Oct 27, 2016 - Sale 2427

Sale 2427 - Lot 193

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
ADOLPH TREIDLER (1886-1981) CALIFORNIA / WELLS FARGO SINCE 1852. 1917.
35 3/4x55 1/4 inches, 90 3/4x 1/4 cm. Seiter & Kappes Litho. Co., New York.
Condition B / B+: restored losses, repaired tears and creases in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds.
One in a series of national vistas that appeared on Wells Fargo delivery trucks. From their founding in 1852, when Henry Wells and William G. Fargo opened up their first "Express and Banking House" in San Francisco, Wells Fargo stagecoaches were recognized and trusted courriers of mail, packages and money.