December Dreams Premier Auction: Western Americana, Mining, & Numismatics (December 2021)

Excellent lot of 26 vintage postcards featuring President William Howard Taft. Taft and family, street scenes of Taft appearances, political campaigni

About 60 cards from Prudential Insurance Company c. 1905-08. Many are pre-split back cards. One is a post office irregularity with a Pan Pacific 1915

Lot of over 45. Some dups. Mostly stations ñ some scenic railroad. Stations from large to small: New York, Burlington, Washington D. C. Colora

Lot of over 130 religion-themed postcards. Includes four undivided back cards postmarked 1906 - 1909, fifteen RPCs (two postmarked 1912 & 1914)...

Lot of about a dozen early sewing machine advertising postcards and store cards. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Pr

Lot of over 60 vintage postcards advertising shoes. Clever leather one in the shape of a sole. Many of the shoe factories, inside and out. Date: C

From George Washington to the Engineer Corps of the United States Army. Lot of 14 postcards picturing the business of surveying. Date: Country (if

Lot of 13 pieces of telegram history. Three passes for telegraph use (1906, 1907). Postcards offering telegram messages; a lady telegraph messenger in

Lot of over 100 postcards concerning early telephone usage. About 60 humorous; switchboard operators, Alexander Graham Bell, Bell buildings around the

Lot of over 40 postcards of toys. Approx. 30 RPCs, one undivided back (c. 1905) advertising card, along with a few pieces of ephemera. Two cards fro

Advertising postcards from the typewriter makers of the day. Top companies include Smith Corona, Underwood, Oliver & Remington. An interesting c...

Lot of three. Each has a different Wells Fargo postmark. One is a hard-to-find VERY STRONG stamp, "Wells, Fargo & Co., Express, Columbia, C...

Addressed to George Wallace, James Deiring and (?). Stamped envelopes: U3 red, U13 pink, UU21 green. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Cali

$325 promissory note to R. A. Pearis from C. Cobillance & Co. July 18, 1850. For lots purchased in Marysville. Paid in full 1853. Filed 1856. A ...

1) Double circle with grid killer. Mostly personal, but mentions gold coin, chinaman working and girls can make $20 to $24 a week. 2) 1855. Track canc

PAID' stamp. Addressed to Miss Brush in Stockton. 3c U4 red stamp. Early. The area around Murphys (Calaveras County) was originally occupied by ...

Four original Wells Fargo Express, Shasta, Cal. package labels. Different sizes. Very good condition. The Wells Fargo building was built in 1905 at 16

Hundreds of covers with contents from Montana towns, c 1870s-1920, mostly 1880s-90s. Many with corner advertising. Business and personal contents, tho

This lot contains over 100 postal covers with letters of correspondence and invoices from Montana in the 1880's-1890's. Date: Countr...

Rare. No cancel. Reduced at left. John Day, a local surveyor, was the namesake of Dayton, Nevada. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Nevada City

1) 1850. Adams & C0. Marvelous vignette entitled Adams & Co.'s Express' and shows a modest building! 2) 1855 Has the more noted, ...

Unissued. 185-. "Connecting with Wells, Fargo & Co." Dateline Jacksonville, O.T. Black print on light blue paper. 4.25 x 10.5" C...

Lot of three red, white and blue postal covers with stamps all dated 1862. "Not A Star Must Fall" with an eagle preserving the American fl...

Three early postal covers with correspondence included. Vermont (1847); Ohio City (1854); Chicago (1856). Date: Country (if not USA): State: Ci

Montgomery and West Point Rail Road. Multiple remnants of 5/16 punches. HOWEVER, the RN-T4 and RN-P5 Imprinted Revenue Stamp more than makes up for th

Montgomery and West Point Rail Road. Multiple remnants of 5/16 punches. HOWEVER, the RN-T4 Imprinted Revenue Stamp more than makes up for the conditio

Construction of the railroad between Mobile and New Orleans was started by the New Orleans, Mobile & Chattanooga Railroad in 1869, and it was co...

1) Boston, Hartford and Erie Rail Road. Two RN-P5 and one RN-W2 revenue stamps. #8873. Coupons 51 to 65 attached. Train in station vignette. 2) Flint

The original envelope has separated front from back, but the official document (15 x 10 inches) is in wonderful folded condition. Signed by the compan

Elegant handwriting by John A. Morris to My Dear Wife and closing with "a kiss to you." Written from Fort Reno Washington D.C. 18 March 18...

1898 celluloid 51st Iowa Volunteers Company M welcome home badge. Company photograph. The reverse lists the battles in which the men fought. Of the 1,

"Still the Greatest Mother in the World" poster, professionally canvas backed. 31.5 x 21.5" excellent condition, "A. E. Foringer...

"Remember the Flag of Liberty- Support it!" Buy US Government Bonds/ 3rd Liberty Loan" . Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho, NY. &quo...

"Fight or Buy Bonds, Third Liberty Loan. Signed Howard Chandler Christy lower right. Forbes Litho. Choice and colorful WW1 Liberty Loan Bond po...

"Good Bye Dad, I'm off to fight for mold glory. You buy US Govt Bonds." "Third Liberty Loan. Signed Lawrence Harris, Sackett &...

Lot of two autographed photographs of World War Two heroes. Chester W. Nimitz (1885-1966), Admiral of the Fleet (4 x 5 inch photo on a 5 x 7 inch card

Clever, humorous caricature map of Fort Sill, 1931. "Map and history of the Military Reservation of Fort Sill, Oklahoma, now known as the Field...

A fair grouping of seventy World War I military postcards. Mostly color postcards that feature troops, tent camps, artillery, and motorcycles. One rea

Large lot of military postcards from the WW2 era. Many show soldiers, armored regimens, military bases, weapons, tanks, etc. Date: Country (if not

Over 120 military humor postcards from the WW2 era. Most are in cartoon style in color. An interesting and varied lot. Date: Country (if not USA):

Lot of approx. 65 color and B&W printed postcards depicting the US Navy's Great White Fleet, c. 1907 - 1910. 16 undivided back cards inclu...

Lot of 24 RPC postcards and 9 B&W photographs of the US Navy's Great White Fleet. c. 1908. One card features embossed color background of a...

Lot of 70 items. Postcard collection of battleships and submarines. Collection includes two undivided backs with approx. 15 RPCs and 20 prints of US

Thirty-one military real photo postcards. Includes a foldout postcard titled "Man--of--War Lingo." Contains a U.S. Mail-U.S. Army pouch fr...

Twenty-six real photo postcards of men in U.S. Army or Marine uniforms. Includes one card of a female in uniform. Early photo cards, many of which are

Forty-six postcards of men in U.S. Navy uniforms. Real photo postcards with some of the men on ships in various locations. Some are posed in groups an

Lot of three pieces of Lincoln ephemera: 1908 Republican National Convention ticket with vignette of Honest Abe; cabinet card of Lincoln and his famil

Red white and blue enameled pin Harrison / 1888. 46 mm long, 21 mm high. Benjamin Harrison ( 1833 ñ 1901) was an American lawyer and politici

To / Washington / Theo Roosevelt / 1904. Br., 38 x 45 mm. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Lot of over 30 political buttons covering most of the 20th century. Alf Landon, Hoover, Nixon/Lodge, George Wallace, Barry Goldwater, Al Gore, Jimmy H