Hall & Allen Express, Dutch Flat (Cal.), mostly clear oval express company marking, cancels 3c Red on buff Nesbitt entire (U10), used with Wells, Fargo & Co. printed frank (Haller WF-E), to San Francisco, insignificant edgewear, fresh and nearly very fine, rare, perhaps the only example recorded, this small company serviced the mining camps in the Dutch Flat area, illustrated in Nathan, where, the year of operation is given as '1864', this cover points to an earlier use