Stewart & Jones' Meadow Lake (Cal.) Express. Paid. frank (Haller FS10), printed express company frank in an elaborate box, used on 3c ink on buff entire (U58), cancelled by blue target, matching mostly clear blue Gold Run Cal. datestamp, to Virginia City, Nev., slight reduction at left, tiny tear at bottom, fresh and nearly very fine, rare, the only recorded example, this small company operated from Dutch Flat to Meadow Lake, in 1865; Gold Run was a mining town in Placor Co. established in 1863, illustrated in Nathan, ex Parker

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Stewart & Jones' Meadow Lake (Cal.) Express. Paid. frank (Haller FS10), printed express company frank in an elaborate box, used on 3c ink on buff entire (U58), cancelled by blue target, matching mostly clear blue Gold Run Cal. datestamp, to Virginia City, Nev., slight reduction at left, tiny tear at bottom, fresh and nearly very fine, rare, the only recorded example, this small company operated from Dutch Flat to Meadow Lake, in 1865; Gold Run was a mining town in Placor Co. established in 1863, illustrated in Nathan, ex Parker