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[Picture post cards], accumulation of a few hundred items featuring twenty with Santa Claus, including one hold-to-light, plus other popular topics such as Indians, military, political, patriotic, trains, Alaska including real photos, a nice
batch of inland waterway steamers, western scenes, etc., mainly fine-very fine.
Est. $300-400
SOLD for $2,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
[Spanish-American War],Inedita Cronica de la Guerra Americano-Filipina en el Norte de Luzon / Unpublished Chronicle of the Filipino-American War in Northern Luzon. Juan Villamor Manila, Imprenta Juan Fajardo, [1924]. In Spanish and
English (translated by Frederick G. Roth), printed side by side in columns. 8vo, later half brown cloth with black leather. Original photographic wraps bound in. Signed and Inscribed to Roth by Villamor in Spanish on copyright page. Some staining to
original paper front cover.(imagea)(imageb)
Est. $400-500
SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction
1163
Spanish-American War correspondence of a soldier in the Philippines, 21 covers and accompanying letters dated between 16 January, 1899 and 20 January 1901 from George Osborn to his parents in Cadiz, Ohio with interesting content starting with
an account of the trip to the islands, then seven letters while stationed at La Carlata including detailed account of battles, capturing enemy soldiers and arms, one drunken soldier killing another, army life, etc., two letters datelined at
Castealana Negro, one describing battle and with hand-drawn map, then seven covers datelined at Bacolod Negros, one cover with three long letters from soldiers in hospital enclosed and telling of graft among officers and of a Philippino boy selling
the services of his sister to an officer and one telling of stealing from soldier's mail, and the last two datelined at "Calivo Capiz Proo Panay Island", the last telling of fighting and "some of the officers here are a disgrace to the U.S., if
McKinley only knew how his honored officers stole the money from the Government and rations from the soldiers he would put some of them in the Guard House for life", covers with various military station postmarks, about half of which were sent
postage due, covers in rather mixed condition, excellent content.
Est. $500-750
SOLD for $1,100.00
Will close during Public Auction
1164
Spanish-American War collection balance, 19 covers and cards plus soldier's letters, a soldier's diary and pamphlets, includes soldier's multicolored patriotic cover from Cuba and a censored prisoner of war cover from Cuba to Cartagena with
violet "Prisoner's Letter, Censored and forwarded, Navy Department, Bureau of Navigation, Washington, D.C." handstamp, the rest all pertains to the Philippines with Military Station cancels, many patriotic covers, soldier's letters with good content,
a registered cover with 5c and 10c Trans-Mississippi, etc., some usual stamp and cover faults, many fine-very fine.
Est. $400-500
SOLD for $1,700.00
Will close during Public Auction
[American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia] lot of 53 covers, some European theater but most related to Siberia, including 38 from the United States A.E.F. force in Siberia, most have the U.S. Postal Agency duplex and with a wide range
of censor markings from the various lieutenants, two with Japanese stamps, plus a few from A.E.F. in North Russia, some with Trans-Siberian Railroad markings and interesting content, plus a few other soldier's mail or P.O.W. mail, mostly fine or
better.
Est. $750-1,000
SOLD for $6,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
[Military mail, 1940/1980] from World War II through the Vietnam war, including the Korean War, about 40 covers, including better soldier's mail, P.O.W., North Vietnam covers, as well as some leaflets and other propaganda material, fine-very
fine; interesting lot of better war items from the period.
Balance of the Risvold United States covers, a real potpourri of hundreds of covers ranging from stampless to modern, with many better stampless from a wide range of states, better frankings including 1847 5c tied together with a Boyd's local
and Bicycle Mail Route local used with #220, also fancy cancels, forts such as Fort Smith Arkansas straightline, ship mail, unusual usage, valentines and a great deal more, typical variable condition, but majority are fine-very fine and better; an
intriguing lot that really needs to be viewed to appreciate.
Est. $3,000-4,000
SOLD for $6,750.00
Will close during Public Auction
[Maritime Books], The Naval Monument... A Bowen. Boston, A. Bowen, 1816. 8vo, later half morocco. With 23 illustrated plates. Errata sheet at close. Some toning. Greyhounds of the Sea: the Story of the American Clipper Ship. C.
Cutler. New York, GP Putnam’s Sons, 1930. First edition. 4to, green cloth with gilt spine. An Epitome, Historical and Statistical…of the Royal Naval Service of England. Miles & Miles. London, M.A. Nattali, 1844. 8vo, original cloth with gilt
design, paper spine label. One plate not present. Edges well rubbed. The Physical Geography of the Sea. Maury. NY, Harper & Bros., 1855.8vo, brown cloth with gilt illustration and spine. Seven folding plates. Risvold label on pastedown and
title page. Discolored endpapers. American Clipper Ships, 1833-1858. Thorndike & Matthews. Salem, MA, Marine Research Society, 1926-27. Two volumes. 4to, blue cloth with gilt titles. Risvold labels on pastedowns. Exteriors stained and scuffed.
Est. $300-400
SOLD for $240.00
Will close during Public Auction
1169
Log Book from Boston to the Columbia River, 1820-21 Outstanding manuscript log book for the ship Alexander, traveling from Boston to Astoria, Oregon, and from
there to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Canton, China, and the East Indies, ending in Batavia, under the command of Capt. Frederick W. Comerford. At the beginning is a wonderful AN, unsigned, by the "Prince of Captains," Pilip Dumaresq (1804-61), one
of the most famous American captains in the China trade. He writes "October 24 1820 Took leave of all my friends in Boston and joined the Alexander as a boy before the mast, wages $5 p/month. Feb 21st 1825 took charge of the American ship Hoqua &
left London the 6 March for East Indies, arrived at Manila in 108 days perhaps. Left Canton in the same ship the 16 March 1827 and arrived at Boston 114 days having been about 7 Years."The folio 117-leaf log is bound in original suede and held in a
modern half leather case. The Alexander no doubt took supplies and men to Astoria from the East Coast, loaded there with furs, salmon, and Hawaiians bound for home, and took their cargo to the Far East to trade. Astoria, the first American
settlement on the Pacific, had been established in 1811 by the Pacific Fur Company and named after the company's founder, John Jacob Astor, but was sold to the North West Company at the start of the War of 1812. It never fully reverted to American
control, and when the Hudson Bay Company absorbed the North West Company, they abandoned it and built Fort Vancouver. No doubt this log was given to Dumaresq as a souvenir of his first sea voyage.(Image)
Est. $5,000-7,500
SOLD for $8,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
1170
(Ship) Telegraph, folded letter to Philadelphia with integral address leaf datelined "Rockdale Feby 12, 1817" with perfectly struck red straightline
"Telegraph*H*Coffin*" cachet (Hector Coffin was the ships master), entered the mails with "6" in circle ship rate, fresh and extremely fine.(Image)
Est. $500-750
SOLD for $3,250.00
Will close during Public Auction
1171
Whaling Bark J.E. Donnell, near Kamchatka Peninsula, three page folded letter from a Pacific whaling ship dated August 5th, September 1st and December 13th,
1848, probably carried by a homeward bound whaler via Cape Horn as it was eight month in transit, entering the mails with red "New London, Ct./Aug 11" (1847) datestamps, matching "SHIP" handstamp and manuscript "7" rate (2c ship fee and 5c postage to
New Bedford), very fine."We struck among Whales the 20th June in the Latt of 51.00 North, Long 157 West (100 miles southeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, near the north end of the Kurile Islands) - The Whales were pretty plenty - struck one - the
Whale stove 2 Boats for us, it being rugged & foggy, with only 1 Boat fast the Whale got away..." Thus Captain Wm. A. Hussey of the Bark J.E. Donnell begins this letter while cruising for whales. He left New Bedford, Mass. on 3 December, 1845,
returing 5 April, 1849, with 49 barrels of Sperm oil, 3,600 barrels of whale oil and 17,600 barrels of whale bone (Baleen). He shipped home 340 barrels of Sperm oil and 22,000 lbs. of bone during the cruise. A great letter on whaling and the
beginning of the Mexican War and the American occupation and conquest of California. Hussey ends his letter on December 13th off Cape San Lucas, Baja California with "this letter I shall leave at the Cape." (Image)
[Full Rigged Ship illustrated postmark] fresh folded letter with integral address leaf datelined "Canton (China) April 16, 1834" to New York endorsed "Globe", entered the
mails with octagonal "Phila/6/Oct" datestamp and manuscript "24" rate, plus a fabulous highly detailed strike of full rigged ship postmark, undoubtedly the finest reported strike of this illustrated marking, as well as the only "full rigged ship"
handstamp applied to a cover from China, illustrated in The United States Post Offices in China and Japan by Frajola, Perlman and Scamp on page 7, extremely fine and handsome; ex-Porriss.The Globe was an early American
merchant sailing vessel and a predecessor of the Clippers, with an average speed of not over three knots per hour. A "slow boat to China" in other words. It is said that the Globe "would beat her head three times against a billow and then fall
off and sail around it." This cover arrived in Philadelphia after a long and tedious journey of almost six months.(Image)
Est. $7,500-10,000
SOLD for $62,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
Clipper ship trade cards, four cards, three multicolored including two for Coleman's California Line for San Francisco, Carrier Dove and Gov. Morton, and one
Merchant's Express Line of Clipper Ships for Merchant, the fourth a smaller gold on green card for Hornet, latter minor stain, very fine and attractive group.(imagea)(imageb)(imagec)(Image)
Est. $2,000-3,000
SOLD for $4,750.00
Will close during Public Auction
1174
Clipper ship illustrated advertising covers, three buff covers with clipper ship illustrated advertisements franked with 3c Dull red (#11) tied by New York
datestamps, one for the Swallow Tail Line in blue, one for Jarvis Johnson in blue and one in brown for Empire Line San Francisco Packets on back flap, second nicked at upper left clear of design, very fine.(Image)
Est. $750-1,000
SOLD for $1,900.00
Will close during Public Auction
1175
Bengal, wrapper with printed "Monthly Market Report" enclosure to Kennebunkport, Maine endorsed "Via Marseilles, Pr Str. Bengal" with India 1855-64 2c Buff (#15) tied by
grid and "Calcutta, India Paid/Ja 6, 63" datestamp, carried by the Bengal to Suez, Egypt, then overland to Alexandria and place on board a steamer bound for Marseilles, thence overaland to the English Channel and by boat to London, arriving
with red "London, Paid/Fe 12, 63" datestamp in the time of 35 days, then forwarded by regular packet to the U.S., very fine.(Image)
Est. $500-750
SOLD for $1,100.00
Will close during Public Auction
1176
Candia, 8 December, 1859 folded letter with integral address leaf to Boston endorsed "pr Candia, Via Marseilles" with India 1855-64 ½a Blue (#11), 1a Brown (#12), two
2a Buff (#15) and 8a Rose on blue (#10) tied by five strikes of octagonal "B/1" killer, Calcutta backstamp and boxed red "India Paid" handstamp, red "London/De 15, 59/Paid" transit and "Boston/Br. Pkt./5 Cts/Jan 2" balloon style postmark, file fold
through the ½a stamp, otherwise an extremely fine and handsome four-color franking.The Candia was a P & O steamer with auxiliary sail built in 1854. She operated mainly on the Calcutta to Suez run via Marseilles.(Image)
Est. $400-500
SOLD for $2,700.00
Will close during Public Auction
1177
Champion of the Seas, vertical pair Victoria 1850 3d Blue, Ty. I (#3, S.G. #11a, bottom stamp light crease), margins nearly all around, tied along with 1855 6d
Lilac and green Late Fee (#I1, S.G. #33), large to huge margins, tied to cover to London endorsed "p Champion of the Seas," "Melbourne, Victoria/Oc 26, 1854" backstamp, red "Australian Packet/Paid/Liverpool/Ja 25, 55" entry postmark and red London
arrival postmark on the next day also tying the Late Fee stamp, 91 days from Melbourne to Liverpool, very fine and scarce usage.Champion of the Seas was an American built clipper by Donald McKay in 1854 for James Baines of London. She operated
in the Liverpool to Australia trade for many years. She was employed by the British government during the great Sepoy mutiny. Queen Victoria visited on board before the ship sailed for India with 1,000 troops. She foundered in a storm of Cape Horn in
1876.(Image)
Est. $750-1,000
SOLD for $6,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
1178
City of Sydney, Victoria 1857 6d Orange rouletted tied to "Aborigines of Victoria" illustrated letterhead folded letter with integral address leaf to London endorsed
"City of Sydney & Overland," backstamped "Melbourne, Victoria/No 16, 1857," answer was written and returned as a paste over with Great Britain 1d Red tied by "London/Ja 13, 1858, stamp and cover faults, partly accounted for by its over 30,000 mile
round trip.(Image)
Est. $400-500
SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
1179
Coldstream, small cover endorsed "Clipper Ship Coldstream, Lat. 45 20 S, Long 61 42 W" off the tip of Argentina, entered the mails to Galesburg, Illinois with
left margin 3c Rose grilled (#88, corner crease) tied by "San Francisco, Cal./Mar 1" datestamp, extremely fine, ex-Haas.(Image)
Est. $300-400
SOLD for $1,800.00
Will close during Public Auction
1180
[Wreck of theColombo], cover with bold boxed "Saved from the wreck of/the Colombo" handstamp to St. Mary's, Canada West, originated with "Deep Lead Pleasant
Creek, Victoria/Oct 23, 1862" backstamp, sent via London with red "London, Paid/Ja 3, 63" transit postmark and arrived with "St. Marys, C.W./Ja 1?, 63" backstamp, stamps missing as noted by manuscript "Lost stamp in Rick," natural cover faults, very
fine for this.In 1859 the Colombo, a 2,127 ton steamer, was put on the P & O Line's monthly Australian run. On a return trip to Singapore in a fog she struck on Minicov Island, the most southern of the Laccadives in the Indian Ocean, 4 AM on
19 November, 1862. The vessel heeled over, the sea entered through open hatches and she foundered. The mail was salvaged by divers, some of it being under water for three months.(Image)
Log Book from Boston to the Columbia River, 1820-21 Outstanding manuscript log book for the ship Alexander, traveling from Boston to Astoria, Oregon, and from
there to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Canton, China, and the East Indies, ending in Batavia, under the command of Capt. Frederick W. Comerford. At the beginning is a wonderful AN, unsigned, by the "Prince of Captains," Pilip Dumaresq (1804-61), one
of the most famous American captains in the China trade. He writes "October 24 1820 Took leave of all my friends in Boston and joined the Alexander as a boy before the mast, wages $5 p/month. Feb 21st 1825 took charge of the American ship Hoqua &
left London the 6 March for East Indies, arrived at Manila in 108 days perhaps. Left Canton in the same ship the 16 March 1827 and arrived at Boston 114 days having been about 7 Years."The folio 117-leaf log is bound in original suede and held in a
modern half leather case. The Alexander no doubt took supplies and men to Astoria from the East Coast, loaded there with furs, salmon, and Hawaiians bound for home, and took their cargo to the Far East to trade. Astoria, the first American
settlement on the Pacific, had been established in 1811 by the Pacific Fur Company and named after the company's founder, John Jacob Astor, but was sold to the North West Company at the start of the War of 1812. It never fully reverted to American
control, and when the Hudson Bay Company absorbed the North West Company, they abandoned it and built Fort Vancouver. No doubt this log was given to Dumaresq as a souvenir of his first sea voyage.
(Ship) Telegraph, folded letter to Philadelphia with integral address leaf datelined "Rockdale Feby 12, 1817" with perfectly struck red straightline
"Telegraph*H*Coffin*" cachet (Hector Coffin was the ships master), entered the mails with "6" in circle ship rate, fresh and extremely fine.
Whaling Bark J.E. Donnell, near Kamchatka Peninsula, three page folded letter from a Pacific whaling ship dated August 5th, September 1st and December 13th,
1848, probably carried by a homeward bound whaler via Cape Horn as it was eight month in transit, entering the mails with red "New London, Ct./Aug 11" (1847) datestamps, matching "SHIP" handstamp and manuscript "7" rate (2c ship fee and 5c postage to
New Bedford), very fine."We struck among Whales the 20th June in the Latt of 51.00 North, Long 157 West (100 miles southeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, near the north end of the Kurile Islands) - The Whales were pretty plenty - struck one - the
Whale stove 2 Boats for us, it being rugged & foggy, with only 1 Boat fast the Whale got away..." Thus Captain Wm. A. Hussey of the Bark J.E. Donnell begins this letter while cruising for whales. He left New Bedford, Mass. on 3 December, 1845,
returing 5 April, 1849, with 49 barrels of Sperm oil, 3,600 barrels of whale oil and 17,600 barrels of whale bone (Baleen). He shipped home 340 barrels of Sperm oil and 22,000 lbs. of bone during the cruise. A great letter on whaling and the
beginning of the Mexican War and the American occupation and conquest of California. Hussey ends his letter on December 13th off Cape San Lucas, Baja California with "this letter I shall leave at the Cape." ![[Full Rigged Ship illustrated postmark] fresh folded letter with integral address leaf datelined Canton (China) April 16, 1834 to New York endorsed Globe, entered the mails
with octagonal Phila6Oct datestamp and manuscript 24 rate, plus](121/1172.jpg)
[Full Rigged Ship illustrated postmark] fresh folded letter with integral address leaf datelined "Canton (China) April 16, 1834" to New York endorsed "Globe", entered the
mails with octagonal "Phila/6/Oct" datestamp and manuscript "24" rate, plus a fabulous highly detailed strike of full rigged ship postmark, undoubtedly the finest reported strike of this illustrated marking, as well as the only "full rigged ship"
handstamp applied to a cover from China, illustrated in The United States Post Offices in China and Japan by Frajola, Perlman and Scamp on page 7, extremely fine and handsome; ex-Porriss.The Globe was an early American
merchant sailing vessel and a predecessor of the Clippers, with an average speed of not over three knots per hour. A "slow boat to China" in other words. It is said that the Globe "would beat her head three times against a billow and then fall
off and sail around it." This cover arrived in Philadelphia after a long and tedious journey of almost six months.
Clipper ship trade cards, four cards, three multicolored including two for Coleman's California Line for San Francisco, Carrier Dove and Gov. Morton, and one
Merchant's Express Line of Clipper Ships for Merchant, the fourth a smaller gold on green card for Hornet, latter minor stain, very fine and attractive group.
Clipper ship illustrated advertising covers, three buff covers with clipper ship illustrated advertisements franked with 3c Dull red (#11) tied by New York
datestamps, one for the Swallow Tail Line in blue, one for Jarvis Johnson in blue and one in brown for Empire Line San Francisco Packets on back flap, second nicked at upper left clear of design, very fine.
Bengal, wrapper with printed "Monthly Market Report" enclosure to Kennebunkport, Maine endorsed "Via Marseilles, Pr Str. Bengal" with India 1855-64 2c Buff (#15) tied by
grid and "Calcutta, India Paid/Ja 6, 63" datestamp, carried by the Bengal to Suez, Egypt, then overland to Alexandria and place on board a steamer bound for Marseilles, thence overaland to the English Channel and by boat to London, arriving
with red "London, Paid/Fe 12, 63" datestamp in the time of 35 days, then forwarded by regular packet to the U.S., very fine.
Candia, 8 December, 1859 folded letter with integral address leaf to Boston endorsed "pr Candia, Via Marseilles" with India 1855-64 ½a Blue (#11), 1a Brown (#12), two
2a Buff (#15) and 8a Rose on blue (#10) tied by five strikes of octagonal "B/1" killer, Calcutta backstamp and boxed red "India Paid" handstamp, red "London/De 15, 59/Paid" transit and "Boston/Br. Pkt./5 Cts/Jan 2" balloon style postmark, file fold
through the ½a stamp, otherwise an extremely fine and handsome four-color franking.The Candia was a P & O steamer with auxiliary sail built in 1854. She operated mainly on the Calcutta to Suez run via Marseilles.
Champion of the Seas, vertical pair Victoria 1850 3d Blue, Ty. I (#3, S.G. #11a, bottom stamp light crease), margins nearly all around, tied along with 1855 6d
Lilac and green Late Fee (#I1, S.G. #33), large to huge margins, tied to cover to London endorsed "p Champion of the Seas," "Melbourne, Victoria/Oc 26, 1854" backstamp, red "Australian Packet/Paid/Liverpool/Ja 25, 55" entry postmark and red London
arrival postmark on the next day also tying the Late Fee stamp, 91 days from Melbourne to Liverpool, very fine and scarce usage.Champion of the Seas was an American built clipper by Donald McKay in 1854 for James Baines of London. She operated
in the Liverpool to Australia trade for many years. She was employed by the British government during the great Sepoy mutiny. Queen Victoria visited on board before the ship sailed for India with 1,000 troops. She foundered in a storm of Cape Horn in
1876.
City of Sydney, Victoria 1857 6d Orange rouletted tied to "Aborigines of Victoria" illustrated letterhead folded letter with integral address leaf to London endorsed
"City of Sydney & Overland," backstamped "Melbourne, Victoria/No 16, 1857," answer was written and returned as a paste over with Great Britain 1d Red tied by "London/Ja 13, 1858, stamp and cover faults, partly accounted for by its over 30,000 mile
round trip.
Coldstream, small cover endorsed "Clipper Ship Coldstream, Lat. 45 20 S, Long 61 42 W" off the tip of Argentina, entered the mails to Galesburg, Illinois with
left margin 3c Rose grilled (#88, corner crease) tied by "San Francisco, Cal./Mar 1" datestamp, extremely fine, ex-Haas.![[Wreck of the Colombo], cover with bold boxed Saved from the wreck ofthe Colombo handstamp to St. Marys, Canada West, originated with Deep Lead Pleasant Creek, VictoriaOct 23,
1862 backstamp, sent via London with red London, P](121/1180.jpg)
[Wreck of the Colombo], cover with bold boxed "Saved from the wreck of/the Colombo" handstamp to St. Mary's, Canada West, originated with "Deep Lead Pleasant
Creek, Victoria/Oct 23, 1862" backstamp, sent via London with red "London, Paid/Ja 3, 63" transit postmark and arrived with "St. Marys, C.W./Ja 1?, 63" backstamp, stamps missing as noted by manuscript "Lost stamp in Rick," natural cover faults, very
fine for this.In 1859 the Colombo, a 2,127 ton steamer, was put on the P & O Line's monthly Australian run. On a return trip to Singapore in a fog she struck on Minicov Island, the most southern of the Laccadives in the Indian Ocean, 4 AM on
19 November, 1862. The vessel heeled over, the sea entered through open hatches and she foundered. The mail was salvaged by divers, some of it being under water for three months.