Sizzling Summer Western Americana Auction (August 2021)

Lot of four: 1911 Packard Motor Cars Information manual, 128 pages; 1937 Packard Super-Eight operation and maintenance data, 58 pages; Owner's I...

Lot of brochures, postcards and advertising for Studebaker, Oldsmobile and DeSoto automobiles. Approximately 6 pieces. Date: Country (if not USA):

Five issues of the official 1948 Tucker Corporation Dealer publication "Tucker Topics." Also a brochure telling the story of the Tucker &#...

Indian Motorcycle personal record book. Red cover, 2 1/2 x 4 inches. Calendars for 1929 & 1930; picture page of Indian motorcycle racing champio...

Extra rare. Dateline. Tucson, Arizona, Dec. 15, 1885. First issue. "A bright sparkling stamp paper, written in a lively interesting style."...

Brown used 10ct. stamp from the "Virginia City Pony" running between Sacramento, California and Virginia City, Nevada beginning in 1862. S...

Lot of 2. 1) Unlisted Portland, Oregon check, RN-G, Ladd & Tilton, Bankers, 1880s. 2) Wells Fargo & Co., Bankers, Salt Lake City, check issu...

Only one 25 cent stamp made it onto a 1918 United States Government Thrift Card. The 1870 mortgage indenture has a rare $3 revenue stamp. Date: Cou

Lot of five documents dating in the 1860s, all with revenue stamps. Mortgage, warranty deeds, circuit court summons. Date: Country (if not USA):

Lot of 22 album pages with Irish stamps, 1922 and newer. Date: Country (if not USA): Ireland State: City: Provenance: Salvatore Falcone Colle

Group of about 30 advertising covers addressed to the George E. Lukens Company in Auburn Ca. The group includes a wide variety of commercial goods fro

60 or more covers, some with contents. All with advertising on addressed from Ge. Lukens of Auburn. Wide variety of businesses. The covers are raw, re

Several hundred covers with contents for orders to the GE Lukens company in Auburn Ca. This is part of an original group of correspondence with some g

A colorful postal cover from the "Cordova, The Wine of Quality." addressed to Mr. F. McGuigan of the Gold Rush town of Downieville, Califo...

Pictorial vignette return address from Visalia Stock Saddle Company, 2117 Market Street, San Francisco. Two stamps, registered postmark. 6 x 3 1/2 in

Lot of six envelopes: two rare California covers: Pico House, Los Angeles; Overland Stage via Los Angeles; Crater Lake Oregon pictorial; three sample

Group of about 80 covers (generally with contents) addressed to the G.E. Lukens company of Auburn. This is a nice collection of California motherlode

Lot of five pieces of postal history: Two covers from the USS Colorado in Japan September 2, 1945 (the Japanese surrender was around this date); Dedic

A cover from "Gold Coin Stoves & Ranges" from the Chicago Stove Works. Cover is hand stamp canceled. There is foxing and some rough ed...

Lot of 2. Both from Bushberg Vineyard & Orchard, Jefferson County, Missouri, office in St. Louis. One cent green stamps on yellow envelopes. Bot...

Lot of eleven aviation postal covers. 1931-1952. Inaugural flight of the 15 hour, 3 stop flight San Francisco to New York in 1937; 1947 experimental h

Six postal covers postmarked Los Angeles each with two 15 cent airmail stamps. Plus a real photo postcard of the Graf Zeppelin dwarfing the Goodyear b

Three postal covers via the airship "Hindenburg." One travelled from Friedrichshafen, Germany to Lakehurst New Jersey on the zeppelin, the...

May 11, 1936 is the postmark on this postal cover, the first flight of the Hindenburg. Two 20 cent stamps, postmarked Frankfurt and New York, N.Y.

Registered envelope air mailed by the Hindenburg from Europe to Fourth Avenue in New York City postmarked May 11, 1936. Two zeppelin stamps. The airs

Lot of five postal covers, including a rare Bankers & Merchants Telegraph of Philadelphia. Also a United States Express Company cover. Date: ...

Lot of 6 postcards featuring Nome, Alaska. Includes early and pioneer postcards. C 1898-1912. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Alaska City:

Lot of 3 postcards featuring trains passing through Alaska. C. early 1900s. Two Early postcards and one Summer Excursions book. Date: Country (if

Lot of approximately 11 postcards featuring various cities in Alaska. C 1905-1910, early postcards. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Alaska C

Approximately 100 cards. Lots of beautiful scenery all around Alaska including lakes, ocean views, snowy scenes (well it is Alaska after all), jets, b

Lot of approximately 20 RPC cards from small towns throughout Alaska includes: Chitna, Skagway, Unalaska, Hyder, Kodiak, Wrangell, Haines, and more. P

38 pieces in this group. Mostly from the Alaska Gold Rush period and many rpcs are included! This is a fantastic collection for the Alaska collector.

Copper Queen Smelter, Gadson Hotel, YMCS, EPSWD Depot, and a few street scenes of Douglas. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City: Dou

Lot of eleven postcards of Morenc. Includes 1 RPC Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City: Morenci Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

Mostly Phoenix with some Tempe also included. Mostly architectural scenes of buildings including churches, bridges, malls, hotels, and more. A great g

Rare four fold postcard of a panoramic photograph early 1900s of the Veteran's Hospital in Prescott, showing many buildings and Thumb Butte. Op...

A dozen cards from Prescott. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City: Prescott Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

Mostly more modern postcards with a few early ones. Depicting buildings and street scenes in Tucson. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona

Lot of eighteen postcards including Oatman, Kingman, Congress, Yuma, Ray, Swansea and others. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City:

Includes Tombstone, Warren, and Bisbee Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

Includes 14 from Globe and 3 from Miami with a couple of duplicates. See photo. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Arizona City: Provenance:

A great collection of Grand Canyon and southwestern scenes from all over. One of the best in the bunch is a Fred Harvey 1907 card showing the start of

About 50 or so postcards from all over Arizona. Lots of buildings and other scenes. No mining, Phoenix, or Tucson represented in this group - look for

About 100 cards. About 37 white border RPCs with some duplicates. About 25 vintage cards including some Wells Fargo receipts. The rest are modern. Da

Nice little quartet of B&W postcards from the High Sierra regions of Applegate and Cisco Grove, both located in Placer County. Two have been wr...

An incredible group of 50 RPC's and postcards from the Gold Country town of Auburn in Placer County. Both black and white and color cards, showi...

Nice grouping of RPC's from Auburn, Placer County, California. A few are written on, most are unused. Scenes shown are The North Fork Dam, the A...

Lot of about 160 postcards from Berkeley California. 16 black and white RPCs, 51 monotone, 20 color RPCs. Date: Country (if not USA): State: C

Lot of five black and white real photo postcards of Berkeley. Shattuck Avenue, Episcopal Church, Claremont Hotel; a Berkeley bungalow; and the devasta

4 Cards, 3 rpc, the best of which is a fantastic street scene of Big Pine dated 1925 Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City: Big Pi