Apr 12, 2018 - Sale 2473

Sale 2473 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CALIFORNIA.) Hawley & Co's Express, from the Mines to the Atlantic States, Canada and Europe. Letterpress handbill, 5 1/2 x 3 inches; folds, minor wear. Np, [1850]
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An advertisement for "the only firm authorised by Adams & Co. in Sacramento city for the transmission of packages, gold dust and coin," offering "gold dust and coin sent to London via Panama" through offices in San Francisco and Sacramento, and agents in Benicia, Fremont, Nicholaus, Eliza City, and Marysville. The firm was in existence from January 1850 until bought out by Freeman's Express that November. Not recorded in OCLC or Greenwood's California Imprints.