I've seen these but never found a good enough deal until now. American Merchants Union Express Co. was a mail express and freight company and operated in the 1800s moving goods and mail across the American west. With Butterfield Freight and Wells Fargo companies like this provided both shipping and banking services eventually expanding around the globe. I've seen both S&W 4th model DAs like this one and Colt 1877s marked as such, wondering if they were for railroad or other forms of security. In 1917 the federal government nationalizes all the railroads and nullifies all contracts due to problems with coal shipments and WW1. Ever wonder what the government can do if it wants to? Check out what it's done in the past. The company divests itself of it's railroad interests and becomes what it is known as today, American Express.
Marked Am. Ex. Co. 1301 on the back strap, because of the nickle it's doesn't show up on a picture.
Marked Am. Ex. Co. 1301 on the back strap, because of the nickle it's doesn't show up on a picture.