Lot no. 2001

Wells, Fargo & Co, Virginia City Pony Express, printed frank with black “PAID 25 Cts.” surcharge below, denoting the rate for conveyance via Pony, on 3c pink postal stationery entire, struck with fair oval “Wells, Fargo & Co / Carson City” datestamp (28 Dec), from the Sinsheimer correspondence to San Francisco, a most attractive and fine Pony Express usage, one of approximately twenty such surcharged examples recorded; with 1980 Philatelic Foundation certificate.

Provenance: Louis H. Barkausen Collection, with his backstamp.