Mar 22, 2007 - Sale 2108

Sale 2108 - Lot 245

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(PONY EXPRESS.) Partly-printed promissory note on the Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express Company, agreeing to pay William B. Waddell $1000. Signed by President B. M. Hughes and additionally signed by Waddell on verso. Approximately 4x9 1/2 inches; minor separations at folds. Leavenworth City, 9 July 1861

Additional Details

The note is engraved by R. C. Root, Anthony and Co. and features an image of a Pony Express rider at the top.