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HONOLULU — A New York gallery will auction off one of three known surviving envelopes postmarked on the first day of the Pony Express.
The envelope, postmarked April 3, 1860, is valued at $300,000. It is among 63 items owned by Thurston Twigg-Smith that will be sold Dec. 5 by Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries in New York.
Twigg-Smith, 88, is the former publisher of The Honolulu Advertiser in Hawaii. He also will auction one of two surviving Pony Express letters that originated in Hawaii. It is valued at $500,000.
