Auction # 58 - Winter 2014 Auction

Pedro Aguirre & Co. Black company frank on unused 1884, 2¢ brown on amber entire, trivial tone spot at top, otherwise Very Fine, one of two known mint examples of this frank, the other example was recently sold in our 2014 Westpex sale for $800 hammer.
Scott No. U278; Estimate $500 - 750.

In 1873 gold was discovered south of Arivaca near the Mexican border which led to a Gold Rush in that area. This led Pedro Aguirre in 1877 to start a route from Tucson to Arivaca and then south to the Oro Blanco mining camp. This continued until he sold the company in 1886 and retired.