Interesting Hong Kong Postal Card With Wells Fargo Handstamps

I pulled this out of a carton lot. Not 1 or 2, but 3 different Wells Fargo receiving handstamps (2 on the front and 1 on the back).

Very unusual; I've not been able to find anything similar online.

Perusing ebay completed listings puts Hong Kong postal cards from this era all over the map pricewise, from about $20 to $150. No idea how much the Wells Fargo connection might add to that.

Any idea on approximate market value?

Thanks.

Hi: I don't think the Wells Fargo rec. hanstamps increase the value.
Wells Fargo had their first receiving office in Hong Kong in 1916.

It seems to be ordinary mail from Hong Kong to San Francisco sent to the Wells Fargo Company in San Francisco and once at the company someone inside the building applied some receiving stamps. As it did not travel by Well Fargo at any point I think it is interesting to someone who was studying the company but perhaps no so much as a piece of mail other than something sent by an ordinary business reply card that went from Hong Kong to San Francisco in 1903.

A very handsome card.
Private printing card. MacKewen Frickel (China Express)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page...ina.djvu/229

TWENTIETH CENTURY IMPRESSIONS OF HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, ETC.
was reached when he visited Calcutta in 1827, and convinced the authorities, after much difficulty, that there was a better way to and from England than by the Cape route. He established a regular service of caravans across Egypt, built eight halting-places in the desert between Cairo and Suez, converted a dangerous path, beset with robbers, into secure highway, and from 1827 to 1833 carried the overland mail. Associated with him was Mr. Geo. W. Wheatley, and the firm of Wheatley & Co. were the first to develop to any great extent, the parcel-carrying business. Since those days the trade has grown by leaps and bounds. In Hongkong Messrs. McEwen, Frickel & Co. were largely concerned in it. Indeed, this particular department grew almost too unwieldy to be managed successfully in conjunction with their other interests, and in July, 1907, Mr. S. D. Hickie, who had been in charge of the business for several years, purchased it outright; now there is probably no Hongkong firm better known abroad than the "China Express Company." They have connections with every civilised part of the globe, and there is certainly no question as to the efficiency of their organisation. They have about eight hundred agencies in the principal ports and cities of the world, each with sub-agencies for the distribution and reception of goods. Mr. Hickie also carries on a general export and import business, and offers particular facilities to small importers. The headquarters of the China Express Company are at No. 3, Duddell Street.

At around that time, the SS Gaelic was bringing Chinese immigrants to the US.

Thanks for the information, Rod.