The Wild West Auction (July 2022)

1911. Rarity-8. Very poor strike. But a great cover. Corner cover for the Goldfield Daisy Mining Syndicate. Manuscript EW ---, Redlich, Nev. Handwritt

Rarity-10. 1905. Excellent strike. Includes short history of Rhodes. Addressed to music store in Chicago named Lyon & Healy, There was music in ...

Rarity-6. Addressed to Water Smith of White Plains, Churchill County. Names listed on this piece are historically important. 1) Excellent double ring,

Complete (or near complete) series of nine Native American children (Paiute) from Carson City from photographer Smith & Company. Includes a shor...

Early non-manuscript 1862. Stamped postmarked with handwritten day. Stamped 'PAID 3' over three cent entire. Fair strike. Addressed to R. B....

1871. This letter has been put in an envelope and sent from Sheep Camp to Smoke Creek in the Smoke Creek Desert. No official postmark. Smoke Creek had

Bold CDS postmark with target cancel. Sent to Stockton with receiving back stamp on reverse. Has cover flaws, including a nick and tears. Rated a

Both contain contents. 1) Earliest Sweetwater postmark with ties to 'The Rocket' on Mono Lake. 1882. Only known Sweetwater manuscript cancel...

(Thorne) Rarity-9. Excellent strike. 1918. Legal sized envelope. Manuscript cc for the Aurora Consolidated Mine. History of the Aurora Consolidated Mi

Rarity-8. 1863. Magenta stamped month and day. No Year. Hand cackled stamp. Addressed to Mr. Alonzo Young / Fort Bridger / Company L, Third Infantry,

Rarity-8. Strong strike, but with some hit-and-miss strength of ink. 1868. From the Pardon Brown collection. Excerpts from the Pardon Brown letters

Rarity-8. 1860. Excellent strike. Earliest non-manuscript Virginia City cancel. Hand written "paid 10". Cover is addressed to Mrs. J. A. A...

This is the earliest Nevada Territorial postmark according to Gamett & Nelson. Rarity-4. Very nice double ring cancel. This December 5, 1861 cov...

c1863 which would make this most probably territorial. Oval "Langton's Pioneer Express" cancels 3 cent pre-printed stamp. Preprinted c...

c1863. Territorial. Oval "Wells Fargo & Co. / Express / Virginia City postmark." Stamped oval 'PAID.' Addressed to John North,...

2 Virginia City, Nevada postal covers. One Wells Fargo "entire" postal cover envelope. Virginia & Truckee R.R. Second Pacific Union Ex...

Nine Gold Hill. 1) Most interesting is the 1874. Excellent strike ('NEV' struck poorly). The accompanying letter was never used by the Gold ...

Lot of six. 1) Virginia City. Rarity-4, pre 1865. Light, but readable strike. The history behind this cover is fascinating. 1) Addressed to 'Mis...

"Town for Sale". Washoe City was the county seat of Washoe County. And then the railroad arrived in Reno and within two years almost all o...

Rarity-6. 1908. Earliest known cancel. History of the Waterloo Hotel with 1906 Waterloo Hotel Letterhead. Addressed to William Gray. Includes a short

Rarity-6. 1909. Hard to read double strike on postcard. Includes history of White Plains. Sent by Kadafar. Additional pages of research on location,

On a cover with a cc of the Wonder Water Company. Rarity-4. Excellent strike. 1918. Short history of the town and the Wonder Water Company. Date: 19

Lot of five. 1) Project Mercury First Day of Issue. Shows John Glenn doing desert training in Nevada. Signed by Glenn. Number 1 of 4. 2) Chinese cover

Lot of eight. 1) Thompson B&W RPC. Shows smelter. Thompson was near Yerington and a major smelter for the copper nearby. 2) Great Waterloo 1909 ...

Over 60 covers. Includes, Territorial Auditor’s Office cc, State Controller with large Nevada seal, Wadsworth, Black Springs, Leete, manuscri

1) c1869 Virginia City blue. RARE two bar cancel. 2) Gold Hill double Circle. 3) Hawthorne Double ring. 1884. Addressed to Aurora, Nevada. 4) Austin c

Killer mining postal cover with pictoral of miner pushing ore out of Golden, New Mexico postmarked 1883. Date: Country (if not USA): State: New

Lot of eleven. 1) Striking early Fremont House cc. 2) 1888 oval Silver City National Bank. 3) 1894 one cent blue entire with two additional 2c stamps.

8 total postal covers out of New Mexico. Includes double ring postmark from Chaves, Merchant- Belen, NM 1887 to Caliente with blue oval corner adverti

Fantastic postal history collection which includes one cover postmarked Chamberino to Pasadena addressed to Mrs. Charles T. Bartlett, which includes

17 Lockhart & Co Ranches, Mines & Live Stock Deming 1890. Bull Head Saloon and Lodging Deming 1883 double ring postmark. Fairview Oval 1884....

Spectacular Cauthen Groceries Lordsburg. 14 advertising corner covers. Merchants Andres Sena-Los Alamos, Dessauer & Smith Real Estate -Las Cruce...

9 postal history covers, including yellow from Magdalena 1886 cancel w/target killer ties; corner advertising covers like Schmidt & Reinken Merc...

Lot of eight – all with corner advertising. 1-3) San Marcial. Rockwell Baker and Grocer, 1889. 188- Rockwell grocer. 4) San Ignacio. Post off

Lot of ten-all with corner advertising. Includes several mining towns! 1) Valleitos. 1894 on 2c Columbian entire. 2-3) Two Victoria type one double ci

25 postal covers! Includes one great full face advertising Harlow's Hotel Livery Stable and Corrals w/ 3- 1 cent Franklin Stamps. A cover in gol...

Could this be none other than Elias Jackson Baldwin - or as Lucky Baldwin as he was known in the California Gold Rush? Baldwin was a wheeler and deale

About 40 mostly NY Advertising covers, mostly c. 1870's to 1890's. Postmarks from NYC, Albany and Buffalo. Includes Sentinel and whiskey. D...

About 25 rare mostly advertising covers, c. 1870's to 1920's. Some have stamps removed. Buffalo Lithia Water, agriculture, tents, sheep, car...

Lot of 21. Eight with vignettes. FP Sylvester of Hennessey with short horn bull, A Shafer Harness and Saddlery, the Almeda of Bartlesville, of Alva wi

Lot of 13. Located on Gray Horse Osage Nation. Includes two 1892 Fort Sill covers. Also Woodward Cattle King Hotel advertising cover. Other advertisin

History Group Lot of ten. Stamp letter. 1) 1852. Written by Captain CH Brooks. Seems to be about repairing a ship. 2) Stampless letter. Large '5...

This piece of postal history was mailed on August 7, 1866 from Galveston. It is actually not a cover or letter, but a page from, most likely, a newspa

Early Masonic cover to Griffin, Georgia. Bright and bold postmark “Waco Village, June, 19, Tex.” Bright and Bold “Paid 3[x=

Lot of 35. Mostly with advertising. The premier piece is a full face General Land Office, Auston, Texas. Not far behind is the El Paso (right on the M

Lot of Five. 1) Occidental Saloon 1896 billhead. Selling cigars, wines, liquors and UTAH beers. 2) A. Fisher Brewing Company. 1893. Bright blue logo.

Lot of 15. 1) 1883 Cheyenne. Large pictorial of Inter-Ocean Hotel. Stamped placed over the pictorial! Also Dyer’s Hotel Cheyenne, Kuster Hote

About 80 covers, c. 1880's-1930's to and from attorneys. Some commemoratives including 1939 World's Fair. Date: Country (if not USA)...

Lot of 13. Includes City of New York Law Department oval. Fancy Herman S Fay Marlboro Mass. Fancy JB Newton Emporium PA. Charles A Bennett Freehold NJ

Lot of 10. 1870-1890. Fancy Riffle & Meeker Greenville Ohio. JW & OC Ransom Grand Rapids. MM Sturgeon Rock Island. John Giberson Clare Michi...