10c Washington on Pony Express Cover

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September 12, 2013
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10c Washington on Pony Express cover stamp
Image: Smithsonian's National Postal Museum

10c Washington on Pony Express cover, 1860. Loan from William H. Gross.
A Pony Express rider carried this cover, considered one of the most historically significant in U.S. postal history. Notice the notation on the front: “recovered from a mail stolen by the Indians in 1860.”