The Wild West Auction (July 2022)

Lot of over 280 post cards used as birthday/holiday greetings or greeting cards from vacationers visiting faraway places in the US (Mushroom Park, CO

Lot of 48 vintage Valentine cards including 24 split-back post cards and 2 mechanical cards. Collection also includes 4 vintage Christmas holiday pos

Lot of 44. Includes: 11 real photo postcards (Santa Anita Race Track, Miami Jockey Club, Hollywood Turf Club, etc.); 27 other postcards (chrome and li

Lot of 37. All but two are RPPC. Includes: Springfield Water Supply Co. of Philadelphia; Smithville Horse Show; Sattley, California; cream wagon; Brow

Lot of 19. All but one are RPPCs. Identified views include: Arbuckle, California; Conway, Washington; San Clemente Ranch, Del Monte, CA; Nebraska; Arc

Lot of three vintage real photo postcards of firemen and their horse drawn wagons. Battle Creek, Michigan, Rochester New York and Bisbee Arizona. Da

Lot of about 25 vintage humorous postcards involving police. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Ken Prag Collection

A collection of 25 postcards, picturing various early (1930's) cartoon scenes of Walt Disney's best friend, Mickey Mouse and his main squeez...

Lot of 8 different. Includes: B-Line Cabin Camp, Blair, Nebraska; Home Oil Co., Hiawatha, Kansas; Ashland Motor Co., Ashland, Nebraska; Sunoco station

Matson in the Chalmers 30 winning the Massapequa Sweepstakes in record time. 2 open top car postcards. 2 convertible RPC's. Date: Country (i...

Group of approximately nine (9) postcards showing touring cars and buses for areas such as Yellowstone National Park, Denver and other locales. All ar

Lot of 42 including a handful of RPPC. This is a historic group! All feature illustrations or staged photos that are mocking Hitler. All are divided b

About 40 Western postcards. Better than usual group with Fred Harvey, Catalina, Needles. A few RPC's and some unusual SoCal views. Date: Coun...

Lot of 76. Color art work, embossed images, non split back and split back.information cards, several are Wildlife series w/imprinted logo and

This is a curious group of 27 pieces, including postcards, ad cards and tickets to circuses and sideshow that were once a major part of the American e

Lot of 25 RPPC featuring children with antique teddy bears. Four are hand-colored. Mailed pieces are 1908-1915. Bonus items are 3 vintage photos of pe

A plethora of black & white as well as color postcards showing America's passion of trailer travel in the post-war (WWII) years. Cards show ...

15 vintage ham radio QSO cards from c. 1936. 1 on red wood like paper. 1 RPC with gear. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

29 Us and foreign postcards. Children, castle, Saint Gilles, Walchern, some non pictorial, and more. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City:

Lot of 60. General group of African postcards including 20+ real photo postcards. Nearly all are early divided back. No linen or pioneer. Few scenic c

Lot of 22. RPC’s, wht borders and color. Six postmarked : Banff Hotel, Chicago. 1-4 cent stamps. One 2 cent Fathers of Confederation

Lot of 55. Some RPC’s, wht. Borders. Three imprinted Souvenir Post Card Two groups : one Banff RR cards designation , two both RR and NonR

Lot of 25. Collection of RPC, wht border of Chateau Lake Louise, AKA as CPR Hotel.. Three postmarked : Chateau Lake Louise, Banff, 1, 3 cent stamps

Lot of 27. Includes 5 undivided back; 4 real photo; and an unusual fan view card. Views include: King Edward Hotel; Traders' Bank of Canada; sod...

Lot of 82. Split-back and undivided, Some wht. borders, RPC’s, Two Private Post Cards. Publishers: V & Sons Post Card imprinted logo....

Lot of 51. Mostly Color. Some RPC’s and wht. Borders Two Tuck’s Post Cards. Three Fan View Cards (slide open to make a fan w/pic

Lot of 100+ Italian postcards including 5 real photo postcards, 44 undivided back cards, and an 1899 pictorial card. Please inspect. Date: Country

Lot of 19 postcards. Includes 12 real photo postcards. WWI and WWII-era views include: Bilibid Prison; Fort Santiago; Army club at Camp McKinley; tops

Arizona Postal History Lot of thirteen. 1) Chino manuscript 11/30. Three one cent Franklins. 2) Central Illinois Mining and Reduction Company cc. Wilc

A very rare Independence, California Wells Fargo & Co. postal cover. Earliest known Independence Wells Fargo cover. Missing bottom right corrner...

Lot of 3 different. 1) Corner ad cover for DW Lubeck, Auburn, sent to Placerville. Rare 1887 Tahoe Cal. cancel. Reverse has Placerville and Truckee ca

2 Wells Fargo & Co. covers envelopes stamped Hornitas. The flap is missing on one. Located in Mariposa County, California & incorporated in ...

A Piru, California "entire" envelope cover. See reverse side cancel. Oval appears to be Group 10 of Lectinger but not listed. Ventura Coun...

Piute, California corner advertising cover. "Entire," 2 cent rate, rare usuage of 2 different cancellations, one on top of the other. A Pi...

Very strong San Diego oval cancel. Addressed to BG Hostell(?) of Denver. Two cent Washington entire. Reduced slightly at right. Date: 1887 Country

St. Helena Double Rate 6 cent with a 3 vertical bar cancel in red. St. Helena double ring red addressed to London from St. Helena. Red Chicago through

About 50 covers with letter, and postcards. Postmarks include Andrade, Yucca, Valentine, Nelson AZ. Postcards feature women's themes, Catalina, ...

About 400 Registered Mail packages that came thru North Bloomfield and Clipper Gap, CA, c. 1870's-1880's. Cancels mostly from San Francisco,...

4 Pacific Union Express "entires" envelopes. Oval stamp from Santa Cruz to San Francisco. Likely c. 1858-mid to late 1870's since it ...

1) March 31, 1887 double circle. Two cent entire with additional 2 cent Washington and 1 cent Franklin for mail to Germany. Typed, from Harrington, Ma

1) Alamosa Cover with Contents on Buying and Selling Mining Property. Dated 1885; six years after a post office was granted. Includes a letter on the

Two covers from Alma, Colorado. post office opened in 1873. These are early Alma covers. 1) Jan 16, Alma Colo. Three blue one cent Franklin stamps. 2)

Alpine is a rarity 6. Three 1880's covers. 1) Jay Gould Mine advertising cover. Kamak manager. Alpine. Colo. Has been crossed out. Postmark is ...

1) Lost Lake Hatchery with blue pictorial of fish jumping. 1909. Nice! 2) Laramie Electric Gas, Light & Fuel advertising corner. 1894. Amethyst ...

1) Double circle Animas Forks with target cancel. Light, but very readable strike. 2) Animas City. 1879 Star in Circle cancel. Contents included - leg

Lot of six. Very fancy corner advertisement for FL Mollin & Co., Druggists. 1885. 2) First National Bank 1890. 3) Fancy scrip Clarendon Hotel. 1...

1) Arkell, McMillan & Stewart, Mines and Mining stocks. Very nice bird's eye view of Aspen Pictorial. Issued to W. A. Stratton. Stratton had...

Cover is addressed to the Aspen Lumber Company! We have seen two other Wells Fargo covers addressed to Aspen. They both have a straight line stamp of

Located in Gilpin County. It no longer exists! 1) Purple 1878 with target cancel. 2) July 15. Addressed to Vermont. Nevadaville was a gold-mining town

Lot of seven. Includes a February 24, 1878 manuscript cancel. Four corner advertising covers: RM Hubbell general merchandise, Grand View Hotel, Knight