"Christmas Chronicles", 2023 December Live Auction

A group of 16 letters and covers from New Mexico. There are early La Junta & Albuquerque RPO's, an AT&SF RR cover for Las Vegas, NM, an ...

Unique! Invitation to the San Francisco and Oakland Post Office Clerks' Association Christmas Ball at the Odd Fellows Hall, as facsimile cover. ...

Lot of 10, most different. No contents. Includes: JR Megrue & Co. (Cincinnati, 1885); Cunninghams & Co. (Pittsburgh, 1884); Cataract House (...

Lot of 6 different, all pictorial. Includes: Dr. Hess & Clark (Ashland, Ohio, 1914); Big Four Coffee (Detroit, 1914); Wilbur Stock Food Co. (two...

Lot of 19. One has contents. All are pictorial. Nearly all different! Includes: John Naylon & Co. Saddlery (Detroit, 1883, with letter); CC Post...

This postal cover hand written by Genl. William Tecumseh Sherman to his eight year old son Master William T. Sherman Jr. just prior to his ninth birth

US stamp collection. Includes regular series c. 1920 thru commemoratives, $3 Scott 423 canceled, several blocks including 651 plate block. A171 color

Netherlands 1858 lettersheet to Amsterdam franked with 1852 10c (#2, striking top margin copy, just touching at right, otherwise huge margins showing

Real photo postcard, white border, created by Frashers Foto of Pomona. No cars, horses, people or wildlife: looks like a ghost town. Bodie Californi

Lot of 36. Postmarks: Red Bluff, Dunsmuir, Martinez . Street Level view ; RR turn table, Shasta Springs Fountain, Lodge, downtown street scene dif

An assortment of Martinez, California postcards (16). Included a birds eye views of the city that gave baseball fans Joe DiMaggio. Also included are

Lot of 55 postcards, including 47 RPPC (mostly white border) of Mt. Lassen and Lassen Volcanic National Park. Other cards include 4 hand-colored. Most

Joaquin Miller postcard group (9). Miller, known as "The Poet of the Sierra" died in 1913 in Oakland, California. These postcards were pub...

15x Placerville Birdseye View, Color & Real Shot Post Cards, Color / B&W /Amber , some white borders, many pre 1915 RPC’s. Divided a...

Lot of about 300 vintage postcards of San Francisco hotels. Sir Francis Drake, The Yosemite, Manx Hotel, Clift Hotel, Palace Hotel and many more. San

1) 8x Donner Lake Area Postcards; 8 cards, 7 are rpcs, classic as well as unusual views 2) 6x Webber Lake Area Postcard; 3x Webber Lake printed, 1x Go

Lot od approx. 95. San Francisco, Santa Clara, Alameda, Marin, Napa and Contra costa counties. Mix of RPC's some amber, borderless and wht. b...

Lot of 75. 1. One pre-split imprinted 1 cent. Nine RPC's. Postmarks : Dimond Ca., Klamath Falls Ore.,Point Rena Ca., San Ysidro, Long Beach...

Lot of 52. Colusa, Glenn, Tehema, Lake, Mendocino Counties. RPC's, few amber, wht. border and borderless, two pre-split cards. Postmark i.e...

Collection of Early Postcards of S.P.'s Two Mountainous & Scenic Routes thru Northern California (24). The Sierra-Nevada Mtn's. Route, a...

Lot of 100. Yuba, Yolo, Sutter, San Joaquin, Sacramento, El Dorado Counties. RPC's.one pioneer and two pre-split cards. Camp Beale Calif col...

Three early postcards include Balloon Hill, Oma of Rawhide, and Hooligan Hill. Rawhide Nevada

A pair of postcards, one a Frasher, of the Nevada ghost town Rhyolite. Neither has been used or postmarked. Please see photos for more details. Rhyol

All Real Photo~ California (10), Oregon (10), Washington (10) No Duplicates~ 1910-1941

Stations (18), Yards (2), Shops (6), Bridges (8) ~ All in Color No Duplicates~ 1907-1960's

All Cards Embossed and in color~ No Dups. ~ 1907-1911

Pennsylvania (14), Massachusetts (8), New York (6), VT (2) All in color~ No Duplicates~ 1906-1916

All Real Photo~ No Duplicates~ 1907-1921

California: 6 color & 4 B & W ~ Oregon: 6 color & 4 B & W Washington: 7 color & 3 B & W ~ No dup's ~ 1908-1916

8 Bodie checks, c. 1878-82. 5 have RNG's. Bodie California Franklin Collection

Tallant & Company, Banker First of Exchange cert. No. 4306, duplicate, issued June 8, 1866 for $1125.00 to Messrs(?) Wotherspoon Bros(?). Stampe...

Sacramento, August 1863 second of exchange payable to John Darlington four hundred dollars in gold coin signed by Darius Ogden Mills. With two shippin

Imprinted California $1 and $2 stamps on 2 1862 insurance policies. Policies issued to Rosseter, a freight and warehouse business in La Porte. Calif

Very rare 1864 Kountze Brother Central City, Colorado overprint with steamer vignette on check. This was a key NY bank that financed western mines esp

Hawaii stamp assortment 1871-1899: mint and used group of 34 all different on black stock page, F-VF. Hawaii

3 Comstock Bank of California checks. 1866 Virginia, $1000 in gold coin, Nevada revenue stamp. 1867 Gold Hill with US and Nevada revenue stamps. 1871

Lot of 3 different sheets with of 100 stamps each, 3 different denominations: 17 cent (green), 34 cent (red), and 68 cent (blue). Printed by American

Sheets of Christmas Seals in 2 albums, 1932-2001. Collection not totally complete but well represented.

U.S. 1893 Columbian Stamp Group, mint assortment including Scott #230 block of four never hinged, Scott #231 never hinged plus three O.G.(original gum

U. S. stamps: 1893 Columbian Stamp set 1-50 cent mint Scott #230-240. Plus 2c "broken hat" variety Scott #231c. 1,2,3 & 15 cent are ne...

Duck Stamp collection from the U.S. Department of the Interior, starting in 1934 (The first year of issue) to 1977. Most all of the stamps are signed

Lot of 67 used Scott 183 2c vermilion Lincoln stamps. A variety of different cancels and varying condition and centering. Book value is $335.

About 80 mostly different Eastern US checks with adhesive R15 revenue stamps. c. 1864-79.

3 issued Panama Rail Road stocks with 3 different imprinted revenue stamps. They carried the SS Central America gold and passengers across Panama befo

10 c. 1868-1910 RN checks. 5x RNG. 1x RNB. 1x RNF. 1x RNC 11. 1x RNX signed by Rose Burcham, a strong armed partner of this major gold mine(Yellow Ast

About 100 mostly different checks with Scott R152 adhesive revenue in 2 color variations, 1 listed. Dark blue on medium blue and dark blue on light bl

Unused, VF, Scott #76, Jefferson. Very nice stamp. No gum. Previously hinged.

Hundreds of precancelled U. S. stamps. 1/2 cent, 1 cent, 1 1/2 cent, 2 cent and up to 50 cent. Five full mint sheets, many dozens of different stamps

"Cattle in the Storm", key item, mint, F-VF. The inspiration for the design for the vignette was based on the "Vanguard' paintin...

Blue cancel, three large margins, F-VF. Printer: Rawdon, Wright, Hatch and Edison. Perforations: imperforate. Watermark: none. Scott #: 2. Quantity

U.S. 1930 Zeppelin Issue Scott #C15 $2.60 blue, used, F-VF. To coincide with the Graf Zeppelin’s historic 1930 round-trip transatlantic fligh

Three six stamp plate blocks of trans-Pacific airmail stamps: Scott #s 20, 21, 22. VF, never hinged. 20, 25 and 50 cents. On November 22, 1935, airmai

Scott #RW1-10; the first ten stamps of the series. Mint, original gum, very lightly hinged, generally VF. On March 16, 1934, President Franklin Roos

Stamps: Scott #C 1-6, mint (C1-2 NH, C 3-6 OG). Six, eight, sixteen and twenty four cents. Domestic U.S. Air Mail was established by the United States

Four margins, pen cancel. U. S. Scott #1: Benjamin Franklin, line engraved by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch, and Edson of New York City. Due to production d

Orange 1918 Curtiss Jenny Airmail 6 cent Scott #C1 plate block of six; number 9155. Quantity: 3,395,854.When US airmail service first began in 1918,

Key item, mint, F-VF. The subject of the vignette was the 'Eads Bridge' that spanned the Mississippi, connecting the cities of St. Louis, M...

Key to the set, used, F-VF, Black Columbian Scott #245. First Day of Issue: January 2, 1893. Quantity issued: 27,350 (5,506 destroyed). Printed by

25 cent orange red newspaper stamp, Scott #PR3, unused, V-VF. On March 3, 1863, an Act of Congress granted postal agents the ability to accept newspap

U. S. 1901 Pan American Expo Stamp Set complete, all never hinged. Scott #294-99, VF. The Pan American Exposition was held from May 1 through Novembe

1930 Zeppelin Issue complete Scott #C13-15, very lightly hinged, exceptional centering, VF++. In 1930, a new issue of airmail stamps was announced. Th

From the Post Office Department of the U. S. A. This book contains six ten cent air mail stamps and was priced at 61 cents. The back cover has a conti

About one cubic foot of six US stamp albums with some scattered foreign. Stamps are mostly all mint, unused, except for a group of first day covers an

Unused, VF, U.S. 1869 fifteen cent brown & blue Scott 119. Never hinged. Gum appears to be complete; our expert (FH) does not know how to dete...

Excise tax, war tax, law stamp, customs duty, cigarette tax, and more. About forty stamps and four envelopes of loose stamps, over a hundred total.

The Penny Black is renowned for being the world’s first stamp. The image of Queen Victoria used on Penny Black was based on a sketch of her a

Mexican duck stamps in quantity. Se-tenants and strips including quantities of 1297a strip of 5 with label, 1341a strip of 4 with label, 1347a attache

About 10 Mexico postmark and stamp references with info back to 1854 issues. 24 pounds, see photo. Mexico Gary Bracken Collection

Thousands of modern Mexico stamps, never hinged. Singles, blocks and sorted by Scott number, #647-1376 with various airmail issues. Mexico

1980 Olympic stamp and cover collection in Paramount International Coin binders. Small sheets of foreign stamps. 18 lbs.

Hoard of mostly foreign used stamps, c. 1900+. From all over the world, some still on envelope corners. This lot is unpicked by us and it is ready for

Two exchange notes from Drexel, Sather & Church, Bankers and Dealers in Bullion and Bills of Exchange. The partners in this bank covered the cou...

4 pieces of California Gold Rush Ephemera. Checks-1854 Adams & Co. Bankers with steamer vignette. 1850 Burgoyne & Co. 1851 Adams & Co...

2x Wells, Fargo & Co. Columbia Exchange Note Varieties, preprinted/handwritten Columbia manuscript in right top corner, Second of Exchanges: 1) ...

3x Wells, Fargo & Co. San Francisco Exchange Notes out of 3 different Offices (NV, MA, PA), Second of Exchanges: 1) #3197 issued to L.J. Chibbuc...

9x Wells, Fargo & Co. San Francisco Exchange Notes with very a interesting collection of different Californian adhesive revenue stamps on decent...

Wells, Fargo & Co. three cent entire Express cover with Georgetown, California cancel. Scott U12 (1853-1855) addressed to Sig. Bisacno Brothers,...

Rare John Conly & Co. 1865 check to A H Crew, the superintendent of La Porte Express. Unused La Porte Express Co. 6c long cover, sealed on verso...

Adams & Co. Express Office San Francisco exchange note, #2835, second of exchange, order of Reuben Johnson for $126.50 on Mar 31, 1853, signed b...

Wells, Fargo & Co. three cent entire express cover with Marysville, California cancel. Scott U82 (1870-71) postal stationery addressed to San Fr...

Wells, Fargo & Co. Nevada City (CA) Exchange Note, Second of Exchange #135804(?), issued to A.D. Tower, Agt. on Jan 2, 1859 for $50. Signed on r...

Lot of two Wells, Fargo & Co. Express and Banking Office. Includes: 1) Wells, Fargo & Co. Express and Banking Office Second of Exchange cert...

2x Wells, Fargo & Co. Exchange Notes, Second of Exchange of the same day, consecutive - very rare occurence! 1) #285131 & #285132, both for ...

Very unusual and rare lot we discovered going through an old collection of miscellaneous documents. Here are two distinct pairs of exchanges (each a S

Two beautiful Wells, Fargo & Co. Gold exchange certificates, each with first California State revenue tax stamps. Includes: 1) Wells, Fargo &...

4 Adams and Co. Express c. 1854 checks. 1 is issued to H W Butterfield. Is he related to John Butterfield of American Express? San Francisco Californ

Collection of 10 exchange notes from Adams & Co. They are from major California Gold Rush towns including Sacramento (1851 and 1855), Marysville...

Carnes San Francisco Letter Express Locals, rare, strip of three: red (Scott #35L8), gold (Scott #35L4), blue (Scott#35L7). Original gum, extra fine.

Express & Banking Office of Rhodes & Co. Bank Checks from 1854-55: 1) #1046, 1854 for $10, paid. 2) #1235, 1854 for $200, paid. 3) #1268, 18...

2x Wells, Fargo & Co. Exchange Notes, Second of Exchanges, both out of Yreka, CA: 1) #173839, for $150 on Jun 28, 1858, signed by Wells Fargo &...

Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, Cert. #467 issued to M. Wm Terry on Apr 30, 1859, receipt for $467 worth of Gold Dust forwarded to SF Mint dat...

About 25 EJ Carter of Helena, MT correspondences, c. 1885-86. He was the Wells Fargo agent in Helena, where the US Assay office was located. It was fr

McAllisters written over crossed out C H Buford's Express Line ledger book, c. 1900's to January 1906. Possibly in Virginia City, MT, base o...

Wells Fargo & Co. Scott U18 three cent entire Express cover with Carlin, Nevada cancel. Addressed to Virginia City, Nevada. Carlin Nevada

Wells Fargo & Co. Scott U10 three cent entire Express cover with Carson City cancel. Addressed to Mr. Riley, San Francisco. Carson City Nevada

Scarce group of 9 Wells Fargo receipts c. 1896-1903. Receipts for gold coin and gold and silver bars sent to Bullion Exchange Bank in Carson or the sa

1872 Wells Fargo First of Exchange, dateline Carson City. Pay to the order of H F Rice, Agent, Boston Mass., $60 in gold. Orange adhesive revenue in u

3 Wells Fargo checks from the Comstock Vicinity. Very rare 1872 datelined Carson City, First of Exchange, issued to H F Rice, Wells Fargo agent in Car

1876 Wells Fargo & Co. First of Exchange with imprinted RNF1. Issued to CC Pendergast , Agent, $781.71 in gold on front. Pay to the order of Alb...

2x Wells, Fargo & Co. Portland (OR) Exchange Notes, Second of Exchanges. This was the only Well, Fargo & Co. Office, that acted as an Assay ...