Southern Overland Mail and Express Company, Barlow & Sanderson Proprietors, Principal Office, Pueblo, Col. "& Santa Fe, N.M.", stunning illustrated six-horse drawn stage design with corner card and updated principal office, on cover bearing 3¢ green (158) cancelled by cork duplexed with "Santa Fe, N.Mex., 12 Jan" cds to Franklingville N.Y.; reduced at left with small corner repair, edge tears, Fine and rare New Mexico Territory stage cover.
Estimate $300 - 400.
Barlow and Sanderson was a dominant express company in southern Colorado and the San Juan Mountain region. It eventually gave way to the advancing railroads.
Reliance Line Atkins & Co. to London
USA to G.B. - BRITISH PACKET - EASTBOUND
US/GB. Convention of Dec. 1848
Unpaid envelope from Philadelphia to London, Dec 20 1852.
US date stamp PHILADELPHIA/PA. /DEC/20 blu circle
US rate stamp 24 blu unfraned
US exch stamp 5 (at Boston blk unframed (5c due US from GBPO)
GB rate mark blk pen
GB rcvg bkatp F2/4JA4/1853 red circle
(By Cunard RNS Niagara- dep BO 22 Dec, arr LP 3 Jan)
NAMS p31
By Overland Mail Stage via Los Angeles! Hurrah! railroad propaganda illustrated cover with black "Sacramento City, CA Oct 4 1859" CDS tying pair of US #33 with rich color, small faults, on cover to New York, NY, top backflap partially missing, some wear but a very fine cover.
Listed in the Western Covers Society, September 2016 census. 2 other known examples.
New York & New Haven Rail RoadJan 12 (1850) red CDS tying US #106L1 with red "5" handstamp on cover to Madison, CT, attractiv
Rail Road Exchange Carpenter & CO. Kennebec Express Court Square Boston label, red on white on folded letter, vertical file fold through label, to Boston, MA
Albion, NY to Buffalo, NY
"Forwarded by the American Express Co. ALBION. Wells, Butterfield & Co."
Northern Cross Rail Road Nov 13 black CDS tying US #11 to illustrated corner card cover showing locomotive to Canton, Ill, very attractive cover, ex Meroni, Foote, very fine
Rail Road Exchange Carpenter & CO. Kennebec Express Court Square Boston label, black on magenta on folded letter, vertical file fold affects label, to Boston, MA, very fine
Jones & Cartwright Transportation Line, Leavenworth., Pikes Peak., boxed illustrated corner card showing Freight Wagons Traveling West To Colorado Territory With Snow Capped Pike Peak in the Distance, on cover to Winfield, Va., franked with 1857, 3¢ dull red (small edge nick at right) tied by "Leavenworth City, Kans, Dec 13" cds, Very Fine.
Scott No. 26 Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
THE ONLY KNOWN EXAMPLE OF THE JONES & CARTWRIGHT TRANSPORTATION LINE ILLUSTRATED CORNER CARD COVER.
MATCHING LETTERHEAD DESIGN IS ILLUSTRATED IN J. ROSA'S BOOK WILD BILL HICKOK: SHARPSHOOTER AND U.S. MARSHAL OF THE WILD WEST ON PAGE 28.
John Stycks Jones, of the Jones & Russell's Pike's Peak Express Co., and Joseph F. Cartwright, both from Pettis, Missouri, formed the Jones & Cartwright Transportation Line, a large freight company in 1858 to carry supplies across the plains. Their first trip was of 156 wagons, the freight delivered to Camp Floyd, Utah, 40 miles from Salt Lake City. When gold was discovered in Colorado, they commence business in the region. A Denver City correspondence, dated August 17, 1859 states "At this time Jones and Cartwright purchased the Pollard House in Auraria for $3,000, as a wholesale store, thereby inaugurating the freighting firm of Jones & Cartwright (in Colorado), forwarders between Leavenworth and Denver. Their first train of some thirty wagons arrived August 24, to supply the wholesale and retail business of this firm."
Both Jones & Cartwright Transportation Line and Jones & Russell's Pike's Peak Express Co. where in operation at the same time. On September 12, 1859, a coach arrived at Leavenworth after a six-day trip from Denver with $9,000 in gold addressed to eleven consignees, of which the firms of Jones & Cartwright and Jones, Russell & Co., received the major portions.
According to J. Rosa "Wild Bill Hickok: Sharpshooter and U.S. Marshal of the Wild West", a gentleman named James Hickok (a.k.a. Wild Bill Hickok) moved to Olathe, Kansas Territory and joined Jones & Cartwright Transportation Line as a teamster, leading the team of mules, horses and oxen to Denver City and back.
Harth St Belfact 70c tied to small cover to Belfast, Ireland w/blk 6 piece pie cork stamp and ref Boston BR. P(KT 19 PAID cds. Scott unlisted on cover. Belfast receipt stamp, Aug 23 67. Single $550. Est. from 70b : $1450. ASCC $35. R23.0.
Overland Mail hand-colored four-horse stage coach illustrated cover to Lexington Mass
"Due 10" with 10c Green
# 75 strip of 3 tied by grids and red New York Paid 12 cds on small cover to Paris w/ Lancaster PA Dec 21 1863 dc. sl PAID. ms "15". ms "Steamer from Boston for Liverpool" Boxed red PD. Calais receipt cds. ASCC $22. Scott $1450. R42.5