Montana "Big Sky 2" Auction

April 23, 1885, type 2 cancel. Three of this type of early cancel listed in Shellen & Dunn (7 total). Light, but very good strike. City: Popla...

Octagon cancel with Maltese cross killer. Smudged, but strong. Post office open from 1879 to 1906. Only one manuscript territorial for this city liste

Seems to be a unique variety. The cork killer helps to confirm this. Corner advertising cover stamp of Frank Wells, General Merchandise, Radersburg, M

1) Very early 1876 type 1. 2-3) Type 3 octagons. One black and one purple. All are very strong strikes. City: Radersburg State: Montana Date: 1876

Sent to Holland. Nice strike. City: Rancher State: Montana Date: 1902 ID: 37056

Signed by A. H. Peck, postmaster. City: Red Bluff State: Montana Date: 1891 ID: 36760

Lot of five, all different. Every example in Shellen & Dunn (includes manuscript and postmaster cancel) and a statehood large oval on Peck corne...

Type 2. Six total listed in the Shellen & Dunn census. Light strike. From J. H. Conrad & Co., Bankers. City: Red Lodge State: Montana Da...

1) Type 2. 2) Also a Type 2? One had the year on top of the date and the other has the date on top of the year. Nice strikes! Both from J. H. Conrad...

Light strike. Blue double circle, February 15, 1882. From Amos Pordern(?). Six total in Shellen & Dunn. City: Salisbury State: Montana Date: ...

Post office opened from 1875 to 1883. This is the pictorial example used in Shellen & Dunn. Only five total in Shellen & Dunn census. City:...

This post office was only open from June 19, 1889 to October 12, 1892. None are listed in Shellen & Dunn. Although the cancel is used as the kil...

Beautiful green cover with "Return to" corner cover. Includes letter from James Hartman. Very light octagonal cancel. Trimmed at right. C...

Lot of seven. Two #3 octagons: 1877 and 1878. Perhaps two earliest Sheridan stamped cancels. 1880 Octagon on corner cover for Hyndman & Jobb, (?...

Lot of eight. 1) Pictorial Elling & Hyndman. This is a striking piece. Also R. F. Bateman general merchandise, Galbrait & Burleigh attorneys...

1) Type 7. To General Land Agent of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Form Timothy Riordan. 2) Type 8. From Baker & Gilberton. 3) Hand killed, but ...

Post office was open from 1888 to 1890. Strong 1889 strike with the year upside down. There were no reported Sifton cancels in Shellen & Dunn. ...

Post office opened in 1869. The date is difficult to tell (1870 or 1876), but by 1870 Silver Star was using a stamp. The earliest date in Shellen &a...

Lot of two. 1) 1882 manuscript cancel. Eighteen listed in Shellen & Dunn. 2) #2 cancel with target killer. Two in Shellen & Dunn census. Sto...

Traditional 1889, Type 3 cancel. Shellen & Dunn list 2. They list a total of 6 total. Nice strike! City: South Butte State: Montana Date: 188...

This is unusual in two ways. The cancel for South Butte is a received cancel and is an unlisted type in Shellen & Dunn. The killer is a negative...

Lot of two. 1) 1885 #2. One listed in Shellen & Dunn. Weak strike. 2) 1889 #3. "Please turn my money for Wittness Fun to F. E. Wright for ...

Post office only open from 1867 to 1883. City: Stering State: Montana Date: c1877 ID: 36567

Early (post office opened in 1877 and closed in 1893) cancel. Purple octagon. Strong strike. Great corner advertising for A. R. Keller, United States

1) Type one manuscript. Large corner cover for A. R. Keller, U. S. Indian Agent, Crow Agency, Mont. 2) Type 2 magenta octagon. 1881. 3) Type 3. c 1887

Post office open from 1904 to 1908. Very nice strike. Has a Washoe Copper Company corner advertisement. And if that weren't enough, back is stam...

#1 in Shellen & Dunn. Three in census (five total). City: Stuart State: Montana Date: 1885 ID: 36718

On a General Land Agent, Northern Pacific Railroad postal card. For Johnathon W Hammer and Evan Evans. Post office was open from 1882 to 1916. Three d

Lot of five. 1) #3 in Shellen & Dunn. Three listed in their census. Contains a letter identifying the date as April 1, 1877. This is the earlies...

Lot of four. 1) Type #4. Black. Star in Circle. 2) #4, Purple. 3) #7. Maltese Cross. 4) #10 Target. All are postal cards. City: Sun River State: Mon

Manuscript. Datelined on back 'Clearwater.' From Henry Blanchard, "...the Big Black Foot River has been so high that we could not safel...

Two 1880 blue and one 1881 magenta double ring, target cancel. Nice strikes. One 1883 Northern Pacific Railroad identified by note on back. "We...

Lot of three. Advertising covers include B. F. White, Forwarding & Commission merchant, Terminus U. & N. R, W'y. The Utah & Northern...

Four total listed in Shellen & Dunn. With a date of July 15, 1884 this is the earliest! Nice, clean strike. Note on back says Frank is working 6...

Lot of three. 1) Allen's Hotel in Thompson Falls. Weak strike. 2-3) Montana Fire & Pottery Clay Company. One cover has damage. City: Thomp...

Lot of three. 1) #1 in Shellen & Dunn. manuscript. Four in census. 2) #2 in Shellen & Dunn. Five in census. Double Circle. Corner advertisin...

Letter is about what is going on and datelined Cottonwood. Names names! Ten total listed in Shellen & Dunn. City: Toston State: Montana Date:...

Full page ad for the Clarence Hotel on the corner of Yates & Douglas. Hotel is actually in Victoria. Very weak Townsend cancel. Date can not be ...

Only one Trout Creek reported in Shellen & Dunn. Fancy cover addressed to Dr. Blake of Helena. City: Trout Creek State: Montana Date: ID: ...

One Type 2, 3, 4, and 5. One has a Merk & Eckstorm cc. One is used as a received on a registered letter with an additional 10c stamp. Final is a...

Lot of three: 1885 target, 1886 cork, and 1887 (?). Eight total in Shellen & Dunn census. City: Ubet State: Montana Date: 1885-87 ID: 36727

This is the example used in Shellen & Dunn and is the earliest non-manuscript. Very strong strike. From Robert Colwin. City: Ulida State: Mon...

Lot of two. One black and one magenta. Both blurry. Maltese cross killers. City: Ulida State: Montana Date: 1883 ID: 36816

Post office opened from 1880 to 1885. Magenta octagon ridged cancel. Nice strike. Stamp has been removed. Corner cover of George Steell, General Merch

Post office oped from 1921-1928. City: Underdahl State: Montana Date: 1923 ID: 36825

Both are type 3. City: Utica State: Montana Date: c1886 ID: 36728

This is the example used in Shellen & Dunn and the only manuscript listed. Earliest reported Utica cancel. There is also a light Fort Benton can...

Lot of five. 1-2) Two letters from JF Gilchrist of Valley Garden. In one he is defending the local sheep herders from "gossip" and in the ...

Each of the 14 cancels is different in some way. 1876 to 1886. One unusual postal card with slash killer, but no cancel. Back identifies it as Virgini

Advertisements from Elling, Buford and the Reverend E. G. Prout. City: Virginia City State: Montana Date: 1885-1888 ID: 36742