"Christmas Chronicles", 2023 December Live Auction

Lot of 12 stocks, two types, all issued in 1899 and punch and stamp cancelled. Eight stocks feature brown border, black print, and a vignette of a top

Issued red 1869 Mansfield & Framingham Railroad stock. Incorporated in 1862 to provide a rail connection from Mansfield through Foxborough to Wa...

Rare. Negotiable Certificate Receipt for First Mortgage Bond, $1,000, 1901. Issued to Frank Mills. Signed by the secretary Hellman. Green border and b

6 different, extra rare, excellent condition unissued Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad Company stock certificates. Nice vignette of train pulling into

Cert. #564, $500, 6%, Mortgage Bond from this Nevada railroad company. The bond was issued in 1909 and signed by the company officers, L.H. Curtis and

4 unissued 100 shares each of Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad Company stock, certificates, 213, 218, 230 and 274. Nice vignette of train pulling into

Very nice certificate issued for 100 shares. The company incorporated in 1886. _x000D_ In 1887, An ordinance was granted the Electro - Pneumatic Trans

#3692 issued in 1884. Extremely large 45x18î and in extremely nice condition. Coupons 3-82 attached. Signed by president WC Andrews an importan...

Number 80 issued in 1875. Very nice, complex vignette of trains, trestle and industries in a valley. All 52 coupons attached. Underprint $1000. Edge i

Raleigh and Gaston Rail Road Company. #756 for 10 shares issued to trustee Welton. President's name has been hole punch cancelled. Small vignett...

Lot of 4 stocks, issued 1915-1917. All have the same design: black border and print and locomotive vignette. Inc. in Ohio. Signed by president Platt (

14 Oregon railroad stocks. Oregon Railroad and Navigation. United Railways, Oregon and Transcontinental, Oregon Trunk, Oregon Branch Pacific, Des Chut

#971, issued to H.C. Frick for 120 shares at Philadelphia in 1885. Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849- December 2, 1919) was an American industrialis

Philadelphia and Easton Railway Company $1000 5% 40 year bond, signed by president Rosenberger(?), #448. Nice Railway Car vignette. All 80 coupons att

Issued 1883 Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway stock. The construction of the railway was spurred by a shift in river shipping and Cinc

Unissued Lawrenceburg & Indianapolis Rail Road stock, c. 1830's. Nice vignette of an old fashioned steam locomotive pulling a full stagecoac...

27 mostly issued post 1900 railroad stocks. Pullman, Baltimore and Ohio, Peoria Terminal, Western Pacific, New York Central, Pacific Railway, Denver a

8 railroad stocks, c. 1840-79, all issued. 2x Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern, 1876. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 1862. Mississippi and Mi...

Lot of 3 different. All have RN-U1 imprinted revenues. 1) Warren & Venango Railroad Company. Unissued, 1800s. Two locomotive vignettes and one a...

Lot of 3 different. All have the signature of Collis P. Huntington, one of the "Big Four" founders of the Central Pacific Railroad. 1) Sho...

22 pre 1900 unissued railroad stocks. Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific. Waverly Short Line. Newton & Monroe. Carthage, Watertown & Sacket...

The Virginia & Tennessee Railroad Company Interest Bond No. 203 for 1000 dollars. Issued on December 2, 1869. Signed by President, William Mahon...

Four General Electric Oversees Capital Corporation bond. 1965. Allegorical. Very nice condition. Coupons 20 to 40 attached. Sequential numbering. Not

Lot of 3 stocks, issued 1921-24. Punch cancelled. Three different vice president signatures. Brown or purple borders, black print, and vignette of bal

Lot of 5 issued and cancelled stocks, 1955-1958. Identical design: green border, black print, and vignette of tobacco field and a Native American chie

Issued California railroads. 1910 Geary Street Railway with nice street vignette. Stocks-1916 California Street Cable Railroad with cable car vignette

3 issued Colorado railroad stocks. 1906 Denver, Northwestern and Pacific with founder D H Moffat signature. 1910 Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. 1896

4 Oregon river transportation stocks. 1863 Columbia Transportation. 1906 Open River Transportation. 1890 Oregon Improvement. 1927 Daughs Ship Crane.

17x Bald Mountain Gold &Silver Mining Company, incorporated in April 1869, dated 1878, La Porte, CA. A total capital stock of 40 shares, at a ...

Utility stock certificates (39) include The Intermountain Rural Electric Association, Gold Seal Electric Company (5), Samson Electric Company (2), Nat

6 albums from Postal Commemorative Society with gold covers of US Stamps. 22kt gold proof replicas of stamps on mostly FDC's. Blue album has rep...

US First Day Cover collection, about 300-500 covers in 3 albums. c. 1930-80's. A few UN, Canada. Lots of cacheted covers. 14.8 lbs.

A box of about 200 first day covers with coins from countries around the world. Circa 1960s-1970s. Packaged two to a page with descriptions of the coi

One of the earliest letters known to exist from the Breckinridge, Colorado Territory area. The letter is dated 1861, one year after the post office w

Lot of 22 full sheets and some partial sheets of Christmas Seals, from the 1940s-1960s.In the early 20th century, tuberculosis was the leading cause

Rare 1883 Christmas card from the San Jose agent of the Pacific Branch of The Lion Fire Insurance Company of London, England. The lion looks serious.

Tabletop letter-sorting box made of straight-grained white oak with dovetailed joints on the base. It has three rows of 18 compartments, each with div

Mail-sorting cabinet made from quarter-sawn white oak. It has eight rows with ten compartments each, and all dividers are present. It appears there w

Original, small Post Office frontispiece from the Postmaster Supply Co of Baltimore, Maryland, and Kansas City, Missouri. It has a small, 8.5 x 12.5-i

Post Office sorting table and trays. Oak cabinet. Waist-high sorting area with four rows of 25 cubby holes for envelopes. Great for a personal Post Of

Post Office sorting table with four rows of 15 cubby holes for mail sorting. Oak construction, well used, 43 x 28 inches, c1890-1910. LOCAL PICK-UP I

Cast iron RWY strong box measuring 14"x 20"x 13". It is unlocked and dates from 1900-1915Has red railway express markings that appear...

Large railway express strong box made from sheet and cast iron and measures 16" x 16"x 26". This one is locked and we have no key, W...

Brass and steel, street-side letter box for US Mail made by Cutler Mail Chute Company of Rochester, NY. Cutler Mailing System authorized by United Sta

Lot of five Bank of California certificates, with rare imprinted revenue stamps. Two are signed by William Alvord. Includes: 1) Bank of California Dup

Elaborate insurance policy issued by The Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut with three California revenue stamps and one U. S. 25 cent

Collection of older foreign stamps, perhaps 80 cacheted US and Canada first day covers 1947-89. About 100 US mostly 3c commemorative plate blocks etc.

Cover addressed to Capt. Thomas Buckley, superintendent of the Bodie Tunnel and Mining Company. It also has a Wells Fargo & Company Express log...

No contents. Sent to Fretz & Ralston, Bankers, San Francisco. Wells Faro & Co.'s Express Columbia oval cancel over 3 cent imprinted stam...

Handwritten letter and cover. Letter originates from Columbia Esmeralda County Nevada and is addressed to one Mr. F.T. Treitmyer of Drytown, Amador Co

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.