October 2017 Premier Auction

$1000 5% 30 year gold bond. Streetcar and buggies vignette. Signed by president. 14.75" x 10". #781. City: San Francisco St...

$1000 5% gold bond, signed by president. #2740. 14.75" x 10.25". City: State: New York Date: HWAC# 52629

No info found on this company in our library. $1000 5% gold bond. Signed by president Brennan, #374. 14.75" x 10.25". City: ...

$1000 5 year 5% gold bond. Street car vignette, #508. 14.5" x 10.25". City: State: New York Date: HWAC# 52623

$1000 gold bond. Signed by Vice President Conway. 14.75" x 10". #392. The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad (CH& D) was a rail...

Green $20 5% gold bond #3622, green $100 5% gold bond #50387. Signed by president Porter. 11.25" x 15". Plan was for a branch from Caney, ...

$500 5% 21 year gold bond. Signed by president Martin. 14.5" x 10". #87. City: State: Oklahoma Date: HWAC# ...

$1000, 3 bonds signed by president Davis. Train vignette. 14.25" x 10". Not listed in Cox. #92, 93, 94. City: State: Ore...

Two transportation token holders full of fare tokens. One from the Pittsburgh Railways Co. 1922; Philadelphia CRT. City: State: Pen

Brown $100 50 year gold bond, signed by president #C342. Two train vignette. Orange $1000 50 year gold bond #M805. Signed by president, two train vign

Dated 1870. Office of Jay Cooke & Co., Bankers and financial agents of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. Two letters requesting payment for sto...

$1000, thirty year 5% gold bond. Signed by president. Electric train vignette. 14.75" x 10.25". #183. City: State: Penns...

Philadelphia and Easton Railway Company $1000 5% 40 year bond, signed by president Rauschberger, #483 14.25" x 9.5". The Albany and Susqu...

$1000 4% 50 year gold bond. Signed by vice president. 14.5" x 10". Pretty train and miner vignettes. Unlisted in Cox. #4588. The Pittsburg...

3 letters from Mason,Cox and Smith, Bankers and Brokers, 1870. General Casement wishes to sell his bonds of Union & Titusville Railroad. 2 lett...

$1000 gold bond, #1687 signed by president Hayne. Not cancelled. Not listed in Cox. Name given to two proposed but never completed Pennsylvania railro

Rare. # 1323. $500 5% 30 year gold bond. 14.75" x 10". The Rapid City, Black Hills and Western Railroad (aka the Black Hills and Western R...

Scarce $1000 bond and #13! Steam train vignette. Signed by president strong. Chartered on February 28, 1901, for the purpose of building and operating

Rare $1000 6% 20 year bond. #1198. Signed by president Bigelow. Streetcar vignette. 15" x 10.25". History from utahrails.net: "Ogden ...

Scarce $100 6% gold bond. Train in a valley vignette. Signed by president, 14.5" x 9.5". Some folding on right edge. #1067. City:...

$1000 5% 30 year gold bond. 15.5" x 10.25". #829. The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad (aka W& OD), the successor to the bankrupt...

We were unable to find any info on this company in our library. Washington-Northern Railroad Company, Oregon-Washington Timber Company, Blazier Timber

Green $100 #1002, brown $500 #694, orange $1000 #227. We could not find any info on this company in our library. 5.5% 20 year gold bonds. Signed by pr

1881,10 pages and fold out map. 50 mile route from Montreal to Sorel. 8.5" x 5.5". City: State: zCanada Date: ...

A wooden nickle, a wooden Four Winds Historic Village, a handshake pin, a small brass railroad tack, Union Pacific aluminum token from 1939 Golden Gat

American Railway Express wood sign, 10.5" x 70". Fabulous condition. The Railway Express Agency (REA) was a national monopoly set up by th...

This is clearly marked 'UPRR.' It was used to move heavy rails. The wedge itself is 25 pounds (and may need extra shipping). Great railroad ...

Lot of nine. Two RPC's: Coronado Incline and Mt. Hood Skyway. Others include Mount Royal Incline in Montreal, Lower Station Manitou, Lookout Mou...

Rare location. Junction City was established when a few cabins were built in the 1850s at the mouth of Canyon Creek, it was originally called "...

Taylorsville was a mining camp in Indian Valley in Plumas County. sent from ED Hosselkus. Hosselkus was actually a farmer in Genesee. Taylorsville wou

Dateline Helena, Montana, Oct. 2nd, 1871. Letter to P.V. Jackson in Sterling, Montana. Writing is difficult to read. Letter has folds but is clean.

Addressed to Wells, Fargo & Co. office in New York. Written in pen upper left: "Bills of Lading Ramsey Trench Co." Came to us in a col...

Wells Fargo & Company 1877 letterhead. From the treasurer's office. To John Potter, Esq, Supt. Eureka, Nevada. Eureka is crossed out and Pi...

Officially unused, but was used to share a message. "Further instructions in relation to our Com #599. BD Washburn with JM Buffington." A ...

3 hardcover books. Wells Fargo Advancing the American Frontier by Hungerford, Wells Fargo An Illustrated History by Loomis, Via Western Express &am...

Used as a calculator. Felt & Tarrant MFG. Co. Copper appearing skin on machine, 15" x 9.5" x 4". Steel lid with W. F. & Co....

1) 6.25 x 2.25 Purchasing and Commission Business envelope. 2-3) Two note pads form the Purchasing and Commission Department. One has one page. One ha

This stage coach way-bill is from August 18, 1877 from Nevada City to North Bloomfield. Includes 1 spade for George Wehrung, 1 box for Ching Sing (Chi

September 9th magenta double circle. Two tape marks on reverse where ti was glued. John Bamber first advertised July 12, 1858 as the only authorized C

July 29, 1869 is written in pencil as is the sender W. D. Chiladson. The 1869 San Francisco Directory lists Henry & William Pierce were loan and...

Number 58 on page 54 may have been caused by Kid Murray (of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) who robbed a Globe Express Safe on the Colorado &...

Quite literally hundreds of hides and horns of animals that have been killed in northern Michigan. Interesting topic. Card in great shape. Copyright J

Union Express local short lived express company. Original way bill book with a fancy cover. Three pages are filled in and about 75 pages are blank. Pa

The very first number of this monthly publication dedicated to expressmen. Includes article on Transportation and the Chicago Convention, The Adventur

Blue print style Pony Express map. 24" x 48.5". There are several rear taped repairs of tears and a .75" hole. City: ...

5 maps in blueprint form of the Pony Express Trail from St. Joseph, MO to Sacramento, Ca. Has a short story of the Pony Express and shows the cross c

Two sided circular, 7 1/2 x 10 inches, listing offices of the Adams Express Company West of Pittsburgh. Far West for this circular meant Ohio and Illi

Pictorial horse drawn cargo wagon highlights this mint currency envelope from the 1860s. Seal circles on the back. 3 3/4 x 9 inches. The Merchants

About one hundred 1930's and 1940's first day covers. Please see photos online. City: State: Date: HWAC# 53517

About two hundred and forty 1950's first day covers. Please see photos online for examples. City: State: Date: HWA...

About one hundred and fifty 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's first day covers. Please see photos online for samples. City: Sta...

Lot of thirty-four. Mostly 1940's. Includes a 1947 5c Air Mail. Please see photos online. City: State: Date: HWAC#...

Lot of thirty-eight. Ten blocks. Nine have a sheet number. Many different and not common. A couple for first day covers from other events. Some warpi

Lot of thirty-three. Two commemorating Confederate soldiers, two Gettysburg (One block of four), Shiloh, Ticonderoga, Fort Sumter, naval aviation, wom

Lot of 19. Four panes, two multiple sets, one unofficial South Africa 1 1/2 cent 1949, etc. Please see online photos. City: State:

Lot of thirteen. Two unusual legal sized unofficial first day covers. Amazing unofficial Russian FDC of the 1975 Apollo Soyuz mission with an American

Lot of thirty-eight. Includes 1939 Golden Gate Station, 1938 Los Angeles County Fair,1947 USS Constitution, two 1936 unofficial Oregon centennial cove

8 covers of Arkansas to St. Louis U S Air Mail Route 107 City: State: Arkansas Date: 1951 HWAC# 52024

Eleven covers of the first Helicopter flights in the Los Angeles area. Service went to LAX from surrounding urban areas. City: Los Angeles

Los Angeles, New York, Boston flying post office demonstration flight covers. Mail sorted in route. Sixteen covers. City: Los Angeles S

Santa Rosa and Monrovia covers, both pictorial advertising cachets. City: Santa Rosa State: California Date: 1938 HWAC# 5

San Diego, Laguna Beach, an Visalia represented among these sixteen covers City: Southern California State: California Date:

Twenty eight covers, some from small towns like Salinas, Modesto, Monterey, Lancaster, Stockton. Large amounts from San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Seventy plus covers from east coast states all the way from Massachusetts to Florida, including New York city helicopter service City:

Three covers including PAA Clipper on Hawaii Clipper City: State: Hawaii Date: HWAC# 52003

Four covers from Louisiana, one from South Dakota, one from Tennessee, one from New Jersey, and one from Missouri. Air mail at the time was 6 cents.

Seven air mail envelopes for service out of Detroit. Stamp price went from 5 cents in 1926 to 7 cents in1959 City: Detroit State: Mic

Four U S Air Mail Route 86 covers from Minnesota City: State: Minnesota Date: 1952 HWAC# 52025

Twelve first flight covers from Nebraska. Cities like Omaha, Lincoln, and Columbus City: Omaha, Columbus State: Nebraska Date:

A dozen or so first flight covers from cities like Boulder City, Reno, Hawthorne, Ely, and Carson City.

Fifteen New Mexico and five Texas First Flight Covers City: State: New Mexico Date: HWAC# 52005

Three Ohio, five Illinois, and four Indiana first flight covers City: State: Northern Plains Date: HWAC# 52012

Five Oklahoma, six Kansas, two Arkansas, and five Missouri covers in thi Midwest section of America. City: State: Oklahoma Date:

United States Air Mail "First Flight" Covers. Fifteen covers from Virginia, Georgia, The Carolinas, Tennessee. Notable cities are Augusta ...

Five Alabama, one Mississippi, and four Louisiana first flight covers, ten total. City: State: Southern Date: HWAC# 520

Lone Star State first flight covers, eighteen in all. City: State: Texas Date: HWAC# 52016

United States Air Mail covers, four Virginia, one Kentucky, and two Tennessee. City: State: Virginia Date: HWAC# 52021

Two Montana, Three Arizona, Three Oregon, One Washington, and five Colorado First Flight Covers City: State: Western States Date

Five covers from the air ship USS Macon ZRS-4. Built in Akron, Ohio and stationed at Moffett Field, Mare Island, California was lost at sea off of Big

Eleven covers all with cancelled stamps from U S Navy ships. Ships of was like the New Mexico, Wyoming, Frigate Constitution, Shark, California, Aldeb

Lot of 12. Five S. S. United States covers of maiden voyage from New York to South Hampton. Christing or Launching covers of U S Navy ships, USS Smith

Four covers from returning war ships from WWII. USS Heron, USS Seagull, USS Cachalot, and one announcing "The fleet is home" City...

Lot of fifty-six. Forty different. All pictorial and most are in color. City: State: Date: c1944 HWAC# 52930

1) "Who says we can't defeat the so called super race in 1944?" Orange lightning strike. 2) "He is just another [photo of a hors...

Lot of three pictorial covers. 1) "Nazi Divisions! Ha! Ha! Russian Winters Too Cold. Now Too Hot here." 2) :The Japs are pretty good ball ...

Lot of five. Two with "Want me for our Pin-up Girl? One in color of a school girl sitting at a desk. Two say, "Yes Siree---The Yanks Again...

Lot of thirteen. Twelve are pictorial: American flag, army jeep, colored branches of service, colored Declaration of Independence, colored warships, c

Lot of forty-three. Almost all have identification of censor. Some have initials, but many have name and rank. Envelopes are in poor to good condition

Lot of twenty-seven. All with "Passed by Naval Censor" in a round stamp. All initialed. Envelopes are in poor to good condition. ...

1896 Tallac double ring. 'LLA' is lightly struck. Full cover advertising on back. Soldier's Home received on obverse. Nice looking piece...

Tahoe Tavern 1939 advertising cover. 'Truckee & Lk. Tahoe' cancel. Opened very roughly. The 16 mile rail line between Tahoe and Truckee ...

Cover from Mecca, CA lowest post office in US at 188 feet below sea level, and Climax, CO. highest post office in US at 11,320 ft. City: Me

Envelope from George H. Hilbert, Sheriff and Tax Collector of El Dorado County addressed to Mr. James Lodge of Siskiyou County. 6 x 3 1/2 inches. Po

1) Double circle postmark. Target killer. March 11th. Corner advertising for Mercantile Gazette of San Francisco. 2) Double circle with circle grid ca

Envelope (no letter) from Columbus, Mississippi to "Miss Hamilton, c/o Col. Hamilton, Laurel Hill plantation, West Feliciana, Louisiana". ...

Illustrated 1908 cover and letterhead for Charles Gulden Mustard addressed to S.R. Buford in Virginia City, Montana. Letter discusses an infringement

Lot of 13 covers, 10 with contents, for carriage and wagon companies. c.1890s-1910. All are addressed to Buford in Virginia City, Montana. Includes: t

Lot of ten covers with contents addressed to Buford in Virginia City, Montana. Includes: Griggs, Cooper & Co. (olive container pictorial, 1908);...

Lot of seven covers with contents, c.1890s to 1910. All addressed to Buford in Virginia City. Includes: Borden's Condensed Milk with great conte...

Lot of six covers with illustrated letterheads. c.1880s to 1910. All addressed to Buford in Virginia City, Montana. Includes: Jones-Paddock & Co...