Whiting & Co's Feather River (Cal.) Express. Paid. frank (Haller FW12, type 2), printed express company frank, in double-lined box with large 'Paid', used on 3c Red on buff Nesbitt entire (U10), indicia uncancelled, with mostly clear Bidwell's Bar Cal. datestamp and 'Paid' + ms. '7' (7c paid in cash + 3c entire = 10c trans- continental rate), to East Longmeadow Mass., docketed Apr. 12, 1858, cover corner wear and edgewear, still intact and nearly fine, very scarce, this rather long-lived company, headquartered in Quincy Cal. used a number of different franks, 1857-1868, serving a number of northern mining camps