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This is a cover from Detroit that has a block of four rare Scott #41 canceled postage stamps that were issued in 1857. The addressee on the cover is O

Canceled 10 cents. Addressed to Miss Sarah Collin, Harrisville, Montgomery Co. North Carolina. Condition good. Date: Date illegible City:

In 1950, Ralph Edwards, the host of the radio quiz show Truth or Consequences, announced that he would air the program from the first town that rename

1) Nice April 1884 picture corner advertisement for the Palace Hotel, Rumsey & Sons proprietors. The Palace Hotel hosted many Santa Fe themed ev...

1) Two Fairview, Sierra, September 8, 1897 and March 17, 1905 (post office dates 1881-1930). 2) Roswell, Chaves, June 4, 1890 (1871-present). Rare Dah

1) San Miguel National Bank, East Las Vegas, San Miguel, Jun 7, 1890 (1885-1928). This bank opened in 1880 and printed over $1,000,000 in currency fro

1) Ten Aurora post marks on post cards. Purple, blue and black. 1906-1913. 2) 1909 Masonic, Mono, California cancel on one of the post cards. 3) Four

"One day to Candelaria on foot after a little grub, next day back is d----d hard" "not much headway" "sent two samples of o...

1915 and 1919 covers, One says F. C. Beedle is the proprietor. It is to his wife in Oakland! (Ames Collection) Date: 1915, 1919 City: Go

Lot of twenty-two covers. Includes one Butler cover from State Bank and Trust. November 25, 1902. Very early. One J. P. Gallagher 1915 Yerington cover

1909 love letter to husband working in Marmol. Weak Marmol cancel on reverse. Post office was only open from 1906 to 1917. Date: 1909 City:

February 15, 1908 Pyramid cover to Guscetti Brothers in Loyalton. On reverse are two cancels: one Loyalton and one Guscetti Ranch / Feb 17 1908 / Loya

Lot of six. 1) Reno, 1915, Reno Mercantile Company. Billhead inside. Also inside is a Bill of Lading from the Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad. 2) Re

At least 20 different stamp combinations! Stamps on covers: singles and in combination. Blocks of stamps. All from the Tonopah Divide Mining Company h

Lot of 33. Fourteen post cards. Two money orders. Two Hawthorne Navy cancels, Six postal/money orders includes Beatty and Pioneer cancels. Ten registe

Over 80 pieces! Includes a hard to find Potts (1898-1941). Last day. Patriotic cover. CC from postmaster Potts! Cool looking piece! Also Pioche, Palis

All Creeks: Gold Creek, Cold Creek, Cane Creek. All 1910. Date: 1910 City: County: State: NV

Lot of 55. Includes 15 Carson City c1870-1960. Eight Winnemucca c1921-1941. CC Carlson & Company Funeral Home with letter and Lester Pearce busi...

Lot of eleven. 1891 Belmont, 1889 Candelaria, 190? Aurora, Columbus post card, Tabor Hotel ad, and Registry receipt for J. H. Strachan of Belleville.

Lot of thirty-eight: 1907 Genoa, 1903 Virginia City, 1911 Minden with Flour Milling Company cc, San Francisco newspaper wrap to Harry Beck of Virginia

Smith, Hamilton, Palisade, Cobre & Ely, Ely Date: City: County: State: NV

1892 Reno with Bank of Nevada oval. 1899 Pioche. Letter addressed to Virginia City. 1866 letter to Carson City with two ten cent bill of lading stamps

1) Austin, Nevada Wells Fargo, NT. October 12th. Imprinted with G. F. Dinsmore, Wholesale and Retail dealer in Groceries and Provisions. 2) 1938 V&a...

Very pleasing advertising cover from Little Valley, New York. Date: 1897 City: Little Valley County: Cattaraugus

North Canyonville, Douglas, Oct 9 c1863 (1853-1893). '9' handwritten inside stamp. Hand cancelled. Date: v1863 City: North Canyonville

K. Rosenfeld & Co advertising cover. Importers and jobbers of sugars, tobacco, stationary, cutlery, playing cards, fishing tackle, etc. Nice com...

John O'Brien's Six Shows Consolidated: museum, menagerie, circus, caravan, and the great curiosity department, exhibited under six separate ...

Interesting letter discussing the problems between the banking system and the Treasury. Mention Calhoun and Martin Van Buren. The country was in a fr

Watertown, Codington, November 15, 1884 (1879-present). Revillo, Grant, December 28, 1891 (1884-persent). Goodwin, Deuel, March 11, 1893 (1878-persent

Letter from a Texan planning to follow the Gold Rush to California. Written on light blue paper and addressed to Edward P Hunter, Esq., South Quay, V

Albert Uebel, Union Brewery / Bingham Canyon / Utah. March 9, 1876. This post office was opened in 1870. Date: 1876 City: Bingham Canyon

April 8, 1879 manuscript cover ragged at right. Letter is from John to Anna and talks about her coming up on next stage. Also talks about Mr. Blake st

Rappahannock Station, Rappahannock, August 31, 1889 (1876-1890). Date: 1889 City: Rappahannock Station County: Rappahannoc

Emory, Virginia. Stamped '5' in a circle. Big Sandy. Front Only. Unknown state. 1865. Hand Cancelled. "The Star Panged Banner Must Be U...

Please see photo. Wonderful old piece. Date: 1862 City: County: State: VA

R8 Red Buttes manuscript cancel. Granted a post office on September 2, 1872. Post office closed in 1879. Date: 1873 City: Red Buttes

Fifteen covers and post cards. Envelope of cut stamps. Covers as early as 1856. See photo Date: City: County: S

Lot of 36. Key pieces include: 1) 1922 Modoc & San Francisco, cc San Francisco to Reno Highway Association, Truckee, California, to Charles Whit...

Four El Cajon 1888 covers. 1888 Tremont House cc cover. 1899 Capistrano, Two 1891 Escondido. Lot of 24. Date: c1888-1899 City:

Queenstown, New Zealand. Eichardt's Hotel. Silk Manufacturing Company of San Francisco. Date: City: County: St

One from Maryland with a wax seal on back. Perhaps 1859. One from Walthom, Georgia. Only has front face. Date: c1859, ? City:

Lot of 22. 1933 Crater Lake with cc, 1932 Belton Montana, 1886 Salt Lake City, 1950 Wainwright Alaska, 1905 Denver, 1960 Edgewater Colorado, 1950 Laju

Omaha & Ogden, KC & Pueblo, Wabash Railroad cc, Hannibal & St. Joseph, Kansas City & Dodge, Consolidated Railway Line Local. Lot of ...

Over seventy. Fort Sheridan, Kansas cc. Wallace Idaho. 1885 Rochelle with letter, 1928 St. Louis Lindberg ,1910 Waterloo cc of Electric Supply Company

Lot of seven. Glasgow 1847. Francistown, New Hampshire 1828. Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1841. See photograph for all. Date: 1828-1847 City:

Mostly First Day Covers and specialty covers. Please inspect. Date: City: County: State:

1) Laramie Hotel corner cover on a Union Pacific circular stamp and star burst cancel. This fancy advertisement lists Philo Rumsey & Son as prop...

Two checks. One in 1906 and one in 1907. Note that both say payable in Mexican Silver. From the Transvaal Copper Mining Company. Date: 1906

Lot of twenty-four checks from James S. Duncan to foreman, teamsters, cook, and shoveled (not my kind of job!). Shows deductions for board and store.

Cochise County Bank of Arizona Territory, issued to Yee Shung Wo Kee Co. for $202.60 on May 17, 1886. Date: 1886 City: Tombstone