Sizzling Summer Western Americana Auction (August 2021)

Lot of seven real photo postcards from various towns in Oregon. Includes Burns, Bend, Coquille, Phillomath, London, Springfield, and another will ille

Includes several RPCs. General scenery and other views of Oregon. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Oregon City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collec

Lot of two postcards, one from Grubbe & McKay General Merchandise in Wilbur Oregon, the other is W.H. Staats & Co General Merchandise with a...

Lot of three different street scenes of Chamberlain South Dakota. RPCs, unwritten. Date: Country (if not USA): State: South Dakota City: Chambe

Lot of 16 postcards of Deadwood South Dakota. Three RPCs, street scenes, Franklin Hotel, bird's eye views. Date: Country (if not USA): Stat...

Lot of two unused split back postcards depicting stage coach scenes in Deadwood, South Dakota, 1876. One is a fully loaded coach with a team of four;

RPPC of "Deadwood Dick" by Black Hills Studios, Inc. He's wearing a hat with a "Days of 76" band. This is Richard Clarke, fr...

Lot of 53 postcards from the famed Corn Palace of Mitchell South Dakota. Eight years before the turn of the 20th century -1892- when Mitchell, South

Lot of 24 postcards, mostly RPCs, mostly 1920s. Needles Eye, tunnels, cliffs, roads, Lone Sentinel, etc. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Sout

Lot of 15 postcards of South Dakota street scenes, mostly RPCs. Towns include: Lemmon, Bryant, Dumont, White Rock, Menno, Elkton, Ramona, Miacano, Can

Lot of 50 postcards of Mount Rushmore. Mostly black and white real photo cards, including workers on the face of the rock and artist Gutzon Borglum.

Lot of 28 vintage postcards from South Dakota. Brookings (3); Platte (5); Mitchell (9); Custer (4); Pierre (6). Date: Country (if not USA): Stat

About 80-100 cards from South Dakota includes: Spearfish 1877; Tyndall 1914; BlackHills; Bryant; Mundo; Deadwood; Chamerlain; Pierre; and many others

Lot of 53 street scene postcards from South Dakota. Canistota (10); Bowdle (6); Hot Springs (10); Lemmon; Edgeley; Kimball; Arlington; Jamestown; Wes

Lot of 29 RPCs of South Dakota street scenes. Huron, freeman, Winner, Canton, Murdo, Madison, Hankinson, Oldham, Mt. Vernon, Watertown, Dallas, Chambe

50 or more from the Ogden area c1905-1912. About 5 rpcs. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Utah City: Ogden Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

Lot of about 60 postcards from the Great Salt Lake. Six have bags of salt attached (four of them postmarked! They made it through the mail!). Others o

Wide selection of cards circa 1905-1960 regarding Brigham Young, The Lion House, Tabernacle, and Church. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Ut

Lot of three cards from the Saltair Beach Bathing Resort, twenty minutes from Salt Lake City on the Great Salt Lake. Hippodrome and Ship Restaurant,

Collection of 25 color postcards showing sites in the state of Washington, including several shots of fishing on the Columbia River. Some are used, so

Lot of 56 novelty , advertising and cartoon postcards from the early to mid-1900's. Several beer ads, along with saloon and travel souvenir po...

Early printed photograph of the Irma Hotel in Cody, Wyoming, with a bucking bronco at center and stagecoach at far left. Possibly from Buffalo Bill&...

Lot of 2. 1) "'Hog Tying' a Buffalo, Cody, Wyo." Photo by FJ Hiscock, Cody. Divided back, not mailed. 2) "Chiefs Color Bear a...

A three-inch stack of postcards featuring Yellowstone -- a crown jewel of America's National Park System. There are bears and buffalo, geysers a...

Lot of three items: 1) 1927 souvenir folder of Yellowstone Park post cards by J. E. Haynes; 2) original carton of 50 Yellowstone Park postcards in ful

About 100 cards c1905-1960. No vintage RPCs in this group. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Wyoming City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

About 20 rpcs from Wyoming c1910-40. Wide variety. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Wyoming City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

RPPC of couple in rustic costumes (possibly actors) with dog. Text on front and reverse in Russian. Mailed 1913 to Washington DC. Ten cent 1908 Russia

Across the board from c1910-1970, many advertising cards for distilleries, breweries, etc. A nice collection. Date: Country (if not USA): State

Postmarked 1945 in Long Beach California, this unattributed drawing of Alfred E. Neuman predates Mad Magazine by nine years. The character's dis...

These 27 postcards have been intricately embroidered with brightly colored thread, and some have paper frame-like borders. Many appear to be handmade

Lot of over 60 postcards featuring amusement parks that are not Disneyland. Mostly Coney Island and Atlantic City boardwalk. But many vintage scenes:

54 cards by Sayer, Le Chien Fidele, Scribner & Sons, Asti Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

A four-inch stack of about 200 postcards -- RPCs, black & white printed, color printed, modern color, and illustrations featuring cars and truck...

Lot of five fabulous black and white real photo postcards. Early 1900s. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collec

Group of seventeen real photo postcards in black and white of automobiles. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Col

Two black and white postcards of two different airshows, one in Los Angeles dated February 7, 1910, and the other in San Francisco, dated January 9, 1

Johns-Byrne Company of Chicago published a Collectors Series of aviation art by Roy Anderson in 1973 and 1974. This art was promoted with these full-c

Real photo postcard of the crew and the Lockheed Monoplace he flew around the world in three days in 1938. Photographed at Floyd Bennett Field, New Yo

The second decade of the 20th century saw the rise of brave souls in flimsy contraptions who took to the air and changed humanity's relationship...

Three postcards from 1910 featuring aviation pioneers Charles K. Hamilton and Glenn Curtiss: Hamilton Ready for Flight in Curtiss Biplane; Glenn Curti

Among the earliest airplane pilots who demonstrated the wonders of aviation were French aviator Louis Paulhan, and Americans Charles K. Hamilton (&q...

French pilot Louis Paulhan was a frequent participant in airshows in the US and Europe. At the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Fi

Art Smith was an American aviator who became a noted stunt pilot, sometimes flying with flares at night. He flew at the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition af

Hubert Latham was a French airplane pilot who made the first attempts to cross the English Channel in an airplane. Being unsuccessful in both attempts

Charles F. Willard was an American aviator and engineer who took to flying as a stunt pilot and ushered in the age of barnstorming. This postcard show

Douglas Corrigan was an American aviator and aircraft mechanic who became famous for an unapproved flight from New York to Ireland in 1938. He had alr

No series of Aviation Pioneers would be complete without an entry for Wilbur and Orville Wright. Here are 4 black & white and 15 color postcards...

Many pioneer aviators were instrumental in establishing government and private airfields across the United States, and these 3 B&W and 10 color ...

The earliest airplanes use by aviation pioneers were fragile contraptions that could be broken in a light breeze. Looking at them today, it can be a s

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...