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

Lot of 16 historical printed color postcards that were produced and sold at the springs. Each has an imprint and description in purple text on the rev

Lot of 3. 1) The only pioneer (Private Mailing) Napa Soda Springs card in the Prag Collection! Sent in 1904 to Iowa. Printed purple-tinted photo. One

Lot of 14 cards published by Ed. Mitchell of San Francisco. FH believes these are essentially the first postcards published for Napa Soda Springs. Sev

Lot of 23 postcards sold by Haas Stationery Co. in Napa, California (and published by multiple people). Some duplicate views. Includes 2 early pre-spl

Lot of 5 different postcards published by EC Hughes & Co., San Francisco. One mailed in 1914. Views include: The Rotunda, The Lower Drive (two d...

Lot of 25. These are cards from smaller publishers: Richard Behrendt; EE Cook & Co.; Cardinell-Vincent Co.; Newman; WL Griffiths; Jos. Levinson;...

Thirty-eight scenic postcards of Napa Soda Springs in Napa, California. Vintage general and rotunda views. The earliest card is postmarked in 1905 and

Lot of 33. Postcards, business cards, Ads. Nine have writing/postmarked: Nevada City, Chicago Park, CA, Grass Valley.. 1.2.and 3 cents cancelled

Lot of 13. Color, Some Divided backs. Eight have writing/postmarked : Lincoln, Nevada City. 10 Birdseye view of Nevada City.. Street level: Nat

Lot of 23. Vintage postcard, divided backs. Seventeen with writing/postmarked : Grass Valley, Nevada City. 1 cent cancelled stamps. Street Level v

Lot of 15. Includes Power Plant, Feather River, schools, residences, Court House, street scenes, and bridges. Date: Country (if not USA): State:

Lot of eleven. Includes Rock Crushing Plant, Odd Fellows Home, Feather River bridge,, Bird Street view, Oroville highway, swimming pool, Great Wester

Lot of five. Includes, Table Mountain, Odd Fellows Home, County Infirmary, and Bird's Eye View. One dup. Date: Country (if not USA): State...

Cards range from c1907 to more modern days. Roughly 80 postcards. Includes mining, railroad, bridges, levees, street scenes, etc. Includes a Strawberr

Lot of five. Two great RPCs: Large trestle Can photo and W. P. Station. Also Spring Garden with small freight train, locomotive exiting tunnel and wor

41 Real Photo Postcards of Oroville, California. Features a myriad of subjects: Street Scenes, Prato's Drug Store, Infirmary, Oroville Inn, chur...

Lot of 26 RPCs of Pasadena, CA;. One undivided back card postmarked 1907. 16 white border. Collection c. 1900s - 1910s. Scenes include Cal Tech, c

Lot of 24 postcards depicting Pasadena's New Year's Day Rose Parade. One undivided back card postmarked 1907. Ten white border RPCs c. 1911...

Lot of approx. 80 postcards highlighting the Pasadena, CA residence of beer magnate Adolphus Busch. All split backs. Approx. 20 RPCs, most white bor

Lot of 7 postcards of areal views of Pasadena, CA. One undivided back card postmarked 1907. Five RPCs, one white border. Postmarks date up to 1951.

Lot of 29 postcards depicting street scenes of Pasadena, CA from the early 20th century. Collection includes one Private Mailing Card postmarked 190

Lot of approx. 80 postcards of the Hotel Green, Pasadena, CA. Collection includes two Private Mailing Cards, dated 1900 & 1904; eleven undivide...

Lot of approx. 40 postcards showing exterior images of the former Hotel Raymond. Nine undivided backs postmarked 1905 - 1907. Rest color prints c. 1

Lot of over 120 postcards depicting Pasadena, CA from the early 20th century. One undivided back card postmarked 1906. Rest all split backs. All pr

26 postcards depicting Switzer Falls, Southern California's most well known waterfall hike. The trailhead heads into the Angelus National Forest...

Lot of over 70 postcards of South Pasadena's Cawston Ostrich Farm located in the Arroyo Seco Valley three miles north of Los Angeles. Collectio...

Lot of 3 different real photo postcards. 1) Goddess' Auto-Float Parade on Main St., Petaluma, July 4th, 1910. Wayne Foto. Not mailed. Great shot...

Lot of 4 early real photo postcards of Petaluma. Choice group. 1&2) Duplicate photo used showing busy Main Street with people on wagons. Photo b...

Lot of 10 rare cards. Nice early chromo-lithos and others including: extra rare fire department cards for No. 3 Hose Company (x2) (1909); business str

Lot of 31 postcards. Nice mix. Includes 5 real photo postcards (Silk Mills, Public Library (x3), and Hotel Petaluma); 19 early printed cards (divided

Lot of 16. Includes: 6 postcards incl. an 1888 card to San Diego Sheriff about man wanted by the police, an 1895 postal card, a RPPC of a church, a 19

Lot of 45 poultry-related Petaluma postcards. Includes about 15 real photo postcards. Views of ED Regan's Ranch, Joe Rice's Ranch, the hen t...

Lot of 39. Includes 15 real photo postcards. Views of: St. Vincents Church; High School; Washington School; Christian Science Church; Episcopal Church

Lot of 26 RPPCs. Sixteen are white border. Views include: New Hotel Petaluma; bird's-eye views; The Hill Theatre; Petaluma Co-Operative Creamery...

Lot of 12. RPCs, white borders. Five postmarked : Placerville, Hartford Conn., 1 and 2 cent stamps. Several. Main street scene cards of differen

Lot of 35. Color and B/W. Some white borders. Publishers : W.F. Fairchilds (his store is in several), Don Goodrich, S. Inch & Son, Geo. W. Po...

Lot of 31. White Borders, split-back & undivided. Publishers: W.E.> Fairchild, Atchison Foto, Frasher, H.B. Rood, Six postmarked 1914-51 ...

B/W , borderless Main St. Placerville CA. , horse drawn wagons, wooden walks. KARBO. Trademark on back. Date: Country (if not USA): State: C

Lot of 2. B/W, borderless RPCs. Possibly 1890-1905. Both of these would be considered choice. 1. Main St. Placerville long view. Photographer BECK

Nine Point Arena, California postcards. Includes a nice real photo card overlooking the town. Contains a mixture of ocean and town views. Two cards po

Lot of over 40 white border RPCs of Red Bluff, CA located in the Upper Sacramento River Valley south of Redding. c. 1930s - 1940s. Combination of pi

Four early Redding, California postcards. Two blue sepia chrome cards c. 1908. Two good old real photo cards of West Side Public School and the S.E. R

About seventy general postcards of Redding, California. Located in Shasta County, California, and known as the "Trails Capital of California,&q...

Lot of 17. Four of the lot are Post Marked and cancelled, from 19 13-1930. three have 1 cent stamps. one stamped World's Pan Pacific Expo 1915...

Lot of 44. RPC's of the pier and aerial views of the city in the 1960's. Seven are postmarked (1906-66)w/cancelled stamps (1,3,4 cents), o...

Lot of 60+. Mix of color and B/W. 33 have writing and are postmarked w/1 cent stamps.. Color and B/W of Steamer Santa Rosa @ wharf. Sailing squa

The Russian River resort town of Rio Nido was formerly called Eaglesnest. This lot is over 40 vintage postcards of the resort dating back to the early

Lot of 28. Pioneer and pre-split back era, CBS. Five have writing/postmarked w/cancelled stamps: Riverside, San Bernardino, Amsterdam NY,. All gr

Lot of 24. White border, one borderless. One postmarked Riverside , 1 cent stamp, commenting on amateur photography. Street level ; Pontifical Cou

Lot of 150+. Color and B/W Twenty Five writing /postmarked: Riverside, L.A.., Pomona, Long Beach, El Verano, San Diego, San Jose, San Bernardino.

Lot of over 60 postcards from the Arrowhead Hot Springs Hotel in the San Bernardino mountains. Includes pioneer cards. Established in the 1860s, the h

Lot of over 50 real photo postcards of the ruins of San Francisco and the survivors of the 1906 earthquake and fire. Many different publishers. Date:

Lot of over 50 postcards depicting Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. c. 1907 to modern era. One RPC, one oval frame photo, most are chrome l

Lot of over 75 vintage post cards depicting Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Before it was a federal penitentiary, it was a U.S. Military Prison.

Lot of 23 postcards of Alcatraz Island (San Francisco Bay, CA). Included is one Private Mailing Card (no postmark), 11 undivided back cards (postmark

Lot of over 50 postcards of the world famous San Francisco cable cars. Also cable car passes, tickets and photographs. Some trolly cars as well. Cable

A collection of 16 picture postcards featuring breweries in California. Breweries included in the card set include Gold Label Beer, El Dorado Brewing

Lot of about 150 vintage postcards from the San Francisco ocean view attractions. Including the September 7, 1907 burning of the Cliff House. Ocean Be

We haven't had these before. Lot of six 1911 postcards from the San Francisco company of Goldberg, Bowen & Co. merchants in Finest cigars, w...

Lot of over 75 vintage postcards from the Panama Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco in 1915. Palace of Fine Arts, Arch of the Risi

Over 20 real photo postcards of Playland at the Beach, on Ocean Beach and the Great Highway. Also many game tickets and matchbook covers. Date: Cou

Lot of over 25 postcards from San Francisco's Portola Festival of 1909. In 1909, three years after the devastating earthquake, San Francisco wa...

Lot of over 80 vintage postcards from restaurants in the City By The Bay. Lots of Fisherman's Wharf, Bernstein's Fish Grotto, Cafe Shanghai ...

Lot of over 75 postcards of the San Francisco Presidio and military troops stationed there from the early 1900s through World War Two. Date: Countr

Lot of over 40 postcards of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges of San Francisco. Many of the construction periods in the 1930s, some modern color. Epheme

Lot of 100. Twenty One have writing/postmarked: San Gabriel, L.A., Pasadena, S.F., Modesto, Hollywood. One cent stamps cancelled. Ground view: eve

Lot of over 60 vintage postcards from San Gabriel California. Ramona's Home, Masonic Home, Mission San Gabriel, street scenes. Date: Country ...

A nice grouping of eight real photo postcards of the San Gabriel Mountains and Canyons of northern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino Count

A large grouping of sixty-two Huntington Library in San Marino, California postcards. There are several assorted color photo cards, including five lin

Lot of 12. B/W and color. Some with white borders, and some do not have protective covers. Nine with writing /postmarked : Long Beach, San Pedro, L.

Lot of 50. Chrome-Litho, early pre-split back and split back. Seventeen writing/postmarked : L.A. , Long Beach, S.F., San Pedro, East San Pedro,

Lot of 18. Mix of split back, white border and borderless. RPCs. Two writing/postmarked : San Pedro, 1 and 3 cent cancelled stamps. Thirteen bird

Lot of 30. Color, some pre-split back. One light house RPC, white border.. Fourteen writing/postmarked: San Pedro, L.A., Long Beach, S.F., Hollywood,

Lot of 70. Color, B/W some with borders, some RPCs. 1. Thirteen B/W photos of Submarine Cable being taken up cable boats, dockside. 2. Carrillo

Lot of 4. One white border postmarked San Pedro, two 1 cent stamps, San Pedro Ferry. , Distant View of Pr Firmin (cliffs), Two ships: side view se

Lot of 11. RPCs, Some Divided backs. Three have writing/postmarked: San Pedro, Terminal Island, West Warwick, East Greenwich. Aerial view : Carril

Lot of over 50 vintage post cards from Santa Ana, Orange County. Street scenes, Hewes Park, Court House, Saint Ann's Catholic Church. Date: ...

28 photo cards, mostly of the Baldwin Ranch at Santa Anita, near Pasadena, California. Most of the cards are color postcards, but all were produced be

This is a great set of color Pioneer postcards (pre split-back) produced between 1900 and 1905. Many of the cards were postally used and mailed betwee

Lot of four folding postcards circa 1906. Road map of Sonoma compliments of the Occidental Hotel (which would be destroyed April 18, 1906 by earthquak

Lot of eleven greeting cards from Santa Rosa circa 1900-12. Merrie Christmas, Happy New Year, etc. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Californi

Nine early postcards, circa 1900-1906 show Luther Burbank and his home and California poppy fields. These are pre split back postcards. Some duplicati

Includes real photo postcards of the Burbank Gardens, the Luther Burbank school, his home, and the Cedar of Lebanon where he was buried. Also a nice v

Lot of over 35 postcards, storecards and ephemera from Santa Rosa California. Picture postcard of the Greyhound Bus Station. Date: Country (if not

Rare collection. San Francisco was not the only city destroyed by the earthquake of April, 1906. This lot of over 20 real photo postcards document the

Includes the Pythian Home (Knights of Pythias) -4 diff. views, the Odd Fellows Bldg. (4) with duplication and Cedar of Lebanon, Santa Rosa. Cards in n

Lot of over 30 postcards of Santa Rosa before they split the back to write messages. Most produced by Edward H. Mitchell but also W. S. Hosmer of Sant

Lot of over 50 real photo postcards from the Sonoma County city of Santa Rosa. Court house, City Hall, Municipal Airport, Santa Rosa Avenue Bridge. Po

Lot of over 20 vintage postcards from the annual Santa Rosa Rose Carnival. Horse drawn floats, and portraits of The Festival Queens: Queen Geraldine (

Sixteen real photo postcards showing street scenes in Santa Rosa. Includes views of McDonald Avenue, 4th Street and the Redwood Highway. Also, two car

Lot of over 60 vintage postcards from the Sonoma County town of Santa Rosa. Chromo litho cards of buildings, street scenes, circa 1906-1910. Luther B

Nice collection of real photo postcards photographed by Frank Patterson. Photos include On Mt. St. Helena near Calistoga, Luther Burbank Gardens in Sa

Three rare real photo postcards show the railroad tracks along the Eel River at Scotia. This was the route for the Northwest Pacific Railroad. This ro

Lot of 15 real photo postcards from different years of the Sebastopol Apple Shows. Included: 1911 (1), 1912 (6 different), 1913 (2 different), 1914 (f

Lot of 3 different early real photo postcards. 1) Street view mailed 1907. 2) Congregational Church. Not mailed. 3) Bird's-eye view of Central S...

Lot of 39 postcards plus 4 pieces of ephemera. No real photo postcards. A mix of early printed and modern. Some duplication. Includes some nice color

Lot of 18 real photo postcards of Sebastopol. Eleven are white border. Views include: Catholic church; high school; Main St.; Ives Memorial Park; Twin

A nice variety of thirty-one postcards in Seigler Springs, Lake County, California. Cards feature a swimming pond, cottages, iron baths, arsenic sprin

Four old Shasta, California postcards. Black and white real photo cards. Home of Major Reading built in 1847, Shasta County 1851. Includes one real ph

Forty-five postcards of Shasta, California. A nice mixture of color and real photo cards. Scenic views of Mt. Shasta. Snowy views of Mt. Shasta are pa