Pony Express - mail service operated in 1860 and 1861 between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California. Local stamps were issued for this service by Wells, Fargo and Co.
Pony Express
The term "Local" is often used loosely to include as well the Carriers and Express services, since all of them were a part of the same era, and performed services that supplemented the government mail service.
Pony Express mail has a variety of different postmarks. Thera re only 250 know examples of surviving Pony Express mail/postmarks in collections today. [9]
Hawai'i post once had a surfboard mail postmark, for covers that traveled by surfboard.[1] ...
The pony express operated between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif. While an estimated 35,000 letters were carried, the service was financially unsuccessful and ended in 1864. Covers carried by the pony express are rare and command high prices.
Teeside Pony Express: United kingdom postal strike; local post 1971.
Teeth: 1: projections that are left when a stamp is separated from other perforated stamps. 2: the projections between perforation holes.
You know that the Pony Express - the exciting mail carriage service with the route from St. Joseph Missouri to Sacramento California begun in 1860 - is always remembered in romantic and wistful terms as essential to the growth of the United States.
Pony express.
Cover carried by Langton's Pioneer Express, one of the early express companies operating in California about 1865. There were many of these express companies who carried mail, most famous of which would be Wells, Fargo, & Co.
A classic example is the Pony Express, which was the fastest way to send letters across the United States during the few months that it operated. Covers that can be proved to have been sent by the Pony Express are highly prized by collectors.
Some philatelists collect letters and stamps from the Pony Express, one of the earliest postal services in North America. Others invest in a Penny Black stamp, which was the first stamp ever made.
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This is a stamp showing the Pony Express, which was used long ago to take mail by horseback from place to place.
Mochila - a Spanish term for knapsack. The mochilas used by Pony Express riders were made of leather and designed with four pockets, or cantinas, in which to carry mail.
stamp, the "Jenny Invert," as well as the discovery pane of the 1962 Dag Hammarskjold 4 cent invert. The 4 cent Pony Express Centenary Certified Plate Proof will be shown, courtesy of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.
The United States, too, has made excellent use of the frame to enlarge upon the story told by the center design. Some instances are the Arkansas, Oregon, Famous American and Pony Express issues.
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