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Description: Pony Express US Cover with Wells Fargo & Company 2-dollar red stamp, tied by blue "Pony Express San Francisco June 12." Running Pony oval cancel on a 10-cent stamped envelope (USA Scott U33). Cover is cancelled by green "St. Joseph, Mo. Jun 24" circular date stamp. This cover was carried by a Pony Express rider from San Francisco, California, to A.W. Canfield in New York, NY, in twelve days during June of 1861.
Title: Pony Express 1861
Credit: https://www.si.edu/object/npm_0.299379.1
Author: US Post Office/US Pony Express
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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