Sizzling Summer Western Americana Auction (August 2021)

Early printed color card of Seaside Park at Bridgeport, Connecticut. Mailed "By German Airship LZ127 from Los Angeles to Lakehurst." Four ...

Lot of 13 real photo postcards of early aviation. "Daddy took this in 1911"; first flight of the DC 4; James Radley in his Bleriot; T.W.A....

Early aviation captured the public imagination, and these 3 B&W and 9 color, special-occasion postcards use an aviation theme in sending good wi...

Lot of three unused post cards issued by the Ford Motor Company to sell their Ford de luxe club plane. Elegant prose extolls the plane's virtue...

Ezra Meeker was is known as an American pioneer who travelled the Oregon Trail as a young man, and in his later years he sought to preserve the histor

Several photo postcards showing various shots of the Great Bambino, George Herman "Babe" Ruth. Most appear to come from a series called &q...

A small gathering of eleven (11) postcards with baseball themes. Included are a couple of novelty joke cards, Guinn Field and minor league park in San

This lot is a group of baseball about 30 postcards from C.1900s to 1970. See photo. Included in this lot is a special set of 9 RPCs of men dressed as

Includes a number of early RPCS of football teams and games, a group of humorous football cards, c1910 and a number of cards from the WWII era. Date

From various Olympics, particularly Los Angeles. Mostly printed cards. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Colle

90% vintage cards, many humorous. A great collection. Date: c1905-1910 Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

Lot of 8 boxing/wrestling postcards. Lot features 4 Jack Dempsey postcards and 2 RPCs. See photo for more detail. Date: Country (if not USA): Sta

Almost 100 cards almost all roller-skating vintage cards. More than 1/2 are humorous. Date: c1905-1910 Country (if not USA): State: City: Prov

About 300 plus postcards mostly featuring ice skating. A very historical collection. Date: c1905-1960 Country (if not USA): State: City: Pro

16 Vintage Cards, about 14 of which are early RPCs of men's and women's basketball teams. Date: ` Country (if not USA): State: City: ...

Lot of about 60 postcards of various sports such as: parachuting, Track, Fencing. Cricket, Table Tennis, etc. C 1920-1960. Includes about 5-7 RPCs.

About 36 cards in this group. Various scenes of boating, waterskiing, surfing, swimming, kayaking, windsailing, and even a clown on waterskies and log

Small collection of (18) postcards, including about nine (9) RPC's of bodybuilders, weightlifters and wrestlers. All are unused and ready to sen...

Tennis Anyone? Here is a six-inch stack of postcards with a variety of black & white, RPCs, color lithos, and illustrations all about tennis. Te...

Ballooning took off in the public imagination well before aeroplanes flew into the skies, and these 37 color, special occasion cards brought art and h

Balloon lofts always draw a crowd. The sight of a big bag of lighter-than-air gas floating off into the sky was a rare phenomenon to behold. Here are

This group of about 20 black & white and 40 color postcards celebrates the age of magnificent bank buildings that were built like temples with t...

Lot of over 25 vintage postcards concerning pool & billiards. Five excellent RPCs of poolroom interiors; men and women playing together, and Mar...

The Billiken figure is a short seated, monkey-like creature with a peculiar smile and a tuft of hair atop a pointy head. It was created as The God of

Lot of about 50 postcards of ships and boats. Including an RPC of the first oil tanker torpedoed in World War II by the Japanese: the S.S. Emidio, 20

Seven black & white and 8 color postcards showing various means of carrying the mail and the sometime-rough routes that had to be taken. Date: ...

About 50 cards mostly vintage. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

Lot of over 70 postcards featuring the home of America's breakfast cereals. Tony the Tiger and Kellogg's. C.W. Post, founder of Post Cereals...

Lot of six "Carte Postale" of various types of chastity belts. All unwritten to send to friends. Date: Country (if not USA): State: ...

Lot of 19 postcards with circus clowns, including the great Emmett Kelly as "Weary Willie." Date: Country (if not USA): State: City...

Over 80 postcards featuring acrobats, jugglers and freak show attractions from circuses and Ripley's Believe It Or Not Odditorium. Date: Coun...

Lot of 33 RPCs of circus giants, both men and women. They dubbed a 630 pound, 18 year old "Ima Waddler." Also a souvenir of Abomah, The Af...

Lot of 27 real photo postcards of circus midgets. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

Lot of over 70 postcards from "The Greatest Show on Earth," the Ringling Brothers/ Barnum & Bailey Circus. Clowns, lions, elephants, t...

Lot of twenty artistic cards of clowns and circus performers, acrobats. Mostly Tuck cards. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenan

Classic view of Connestoga wagons being pulled across grassy plains. No photographer or location identified. AZO stamp box, divided back. Not mailed.

Lot of over 60 postcards with cowboys and Indians as their subject. Charlie Russell art cards, RPCs of Lady Bronco busters, cowboys in action, Pawnee

Lot of five real photo postcards of cowboys and Indians.Sioux warriors parade, Belle Fourche, South Dakota; Custser's Last Stand, Chamberlain, S...

Over 140 vintage postcards celebrating Easter with a baby chick theme. Eggs and chicks are often associated with Easter because, in pagan times, they

Lot of over 120 Easter postcards celebrated by bunny rabbits. The first Easter bunny legends were documented in the 1500s. Rabbits usually give birt

12 count including very colorful cards, hand drawn cards and music related Easter Cards. All c1905-1910 Date: Country (if not USA): State: Cit

More than 150 Easter holiday cards c1905-1915. These cards generally do not have Easter bunnies or chicks, many have religious and other themes. Date

Lot of over 200 vintage Valentine's Day postcards. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

Lot of 45 vintage, early Halloween postcards. Very artistic. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

Eight-inch stack of color illustration postcards celebrating the New Year as far back as the early 1900s. Date: Country (if not USA): State: C

A nice collection of postcards celebrating various holidays like Christmas, Valentines Day, Easter and more. There are colorful embossed cards as well

Better than half of these are Thanksgiving postcards, but there are also Easter, Christmas, Valentines, and some other holidays represented as well.

There are 77 RPCs and 2 tinted black and white postcards in this crop of postcards depicting many aspects of farm life in the U.S. You'll find t...

Many advertising cards, farming scenes, harvesting equipment. Mostly vintage 1905-1915 Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

About 30 vintage postcards depicting ladies of fashion. One has a feather headress rising off the top of the card. One depicts "American Beauty...