss Josie Bagley, Guerneville, So. Co., Cal, with manuscript at side “June 20, 1879.”

Wells, Fargo & Co. "NOV 1 SAC. CITY" oval handstamp in blue, from San Francisco to AA Cohen in Alameda.
Alfred A. Cohen became directly involved with Adams & Co. during the financial panic of 1855, when he was appointed one of three receivers to manage the company’s assets following its collapse. His role was to safeguard and distribute the firm’s holdings, but controversy arose when he was accused of embezzling $400,000—a charge that led to a grand larceny indictment. The case, People v. Cohen (1857), reached the California Supreme Court, which ultimately reversed the judgment due to flaws in the indictment. Despite the scandal, Cohen went on to have a significant career in California’s transportation sector, serving as president of the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad and later as chief attorney for the Central Pacific Railroad.

Two strikes of "VIRGINIA CITY, N.T. MAY 14, 1863" double-circle postmarks, to Webster, Monroe Co., New York.

Addressed to San Francisco with two strikes of the blue "Wells, Fargo & Co. Salt Lake City U.T. Oct. 5" (1870) oval datestamp, sender's and addressee's datestamps on back along with OCT 8, 1870 Blue San Francisco handstamp.