"Raise a Glass to Yesteryear" 2023 August Auction

US First Day Cover collection, about 300-500 covers in 3 albums. c. 1930-80's. A few UN, Canada. Lots of cacheted covers. 14.8 lbs.

About 1250 cut out Massachusetts post marks and about 360 Connecticut cut out postmarks, all adhered to pages. c. 1945-47. Includes separate index pag

About 2300 Kentucky postmarks cut out and adhered to sheets. c. 1949. Separate index pages. Kentucky

About 798 cut out Maine postmarks adhered to sheets. c. 1946-47. Includes separate index sheets. Maine

About 1175 Michigan cut out postmarks adhered to pages. c. 1946-47. Includes separate index pages. Michigan

About 1100 cut out postmarks from various Minnesota towns adhered to papers in this collection group. c. 1947. Minnesota

About 2400 cut out New York postmarks adhered to pages. Separate index pages. c. 1945-46. New York

AMERICAN RAILWAY/ */ EXPRESS CO./*/ EXPRESS CO./ DARROUZETT, TEX. round, brass receiving hand stamp with black, wood handle. 1 1/8" diameter ...

Relatively new book giving the postal history of the Pony Express. Written by Richard C./ Frajola, George J. Kramer & Steven C. Walske, this boo...

Canvas and leather lockin mail or assay bag, mint condition. 21x14".

Issued by the U.S. Postal Service, a framed tribute to the bicentennial of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Features portraits of both men, a map o...

Cast iron RWY strong box measuring 14"x 20"x 13". It is unlocked and dates from 1900-1915Has red railway express markings that appear...

Large railway express strong box made from sheet and cast iron and measures 16" x 16"x 26". This one is locked and we have no key, W...

4 Yuba and Butte County covers. 1881 and 1896 Brownsville, 1 no contents another with contents, no stamp. 1887 Moore's Station, no stamp, with c...

9 Gibsonville, Sierra County, covers c. 1855-1910. Includes Wells Fargo, Chinese corner advertising, 2 Pilot Peak Lodge with contents, Western Hotel

13 Laporte, CA postmarked mostly covers and a few postcards, c. 1899-19157. 11 covers, many with contents, 2 addressed to Lizzie Brabban, a descendent

Group of four covers from La Porte CA. with stamps. Included are covers with Two cent black Jackson, an 1868 10 cent, Washington green, 1890 one ce

5 LaPorte, CA covers, c. 1871-79. Williams left out the post 1865 cancellations in his book. This group has 2 full octagonal and 1 manuscript cancel.

A nice mix of LaPorte postal history. 4 corner advertising covers c. 1901-08 plus 14 covers, some with contents, and a few postcards, all addressed to

3 c. 1870's Wells Fargo covers with LaPorte, CA postmarks. 1 with sealed contents, another with contents tells of terrible times in LaPorte &quo...

c. 1863-65 Wheeler, Rutherford & Co's Express cover. Laporte cancel. Blue Maltese Cross hand stamp on lower left, perhaps a collector's ...

Rare 1867 cover with W K Hudson, Marysville and blue oval Marysville May,1867 cancels. Pictorial letterhead with lumber vignette from Union Lumber Com

4 Whiting & Co's Feather River Express covers. 1857-68, embossed 3 cents, verso stain. 1882 embossed 3 cents with top tear. 1 marked in penc...

2 covers and a postcard with Scales, CA postmarks. Cites are from John Williams book. SIE-1490, predates Williams example by 2 years, 1882 v. 1884 in

3 rare covers and a postcard from St.Louis, CA. 1908 postcard. 3 covers 1867-68 with contents. "St. Louis was one of the earliest mining towns ...

4 Table Rock, aka Howland Flat, in Sierra County covers from a former mining area to LaPorte, CA. c. 1857-1922, includes early large circle cancel. 4

7 Table Rock, Sierra County, CA covers with several different cancels including SIE-1770. 6 covers, some with contents, and one postcard. 1 with corne

8 Mother Lode covers. 1887 and illegible date imprinted Wells Fargo with contents, 1918 YMCA to Quincy, 1927 Oroville, 1938 to Plymouth-no stamps, 194

Cover postmarked Leavenworth City, K. T, Aug 24, year illegible. Opened via rear flap, no side tears, nice writing. Kansas

6 air race covers from the special Stinemetts collection, all 1933 with various color cancels and several hand applied airplane illustrations. A few h

8 handmade cachet covers by Henry Stinemetts, c. 1930's. 7 different USS Macon, 1x USS Akron.

About 65 c. 1949-51 small covers, some cacheted, some marked First Day. Collection of 200 or more cut out cancels from assorted US Post Offices includ

17 special hand made cachet covers by Henry Stinemetts with mostly East Coast cancels, some US Navy. c. 1930's.

10 fantastic original watercolor cachet covers, c. 1936-48 by Miss Lavina May Mingos, St. Louis, MO., mostly to Henry Stinemetts. Cowgirl with horse,

This postal cover hand written by Genl. William Tecumseh Sherman to his eight year old son Master William T. Sherman Jr. just prior to his ninth birth

8 nice special Christmas covers by Henry Stinemetts with hand made cachets, c. 1930's. Various stamps.

About 25 tobacco covers to SR Buford, some with corner advertising, some with contents and price lists, c. 1891-1905. Blackwell's Durham Tobacco...

17 unusual Henry Stinemetts hand made c.c 1930's cachet covers. Bourbon, United Nations, Will Rogers, Hawaii, patriotic etc.

37 all unique hand made cachet US Naval covers by Henry Stinemetts, all with US Fleet cancels including USS Arizona, 1932 First Day of Olympics etc.,

Mexico 1865 lettersheet to Real del Monte franked with Eagle 2r (S.L. Potosi 208-1865, suboffice 10, four margins) tied by sharp Salinas del Penon Bla

Netherlands 1858 lettersheet to Amsterdam franked with 1852 10c (#2, striking top margin copy, just touching at right, otherwise huge margins showing

About 45 foreign covers, some philatelic related, a few cachets. Japan, Australia, Kuwait, New Zealand, Fiji, Saudi Arabia etc.

Collection of Donner Lake ephemera including eight postcards, a brochure, and a photograph. Postcards include real photo, linen style, and modern chro

Lot of 6. One embossed greeting card for Dunsmuir, all pre-split back post cards. One folding and three distant view of Dunsmuir (wht. border). O

Lot of 36. Postmarks: Red Bluff, Dunsmuir, Martinez . Street Level view ; RR turn table, Shasta Springs Fountain, Lodge, downtown street scene dif

Lot of 1. Borderless RPPC, postmark Genesee 1916. Located near Taylorsville andFormerly Geneseo named after places in New York , Post office operate

Lot of 35. Includes 30 postcards and 5 postcard-sized photos. 1) Twenty-four real photo postcards. All appear to be different! Views include: snow str

lot of 63. Seventeen RPPC's. Some Amber cards, wht. borders and borderless and framed. Postmarks ; Gridley, Tulare, Port & Dan Fran R.P.O...

Lot of 49. Color, mostly borderless souvenir cards. Some ad cards : Canfield's Big Rock Cafe,Las Flores Inn, The Point and Union Oil Co. Post...

Lot of 29. RPPC's, wht borders, B/W. Postmarks : Los Angels, Salinas, U.S. Navy, San Luis Obispo, Malibu, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Pacific...