"Christmas Chronicles", 2023 December Live Auction

U.S. stampless cover with "10" in upper right and and "Grass Valley / Jul / 28/ Cal" upper left. Addressed to Mr. Seth Scott, Fr...

25 postal history mostly covers from Nevada County, c. 1879-1914. Forrest, Nevada City, North Bloomfield, Yuba City, Sweetland, Patterson, Alleghany,

Two letters and two covers sent from the one time mining town of Nortonville in Contra Costa County, California; In 1885 the Black Diamond Coal Minin

Two Covers from J. Bamber & Co., Independent Carriers - Express Companies, PAID, Contra Costa Express ca 1861 Oval h/s on stationary entire, So...

U. S. two cent entire postal cover with Traver, Tulare County cancel. Dated Feb. 10, 1898 with bullseye cancel. Addressed to Geo. W. Stewart, Visalia.

Lot of 30. 1) Covers: Montana Mercantile Co., Dillon, 1897; Montana Liquid Gas Company, Billings, gas tank vignette; FJ Nichols, Havre, 1934; AM Holte

Lot of three postal covers: 1) Uncancelled three cent embossed envelope (U2?) from Wells, Fargo & Co. Carson City to the secretary of The Mexica...

Several covers from various points in Nevada, including Goldfield, Tonopah and current ghost towns Simon, Belleville and Mt Montgomery, Remember, whe

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.