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Bruce Mosher ~ NJ PRIVATE EXPRESSES: OFFICES IN NEWARK, PART 6BThe printed Ewins New York office address is with Wells & Co. (Express) at 10 WallStreet. This may mean that Ewins’ Express was associated with Wells & Co., however, there isalso speculation that this Ewins’ Express was one of the semiautonomous expresses that workedfor Adams & Co. The illustrated folded letter was dated October 10, 1855. No mention of thisexpress was found in the 1845–60 Newark city directories.The second label is very much like the first and is shown in Figure 6-17, the onlydifference being that the “cor. Broad” words have been removed from the Newark office address.This label is the same color and size as that in Figure 6-16 and is affixed to a mortgage that isdated April 1, 1851. So, we have two dated items - 1851 and 1855 - for Ewin’s New Jersey &New York Express. No additional information is presently available about this express company.(EWSX-L2 label)Feary’s Mustang Express (ca. 1887–88)(Bill Sammis collection)Figure 6-17. 1850’s Ewins’ express label.Because of its Scott U.S. Specialized Catalogue listing for many years, Feary’s MustangExpress is one of the best known local Newark expresses. Jabez Feary was the local Newarkagent for the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company, who also found time to run his MustangExpress. Feary used a red adhesive stamp (Scott 66L1) that initially appeared on June 21, 1887and was valued at five cents (see the text in Figure 6-18). The Scott listing is under “LocalStamps,” but the editors are not sure that Feary & Co. was a local post because they state “Someauthorities consider this item to be an express company label rather than a [local post] stamp.”after their listing. 5 Our opinion, based upon Dr. Mitchell’s contemporary 1887 report in Figure6-18, is that Feary’s adhesive is an undenominated express company 5¢ stamp.Vol. 33/No. 2NJPHWhole No. 15881May 2005