Western Americana Auction April 2022

This is an 1896 philatelic cover from Randsburg, California. According to J. Williams, it is the earliest known cover from Randsburg by two days. Thi

A box full of correspondence between a sailor on duty and those at home, The letters, both air and standard postage are from and to a "Gob"...

Rare postal cover from the Bodie Wells, Fargo & Co. office with return address and postmark. Addressed to S. B. Whitehead, Esq. of San Francisco...

Three rare Wells Fargo & Company covers from the 1870s. A) Wells Fargo cover for Dudley Evans, 2nd Vice-President and Manager of Wells Fargo &a...

Lot of 35 advertising envelopes, all with company names w/addresses in the return address corner of the envelope, a few w/content, most addressed to M

Lot of approx. 115 postal covers with postmarks from 63 different towns in Montana. Many with content. Here are the towns w/cover postmark dates: A

Lot of 3 small mailed envelopes (opened, no contents inside) postmarked Pony, MT from 1877, 1878 and 1880. Two addressed to P W Jackson, Esq, Sterling

Lot of 5 postal cancels, Red Bluff, Montana, all addressed to Mr. P. V. Jackson, Esq., Sterling, MT, cancellation dates from 1877 - 1895. Collection

1889. Rarity-8. Light, but discernable postmark. Magenta postmark and star killer. Short history of Sprucemont. City:Elko Co. State:Nevada Date:188

Rarity-7. Good magenta strike with 4 bar killer, but light. 1918. Manuscript cc of Bull's Head Mining Company. Includes a short history of Tobar...

1908. Rarity-10. Lighter strike, but very strong. Postcard. Includes a history of Summit City:Elko Co. State:Nevada Date:1908

1920. Rarity-8. Excellent strike. Legal size cover. Corner cover of the Bull's Head Mining Company. Stamped on cover is "Post Office / Clov...

Letter includes, "Gray, the Paradise murderer, will stretch the rope May 22nd"." Other news of mining in the area, ""they h...

Military postal history. Corner Cover Stamps "Office A. A. Q. M. / Official Business / Fort Klamath / Oregon." Note on back is from the Ac...

1907. Rarity-7. Excellent strike. Short history of Sherman and short biography of C. Baalman the sender (Diamond Valley miner, vice president of the D

Earliest non-manuscript cancel. 1891. Rarity-9. Good strike. Includes the interesting tale of the six-toed Chinaman (Chinese) and his connection to th

Lot of 20. 1) Rarity-8 Fairlawn. 1894. Very good strike over 1892 Columber 2 cent entire. 2) Bauvard, 1906, to Germany with one green 1.c and two red

Rarity-7.1882. Extremely nice strike. On postal. Used for correspondence with Mr. Hoskins for his award winning new, small Hoskin Assay Furnace. Note

Lot of twelve. 1) Alpha. August 28, 1879. Early. Rare six cent entire to Italy. Star in circle cancel. Blue. Almost surely written by a coal burner fr

Pine Station had an active post office from May 7, 1886, to February 14,1888. In his search for Nevada Postmarks, Gamett has rated this a ‘10

Less than 5 known [Gamett & Nelson]. 1895. Very Scared Rarity-9. Cancel very good. Four one cent stamps used for postage. Trimmed at left. Short...

This is the only known manuscript postmark and earliest Dun Glen postmark found by Gamett & Nelson. 1866. Manuscript parallel line cancel. Sent ...

1871. Rarity-10. Middle of postmark is struck but right and left are not struck. OFFICIAL BUSINESS has been crossed out. Manuscript cancel. Short hist

Rarity-9. 1891. Second Earliest. History of the name from Haas (Reno Evening Gazette referred to it as Haasville) to North's Ranch. Addressed to...

Only known Bannock manuscript postmark. Rarity-8. Short history of Bannock. City:Lander Co. State:Nevada Date:1910

Territorial. 1863. Rarity-8. Very good strike. History of Clifton Included. Addressed to R. P. Wilcox. He wrote a scarce and privately published remin

R-7. Known postmarks are all from a three week period. Has three nice strikes on a trimmed large postal envelope. Looks nice at this size. History of

With a letter. According to Gamett & Nelson. Rarity-10. Good strike. 1885. Legal sized cover. Four 1 cent light blue Franklin stamps. Manuscript...

1923. Very good strike. Manuscript cc of sender - Mrs. P. P. Kinsman. Short history included. City:Lincoln Co. State:Nevada Date:1923

1910. Rarity-9. Excellent strike. One of two known covers from the second period. Short history of the Kiernan Ranch included. City:Lincoln Co. Sta

Rarity-9. 1899. Good strike. Manuscript cc of sender JE Witten, Oasis, California. Includes a nice history of Manse. City:Nye Co. State:Nevada Dat

Earliest White River postmark according to Gamett & Nelson. Rarity-9. 1889. Nearly perfect strike. Letter is addressed to Mrs. Noteware (famous ...

1892. Postal. 1) Peavine, partial strike. Only known Peavine postmark according to Gamett & Nelson. Nice history of Peavine included. 2) Cloverd...

Lot of 40 items comprising a Comstock Lode (Virginia City, NV) postal history group. Many unused cancels. Collection consists of: 24 postcards: 18

Lot of 21 postal covers w/Virginia City, MT postmarks. no contents, all but one addressed to P. V. Jackson, Sterling or Red Bluff, Montana, cancellati

Rarity-7. 1884. Excellent postmark. Lots of Information and photos of the ranch included City:White Pine Co. State:Nevada Date:1884

Measures 3 x 6". Rarity-8. 1871. Poor postmark. Mailed to Fort Dodge, Iowa. History on Mineral City included. City:White Pine Co. State:Nevad...

Rarity-9. 1863 (The date on the letter looks like 1865. This can't be, as the known dates for this cancel are all 1863, the conflict at Deep Cre...

History of the smelter at Smelter, Nevada. The name would be changed to McGill. Excellent strike. Rarity-8. Includes history of the town. Research on

Lot of twenty-one. 1) Ely 1922. East Ely Times corner cover, Vail Pittman manager. Pittman would become Nevada's governor. 2) Cherry Creek, c1880

Earliest known. 1878. Row of four three cent stamps and one three cent stamped envelope. The word 'Diamond' written on top of the four stamp...

Lot of 60 postal covers with company logo advertising included in the return address. Some front and back. Only a couple envelopes include content.

Lot of two albums containing different collections of first day covers. A) The International Collection of World Wildlife First Day Covers authorized

Two albums of U.S. First Day Covers & Special Covers from the Postal Commemorative Society. Between the two albums, there are at least 400 cover...

Three full binders of pristine First Day of Issue cachet covers: 1) Flags of the Fifty States, all postmarked February 23, 1976, in alphabetic order f

Six albums of postal covers issued by Postal Commemorative Society. Three are U.S. First Day covers & Special covers in brown albums from the e...

Scrapbook with a collection of circular postal markings that were cut out from philatelic covers. These postal markings are mostly from Vermont, Virgi

This lot contains three postal covers; J.M. Tomlinson of Shiloh, New Jersey has a Bobwhite Quail advertising Dupont Powders; W.R. Purnell of Berlin,

400-450 covers by the Postal Commemorative Society in protective albums of first aid covers with the gold replica stamp. This collection is housed in

Issued by the Postal Commemorative Society. Blue binder with 28 first day covers featuring actual U.S. Stamps in the Presidential Series of 1938, and