December 2017 Premier Auction

Lot of 51. Two full face reverses: Cincinnati Industrial Exposition of 1886 and Eleventh Industrial Cincinnati Exposition 1883. Please see photos onli

Based in San Francisco. Winter 1892-1893, 14 pages and Spring 1897 issue,10 pages. Philatelic dealer ads. 8.5" x 5.5". Date: Location...

This cover is packed with surprises. It is addressed to 'Benjamin Smith Lyman, Geologist, Colorado Fuel Company, Denver'. Denver is crossed ...

Lot of two. 1)This 1841 cover is sent to Mr Asakee(?) Harris & Company of North Scituate, Rhode Island. The only Harris we could find in North S...

1906-1911. Lot of seven. Includes a very nice, very early Main Street. Quite Rare. Also the library, depot, Barber Lumber Mill in Barbertown, Capital,

Eight real photo black & white postcards. Includes Arrow Rock Dam, Idan-Ho Motel (on a moonlit night - Charles H Grout manager), Boise Barracks,...

Note on back says, "Taken 1/2 block from my house / 1817 Eastman / Boise Idaho." The 1920 census shows Whitaker as a salesman in a dry goo...

Lot of seventeen. 1904-1956. Includes several Main Street, Idanha Motel, Owyhee Hotel, The Grand, Natatorium, several of the depot, Capital, and Capit

Lot of five. Three black & white RPC's. Includes Caldwell Banking and Trust, Saratoga Hotel, Finey & Sterry Halls at the College of Idah...

Lot of seven. Two duplicate RPC's of street scene. Also Fowler's Restaurant, Sherman Avenue, the lake, dock with steamers and a famous donke...

Lot of nine - eight black & white RPCs. c1930's. All unused. Please see photos online. Date: Location: Crates of the Moon, Idaho HWA...

Lot of two black and white real photo postcards. 1918. Number 26 and 29 in a series. Published by Wesley Andrews of Baker, Oregon. Date: Locatio

1) 1913 main street. Unique sign above the street says, "ELECTRICITY." Snow covers the ground. Mailed in August, but author says, "Th...

Shows Main Street. Main street seems to have four serious structures with a variety of tents behind. A buggy is leaving the city, the the author says

Two Northside Inns. One photo taken by Simpson. Twin Falls to Jerome Bridge, Number 'W12.'. Main Street. Date: 1929-1943 Location: Jero...

Very early! RPC. Certainly looks unique! Please see photo. Date: Location: Kellogg, Idaho HWAC # 54525

Lot of 4. 1908-1924. Lot of four. Three black and white real photo postcard overviews, and one early color overview. Date: Location: Kellogg, I

1907-1958. Lot of eleven. Seven black & white real photo postcards. Cards include Normal school, post office, steamer (photo by Henry Fair of Le...

Lot of four. Two black & white. Includes a 1906 'Views of Moscow.' Also a main street printed by O. G. Brackert & Company of Moscow....

Lot of five black and white postcards. c1910. Includes Ake's Farm,hot springs, crooked road, and Agriculture Department. Also one same era and p...

Photos were published by R. L. Bow of Nampa. Numbers 3649, 3650, 3669, 3671, 3672. All addressed to Mathu from Ella. Date: Location: Nampa, Ida

Three black & White RPCs. 1907-1915. Fabulous EARLY Dewey Palace Hotel. Another great G Street looking toward the depot - which is in the backgr...

Lot of five. 1923-1932. Two overviews, Woolley Apartments, Fargo Apartments, and post office. Please see photographs online. Date: Location: Poc

1906-1937. Nineteen total. Five black & white real photo postcards. Includes viaduct, University of Idaho, railroad depot, overviews, State Acad...

One is marked 'W4' in a rectangular box and the other 'W5'. The second shows water on the dirt street. Earlier. Between the two phot...

Shows First Avenue as a dirt street. One can make out Wisconsin House, Millan's, Idaho Hotel, and Club Cafe. 1908. Date: 1908 Location: Sand...

Lot of seven. Two black & White RPC's. Rare "Royal Confectionery Store." Used cards dated from 1908 to 1912. Date: Location: ...

Fifteen total. 5 black & white RPCs. 2 color RPCs. From snow to sun; Idaho's playground! Please see photos online. Date: Location: Sun ...

Lot of seven. One photo of main street with Wray's Cafe, and Perrine Hotel showing (poor focus). Six color postcards include the courthouse, Per...

Seven total. Five black & white RPCs. Three used: 1907 - 1908. Six overviews and one color inside the Banquet Cafe. Date: Location: Wallace...

One darker RPC. 1907-1910. One published by L. A. Smith, druggist. One postcard of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mill. Date: Location: Wardne...

Best is the photo of a man by a tent. Handwritten in pen is 'Idaho' with 'Oregon' on the other side of the river. 1910. Also a Weise...

Nice street banner over the road. Near the Oregon Trail Grill, Hotel Weiser, and Clark's News Stand. Postcard shows slight waviness Date: L...

Coeur d'Alene. Two used postcards c1906. See online for photographs. Date: Location: Idaho HWAC # 54556

Lot of nineteen. Three black & white RPC's (snow slide over wood river in 1933, Payette Lake, North Fork at Avery), twelve black & white...

This lot has a broad mixture of scenes and styles. But there are some treasures! Fifty-three total. 9 Black & white RPC's, three color RPC&...

Lot of thirteen. 6 black & white RPC's. Each postcard is from a small town and has a small town postmark (mostly excellent). Scenes are from...

All RPC's. 1) USS Idaho crossing the equator. 2) USS Idaho with a couple of 'young ones' on deck. 3-14) Twelve scenes at the United Stat...

Idaho Falls, Salmon, Emmett, St Maries, Orofino, Mullan, Hawley, Burke, Caldwell! Date: Location: Idaho HWAC # 54540

Lot of fourteen. Six black & white RPCs. Depots include Bise, Lewiston, Nampa, and Pocatello. Scenes include Pocatello, American Falls with trai...

Include: a dirt Freeze Out Grade at Emmett, Rupert church, Payette river, Mackay tramway and compressor, Bonners Ferry street scene, Mountain Home, He

Includes: Payette saw mill, Payette street scene, a Council bird's eye, Kamiah bird's eye, DeLamar bird's eye, Silver City bird's ey...

1) Handwritten Ashton c1921-25. 2) Says "winner of 50 mile race was a native boy." Nice combo! Date: Location: Idaho HWAC # 54534

This is a lot of two. 1) Postcard dated June 16, 1910. The image shows the western side of Butte. 2) Issued mailed envelope dated May 19, 1938 from B

Lot of 12. 6 black and white RPCs, 2 black and white, 1 color RPC, and 3 color. Include overviews, fish hatchery, Elk Horn Fence, Park Street and trol

19 total cards. 6 black and white RPC's. 1905 to 1937. Includes a buggy laden main street (1905), state capitol, US Armory (1937, Jorud photo), ...

1-2) H Herbst Importing Company. Advertising and selling John E. Fitzgerald whiskey. Both envelopes have a full size pictorial on reverse of cover and

1) Pictorial Briggs, Cooper & Company. Image of Home Brand Peaches. St. Paul, Minn. 1908. Order included; 2) Pictorial The Quaker Oats Company....

1) Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co. addressed to Mr. Buford, Virginia City, Mont., 1896. This envelope also carried two Memos of Understanding fro...

Lot of seven. Three black and white RPCs. 1914 to 1953. Includes the lobby at the new Hotel Rainbow in Great Falls (Charles E Morris of Great Falls pu

Five black and white real photo postcards. These RPC's include Morrison Cave, Chico Hot Springs, Little Rockies Frontier Camp, Sixteen Mile Cany...

Postcards from the Havre & badlands, Harbin & Custer, and Virginia City. 8 total. 7 RPC's. One duplicate. Date: Location: Montan...

Harlowtown, Livingston, Libby, Glendive, Roundup, Glasgow, West Yellowstone. Thirteen total. 9 black and white RPC's. Includes a Glendive where ...

Knob Hill FD, the oldest fire department in Nevada. Bell tower to summons the firefighters to a fire. Black and white real photo postcard. White borde

Wow! 1908 unused 3 panel real photo postcard showing a bird's-eye view of booming Rawhide, Nevada, only 2 years after the initial discovery. Pri...

RPC postmarked Reno, Nevada. Image, possibly outside Reno. Written message at bottom of card, addressed to friend in Oakland, California. We are not s

RPC postmarked Reno, Nevada; photo probably somewhere near Reno. To Rose from Harriet. Rose is in Oakland, California. Date: 1908 Location: Reno,

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Three RPC's: Tonopah, Nevada; V & T Passenger Train at Virginia City, Nev.; and Historic Old Piper Opera House, built during 1880's, Vir...

Identified as September 6, 1909. Black and white RPC with great contrast. Uinque? Date: Location: Aztec, New Mexico HWAC # 54005

Lot of sixteen. Eleven black and white RPC's of the cavern. All different. Also Grand Cafe, city overview, lunch room, and elevator building. ...

G339x. Rare. Date: Location: Las Vegas, New Mexico HWAC # 53976

1) Lordsburg. Unused. Nice contrast. Showing the Hotel Hidalgo. 2) Casa Linda Court RPC in Gallup. 1938. Date: Location: Lordsburg, New Mexico

"Hotel Stratford which housed the stagecoach passengers and notables as well as the bad men of the southwest in the early days." D-89. The...

Black and White RPC of a car on its side and (presumably) its two passengers standing next to it! Date: Location: Socorro, New Mexico HWAC # 5

Talk about a town with a history: it is famous as a town full of saloons and outlaws. It is named for a the town was nicknamed "Six-Shooter Sid...

Lot of five. 1) Pueblo of Santa Clara. 2) Pueblo of Laguna. 3) Streets of Acoma. 4) Pueblo woman making bread. 5) Interior scene of Kiva. Colro RPC.

Lot of eleven. Five RPC's: 1) First National Bank of Foxtales. No postmark but has been hand cancelled???. 2) Las Vegas Junior High. 3) Tucumcar...

Lot of nine. 1) 1911 RPC of the Episcopal Church in East Las Vegas. CEJD. 2) San Miguel Church in Santa Fe. Copyright 1908, St. Michael's Colleg...

1) Note on back of Animas Headquarters RPC says, "Here's the fireplace and family. There is a big bookcase full of all sorts of books, Conr...

Lot of twelve: soldiers, town greetings, artesian well, reprint of 1914 Cleve Brown of Silver City reprint, Billy the Kid headstone by the S. W. Post

1) Main Street Clayton. 2) Overview of Red River. 3) Room where Governor Bent was murdered in Taos. 4) Hot Springs overview. 5) Grocery store in old L

Lot of thirteen. Black and white RPCs include Main Street Las Cruces, Silver City overview and Albuquerque overview. Black and White postcards include

1) November 25, 1909 Dexter, New Mexico main street with plenty of buggies and wagons and no cars. 2) 1910 tree lined Dexter, New Mexico. RPC. 3) 1941

"First Flight Mam 18." 30 cent Trans-Atlantic blue stamp. New York to Lisbon written on card. Reverse is stamped "LISBOA-Central / 3a...

Includes a faded brown Reminiscence of Baltimore, Maryland, Federal Hill, brown Annapolis No.1 and and black Annapolis No.2. All unused. Charles Magnu

Identified dates are 1912 and 1913. Three RPC's: 1) No. 43 Business District, 2) No. 41 Residence Section (from M Parletin who has marked his re...

Postcards are dated from 1906 to 1928. Four RPC's: St Anthony's Hospital, Pendleton Hotel (Smith), Temple Hotel (Smith) and Post Office (Smi...

Lot of three. 1) Unidentified photographer of the depot of the O. W. R. R. & N. 2) Brown sepia of the same depot. 3) Main Street Bridge over the...

Five different views of downtown Pendleton. Two at night. Two photos by Ellis and three by Smith. Great contrast in the photos! Date: Location: P

All show the business district of Pendleton. Two by Ellis and two by Smith. One older and unidentified. Find Tallman Drugs, Payless Drugs, Rivoli Thea

Lot of four. Three black and white RPC's: Cabbage Hill on the old Oregon Trail, early 1912 bridge over a river (some damage in upper right), and...

February 6, 1916 snowstorm with banks of snow much higher than the women in the photograph. A Bowman photo. The Natatorium. Roughly the same time peri

"No. 22 Main Street looking South, Pendleton, Ore." Great contrast. Find the People's Warehouse, Rexall Drugs, State Bar all on a badl...

Dated postcards are from 1906 to 1929. Early group. Four RPC's and twenty total cards. RPC's include downtown street scene, business section...

All unused. RPCs includes Game Lodge on the Camp Ground of Custer State Park, Bad Land Wall, Castle of the Agents, Cedar Pass with a dirt road, State

Volume 1 Number 5, March 1887 by Reuss & Neville, Paris, Texas. 10 pages of philatelic news of the era. 8.5" x 5.75". Date: Locat...

The Leland (Jefferson County) post office opened in 1881. 1) December 10, 1883. Very good. 'Leland' is more lightly struck but still strong....

Lot of 19. Includes: set of 10 different patriotic World War II covers; four 1941 First Flights with small black and white images of the planes glued

Lot of all covers are red, white, and blue. Lot of sixteen. Each shows a military hero or President in a circle surrounded by eagles, flags, ships, th

1) "Overland - via - Los Angeles" in color. 2) "All we want is to be left alone." Shows US Mint Building and a watch dog chasing...

Lot of 42 covers. Includes Roseville Pottery in Zanesville Ohio, Thompson Dehart of Portland, UP RR of Omaha, William Bonbright of Colorado Springs, B

Lot of 11 covers plus one illustrated letterheads. Covers include: 1916 colorful Winchester; 1902 The Times, Los Angeles (w/ subscription form); 1915

!7 pieces all together. Letters with covers: 1) 1848. From E. D. Keys at West Point with a '5'. Sent to the Schuylkill Arsenal in Philadelp...

1) January 1892, Vol. XVIII of The Philatelic Monthly. Published by The Bogert & Durbin Co. 12 pages. 9 x 6" Vertical fold, toning. 2) c.19...

Early (back says 1895) cabinet card by Harliss, Portable Photo. Parlor of mailman. Contrast is low to medium. Some soiling. (Prag Collection) Date:

Lot of 3. Includes two Western Union Telegraph Company Complimentary stamp booklets: a 1908 book with six stamps remaining, and a 1910 book with 12 st

1896, 1898 and 1902. 57-97pp. 6.25" x 4.25". Date: Location: HWAC # 54930

Robert A Siegal Auctions catalog, 1968. 72 pages. 7 x 10". Excellent condition. Rare and important catalog for a major philatelic collection. T...

Four Philatelic Volumes: 1) 2006 U. s. First Day Cover Catalog; 2) A Guide to 19th Century United States Postmarks and Cancellations; 3) Catalog of U.