Western Americana Auction April 2022

Lot of over 100 pieces of mail correspondence addressed to Montana locations, mostly envelopes w/handwritten letters inside, 16 split-back postcards i

Rarity-7. Postcard. Excellent strike. Additional pages of research on location, names associated with cover, etc. are included. City:Acoma, Lincoln

Doane 1. Nearly perfect strike. 1906. Postal. Includes a short history of Antelope. City:Antelope, Nye Co. State:Nevada Date:1906

Rarity-7. 1920. Good to very good strike. Includes an extensive history of Arrowhead through newspapers of that era. As a matter of fact, this cover w

Rarity-7. 1883 on Postal. Purple double ring. 'ARTHUR' is very light. JB Moore biography. He was a powerful man - sometimes for good and som...

1) Rarity-5. Very early! Strong blue postmark with grid cancel. Clifton post office had been the official post office for this area up to the time of

1866-1904. 1) c1878, postal, Price & Read. Partners in 1876 in a S. F. variety store (with history). 2) 1866, cover with business corner adverti...

Rarity-9. 1885. Near perfect strike. Only three to five found in the Gamett and Nelson survey of Nevada Postal History, all are cut squares. This is t

Rarity-7. Postcard. Very good strike. Includes a short history of Barclay. City:Barclay, Lincoln Co. State:Nevada Date:1909

1881. Light strike but very readable. Letter is from George Crum who owned a ranch in Crum Canyon. The letter is difficult to read but seems to be abo

Postmark is over inked. Biography of sender Harry Lauritzen (tailor in Battle Mountain, truck driver hauling ore in Betty O'Neal, constable of M...

In 1906 Tommy Watkins was searching for a special Black Horse. He found gold instead. He had it assayed in Osceola. It is rumored that within one day

1) Rarity-4. Nice strike. Magenta. Addressed to J. B. Lamb of Midas, Nevada. Includes a short history of Aura and a short biography of John Lamb. 2) T

Almost perfect strike. 1919. Legal cover with cc of Kansas City-Nevada Consolidated Mines. Includes a short history of Bruner and the mine. City:Bru

One of two Known Bullion manuscript postmarks. Earliest identified date. 1880. Rarity-3. Manuscript cancel. From RK Morrison to Laura Peterson. The 18

Rarity-6. 1918. Very good strike. Nice history of Carrara and American Marble. Postal signed by AB Perkins. Includes a biography of PV and AB Perkins.

1910. Rarity-6. Three excellent postmarks. Envelope has been trimmed slightly to fit page. Includes a short history of the area is included. Additiona

Rarity-6. Very good Strike. 1909. Short history of Chafey. Additional pages of research on location, names associated with cover, etc. are included.

Logan (Rarity is a 5. 1909. William Prentiss logger and farmer biographer), Last Frontier Village, Goodsprings, Arden, Henderson (with ID Card for Bas

1893 postal sent from William M. Read. Extensive biography on Read and his connection to Eberhardt. Rarity-9. Poor, but rare, cancel. City:Eberhardt

1913. Stamp used as a received. Rarity-6. Nice strike. Stamp has been cut out. Card about buying rope. Includes a short history of Edgemont included.

Rarity - 6. Partial postmark visible. 1921. Legal size cover. Includes notes on the history of the Nevada Lime & Rock Company. Also, a biography...

1) Tuscarora, 1901. Addressed to US Senator William Stewart asking for post office position. 2) Carlin, 1872. Earliest known Carlin postmark. Very str

Extensive biography of Colonel JB Moore; which the consignor has proven by signatures. Controversial Fort Ruby commander, political controversy, part

Pictorial corner cover+9+ of the Allen Hotel in Wells, Nevada. 1912. Excellent strike. Includes an extensive history of the location, Allen Hotel, Wel

1910. Rarity-5. Very weak strike as a received cancel. Stone House Canyon history. Postcard addressed to Johnson family. J Otis Johnson biography. New

R7. 1882 - early. Postmark on top of stamp making it hard to read. Short history of early Halleck City:Fort Halleck, Elko Co. State:Nevada Date:188

Rarity-6. 1880. Strong middle of postmark, weak right and left sides. Manuscript cancel. history of fort Additional pages of research on location, nam

1877. Magenta. Cover. Nice postmark! Short history of Galena included. City:Galena, Lander Co. State:Nevada Date:1877

Rarity-8. 1910. Extremely light strike. cc needed to help identify postmark. cc of Tonopah Goldfield Trust Co. / Gold Center. Short history of Gold Ce

Rarity-6. Excellent strike. Registered Receipt. Includes a short history of Gold Bar. City:Goldbar, Nye Co. State:Nevada Date:1907

Manuscript cc of Wm H Barney, Goldville, Nevada. Two ephemera contents relating to the closing of the Goldville Post Office. 1) Note from Carlin, Neva

Rarity-6. 1881. Very good strike. 'GR' weak. Double ring. Includes a nice history of Grantsville. City:Grantsville, Nye Co. State:Nevada ...

The first four covers all have ties to a Nevada historical figure. 1) c1870 cover addressed to John Day, Register of the Land Office in Carson City. D

1915. Extremely nice! The town of Hilltop began in 1906 when prospectors found gold quite near an earlier find. Two mines, the Hilltop and Independenc

Rarity-5. 1907. On a postal. Hobson was established in 1898 on the old historic Fort Ruby site. Names include Joseph Tognini rancher and store keeper

c1867-1869. Excellent strike. Cover. Torn roughly at top with part torn off, does not affect postmark, cancel, stamp, or address. History of short liv

1) Mill City 1915. From S Cain to JS Cain at Bodie. 2) 1909 cc from National Mining and Townsite Co. History of National and senderís relation

Rarity-6. Nearly perfect strike. 1882. Early. Includes a short history of valley City:Huntington, Elko Co. State:Nevada Date:1882

The Sheahen family with their Groom Mine were the one family that stood up to the United States when Area 51 and the Nuclear Testing Center were being

Interesting subject for the front! Rarity -6. Nice strike. Postcard is dark, but lightens when photoshopped. Includes short history of Jarbidge. Cit

Rarity-5. c1889. Difficult to read strike. Pictorial on reverse is of steel pens for writing from Robert Bell & Sons of Alexandria, Virginia. It...

Cover with manuscript cc of sender. Rarity-7. 1916. Excellent strike. Sent by Mrs. Helen Williams / Hot Creek, Nev. / via Tonopah. Keystone once grew

1) Cortez, R-4 1896. From John Hunter, manager of the Tenabo Mining & Milling Company. Letter talks about money, family and the 4th of July danc...

Rarity-6. Good strike. Legal sized envelope. 1890. Three pieces of content. 1) Letter to M. D. Murphy County Recorder from Isaac Weaver. Weaver states

Lot of sixteen. 1) El Dorado 1883. R-4. Manuscript. Earliest known according to Gamett & Nelson. 2) Pioche 1883. Handwritten Griffin vs. Meadow ...

Four interesting Nye County Covers. 1) Marble. 1909. R-5. Very nice strike on reverse of envelope. Doane 1. Includes a history of Marble. Cover sent t

WOW! Jim Low & co. Corner Cover and a Jim Low & Co. Letterhead. 1909. Postmark hard to see stamped over the five 2 cent stamps. From Jim Low...

1888. Nearly perfect Midas strike. The stamp has been cut from the envelope, however. History of Midas included. City:Midas, Nye Co. State:Nevada D

Rarity-5. 1907.Very good strike. On a postal. Includes a short history of area. City:Mineral Hill, Eureka Co. State:Nevada Date:1907