December Auction Catalog

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Philatelic Covers - USA Lot# 3074 Quartz, California 1884, 1899 Lot# 3078 San Francisco, California Five Dutch Mining and Milling Company Corner San Francisco Hotel Covers This is a lot of Advertising Cover and Safety Nitro Powder five hotels including The Royal House (Two- Co Covers 1) Dutch Mining and Milling cent red), Montgomery’s Hotel (Two-cent red Company Corner Advertising Cover. From stamp), Hotel Pleasanton (Two-cent green Quartz, Tuolumne County, California. Red 2c straight line cancel), Gailhard Hotel (Three- square Washington A61 stamp. TUO-1200. R-3 cent green) and The Occidental Hotel (Two- [Williams] April 20, 1899. From A. Trittenbach, cent brown target cancellation). John Reynolds superintendent, Quartz to Trittenback of San Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 116228 Francisco. “The Dutch mine...is a producer on the mother lode Quartz Tuolumne county, Cal. It is an old in 1856 and Lot# 3079 San Francisco, California Miller was being worked with success in a small way when it passed into & Lux Ranchers Advertising Covers Lot of the of the Dutch Mining and Milling Company the present owners; a 2 different. Miller & Lux were based in Los San Francisco corporation organized...October, 1893. Prospecting was Banos and were some of the biggest Western until January 1895 when work on a scale began. A shaft was sunk landowners of the 19th century. 1) Rare corner 420 feet, utmost depth attainable by the machinery in place at which ad. cover for Miller & Co. Wool Commission time drifts were run on the second third and fourth levels. A 5 mill Merchants, 10 Davis St. SF. Sent to Bantas, was erected in September 1895.” [Mining & Scientific Press, Volumes California. No date. 3 cent green stamp. SF 75 and 76] 2) San Francisco Wells Fargo stamped cover. Addressed cancel. Yellow envelop with sheep vignette. No to Safety Nitro Powder Company. Reverse has a strong Wells Fargo contents. 2) Corner ad. cover for Miller & Lux, Cancel, Aug. 26, 1884. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 123782 1314 Merchants Exchange, SF. Sent in 1909 to Oakland. No contents. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 115269 Lot# 3075 Sacramento, California 1850 Four 1850 Trail Coverless Lot# 3080 San Francisco, California 1894 San Letters - Independence to Francisco Wine Related Advertising Cover Sacramento 1) green cds with Corner ad. cover for Herbert & Vogel, Coopers, matching “X” rate handstamp on Wine Cask and Tank Builders, SF. Sent in 1850 folded cover to Illinois, letter 1894 to Cloverdale. No contents. John Reynolds talks of Temperance Lecture, Boat Collection Est. $20-50 HWAC# 113021 trip from St. Louis, Passengers drunk Lot# 3081 San Francisco, California 1877 and fighting (one man lost three Two Full Face San Francisco Advertising teeth), gamblers onboard, Cholera, Covers Lot of 2. 1) S.W. Rosenstock & Co., asks that future letters be written to Manufacturers and Importers Boots & Shoes. Sacramento City. 2-4) Also included Sent Feb. 26, 1877 to Roseburg, Oregon. White are three folded covers from the same text on gray background. Includes letterhead correspondence all with Sacramento asking for money. 2) Kennedy & Monell, City, Cal. postmarks. 2) Red cds & Merchant Tailors. White text on red/pink matching “40” rate datelined “Volcano Diggins, Apr. 20, ‘51”, 3) Letter background with great vignette of company’s building. Unused. John with “10” rate, datelined “Placer County, Senator Bar, American River, Reynolds Collection Est. $50-75 HWAC# 113023 Cal./Oct. 26, 1851”, letter mentions being in the diggings and wanting to make “a little more ore”, going to Hangtown (Placerville), mining, Lot# 3082 San Francisco, California Two Full “he went in north Canon in the same old place that we worked last Face San Francisco Advertising Covers Lot of fall and he took out $1450 under that old log, so this is luck in the 2. 1) Christy & Wise, Agents for Wool Growers, gold mines.”. 4) 1852 folded cover with “10” rate, datelined “Sac. City/ Commission Merchants and Hides. White on Nov. 28th, 1852”, letter talks of weather and fire the great Sacramento light green background. Date unknown. Sent to fire). The city is built up again after a fashion, tents and shantys of all Stockton. No contents. 2) Payne’s Bolt Works, kinds with some large fireproof brick houses. VERT FINE. A CHOICE GROUP OF GOLD RUSH COVERS AND LETTERS. Est. $1000-2200 Bolts & Nuts. Sent in 1902 to Chico. Green and HWAC# 126729 white text with green vignette of building and bolts. No contents. John Reynolds Collection Est. $30- 45 HWAC# 113024 Lot# 3076 San Francisco / Portland, California Lot# 3083 San Francisco, California 1800’s Two 1891, 1910 Two pictorial mining Covers; Kohler & Frohling Wine & Brandy Covers A San Francisco and Portland 1) 1891. Fancy pair of two different corner ad. covers for Kohler script “State Mining Bureau” with California & Frohling Wine & Brandies. Nice pieces. Est. $30- seal pictorial. Office of the mineralogist. Very 45 HWAC# 115718 nice looking, strong strike, very nice condition. 2) Hammond Manufacturing Committee, 1910 with a “5 stamp mill’ pictorial. “The Hammond mining dredges, self-contained stamp mills, ore feeders, tramways, etc. Very nice condition. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123776 Lot# 3084 San Francisco, California 1895 Two Russ House Advertising Covers & Letter Two Lot# 3077 San Francisco, California 1873 advertising covers and a letter from The Russ Brooklyn Hotel S.F. Cover & Letter Interesting House, San Francisco. Both with San Francisco lot includes Ad cover from Brooklyn Hotel, San postmarks, one has a two-cent red, the other, Francisco and a letter that tells a story of the a two-cent brown. Both in good condition. John grandkids and their salmon fishing expedition Reynolds Collection Est. $50-75 HWAC# 116215 and a news clipping about a killer grizzly bear. Cover has S.F. postmark, stamp (Three-cent green) has target cancellation. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-150 HWAC# 116227 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 149

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Philatelic Covers - USA Lot# 3085 San Francisco, California 1888, 1901 Lot# 3089 Sonora, California 1894 Two Gold Two San Francisco Navigation Company Country Post Marked Covers Two covers with Advertising Covers Lot of 2. No contents. 1) Gold Country post marks, including Tuttletown, Corner ad. cover for Oregon Coal & Navigation Tuolumne County and Towle in Placer County. Co., Vallejo and Davis Streets, SF. Sent in 1888. Both are in good condition. John Reynolds Collection Staining. 2) Corner ad. cover for Oceanic Est. $50-75 HWAC# 116224 Steamship Company, JD Spreckels & Bros. Co. Sent in 1901. Vignette of ships. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 113020 Lot# 3090 Strawberry Valley, California Strawberry Valley Postal History Collection Lot of three. 1) YUV-1470, 1857-1861, R-4, Red. Manuscript month, day and killer. Letter from miner at Willow Bar on the Yuba River. The author pines for Harriet. 2) YUB-1480, 1865-1868, R-4. Part of postmark cut off. 3) YUB-1490, 1870-1876, R-3. FANCY. To Messendorfer & Co. A popular address in postal history collecting. There are plenty of full front covers from there. Star killer. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123811 Lot# 3091 Strawberry Valley, California 1850’s, 1871 Two Red Strawberry Valley Postmarks 1) YUB-1470, R-4, 1857-1861 . [Williams] Manuscript Nov. 18. Green ‘x’ Washington stamp. On orange envelope. 2) YUB-1490, R-3, Lot# 3086 San Francisco, California 1849 Choice Letter Negotiating 1870-1876. We know the date is a Secure Shipping of $20,000 to $25,000 of Gold Dust, San 1871 from received information. Francisco, 1849 This a true 49er letter with unique content!!! Dated Sent to Meusdorffer, a popular San August 31, 1849 with San Francisco 1st cancel. The gold dust would Francisco merchant with many full be going directly to the U. S. Mint in Philadelphia to be coined! “Please face advertising covers of his own. Est. write by return steamer that a policy will be open to remit by 1st $100-200 HWAC# 123817 January steamer.” Addressed to Ludlow & Beebe Co, bankers. Ludlow Lot# 3092 and his brother were Sacramento bankers. $20,000-25,000 expected Strawberry Valley, to be shipped on SS Panama September 2nd. Documents one of the California 1850’s Two Strawberry earliestt shipments of Gold to the Philadelphia Mint! Est. $1500-2000 Valley Covers: one has a manuscript HWAC# 126727 ‘paid 10’, the other a 10 cent Washington (A14) with manuscript killer Both have hand written day and month inside postmark. \\Yub- Lot# 3087 Shasta / San Francisco, California 1876 1876 cover, letter, gold dust receipt 1470, R-4. 1857-1861 [Williams] Both and envelopes 1) 1876 letterhead from Kruse postmarks in red. One upside down, but very nice. the other light. Est. & Euler in San Francisco. 209 & 211 Front $200-300 HWAC# 123813 Street. To Frank Litsch of Shasta. “The package of gold dust stands for coinage in the mint.” Three covers addressed to Litsch from Kruse and Euler. Torn roughly. And finally a receipt for 34 ounces of gold dust. By serving the daily needs of the area, Lot# 3093 Three Rivers, Tulare County, Frank Litsch’s general merchandise store ran from 1873 to 1900. The California Three Rivers Cover and letter, store is actually two brick buildings with a common wall. Est. $150- 1890. Large ring bold cancel for Three Rivers, 200 HWAC# 126735 TulareCo., Cal.with star cancel. Tul-2840 in Lot# 3088 Sierra County, California c1863 Williams, rated R3 of 4. The post office there Two Sierra County Covers: Downieville and opened Dec 23, 1879. The first cover Williams Forbestown (Civil War Related) 1) Downieville has reported is Sept 20, 1889. The letter is dated Oct 7, 1890, and datelined Advance, CAl, Wells Fargo stamped envelope. 1860/61 issue of which had a post office at the time reported there, but based upon Washington 3c red. Addressed to A. Davies of San this cover, we doubt it was open much, if at all. Not only is the cover Francisco. 2) Forbestown post office mail. BUT- important to collectors, but so is the contents. The letter discusses the 1640. Issued 1857-1864. R-4. Sent to Mr. John M. eally colony of Kaweah. Est. $100-250 HWAC# 110192 Parker, Co. F., Western Sharp Shooters, Corinth, Missouri, Care of Capt. Piggot. The Western Sharp Lot# 3094 Yuba County, California c1862 Two Shooter participated in the Battle of Corinth. Yuba County Covers: Foster’s Bar and 1862 The Western Sharpshooters were a specialized regiment of infantry Camptonville 1) Faoster’s Bar. Aug. 11 hand sharpshooters organized at St. Louis, Missouri on November 23, 1861. written. Valentines Day Card. No postage - FREE. They saw action around the town of Burnsville and near Luka. Est. To New Hampshire. YUB-650, 1861-1864, R-e $200-400 HWAC# 123799 [Williams]. 2) Camptonville on prestamped Washington 10c. November 10, 1862. YUB- 270, 1859-1863, R-4 [Williams] Est. $160-320 HWAC# 123803 150 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Philatelic Covers - USA Lot# 3095 California Lettersheet - How the Lot# 3098 California Lettersheet - Mining California Mines are Worked Illustrated with Business in Four Pictures – Britton & Rey various types of mining. Left: underground mining, Version Four vignettes. Left to right, down: with men wheeling an ore cart out of mine entrance GOING IN TO IT. (two miners resting with in hillside, back; foreground, miners panning gold their packs, stream in background); MAKlNG and using a long tom; center, a windlass lifting ore SOMETHING. (one miner with pan of gold, from a shaft; at right, a sluice with flume behind. other jumping joyously); MAKING NOTHING. (Issued before August 12, 1854. Related to RIVER (two miners looking discouragingly into large MINING in format and execution.) See also Baird hole they have dug); GOING OUT OF IT. (two miners trudging toward 88 (includes illustration here). Wood engraving 3 village in distance). Lith. Four: 3 ¼” x 4 7/8”s each, on a double sheet ¾ X 7 3/8 on a white sheet. Anthony & Baker Sc. [in block]. Baird lists measuring 8 ½ ” x 10 ½”, grey woven. Fine+. Lith. & Published by 20 lettersheets from this company. Published at the Wide West Office, Britten & Rey, corner of Montgomery & California Sts., S.F. Copies of 184 Clay Street, San Francisco. Baird lists six copies: 5 Institutional; this image located by Baird: 4 institutional; 3 private. [Baird #209] one private. Very good with left margin abraded and few small holes Est. $800-1500 HWAC# 126737 that do not affect illustrations, few small stains and red pencil ‘Cowan’ on reverse. [Baird, 104] Est. $800-1500 HWAC# 126750 Lot# 3099 California Lettersheet - Sundry Amusements in the Mines Four Vignettes: Lot# 3096 California A Sundays Amusements; A Daily Pleasure; 1856 Lettersheet - Occupation for Rainy Days; A Pleasant Surprise. Hutchings California -- [San Francisco]: Britton & Rey [white wove Scenes - Method of copy] -- San Francisco; 9 x 12 -- on white paper, Mining (with rare letter) by Britton & Rey. “I have frequently done all Illustrated letter sheet that is represented there, except finding a on double page with grizzly bear in my tent, sitting in a chair before the fire, warming his numerous scenes (one paws and smoking a pipe.” Although many letter sheets illustrate a page printed on full sheet), humorous attitude towards life in the mines, the difficulty and hard dated “1856”. Includes labor of the miner’s life can be seen in the grim expressions pictured in rare letter. Most known these scenes”. No. 23 up in right top corner. This is similar to the Baird issues are blank. One of example [p147, #268]. Baird shows three varieties, one by Quirot. a series of pictorial letter sheets published by James M. Hutchings, Another by Britten & Rey “Lith & Published by Britten & Rey corn’r Methods of Mining illustrates all of the major types of gold mining Montgomery & California Sts. S. - Francisco.” This is the third variety. 2 being done in California by 1855. Four of the illustrations on this sheet found in private hands and 6 in institutions. Tears and rips right. One were done by one of the most prominent artists working in California small chip left. Est. $800-1500 HWAC# 126743 during the gold rush, Charles Christian Nahl. Contains twelve vignettes each depicting different methods of mining. The vignette on the lower Lot# 3100 California Lettersheet - The Mining right shows a Chnese miner with a rocker. Interesting?To the right is Business in Four Pictures – Rare Quirot & a list of sixty-four names of mining localities. This is a rich resource Co. Version Four vignettes. Left to right, down: for not only the mining methods used in the early gold rush period GOING IN TO IT. (two miners resting with but also the list of mining localities (Shirt Tail Bend, Jackass Gulch, their packs, stream in background); MAKlNG Pot Luck City, Sam Town, etc.). Entered according to Act of Congress, SOMETHING. (one miner with pan of gold, in the year 1855, by Jas M. Hutchings, in the Clerk’s Office of the U.S. other jumping joyously); MAKING NOTHING. District Court for the Northern District of California. Published by J. M. (two miners looking discouragingly into large Hutchings, San Francisco.”--text, below image. Blue paper. [Baird, 107] hole they have dug); GOING OUT OF IT. (two miners trudging toward Some discoloration, especially along deep folds. Used with three page village in distance). Lith. Four: 3 ¼” x 4 7/8”s each, on a double sheet written letter headed “Buena Vista Hill (near Mokelumne Hill) January measuring 8 ½ ” x 10 ½”, grey woven. Fine+. Lith. & Published by 7th, 1856” from a man to his mother and the rest of the family: “The Quirot & Co., corner of Montgomery & California Sts., S.F. Baird shows company with whom I am in partnership with, and myself have within only one of these Quirot variations. Not in index? [Baird, p159] Chips a very short time since; took up some claims for mining purposes. at left, stain upper right quadrant. Est. $800-1500 HWAC# 126741 Which prospects will and bids fair to yield us good pay for our work.” Lot# 3101 California c1855 Lettersheet, Non He goes on to describe the details of the claims. Written by George W. pictorial - Articles in a Miner’s Creed c. 1855. Wilson to family in Nashville, Tenn. Est. $1500-3000 HWAC# 126751 Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), Wood engraving; 9 13/16 x 7 3/4 in. Image of a list of articles that comprise various beliefs of a miner. Done with Lot# 3097 California pre 1852 Lettersheet - humor, “Gold is found in quartz, but he would be Miners at Work with Long Toms Unused. Copied satisfied to find in in pints - or even half pints.” It is from a daguerreotype sketch by Justh & Quirot signed “Forty-Nine” and is surrounded by a border Lithographer. No printer shjown, but thought yo with a flowery design in each corner. “Entered be Britten & Rey. Double sheet letter. A miner and according to Act of Congress in the year 1855, by an Indian at left middle lower left respectively. The James M. Hutchings, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the scene at the top (the largest of three illustrations) Northern District of California. Paper color: white. 5 institutional shows a group of 10 miners operating Long Toms copies - none in private hands. [Baird - under non-pictorial] Est. and panning in a stream surrounded by forest and $1000-2000 HWAC# 126738 a few buildings in the background. The Long Tom was an 8 to 20 foot rocker. Miners would shovel dirt into it, pour water Lot# 3102 Denver, Colorado Denver, Colorado over it, and rock it like a cradle. Lighter dirt and gravel was washed Mining Cover and Bag 1) Corner advertising away, leaving heavier gold. This picture shows miners using the Long for “Monte Cristo Mining and Milling Co., Office Tom. Middle of sheet, near left edge, miner with shovel, axe and pan; No. 433 and 435 Larimer Street.” Return in ten below, an Indian chief sitting down; the whole enclosed in a branch days to M. M. Pomerory. president. 2) Small and leafy border. Number “25” in top right corner. Earlier than Feb. bag from the American Smelting and Refining 29, 1852. Copies of this image located by Baird [159]: 1 institutional; Company, Leadville, Colo. Est. $100-200 3 private. 10 x 7-3/8 inches on a single sheet of white wove paper. Est. HWAC# 123816 $800-1200 HWAC# 126739 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 151

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Philatelic Covers - USA Lot# 3103 Denver, Lot# 3108 Virginia City, Nevada 1864 Colorado c1884 California State Telegraph Company from Windsor Hotel William Lent to HH Day Territorial. Includes a Pictorial Postal History California State Telegraph envelope address to Envelope, Letter and Day. Telegram is dated July 6, 1864. “Send me a Stereoview of the more bars. Theall costs to much.” Day was the Magnificent Old Hotel superintendent of the Mexican Mine. He would 1) Envelope with reverse also be connected to the Ophir Mine and Mill. showing the Windsor Lent is a forgotten, but extremely important surround by Mountains: investor on the Comstock. Many (perhaps most) important mines at Grays’ Peak, James’ Peak, one time or another received financial support from him. Est. $200- Arapahoe Peak, Longs 350 HWAC# 102253 Peak. Addressed to AJ Shottwell of Virginia Lot# 3109 Tacoma, Washington 1887 Two Dale, Colorado. Corner Cover return address. 2) Letter associated with Washington Territory Pieces: Cover and the envelope. Jacob Riblet writes to Shotwell to tell him that several Land Agent Postal Card Lot of 2. 1) This is assayers have dropped by and looked the ore sample. They agree it a very clean postal card from the land agent looks high in silver. However, history paints a different picture. “No for the Northern Pacific Railroad. The card history of Southwestern mining would be complete without some letterhead gives the locale of the land parcel as mention of nefarious schemes and schemers. In the Ajo area this Tacoma, Washington Territory. Again, this is an extremely clean piece. element was represented by one A. J. Shotwell, alleged swindler, 2) Cover with manuscript Tacoma, W.T. cancel. Est. $80-150 HWAC# fake mine-stock promoter and general skullduggery expert. [Desert 115710 Magazine, 1964 - 04] 3) Stereoview of the hotel. Strong Contrast. In Lot# 3110 Washington, D.C. House of 1880 when it opened the Windsor was the creme de hotels of the city. Representatives, Washington, D.C. According to Richard Ronzio, author of Silver Images of Colorado, Pictorial Cover Nice pictorial cover. United “the 400-room Windsor was for years the cities finest. It was the first States of America, House of Representatives, building to be wired for electricity in the state and, at least locally, was without peer.” Est. $300-500 HWAC# 123643 Washington, D.C. In VG condition. Postmarked Washington, D.C. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 118723 Lot# 3104 Banner, Idaho 1880 Banner, Idaho Lot# 3111 Madeira, 1825 Madeira Stampless Manuscript Cover, Elmira Silver Mining Cover About Wine Letter from Thos. Murdoch Company Advertising Corner with Letter sent in February 1825 from London to Newton, 1880. Great corner advertisement. Letter Gordon, Murdoch & Scott in Madeira. Letter is written by a local blacksmith. Times are references wine shipment: “...only whenever exciting right now, he claims, as many men you do ship, the wine must be the very best...” are coming to town looking for work. Most get “it must be full, old, & high flavored- & if you do drunk, argue with their boss and are sent packing. Also news about not think sufficiently well of the wine you may have in your store, wait farm animals. Banner was an important town on the road north until you are quite satisfied.” Also mentions a shipment of rice which is from Idaho City. A rich silver lode was discovered in1864 by two in high demand in Europe. More content; please inspect. Fred Holabird prospectors from Boise Basin who quickly sold out to the Elmira Silver Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 113634 Mining Company. The company ran a steady operation for many years and the mine produced well over three million dollars in silver bullion. Lot# 3112 Foreign Postal History Collection [ghosttowns.com] Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123774 Lot of over 60. Small envelope with additional 30 stamps. Countries represented include: Lot# 3105 Manchester, Iowa 1897 Two Pictorial Canada., Italy, Shanghai, Bahrain, France, Watch Advertising Covers Two Watch Corner Spain, Canada, Netherlands, Finland, Brazil, Advertising Covers: 1) canceled 1897 to Jewelers New Zealand, Japan, Great Britain, Philippines, Guild Distributing Co., Manchester Iowa, from Pakistan. 194o-1980. Ken Prag Collection Est. Philadelphia Watch Case Co., Riverside, New $150-200 HWAC# 123488 Jersey and 2) F. Witter & Co., Storm Lake, Iowa. Lot# 3113 1990’s First Day Covers (8 Newspaper snips enclosed. John Reynolds Collection Est. $20-50 HWAC# 116374 Binders) This is a huge group of eight binders chock full of first day covers. This collection Lot# 3106 Boston, Massachusetts Howe was put together by David E. Bradley. All books and covers are in very Machine Co. Pictorial Cover, Boston, Mass. good condition and ready for your collection. See photos for more detail and condition. Est. $250-500 HWAC# 121752 Inventor of Sewing Machine Pictorial cover from Howe Machine Company, 344 Lot# 3114 Colorado Colorado First Flight Washington Street, Boston, Mass. with picture Covers Lot of 40+. Includes: First Flight of Elias Howe, Original Inventor of the Sewing Covers Colorado Springs, Colorado 1928; First Machine. Good condition. Est. $80-120 HWAC# Flight Air Main from Otis, Washington County, 118722 Colorado March 30, 1929. Denver to Tulsa Inaugural nonstop Flight Denver to Tulsa, Lot# 3107 Virginia City, Nevada California Washington DC. and Chicago: Dedication of State Telegraph full face envelope addressed Earl Zimmerman, Legiun, Durango, Alamosa to J. N. Day, Supt. Savage Mine, Virginia City, Gunnison, Colorado Springs, Roswell Delta Nevada No Cancel. Reduced at left. John Day, Lincoln Crosson Airports. Included is Pikes Peak Air Show. Est. $50- a local surveyor, was the namesake of Dayton, 500 HWAC# 117093 Nevada. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 123786 152 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / First Flight Covers - USA Lot# 3115 Connecticut 1931-1961 Five Lot# 3124 Massachusetts Massachusetts Connecticut First Flight Covers Lot of five First Flight Covers (36) Lot of 36. First Flight first flight covers from Connecticut, c1931- Covers 1934-1941; Massachusetts, American 1961. Includes cachet covers, and a couple of Legion Air Meet, 1929; Airport Dedication, commemorative stamps. Bridgeport, Hartford, 1931-1932; Massachusetts Air Races, 1929- New London. Please inspect. John Reynolds 1930; Massachusetts Air shows, 1927-1946; Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116655 Baltimore Aircraft Show December 1929; Boston Air Tours, 1928-1930. Est. $50-500 Lot# 3116 Connecticut Two Connecticut First HWAC# 117107 Flight Covers Inauguration of Airmail Route 94 Lot# 3125 Michigan First Flight Covers: Bridgeport, New Haven, Connecticut, 1967; and Michigan Lot of 27 first flight covers from State Connecticut Convention Air Meet, August 1929. Est. $50-500 HWAC# 117094 Michigan, c1928-1956, several from the 20’s. Includes cachet covers, some pilot and postmaster autographs, and the president of Northwest Airlines in 1945. A few have commemorative stamps. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116649 Lot# 3117 Delaware 1939-1949 Four Delaware First Flight Covers Group of four Lot# 3126 Michigan Michigan First Flight first flight covers from Delaware, c1939-1949. Covers (60) Lot of ~60. First Flight Covers, Includes cachet covers from Rehoboth Beach, 1931-1969; Airport Dedication, 1930-1968; Wilmington and Georgetown. John Reynolds Trophy race,1934-1935; National Air Tours, Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116656 1929-1932; Air Shows, 1927-1933. Please inspect. Est. $50-500 HWAC# 117108 Lot# 3118 Delaware Wilmington, Delaware Air Show Cover Air Meet at the Wilmington Lot# 3127 Mississippi Mississippi First Airport, October 6, 1928. 5 cent Air Mail Flight Covers Lot of 4. First Flight Covers, Postage. Est. $50-500 HWAC# 117096 1933-1950; Mississippi Airport Dedication, 1932; Official Cachet 42 Annual Convention, September 1975. Est. $50-500 HWAC# 117110 Lot# 3119 Georgia 1926-1983 First Flight Covers Georgia Group of 24 first flight covers Lot# 3128 Nebraska Nebraska First Flight from Georgia, c1926-1983. Includes cachet Covers Lot of 19. First Flight Covers, 1929-1999; covers, postmaster and acting postmaster Airport Dedication, 1940-1985; Nebraska Air autographs. A few have commemorative or Show, 1946; Air our, 1929; Air Races, 1931- international stamps. John Reynolds Collection 1934. Included is Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116801 Home letter with Commemorative Stamp no longer available. Please inspect. Est. $50-500 Lot# 3120 Georgia Georgia First Flight HWAC# 117113 Covers Lot of 10. First Flight Covers, 1969- 1978; Georgia’s Airport Dedications, 1933- Lot# 3129 Nevada 1926-1999 Nevada Air Races, 1941; Georgia National Air Tour 1929. Please inspect. Est. $50-500 HWAC# 117098 Dedications, & First Flight Covers Lot of 21 first flight, air race, airport dedications covers from Nevada, c1926-1999. Includes 1927 Reno contract Lot# 3121 Hawaii 1954 First Flight Cover mail cat. 18E9, Reno to Elko, 1 of 26 carried per American Air Mail Catalog. Cachet covers, and a Hawaii A first flight cover from Honolulu, U.S. Customs and some pilot autographs. Please Hawaii to Tokyo, Japan, February 3, 1954. Has inspect. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# a Tokyo AMF, Japan postmark and small cachet 116821 on the back. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50- 500 HWAC# 116802 Lot# 3130 Nevada 1926-1962 Nevada First Lot# 3122 Maryland Maryland American Flight Covers Group of 20 first flight covers from Nevada, c1926-1962, most from the Airlines Air Mail Cover One Maryland Air 20’s-30’s. Includes cachet covers, and two pilot Mail Cover 1937, American Airlines. Six stamps (five different). Annapolis cancel. Est. $50-500 autographs from first flights Boulder City, 1938 HWAC# 117106 and Ely, 1955. Major first flights such as Reno and Las Vegas are included. A few have special Lot# 3123 Massachusetts 1927-1976 First and scarce stamps. James Mackie Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116640 Flight Covers: Massachusetts Group of 29 Lot# 3131 New Hampshire 1930-1986 Air first flight covers from Massachusetts, c1927- Tours Covers: New Hampshire and Maine 1976. These major route first flights include Group of five covers from New Hampshire cachet covers, some postmaster autographs. and Maine. N.H. includes three air tour cachet John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116648 covers: one from Concord, c. 1930, and two from Keene, c. 1930, with postmaster and mayor autographs. Lot includes two 1986 Portland, Maine, nonstop to Philadelphia air mail covers. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116822 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 153

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / First Flight Covers - USA Lot# 3132 New Hampshire First Flight Lot# 3139 South Carolina 1929-1933 South Carolina Covers- New Hampshire Lot of 4 first flight Air Races & Dedications Covers Group of three air covers from New Hampshire, c1934-1951. races and dedications covers from South Carolina, Includes cachet covers, one pilot and one c1929-1933. Includes June 15, 1933 dedication of postmaster autograph, with first flights from C.C. Anderson Landing Field, Walterboro, S.C., which Laconia, Berlin, Concord and Keene. John the US Army Air Force used from 1942-1945, and is Reynolds Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116643 now called Lowcountry Regional Airport. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116831 Lot# 3133 New Jersey 1929-1955 Air Shows & Dedication Covers: New Jersey Lot of 17 first Lot# 3140 Utah 1926-1979 Utah Air, First flight, air shows, meets and dedications covers Flight, & Airport Dedication Covers A dozen from New Jersey, c1929-1955. Includes cachet covers, and a mayor’s autograph. John Reynolds or so first flight, airport dedication covers from Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116823 Utah, c1926-1979. Includes cachet covers, and some postmaster autographs. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116817 Lot# 3134 New Mexico 1929-1954 Air First Lot# 3141 Vermont 1934-1946 First Flight Flights & Dedications Covers: New Mexico Covers Vermont Group of 4 first flight covers Lot of 18 first flight and dedication covers from from Vermont, c1934-1946. Includes cachet New Mexico, c1929-1954. Includes cachet covers and one pilot autograph on a 1946 covers, and a pilot and postmaster autograph. Rutland, VT cover with typed information that John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# the new Rutland-Ottawa, Canada route was 116824 via Colonial Airlines, a Montreal-based carrier formed in 1942 and purchased by Eastern Air Lines in 1956. John Reynolds Collection Est. Lot# 3135 New Mexico 1930-1950 First Flight $50-500 HWAC# 116632 Covers- New Mexico Lot of 18 first flight covers Lot# 3142 Vermont 1930-1931 Vermont Air Meets from New Mexico, c1930-1950. Includes cachet & Shows Covers Lot of three first flight covers from covers, two postmaster autographs, and a Vermont, c1930-1931. Includes cachet cover for an air number of small airports, as well as major first tour in Springfield and two covers for an air meet and flights that are now regular routes. A few have dedication in Rutland. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50- special and scarce stamps. John Reynolds Collection 500 HWAC# 116818 Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116639 Lot# 3136 Pennsylvania 1927-1990 First Flight Pennsylvania Covers Collection of 52 Lot# 3143 Virginia 1926-1992 First Flight first flight covers from Pennsylvania, c1927- Covers Virginia Lot of 25 first flight covers 1990, mostly from the 30’s-40’s. Includes from Virginia, c1926-1992, most from the cachet covers, one pilot autograph, and a 30’s-40’s. Includes cachet covers, one pilot number of small airports, as well as major first autograph, two postmaster and one acting flights that are now a part of our regular lives. postmaster autographs, and a 1926 Hartford, A few are marked as experimental routes. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116773 Conn. cover with return address W.C. Henry Philatelic Service, Los Angeles. John Reynolds Lot# 3137 Pennsylvania 1927-2003 Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116633 Pennsylvania Air Show, First Flight, Lot# 3144 Virginia 1932-1962 Virginia Dedication & Other Covers Lot of 48 air mail Airport Dedication, First Flight, & and airport-related covers from Pennsylvania, Commemorative Covers Group of four first c1927-2003, most early dates. Includes cachet flight, airport dedication and commemorative covers, several pilot, some postmaster and covers from, c1932-1962. Includes cachet chamber of commerce autographs, and an “in covers, a cachet designer’s autograph, and memoriam” to a pilot killed in a plane crash. A military and special stamps. Also, a 1932 Mount Vernon cachet cover few have special and scarce stamps. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50- celebrating George Washington bicentennial. John Reynolds Collection 500 HWAC# 116828 Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116819 Lot# 3138 Providence, Rhode Island 1932 Lot# 3145 Seattle, Washington 44817 First Flight First Flights Rhode Island Covers Lot of Covers L.A.-Seattle, Special Flight Sacramento- 5 first flight covers from Providence, Rhode S.F. Connection Lot of 9 first flight covers air mail Island, c1932. Cachet covers, with one pilot via a special flight from Sacramento to San Francisco autograph included. All are for first flight air before connecting to a flight from Los Angeles mail route AM 1 P.O.D. Providence, Rhode to Seattle. Eight are postmarked Sept., 14, 1926, Island, Aug. 6, 1932. John Reynolds Collection Est. with the stamp “Special Flight Sacramento to San $50-500 HWAC# 116774 Francisco September Fourteen, Nineteen Hundred Twenty-Six, to connect Seattle to Los Angeles Route.” Only one is postmarked Sept. 15, 1926 for a San Francisco to Los Angeles route. It was Also, postmarked Oct. 1, 1926 in S.F. and marked “unable to locate.” John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 116601 154 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / First Flight Covers - Worldwide Lot# 3146 Washington 1926-1978 First Lot# 3153 1929 Canadian First Flight & Air Flight Covers Washington State Group of 57 Mail Covers: January 1929 Lot of thirteen first flight covers from Washington, c1926- January 1929 First Flight & Air Mail covers. 1978, most from the 20’s-40’s. Includes cachet Includes: Montreal-Saint John; Saint John- covers, some postmaster autographs, including Montreal; Saint John-Ottawa; Saint John to one with two postmaster autographs. Includes Halifax; and more. Please inspect. Est. $50- a 1947 Seattle cover to Shanghai, China via 100 HWAC# 115105 Northwest Airlines Orient Service’s first flight. Others have special and scarce stamps. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50- Lot# 3154 1929 Canadian Airport Opening 500 HWAC# 116637 Air Mail & First Flight Covers: June 1929 Lot# 3147 Washington 1926-1986 Lot of 4 covers, June 1929. Commemorating Washington State Air Show, Tours, Races, the opening of the Kingston Airport and the & Dedications Covers & More Group of Hamilton Airport. Two are first flight. Est. $20- 43 covers from Washington State, includes 40 HWAC# 115104 air shows, tours, races, dedications, and Lot# 3155 1930 Canadian Air Covers: Edmonton first flights, c1926-1986. A ticket to a 1927 Annual Air Show Three 1930 Air Mail covers National Air Derby in Spokane and a wooden commemorating the September 17, 1930 First Annual first flight commemoration plaque Spokane, Air Show in Edmonton. Est. $20-50 HWAC# 115059 1929. Includes an airport owner, postmasters, pilots and chamber of commerce autographs. A few have special stamps. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116820 Lot# 3148 Washington, D.C. 1928-1984 First Flight Air Event Covers Washington, D.C. Group of 19 first flight, air races and air events Lot# 3156 1930 Canadian First Flight covers from Washington, D.C., c1928-1984. Covers: Peace River Lot of twelve 1930 First Includes cachet covers, and two covers from Flight covers involving Peace River (located in the Charles Lawrence Lanier Trophy Amateur NW Alberta). Includes Canada Air Mail First Air Pilot Cruise to National Air Races, Aug. Flight Peace River-North Vermilion, Peace 27, 1932. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-500 River to Carcajou, etc. Please inspect. Est. $50- HWAC# 116811 100 HWAC# 115057 Lot# 3149 Washington, D.C. 1926-1959 First Lot# 3157 1930 Canadian First Flight Flight Covers Washington, D.C. Group of Covers: Siscoe & Amos Lot of eight 1930 First 25 first flight covers from Washington, D.C., Flight & Air Mail covers. Includes scene from c1926-1959. Includes cachet covers, a 1926 First Annual Air Show, Edmonton; First Official Sesquicentennial route, first nonstop service Flight from Siscoe to Amos; and Air Mail Siscoe from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles 1954, to Amos. Cancels are Siscoe or Amos. Est. $20- and others with special and scarce stamps. John 50 HWAC# 115056 Reynolds Collection Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116636 Lot# 3158 1931 Canadian First Flight Lot# 3150 West Virginia 1929-1953 West Covers: January & February 1931 Lot of Virginia Air Shows, Meets, Tours, & 23 First Flight Covers from Jan. and Feb. 1931. Includes: Edmonton-Halifax; Montreal- Dedication Covers Group of six first flight Edmonton; Lethbridge-Medicine Hat; Peace covers from West Virginia, c1929-1953. River-Fort Vermilion; Lethbridge-Calgary; and Includes cachet covers, and some pilot and more. Please inspect. Est. $50-125 HWAC# postmaster autographs. John Reynolds Collection 115065 Est. $50-500 HWAC# 116812 Lot# 3159 1931 Canadian First Flight Lot# 3151 Transatlantic First Flight Covers Covers: August and December 1931 Lot of (40) Transatlantic First Flight Covers 1933- 21 August-December 1931 covers. Includes: 1987; Germany, Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Edmonton-Lethbridge; Embarras Portage- Switzerland, Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, McMurray; Fort Chipwyan-Embarras Portage; Amsterdam, TWA inaugural Flight JFK to West Berlin, Germany 1987. Est. $50-150 HWAC# Vancouver-Victoria; and more. Please inspect. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 115069 117120 Lot# 3160 1931 Two 1931 Canadian First Lot# 3152 1928 Canadian First Flights Covers: Flight Covers Two different 1931 First Flight Issue covers: The Dominion Railway Mail Clerks October 1928 Lot of nine October 1928 First Flight Federation corner ad., First Flight Winnipeg Covers with scenes. All are Montreal / Albany, New York. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 115110 to Pembina; and Canadian Pacific Railway En Route, First Flight Fort Vermilion to Peace River. Est. $20-50 HWAC# 115055 If you need Christmas delivery please contact us for special arrangements. View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 155

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 First Flight Covers - Worldwide Lot# 3161 1931 United States Canada Trans- Lot# 3169 1938 Canadian First Flight Continental Air Mail Transfer Covers Lot of three Covers: 1938 Lot of 17 First Flight Covers, 1931 covers celebrating the First United States Canada most August 1938. Routes include: Vancouver Trans-Continental Air Mail Transfer connecting to White Horse, Yukon; Vancouver to Quesnel, Eastern and Western Canada. All 3 different. Est. $20- British Columbia; Ware, B.C. to Prince George, 45 HWAC# 115053 B.C.; Fort Saint John, B.C. to Vancouver; Germansen Landing to Prince George; and Williams Lake to Vancouver. Please inspect. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-150 HWAC# 116582 Lot# 3162 1932 International Airmail Society & Lot# 3170 1939 First Air Mail Flight Covers 4th Canadian Air Pageant Covers Lot of 3 Air Mail Canada to U.S. (22) Twenty two covers that covers. Two are for the International Airmail Society commemorate the first deliveries of Trans Canada Fourth Canadian Air Pageant, August 19-20, 1932 Air Mail from Canada to the U.S. One was canceled Montreal. The third is a 1933 First Day Cover, Montreal on March 1, 1939; 18 on March 2, 1939; and to Miami, Florida. Est. $20-50 HWAC# 115095 two April 1, 1939. Routes: Winnipeg-North Bay; Montreal-Vancouver; Winnipeg-Montreal; Regina- Vancouver; Lethbridge-Vancouver, and more. Please inspect. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-100 Lot# 3163 1932 Two Canadian First Day HWAC# 116576 Air Mail Covers: February 1932 Lot of two Feb. 1932 First Day Air Mail Covers. Includes: Lot# 3171 1939 Misc. Canadian First Flight Vancouver British Columbia / Highland Park Covers Lot of 10 First Flight Covers, 1930-1973. New Jersey and Hamilton, Ont. /Lewiston Idaho. Covers included are from Newport to Horta Note the 6-cent overprint on both. Est. $20-45 Azores, Northern Flight Foynes Eire-Ireland-- HWAC# 115070 Botwood Newforunland and a `1973 BUU-Chinh Viestnam Conghoa The Clipper made the first mail flight on the northern route across the Lot# 3164 1934 1934 Canadian First Flight Air Atlantic, to England, on June 24, 1939, with stops at Shediac (New Brunswick), Botwood Mail Covers (20) About 20 First Flight of Canadian (Newfoundland), and Foynes (Ireland). Refer to Airmail Covers with cancels from January to June, photo. Est. $20-50 HWAC# 115060 1934. Have a variety of flights and stamps to add to your collection including Coppermine-Cameron Lot# 3172 1939 Summer of 1939 Canadian Bay, Ile A La Crosse-Prince Albert, Beauval-Prince First Flight Covers This is a group of 30 first Albert, and more. Please inspect. John Reynolds flight covers from the summer of 1939. They Collection Est. $50-150 HWAC# 116354 cover just about all the Canadian Provinces. They are in good condition. Routes: Montreal- Lot# 3165 1934 Canadian First Flight Botwood, Montreal- Southampton, Montreal- Covers: Oct-Dec. 1934 (25) A group of 25 Foynes, Shediac-New York, Newfoundland- first flight covers, October to December 1934. England, and more. Please inspect. John Reynolds Includes: Atlin-Telegraph Creek, Winnipeg- Collection Est. $50-125 HWAC# 116590 Kenora, Kewagama-Rouyn, Casummit Lake- Lot# 3173 1941 Canadian First Flight Sioux Lookout, and many more. Please inspect. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-150 HWAC# Covers: 1941 Lot of thirteen 1941 1st Flight 116587 covers, includes one censored cover. Routes: Toronto-Buffalo; Moncton-Bangor; Windsor- Lot# 3166 1935 Canadian First Flight Chicago, Lethbridge-Great Falls, and more. Covers: 1935 Lot of 40+ 1935 Canada Please inspect. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 115039 First Flight covers. Includes: Experimental Service Halifax to Sydney, Pickle Crow-Collins to Ontario, Goldfields to Fort Chipewyan, Lot# 3174 1942 1942 Canadian First Flight Vancouver-Seattle, Kenora-Cole, Kenora- Covers Lot of sixteen 1942 First Flight Covers. Whitefish Bay, and many more. 1, 2, 5 and 6 Routes: Sydney-Gander, NFLD, Moncton-St cent stamps. Refer to photo. Est. $80-250 HWAC# 115050 John’s, NFLD, Montreal-Quebec, Trois-Rivieres- Lot# 3167 1937 Canadian 1937 First Flight Montrea, Czechoslovak Field Post. Refer to photo. Est. $50-150 HWAC# 115064 Covers This lot contains 17 Canadian first flight covers from August to September, 1937. A very colorful group and in very good condition. Includes: Herb Lake-The Pas; Sturgeon Landing- The Pas; The Pas-Cumberland House; Montreal- Lot# 3175 1949 Canadian First Flight Burlington, and more. Please inspect. John Covers: Vancouver 1949 Lot of 20 1949 1st Reynolds Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 116588 Flight Covers. Flights include Vancouver to Hong Kong, Vancouver to FIJI, Vancouver to Lot# 3168 1938 Canada 1st Flight Covers: Sydney, Vancouver to Japan, and Vancouver to Honolulu. Est. $50-150 HWAC# 115062 White Horse to Juneau and Fairbanks, Alaska Lot of eleven May 3-8 1938 1st First Official Air Flight Covers that includes cache scene events. Flights: White Horse-Juneau, White Horse-Fairbanks. Please inspect. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 115044 156 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3176 1950 Canadian First Flight Lot# 3184 Douglas, Arizona Douglas Arizona Covers: Jetliner, Toronto to New York Lot Postcard Collection A collection of about 5 real of four 1st Flight Covers celebrating the 1950 photo postcards and about 3 chromolithograph Jetliner flight from Toronto to New York. In postcards, all of Douglas, Arizona, and its landmarks. There are April 1950, the Jetliner carried the world’s first multiple cards showcasing the Gadsden Hotel, one bird’s eye view, and jet airmail from Toronto to New York City in 58 various other historical locations. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 126622 minutes, half the previous record (c.340 miles, 352 mph). The flight was highly publicized and the crew was welcomed with a ticker tape Lot# 3185 Hackberry, Arizona Hackberry parade through the streets of Manhattan. Flights here: Est. $20-50 Arizona Real Photo Postcard One real photo HWAC# 115042 postcard of a bird’s eye view of the mining ghost town Hackberry, a now unincorporated town in Mohave County, Lot# 3177 1969 Canadian First Flight Arizona. Dated early 1900’s and measuring roughly 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 Covers: Dropped by Parachute Lot of four inches. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 126621 1969 First Flight Covers. Williams Airport. Three are stamped “Dropped by Parachute.” Lot# 3186 Jerome, Arizona Jerome Arizona Newspaper clipping enclosed. Nice write up. Historical Postcard Collection This lot of Refer to photo. Est. $30-50 HWAC# 115071 about 55 postcards take a tour of Jerome, Arizona through the ages. This collection is split between about 20 Lot# 3178 Newfoundland First Day Covers color postcards, such as chromolithographs or more modern 1950’s for Airmail This is a collection of ten first printing, and about 35 real photo postcards. Popular locations in the airmail covers from Newfoundland, 1940s. cards are Main Street, the United Verde Copper Co. Hospital, Alan Please inspect. Est. $50-75 HWAC# 115090 Spring Cave, and various bird’s eye views of Jerome. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 126602 Lot# 3187 Meteor Crater, Arizona Meteor Lot# 3179 Hong Kong, 1937 Hong Kong Air Mail Crater Historical Postcard Collection A Covers - 3 Three air mail covers, dated 1937, sent to collection of about 9 real photo postcards and US addresses from or via Hong Kong: 1) First Flight about 2 chromolithograph cards showcasing the Meteor Crater 19 F.A.M.14 Hong Kong to San Francisco, postmarked miles west of Winslow, Arizona. This crater was the site of millions of Hong Kong; 2) First Flight via P.A.A. postmarked Manila, dollars worth of failed mining operations where they tried prospecting Philippines; 3) First Flight via P.A.A. postmarked Hong for meteoric material but were thwarted by water and quicksand. Est. Kong. All have an image of the Pan American Clipper $160-200 HWAC# 126623 aircraft. Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-150 HWAC# 126205 Lot# 3188 Morenci, Arizona Morenci Arizona Real Photo Postcard Collection A collection Lot# 3180 1958-1999 Worldwide Balloon of about 7 real photo postcards and 2 twin Covers Lot of 15 international balloon covers chromolithograph postcards of Morenci, Arizona. The real photograph from Belgium, Budapest, Denmark and cards feature bird’s eye views and a shot of Loop no. 3 on the Morenci Germany, among others, c1958-1999. Nicely Southern Railroad, which was nicknamed “The Corkscrew Railroad of catalogued cachet covers includes many America” due to its many loops. The chromolithograph cards feature with pilot autographs. Commemorative and the Morenci Club building and one is postmarked February 11, 1908. international stamps, postmarks, very well preserved. John Reynolds Est. $100-150 HWAC# 126619 Collection Est. $20-75 HWAC# 117247 Lot# 3189 Nogales, Arizona Nogales Lot# 3181 Alabama Alabama Postcards Arizona Real Photo Postcard Collection An Approx 30 Alabama postcards Salvatore Falcone assortment of about 19 real photo postcards Collection Est. $40-60 HWAC# 102702 plus three color cards and one embossed flower card, all touring various places in Nogales, Arizona. Popular locations include the customs office on the border of Nogales and Sonora, the fence running between the two towns, bird’s eye views, and various landmarks around the city. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 126625 Lot# 3182 Alaska 1900’s Alaska Postcards Lot# 3190 Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix Area Some RPC. Lot of 25. Only one has writing w/ Postcard Collection This collection of about stamp (Ben Franklin 1c) and cancel date 1906. 30 vintage and antique postcards tours the Two are color w/one colorized of interior of surrounding Phoenix area and it’s suburbs with a mix of real photo Church @ Metlakatla, other is view from the postcards, linen, chromolithograph, and color cards Est. $100-150 water of Juneau minus the cruise ships. Other HWAC# 126629 scenes include pond scenes near Tredwell, Dead-Horse Gulch W.P.& Y. Railway, (view from tracks), Birdseye Lot# 3191 Prescott, Arizona Prescott Arizona views i.e. Wrangell straight and Wrangell. Great historical ref collected Real Photo Postcard Collection A collection a tourist for the time The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce of about 10 real photo postcards of Prescott, Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $60-100 HWAC# 125493 Arizona, and one chromolithograph of what is now the Sacred Hearts Lot# 3183 Bisbee, Arizona Bisbee Arizona Catholic Church before the steeple was removed. The real photo cards include some bird’s eye views as well as images of Whiskey Row, the Real Photo Postcard Collection This varied city hall and public library, and the plaza, which features the Buck collection celebrates and documents the town O’Neil monument. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 126620 of Bisbee, Arizona, and consists of about 30 real photo postcards, three chromolithograph cards, one linen card, one rough-edged embossed glitter card, and a novelty burned nubuck leather postcard from 1906. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126624 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 157

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3192 Tombstone, Arizona Tombstone Lot# 3199 Prescott, Arizona 1900’s Navajo Arizona Real Photo Postcard Collection A Indian RPC’s A nice group of 50 RPC’s and collection of about 23 real photo postcards of standard postcards, showing images of Navajo the legendary Tombstone, AZ. Includes one color card of The Crystal Indians in the Southwest. Cards feature a Palace Bar. Popular locations in the postcard photos are The Bird Cage Navajo School band in Phoenix, Navajo children, Theater, West Main Street, and the office of the Tombstone Epitaph basket weavers, a birds eye view of the Indian which was founded in 1880. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 126618 school in Phoenix, a woman at a loom and many others. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. Lot# 3193 Tucson, Arizona Historic Tucson, $150-300 HWAC# 120952 Arizona, Postcards - 13 Actually 12 postcards (8 B&W, 4 chromoliths) of famous scenes of Lot# 3200 Arizona Arizona’s Small Towns Tucson, Arizona. Some buildings are long Postcard Collection This collection of about gone, but some, like the San Xavier Mission, 46 real photo and color postcards showcases the Arizona Inn, and the Railroad depot (until some of Arizona’s lesser-known towns such as Sentinel, Winslow, recently a restaurant) exist today. Last item Clifton, Gripe, and more. Also includes 3 Arizona picture playing cards. is a 7-of-clubs playing card with an image Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126628 of Mission San Xavier. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-180 HWAC# 126685 Lot# 3201 Arizona Globe and Miami Arizona Postcard Collection About 8 postcards, five Lot# 3194 Williams, Arizona Williams showing Globe, Arizona, and the other three Arizona Bird’s Eye View Postcard Collection from Miami, AZ. This lot includes five real photo postcards, two 1950’s ‘modern’ era cards, and one black and white card circa the early 1900s, Three real photo postcards of bird’s eye views of Williams Arizona, one of which is postmarked 1924. Postcards all all in varying sizes. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 126604 measure 5-3/8 x 3-3/8 inches. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 126603 Lot# 3202 Arizona So. Arizona Cities Postcards (5) Nice grouping of postcards Lot# 3195 Yuma, Arizona Yuma Arizona featuring the cities of Benson, Bowie, Nogales Postcard Collection A collection of about and Warren, AZ. The Benson postcard is a 15 vintage and antique postcards from scene on Fourth St, with a train on the track Yuma, Arizona, 4 of which are real photo postcards, 4 of which are in the foreground and the town in the background, and is published 1900s-1910s chromolithograph cards, and the rest miscellaneous styles ranging from the early 1900s to the mid-1940s. Est. $100-150 by F.A. Newlands, Pub. A nice color postcard of S. P. Hotel and Depot HWAC# 126605 in Bowie, AZ. published by Central Post Card Co., Fort Scott, Kansas. Includes two postcards of Nogales, AZ. now in Sonora, Mexico. One is Lot# 3196 Arizona Early 1900s Apache a real photo postcard “Field Bakery.”One bird’s eye view of Warren, Postcards and Apache Railway Pass Lot AZ. Great small group of southern Arizona postcards. John Reynolds of 22 includes 21 RPC and colorful Litho Collection Est. $30-50 HWAC# 118505 postcards featuring Apache Indians, from the Lot# 3203 Arizona Roosevelt Dam, Arizona Postcards early 1900s, and a pass for admission onto the 3 black/white postcards of Roosevelt Dam, Arizona. Apache Railway, an Arizona short-line railroad, Theodore Roosevelt Dam (named after U.S. President) dated 1934. Postcards of various Apache is on the Salt River northeast of Phoenix, Arizona. It is Tribal scenes, many of Chief Geronimo, are 357 feet high. Originally built between 1905 and 1911; both canceled with stamps and unused blanks. Postmarks are: 1910 the dam was renovated and expanded in 1989–1996. Prescott, AZ; 1910 Alden, IA; Early 1900s Cold Springs, CO; 1908 Main purposes is for irrigation, water supply, and flood Globe, AZ; 1900 San Francisco, CA; 1910 Arizona; 1908 Phoenix, AZ; control, the dam also has a hydroelectric generating 1910 Globe, AZ. The pass is signed by the president of the Apache capacity of 36 megawatts. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. Railway Company and countersigned. The railway began operation in 1917. John Reynolds Collection Est. $140-300 HWAC# 125469 $30-40 HWAC# 105118 Lot# 3197 Arizona Arizona Dams Postcard Lot# 3204 Anaheim, California 1950’s 1950’s Disney Postcard Collection (Lot 2) About Collection This collection of about 5 real thirty postcards. Some duplicates. Sky Ride, photo postcards and 5 hand-colored photo Golden Horseshoe, Submarine, Magic Castle, cards show some of the dams of Arizona. This collection features the Steamboat Ride, Jungle Ride, Band, Pirate Ship, Coolidge Dam on the Gila River and the Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River, both from various angles and locations. Est. $100-120 HWAC# Entrance, Train, etc. About 30. Ken Prag Collection 126626 Est. $100-150 HWAC# 123514 Lot# 3198 Arizona Early 1900s Arizona Lot# 3205 Anaheim, California 1950’s 1950’s Postcards “Native American” Group Disneyland Photographs and Ephemera Lot of 19. Eleven photographs all dated - all 1950’s Nineteen RPC and Litho postcards from early attractions and Diney park! Eight pieces of 1900s in Arizona, featuring Native Americans. Disney Ephemera including a 40c ‘C’ ride, 10c Tribes represented include Pima, Moqui, ‘A’ ride, Round ‘I’ve been to Disneyland, etc. Ken Walapai, Zuni, with many from Yuma. Includes both canceled with stamps and unused blank. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123510 Postmarks are: 1907 Yuma, AZ; 1904 Canaan, ME; 1909 Yuma, AZ; 1907 Lot# 3206 Anaheim, California 1950’s Los Angeles, CA; 1909 Douglas, AZ; 1907 Pueblo, AZ; 1909 Seattle, WA; Collection of 1950’s Disney Postcards About 1913 Mesa, AZ; 1917 El Centro, CA; 1907 Winslow, AZ; and 1908 Blue Canyon, CA. John Reynolds Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125459 thirty postcards. Some duplicates. Revisit Hall of Chemistry, Magic Castle, Steamboat Ride, Monorail, Jungle Ride, Band, Matterhorn, Pirate Ship, Entrance, Train, Fireworks, etc. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 123513 158 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3207 Anaheim, California Disneyland Lot# 3214 Anaheim, California Walt Disney Vintage Post Card Collection About 700- and his Entourage (Tinker Bell, Baloo, plus post cards from Disneyland, mostly the Four Art Corner Cards, etc.) Art Corner California park, c 1950’s-80s. This is a great cards include Chip and Dale and ‘Yes Si-Am’. collection of most everything as the park Two older and rarer Tinker Bell cards. Laura evolved from its roots, and includes some N. Goldberg ‘Film Producer, Developer of Disneyland and Creator of ephemera. Ken Prag Collection Est. $800-1500 Mickey Mouse postcard. BEtc. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# HWAC# 127056 123516 Lot# 3208 Anaheim, California Six Anaheim Lot# 3215 Angel Island, California Angel 3D Postcards Three different: Chip & Dale; Island RPC Collection - 17 A set of 17 RPCs Mickey, Pluto and Dumbo and Donald Duck. featuring scenic views of, on, and from Angel Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-250 HWAC# 123512 Island in San Francisco Bay just north of the Golden Gate. A few include Ft. McDowell, but most are of local scenery. Ken Prag Collection Lot# 3209 Anaheim, California Three Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126871 Different Disney Squeaker Post Cards Chip and Daly, 101 Dalmatians and a ‘Yes I am Lot# 3216 Angel Island, California Angel Island Postcard Collection Having Fun at Disneyland. All work, altough ~ 33 Take a tour some better than others. Ken Prag Collection Est. of the history $100-120 HWAC# 123511 and geography of Angel Island in San Lot# 3210 Anaheim, California Vintage Francisco Bay. See the Disneyland Post Card Collection (# 1) One historic buildings of postcard is ‘the cell, the basic unit of life.’ Ft. McDowell and the Another is the Jungle Ride with a cartoon Immigration Center Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse drawn in and the Quarantine it, Includes a wide variety of Disneyland Station among other scenes, parades, Magic Castle, Mickey Mouse, locations on the Monsanto Chemical Company, Submarine Ride, island. There are Jungle Ride, local hotels, Pirate Ship, Steam Ship, Abraham Lincoln, about 29 B&W with Jungle Ride, Dumbo Ride, Matterhorn, Sky Ride, etc. One black and RPCs and 4 color white RPC of Disney Studios. Mostly 1960 and 1970’s. About 50 cards. chromoliths. Ken Prag Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123519 Collection Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 126832 Lot# 3211 Anaheim, California Vintage Disneyland Post Card Collection (# 2) Lot# 3217 Bakersfield, California 1900’s Includes a wide variety of Disneyland Bakersfield RPC’s & Postcard Horde Near a scenes, parades, Magic Castle, Mickey Mouse, 100 RPC’s and postcards featuring Bakersfield Monsanto Chemical Company, Sky Ride, and Kernville, California sites. Included are images of the county as Monorail, Jungle Ride, local hotels, Pirate Ship, well as city courthouse, churches, the Santa Fe Depot, oil fields in Steam Ship, Abraham Lincoln, Jungle Ride, Its Taft and several other Kern County landmarks. Some cards are blank, a Small World, Frontierland, Matterhorn, Small others used. Please see photos for more detail and condition Est. World, Sleeping Beauty Castle, etc. Mostly 1960 $400-800 HWAC# 126509 and 1970’s. About 50 cards. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123518 Lot# 3218 Bakersfield, California Bakersfield, CA Postcards Approx 33 postcards from Lot# 3212 Anaheim, California Vintage Bakersfield, CA. Chromolitho, a few RPC’s Disneyland Post Card Collection (# 3) Nine Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $40-60 HWAC# Art Cards: Adventures Through Inner Space, Ice 103348 Cream Parlor, World Clock at Tomorrowland, Monsanto (2), Frontierland, Tomorrowland Entrance (2), Tahitian Village and Kaiser Lot# 3219 Balboa Island, California Balboa Aluminum Tomorrowland (2) Includes a Island, CA, Postcards ~ 75 Approx 75 wide variety of Disneyland scenes, parades, postcards from Balboa Island, famous Southern Magic Castle (many), Monsanto Chemical California beach community: c1960-82 (29); c1940 (5); c1907 Company, Jungle Ride, local hotels, Jungle Ride, chromolith (15); white-border RPCs (15); c1940s broad white-border Matterhorn (many), Paddle Wheeler, Pirate Ship, park overviews, etc. RPCs (3); c1907-12 borderless RPCs (8) three of those are exceptional. One black and white RPC of Disney Studios. Mostly 1960 and 1970’s. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 126200 About 50 cards. Ken Prag Collection Est. $130-250 HWAC# 123517 Lot# 3220 Bass Lake, California Bass Lake, Lot# 3213 Anaheim, California Walt Disney California Real Photo Postcards Lot of and his Entourage (Mickey Mouse, Donald 10 different RPPCs. Two mailed (1945 and Duck, Abraham Lincoln, Tinker Bell, etc.) 1955, one Bass Lake cancel). 8 unused. Views Includes three Art Corner Cards (Donald include: House Keeping Cabins at “The Pines”; Duck), rare Tinker Bell, Goofy, Snow White and Angel Falls, Cascade Canyon; Bass Lake from the Seven Dwarfs ‘visit Disneyland, Three Pigs and “Friend” as Disney Club House Porch; “The Pines”; Bass Lake from land, etc. Ten Total. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123515 Lookout; The Forks; etc. Bass Lake is situated in Madera County approximately 14 miles from the south entrance of Yosemite National Park. John Reynolds Collection Est. $30-50 HWAC# 113092 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 159

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3221 Benicia, California Early 1900s Lot# 3229 Coalinga, California Coalinga Benicia, California Postcards, AOUW Cards, Postcard Collection An important collection Train Ticket (16) A collection of 16 items, of about sixty postcards showing the history of mostly postcards, mainly from Benicia, Calif., the oil town of Coalinga, California. Vintage, antique and real photo from early 1900s. Includes: one canceled RPC of postcards included in the collection. Various sizes. Est. $300-600 a view of Benicia and Carquinez Straits, c1908; HWAC# 122521 a dozen blank postcards, some with writing, from the same period; two personal (business) Lot# 3230 Coalinga, California 1910 Two- cards from the Ancient Order of United Workmen, in Benicia (founded Panel Real Photo Postcard of Train Depot at in 1868, following the Civil War); and a 1945 train ticket from the Coalinga Two-panel panoramic RPC showing Western Pacific Railroad Company, from Portola to Oroville, signed by people waiting at the train depot for the the vice-president and general manager EW Mason. Est. $150-200 arrival of an excursion train from Los Angeles, HWAC# 125738 November 26th, 1909. Photo by Westlake and Barry, Coalinga. Mailed on the back to Oakland. 1910 Coalinga cancel. Message says they were waiting for Lot# 3222 Bolinas, California Bolinas the excursion train from LA. Bends, some soiling. Separation between Postcard Collection A set of 63 B&W with panels. Coalinga is a cattle town in Fresno County. Ken Prag Collection RPCs and 2 color postcards of Bolinas and Est. $70-150 HWAC# 126062 Bolinas Beach, north of the Golden Gate and near Stinson Beach. Ken Prag Collection Est. Lot# 3231 Death Valley, California Death $200-300 HWAC# 126828 Valley Postcards This lot includes scenery and special geologic features of Death Valley, CA. Lot# 3223 Buena Park, California Knott’s Look for Ubehebe crater, Mushroom Rock, Bad Berry Farm and Surrounding Area Postcards Water, Fish Springs, Zabriskie Point, Telescope A five-inch-stack of color and B&W postcards Peak, Dante’s View, and many more. There is featuring Knott’s Berry Farm (even some going one modern color card, and the rest are B&W including many RPCs. back to when it was called Knott’s Berry Place!) Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 126887 as well as some of the surrounding area such as San Clemente (including the nuclear reactor Lot# 3232 Death Valley, California Scotty’s there), and Newport Beach. About 60% are Castle Postcards ~ 48 A collection of color (chromoliths and modern color prints) postcards, most from Death Valley, California, and the rest are B&W RPCs and printed. You’ll find some rare scenes and most from Scotty’s Castle. The few others include Stovepipe Wells of places that have changed or gone away with the past era. Ken Prag Hotel, Furnace Creek Inn, Crystal Crag Lodge, and the June Lodge. Collection Est. $500-1500 HWAC# 126682 There is one color image of Scotty’s Castle. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126877 Lot# 3224 Burlingame, California Postcards from Burlingame, California This is a Lot# 3233 Death Valley, California Death collection of about 100 postcards from Valley Junction / Amargosa Hotel Postcards Burlingame, California. Many are chrome - 4 Death Valley Junction, CA, is due west of lithographed cards. Please see photos for Pahrump, NV, on the east edge of Death Valley National Park. These details. Est. $400-700 HWAC# 125617 four RPCs show the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel which also housed the offices of Pacific Coast Borax Company. Largely abandoned Lot# 3225 Caliente, California Caliente, CA today, the site has a population of about 4. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- Railroad Construction Postcards - 3 Three 300 HWAC# 126878 white-bordered RPCs showing construction of a railway near Caliente, California. Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-120 Lot# 3234 Death Valley, California Death HWAC# 126814 Valley, CA, Postcards ~ 24 Death Valley postcard set, 22 B&W with RPCs, and 2 color. Lot# 3226 Carmel/Monterey, California A few humor cards, but mostly beautiful scenes of Furnace Creek and Carmel/Monterey Area Mission Postcards a few of the 20-mule-team borax mule train. Ken Prag Collection Est. Approx 50 Carmel, Monterey, San Antonio area $200-300 HWAC# 126876 mission postcards. Mostly chromolitho, a few RPC’s. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $60-120 Lot# 3235 Fresno, California 1900’s Fifty HWAC# 102662 Fresno, California RPC’s A unique group of RPC’s featuring the agricultural and very hot California town of Fresno. Besides birds Lot# 3227 Chula Vista, California Chula Vista eye views of downton and surrounding area, there are also photos of the San Joaquin Light RPC’s 3 RPC’s of Chula Vista, CA-Little Chapel of the Roses x2, The Meadows Salvatore Falcone & Power Bldg, The Court House, The Fresno Collection Est. $20-30 HWAC# 102370 County Old People’s Home and many more. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126484 Lot# 3236 Fresno, California 1910 Fresno Lot# 3228 Coalinga, California Coalinga Oil Area Ag & Parks RPC’s & More 50 RPC’s Fields Postcard Collection A very important postcards with images of agriculture in the and historical collection of about sixty Fresno, California region where raisins are postcards detailing the history of the oil fields in Coalinga, California. king. Postcards also show the parks and Vintage, antique and real photo postcards included in this collection. lifestyle of the region in the early 1900’s. These Various sizes. Est. $240-500 HWAC# 122522 are beautiful cards. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125707 160 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3237 Fresno, California 1906-1950’s Lot# 3244 Ft Baker, California Rare RPC of Ft Fresno Depot, Hotel and Bank Postcards-65 Baker, California Single real photo postcard of Ft A nice collection of primarily color postcards of Baker, California, from up the hill from the main various buildings and railroad depots in Fresno. camp, which is located south of Sausalito and north Included are cards featuring the interior of the of the Golden Gate. Many of the original buildings New Sequoia Hotel, The SP Depot, The Santa remain, and the site has been repurposed into a Fe Depot, Hotel Californian, The City Motel resort and conference center. Ken Prag Collection Est. and many more. Some are used, some are blank. Please see photos for $100-200 HWAC# 126836 more detail and condition. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 126486 Lot# 3238 Fresno, California 1900’s Fresno Lot# 3245 Ft McDowell, California Ft McDowell RPC Postcards - 13 A baker’s Street Scene Postcards-50 This large dozen RPCs of Ft McDowell on Angel Island in collection includes lithos and RPC’s of the San Francisco Bay just north of the Golden Gate. Includes aerial views, “Raisin Capital” Fresno, California. Street interiors and exteriors of buildings, and the steam kitchen, mess hall, scenes of the downtown area span the 20th and movie theater. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 126870 century, from earlier black and white to color lithos from the 1950’s These are in good shape, Lot# 3246 Ft. McDowell, California Choice some blank, some used. Please see photos for RPCs of Ft. McDowell - 3 Three high-quality more detail and condition. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 126485 RPCs of scenes in Ft. McDowell on Angel Lot# 3239 Fresno, California 1900’s Large Island in San Francisco Bay. Two cards with soldiers on the parade grounds and an image Fresno RPC & Postcard Collection Over 100 of the Immigration Quarantine Station. Ken Prag RPC’s and postcards featuring the Raisin Capital Collection Est. $180-220 HWAC# 126835 of the world, Fresno, California. This collection features buildings and landmarks including Lot# 3247 Ft. McDowell, California Ft. the courthous, Chamber of Commerce, railroad McDowell on Angel Island, CA, Postcards stations, the masonic Temple, the public library ~ 26 Twenty-six B&W with RPCs by Pacific and many more. Some are used, some are Novelty of Ft. McDowell on Angel Island in San blank. Please see photos for more detail and Francisco Bay. Walk through the historic fort condition. Est. $300-700 HWAC# 126506 that was a prominent feature on Angel Island Lot# 3240 Fresno, California 1900’s Life for many years. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- in Fresno Postcard Group-50 Postcards 200 HWAC# 126833 featuring businesses snf lifestyle in Fresno. Lot# 3248 Ft McDowell, California Ft Included are scenes of a biplane race, a McDowell Postcards - 21 More historic Chinatown store, Hotel Californian and more. images of Ft McDowell and the Immigration These are colorful, curious and unique. A real facilities on Angel Island. Lot includes 4 color look back at Fresno in the old days. Some blank, chromoliths and 17 excellent RPCs. Ken Prag some used. please see photos for more detail Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 126837 and condition. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 126487 Lot# 3249 Ft McDowell, California RPCs Lot# 3241 Fresno, California c1900’s Fresno from Ft McDowell, CA, ~ 53 Duplicates of Postcard & Cover Collection Collection Ft. McDowell postcards from other lots. Ft of about 125 postcards, primarily from the McDowell was an Immigration clearing station Fresno area. All in good to near new condition. on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay near the some post marked, some used. Also, a group north end of the Golden Gate. Ken Prag Collection of Fresno covers. Please inspect. Est. $40-80 Est. $250-300 HWAC# 126838 HWAC# 115540 Lot# 3250 Grass Valley, California Grass Lot# 3242 Fresno, California Fresno, CA Area Valley Bird’s Eye View Postcards A collection Postcards Approx 15 Shaver Lake, Huntington of about eleven antique real photo and Lake, Piedra, CA postcards with several RPC’s chromolithograph postcards giving the viewer a bird’s eye view of the Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $40-60 HWAC# city. Postcard sizes vary. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 122526 103258 Lot# 3251 Grass Valley, California Grass Lot# 3243 Fresno, California Valley Buildings Real Photo Postcards This RPC & Litho Fresno, CA is a fantastic and historical collection of about Unused Postcards Thirty early seventy real photo postcards of Grass Valley’s various buildings and 1900s postcards of Fresno, Cal., landmarks. Popular locations in this collection are Lola Montez’ home, includes many colorful lithos the Bret Harte Inn, various Elks buildings, and an assortment of Grass and black and white RPCs of Valley churches. Postcard sizes vary. Est. $500-800 HWAC# 122523 historic buildings, street scenes, aerial views and landscapes. Two Lot# 3252 Grass Valley, California Grass are prints of “Sunset on the San Valley Mines Antique Postcard Collection Joaquin River,” an 1899 painting This historical collection has about twenty-five by E.L. Mudge. All are blank. Est. chromolithograph and real photo post cards of the Empire Mine and $50-100 HWAC# 120314 North Star Gold Quartz Mill in Grass Valley, California. Postcard sizes vary. Est. $240-400 HWAC# 122527 Images of ALL LOTS available online at FHWAC.com View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 161

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3253 Grass Valley, California Grass Lot# 3261 Laguna Beach, California Newport Valley Outdoors and Building Postcards and Laguna Beach, CA, Postcards - 49 Approx Collection This collection includes about 49 postcards of Newport and Laguna Beach, twenty-eight chromolithograph building postcards, about eleven real California: c1960-80 (~28); c1940 (~3); c1907 chromoliths (~12); photo outdoors postcards, and about twenty-four circa 1950’s Grass old, borderless RPCs (~3); white-border RPCs (~3). Ken Prag Collection Valley postcards. This is a diverse collection of postcards in varying Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126199 sizes. Est. $240-500 HWAC# 122525 Lot# 3262 Lake Tahoe, California 1900-70’s Lot# 3254 Grass Valley, California Grass Lake Tahoe and Surrounding Area Post Valley Street Scenes Real Photo Postcards A Cards. Lot of 15. Five w/various points of collection of about 15 real photo postcards of interest on each card. One RPC of Zephyr Point Grass Valley’s beautiful streets. Popular locations in this collection are Lookout. Color cards of scenic views of Lake various business sections, Eastman’s Studio and Main Street. Postcard Tahoe,, MT. rose, 4-4-0 along the Trickee river, sizes vary. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 122524 logging camps. Even one of Ben Cartwright on his horse and a map of the Ponderosa Ranch. Lot# 3255 Grass Valley and Nevada City, Nice collection. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 125531 California Grass Valley and Nevada City Postcards and Ephemera Collection A Lot# 3263 Lake Tahoe, California 1910-1980 collection of about seventy vintage, chromolithograph, real photograph Lake Tahoe Postcards Various and sundry postcards and assorted ephemera from Nevada City and Grass Valley, color and some black & white postcards California. Postcard sizes vary, as do ephemera. Est. $220-400 HWAC# showing the beauty of Lake Tahoe. Included are scenes of the politically 122529 incorrectly named Squaw Valley, Donner, Heavenly Valley and more. Some blank, some used. All in good shape. Please see photos for more Lot# 3256 Hollywood, California 1900’s detail and condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125699 Bathing Beauty RPC’s & Postcards-30 A bevy of bathing beauties in this RPC and other Lot# 3264 Lassen County, California 1913 postcards. Included are women posing in a Big Meadows Dam Real Photo Postcard progression of fashion swimwear throughout Historical Collection A collection of about the decades. The highlight for me is the card four historical real photo postcards documenting the construction of featuring a few of Mack Sennet’s Bathing the Big Meadows Dam in Lassen County, California, all dated 1913. Beauties. Please see photos for more detail and Postcards show various angles and sides of the dam being constructed condition. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 125710 and each card has a note on the back describing what’s in the image. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 126611 Lot# 3257 Hollywood, California 1920’s Harrison Fischer Postcards A nice collection Lot# 3265 Lodi, California 1900’s Lodi CA & of 80 postcards, most based on the portraits Surrounding Area Postcards-31 A group of 31 of Harrison Fischer (1875-1934), who was postcards & RPC’s highlighting Lodi, California famous for helping discover “The It Girl” Clara and surrounding area. While there are some Bow, while serving as jurist in a Hollywood shots of downtown structures, agriculture, beauty contest in the 20’s. These are works namely prunes are the main attraction several of art, by a painter who also had several of the cards. Please see photos for more detail Cosmopolitan Magazine covers on his resumé. and condition. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 125709 Some cards used, some blank. See photos for more detail and condition. Est. $250-450 HWAC# 126507 Lot# 3266 Lodi, California 1900’s Postcards of Lodi, CA, Street Scenes-45 45 RPC’s and Lot# 3258 Hollywood Bowl, California postcards of the lovely California town of Hollywood Bowl Postcards with RPC’s Lodi. This is a town celebrated song (Stuck Hollywood Bowl. CA postcards with 7 RPC’s in Lodi) and these street scene RPC’s and and approx 15 other chromolitho and modern cards highlight the Mission Arch and other Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $50-80 HWAC# structures in the town. Some rare and beautiful 102354 cards here. Some used, some blank. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $250-450 HWAC# 125712 Lot# 3267 Lodi, California 1900’s Stuck in Lodi Lot# 3259 Inverness, California Dillon and Stinson Beaches, Sausalito, and Pt Reyes Postcard Collection Collection of 73 postcards featuring buildings and other structures in Postcards Dillon Beach scenes, 21 B&W with the town of Lodi, California. Buildings and RPCs; Stinson Beach, 5 color and 16 RPCs; structures featured are the railroad station, other nearby places (Sausalito, Richardson The Tokay Arch, the Unfermented Grape Juice Bay, etc) 19 RPCs; and 4 pieces of ephemera. Factory, the Carnegie Library and many more. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 126827 Some are used, some are blank. Please see Lot# 3260 Inverness, California Inverness, CA photos for more detail and condition. Est. $300-700 HWAC# 126451 Postcards ~130 Approx 100 B&W (printed, Lot# 3268 Long Beach, California Long Beach, sepia, and RPCs) and about two dozen color CA Town Postcards Approx 80 Long Beach, CA (some chromolith, some modern color) town scene postcards Salvatore Falcone Collection postcards with noteworthy historic scenes Est. $100-180 HWAC# 103295 from Inverness, California. The lot includes five folded, color panorama cards. You’ll enjoy the walk through history in this fascinating lot. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 126683 162 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3269 Los Angeles, California Early Lot# 3277 Merced, California 1900’s Merced 1900s Banks in Los Angeles RPCs and Litho California Postcard Collection Several Postcards (17) Seventeen RPCs and litho beautiful and historic postcards from Merced, postcards of banks in Los Angeles, some with California. Images in both color and black & white show many scenes views of the bank safes, c1908-1909. Includes and landmarks, including downtown buildings, as well as scenes three canceled with stamps and the rest blank showing the source for city water, a dairy farm, palm lined Court or with some writing. Also includes a sticker House Avenue and many others. Some of the cards are used, some from the Citizens National Trust & Savings blank. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $300-500 Bank of Los Angeles, which opened in 1930. HWAC# 126450 Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 125729 Lot# 3278 Mill Valley, California Mill Valley, Lot# 3270 Mare Island, California Ships et al. Postcard Collection A large collection of postcards from the area of Mill Valley, of Mare Island Postcard Collection This California, and other notable locations. Among collection of about thirty vintage, antique and this 3-inch-thick stack of postcards are early real photo postcards give a tour of the ships and boats at the many images of the historic sawmill, Mt. Tamalpais, docks on Mare Island, California. Postcard sizes vary. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 122533 historic panoramic views of the city and surroundings, and other notable scenes and Lot# 3271 Marin County, California Postcards local features. Lot includes approx 120 B&W from Marin County and the Redwoods images including RPCs and printed, along with more than 25 color images including chromoliths and modern color of Northern California This is a cache of images. Some small advertising pieces are in the lot as well. Another postcards from Marin County, the Redwoods, box of pleasant surprises to explore. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 and Muir Woods. Many true RPCs, and dups. HWAC# 126681 About 190 cards with a few pieces of ephemera from the area as well. The Muir bridge is shown Lot# 3279 Modesto, California 1900’s Modesto with a beautiful woman in period dress. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 123505 CA. RPC’s & Postcards A nice sample of 45 RPC’s and other postcards highlighting the Lot# 3272 Marin County, California Marin California town of Modesto and its surrounding landmarks. railroad bridges, dams and Cooper’s County Postcards ~ 84 B&W with RPCs in and Lake are just part of the collection that also around Marin County, California. You’ll find includes downtown and school images. There views of the Golden Gate Bridge even before is also a punched Southern Pacific ticket from the deck had been suspended between the Modesto to San Francisco and more. Please see piers, sights from the top of Mt. Tamalpais, and photos for more detail and condition. Est. $150- the old mill in Mill Valley among the items in 300 HWAC# 126499 this collection. Explore the north side of the Golden Gate through this set of photos. Ken Prag Lot# 3280 Modesto, California 1900’s Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 126829 Modesto CA. Street Scenes & RPC’s Nice Lot# 3273 Marin County, California Marin collection of 60 RPC’s and postcards showing County, California Postcard Collection - 176 images of Modesto, California. There are birds eye views and Main Street views as well as The A large collection of color (117) and black & Arch at the entrance of the city. Photos range white (59) post cards featuring scenes from from the early 1900’s to later in the century. Marin County, California. A few duplicates, the Several photos of school and government lot includes numerous famous locations and buildings. Some used, some blank. Please see photos for more detail notable buildings from cities throughout this and condition. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 126501 coastal county. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126679 Lot# 3274 Marin County, California c1902-12 Lot# 3281 Modesto, California 1900’s Modesto California Buildings & Landmarks Marin County Postcards ~ 108 More than 100 A nice array of 80 of RPC’s and other postcards postcards -- 89 color, mostly chromoliths, and showing images of the Central California 19 B&W with RPCs -- of the area in and around town of Modesto. Cards include The Modesto Marin County, California. Some the same as Creamery, McHenry Library, Modesto High those in a smaller lot, but some different ones as well. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# School, the mission style Presbyterian Church, 126830 The Dry Creek Bridge and too many more to list. Some are blank, some not. Please see photos for more detail and Lot# 3275 Martinez, California 1906-1954 condition. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 126503 Martinez and Bay Area California RPCs and Lot# 3282 Mt. Lassen, California Mt. Lassen, Litho Postcards (62) Sixty-two RPCs and litho CA RPC’s and Photos 6 Mt. Lassen RPC’s postcards (mostly RPCs) of Martinez, Calif., including massive snow bank. 8 b/w Lake and the surrounding Bay Area, c1906-1954. Almanor area photos Salvatore Falcone Collection Includes 18 canceled, most with stamps, and Est. $60-120 HWAC# 102346 the rest blank. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 125737 Lot# 3283 Mount Shasta, California Mount Lot# 3276 McArthur, California Real Photo Shasta Views Postcard Collection This lot Postcard of McArthur California Published of about 50 postcards show beautiful Mount by Eastman View Co. of Kennett, California, a Shasta in the form of about 25 real photograph view of the Shasta County town of McArthur, postmarked 1907. Est. postcards and about 25 vintage and antique $100-200 HWAC# 124733 postcards. This lot includes one doublewide folded real photograph card. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 126584 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 163

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3284 Mt. Tamalpais, California Postcards Lot# 3293 Palo Alto, California Palo Alto of Mt. Tam north of San Francisco Bay This Street Scene Postcard Collection A collection is a collection of about 150 postcards of Mt. of about forty vintage and real photo postcards Tam in northern California. Many of the photos of street scenes in Palo Alto, California. Popular locations in this show San Francisco in the background, the collection include University Avenue, Waverly Street, and the Plaza. beautiful California sunsets and promoting the Postcard sizes vary. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 122536 Mt. Tam Railroad and a Wright Bros. bi-plane overhead. The Mt. Tam Railroad was closed in Lot# 3294 Palo Alto, California 1898-1906 1930. Many RPCs and many colorized lithographs. Est. $400-1000 Stanford University Before and After HWAC# 125628 Earthquake Pioneer Cards (15) Fifteen postcards, mostly pioneer era, of Stanford Lot# 3285 Nevada City, California Bird’s Eye University in Palo Alto, Calif., before and after Views of Nevada City Real Photo Postcards the earthquake, April 18, 1906. Postcards are A collection of about 11 antique real photo mostly RPCs, c1898-1906, first advertising postcards giving the viewer a fantastic bird’s eye view of Nevada City, the university, then depicting various views of the ruins. Some are California. Postcard sizes vary. Est. $180-300 HWAC# 122528 canceled with stamps, dated from 1899-1905. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 125746 Lot# 3286 Nevada City, California Nevada City Real Photo Street Scene Photographs A historical collection of about thirty-five real Lot# 3295 Palo Alto, California 1900’s photo postcards of Nevada City, California’s streets and landmarks. Stanford University RPC & Postcard Popular locations in this collection include the National Hotel, various Collection Around 200 postcards and RPC’s churches, and Broad Street. Postcard sizes vary. Est. $300-600 HWAC# featuring the campus of Lealand Stanford 122530 Jr. University. Founded in 1891, Stanford, or “The Farm” as it’s referred to, was established Lot# 3287 Nevada City, California Nevada to allow higher education opportunity to City and Grass Valley Parade Real Photo lower income students. That changed and the Postcards This historical collection of about University now is known for quite the opposite, fifteen real photo postcards document the parades of the 1900s having an acceptance rate of about 4% in 2020. in Grass Valley and Nevada City, California. Postcard sizes vary. Est. These beautiful cards show several buildings on the campus, including $200-400 HWAC# 122531 its beautiful church, Memorial Chapter. Some cards are blank, some used. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $300-700 Lot# 3288 Nevada City, California Outdoors HWAC# 126463 in Nevada City - Collection of Postcards A unique collection of about thirty postcards Lot# 3296 Stanford, California Stanford touring the outdoors of Nevada City, California. This collection University Post Card Collection This is a includes vintage, real photo postcards as well as one doublesize collection of over 400 post cards of Stanford foldout postcard of various bird’s eye and outdoor shots. Postcard University in California. Many are RPCs dating sizes vary. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 122532 as early as 1906. Please photos for details. Some dups. Est. $1000-3000 HWAC# 125604 Lot# 3289 Ocean Park, California 1900-20’s Ocean Park Calif. Post Cards Lot of 22. Color Lot# 3297 Panama, California 1906 Rare and B/W (two RPC)post cards of amusement Postcard From Panama, California Rare parks in ocean Park, Ling Beach and Santa postcard from the Kern County community of Monica Pier., aerial, street and distant views. Panama. It had a post office from 1875 to 1876 Beach scenes w/rollercoaster backgrounds but, no more. Please see photos for more detail from different angles. In protective sleeves, 10 have writing on them and condition. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 126502 and postmarked 1912-52 w/One cent cancelled stamps and one w/ two cent cancelled stamp. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125538 Lot# 3290 Oildale, California 1906 Kern Lot# 3298 Quincy, California Quincy Historical Postcard Collection This collection County Oil Field RPC’s Plus 50 RPC’s and of about 23 postcards of Quincy, California are more. These are from the oil rich area of Kern dived between about 12 real photo postcards County. Included are beautiful shot of derricks, and about 11 vintage and antique cards. This pumps and gushers. There’s also a RPC collection gives a lovely tour of Quincy in the showing an oil fire, as well as a camp set up for early to mid 20th century, showing homes and buildings, birds eye the workers back in the early 1900’s. Please views, greenery, and other unique Quincy experiences. Est. $200-400 see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 125706 HWAC# 126589 Lot# 3291 Palo Alto, California Palo Alto Lot# 3299 Redding, California Postcards of Redding, California This is a collection of Buildings Postcard Collection A collection postcards depicting life in Redding, California; of about 100 vintage and antique postcards some as early as 1910. Over 100 cards, about of buildings in Palo Alto, California. This collection features a large amount of real photo photographs. Postcard sizes vary. Est. $300-500 twenty white border RPCs. A real photo journal HWAC# 122535 from wooden sidewalks and horse drawn carriages to motor cars of the 1940’s. Est. Lot# 3292 Palo Alto, California Palo Alto $300-600 HWAC# 125625 Outdoors Vintage Postcard Collection A selection of about 100 vintage postcards of outdoor shots in Palo Alto, California from between 1945-1965. Postcard sizes vary. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 122534 164 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3300 Richardson Springs, California Lot# 3309 Sacramento, California Sutter’s Richardson Springs Postcard Collection Fort Postcards ~ 51 German-born Swiss This collection of about 80 vintage and antique immigrant John Sutter received a land grant in postcards have Richardson Springs, California the Alta California (High California) province from the government of as the star. This lot includes about 19 real photo Mexico in 1839, and he established and agricultural enclave he named postcards and one staple-bound tour book for New Helvetia. He constructed Sutter’s Fort there between 1841 and the town. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126590 1843. After gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, the fort was abandoned as gold prospectors and miners overran New Helvetia and Sutter lost control of his land grant. the City of Sacramento developed Lot# 3301 Riverside, California 1910 SoCal around the location of the fort. The Fort was restored by the Natives American Indian Postcards A collection of 30 Sons of the Golden West beginning in 1891 and turned over to the State of California in 1893. This lot of about 50 postcards (10 B&W RPC’s and other postcards featuring American including some RPCs and 41 color including some chromoliths) Indians in Southern California. Included are contains images of Sutter’s Fort before and after restoration along scenes of every day life, crafted baskets, posed with exhibits that commemorate the local history. Ken Prag Collection photos of Indian men, women and children. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 126821 and a mission style Indian school in Riverside. Some cards are unused, others addressed and Lot# 3310 San Anselmo, California San written o. All are in good condition. Please see photos for more detail Anselmo, CA, Postcards and Ephemera ~ and condition. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 120949 70 Approx 63 postcards, B&W with RPCs (53), Lot# 3302 Sacramento, California Postcards color (10), and 7 pieces of ephemera including of the California State Capital building and a ham radio postcard. Beautiful scenes in an around San Anselmo, such as the S.F. Seminary Governor’s Mansion This is a collection of with it’s distinctive conical turret tower. Ken about 100 postcards depicting the California Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 126826 state capital building and several of the Governor’s mansion. Please see photos for Lot# 3311 San Diego, California San Diego, details. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 125613 CA Ostrich Farm Postcards 5 ostrich farms postcards from San Diego, CA, Bentley Farm, Lot# 3303 Sacramento, California Postcards Cawston Ostrich Farm, The Ostrich Farm of the Capital city of Sacramento This is a Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $30-60 HWAC# collection of about 225 postcards depicting 102374 points of interest in the capital city of Sacramento, California. Many RPCs from 1905- Lot# 3312 San Diego/Ramona, California San 1915. Please see photos for details. Est. $500- 1000 HWAC# 125615 Diego/Ramona, CA Postcards Approx 50 postcards with 8 RPC’s of San Diego/Ramona, Lot# 3304 Sacramento, California Sacramento CA. Ramona’s marriage place, garden and more Breweries, Bars, and Billiards Postcards - Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 10 Sacramento postcards featuring the Buffalo 102372 Brewery, a billiards room, and various bars and restaurants. All in brilliant color. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 126818 Lot# 3305 Sacramento, California Sacramento Lot# 3313 San Francisco, California San Depots and Bridge Postcards ~ 23 From the Francisco Earthquake and Fire Post Card heyday of rail transportation in Sacramento, Collection Lot of 44 real photo post cards this group of color postcards features various depots in the city over depicting the destruction caused by the April time. Also a steel RR bridge and a photo of a uniquely shaped, round- 1906 Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco. windowed Keane car (could be the one now restored at the Nevada Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 124731 Railroad Museum in Carson City!). 20 in color, 3 B&W. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 126819 Lot# 3314 San Francisco, California San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Post Card Lot# 3306 Sacramento, California Sacramento Collection: M. Reider Publisher Lot of 108 Greeting Postcards & Ephemera - 28 pieces real photo postcards published by M. Reider of Los Angeles depicting Merry Greetings from Sacramento in this lot the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. Only 7 are written, the of novelty postcards along with a few pieces of ephemera. Ken Prag rest unused. Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 124742 Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 126822 Lot# 3315 San Francisco, California San Lot# 3307 Sacramento, California Sacramento Francisco Earthquake and Fire Post Card Street Scenes Postcards ~ 84 A lot of better Collection Collection of 108 real photo post scenes in and around Sacramento, California, cards of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, by eleven featuring buildings and street life. There are ~46 B&W with some different publishers. The Advergraph Press: “San Francisco in Ruins” RPCs and ~38 color with some chromoliths. Ken Prag Collection Est. (8); SUB-POST Card Co. L.A.: no post card backs (27); Edward H. $300-500 HWAC# 126817 Mitchell: “Destruction of San Francisco by Fire April 18, ‘06” (9); S. Bieber: “Souvenir Mailing Card” (3); Published by A. H.: (9); Lot# 3308 Sacramento, California Sacramento Compliments of San Francisco Sunday Examiner: rebuilding (27); T. Waterway Postcards ~ 56 Did you know H. Spaulding: (3); I. Scheff & Bros.: (9); Adolph Selige Pub. Co.: (8); Sacramento is a deep-water seaport? As such Souvenir Post Card Co. N. Y.: (3); Oakland Souvenir and Novelty Co.: is has lovely water-side scenes which are featured in this set of more (2). Est. $300-500 HWAC# 124729 than 50 postcards -- 45 in color, including chromoliths, and 11 B&W including some RPCs. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-400 HWAC# 126820 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 165

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3316 San Francisco, California San Lot# 3325 San Fancisco, California Golden Francisco Earthquake and Fire Post Gate Park Real Photograph Postcard Card Collection: Better Quality Chromo- Collection This large collection of about 100 lithographed Lot of 84 better quality printed real photo postcards + about 10 vintage and cards showing the destruction of the 1906 San antique cards gives a tour of San Francisco’s Francisco Earthquake and Fire. 29 postmarked, beautiful Golden Gate Park, it’s monuments, art 55 unused. Est. $300-700 HWAC# 124740 pieces, wildlife, and greenery. Est. $900-1500 HWAC# 126582 Lot# 3317 San Francisco, California San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Post Card Lot# 3326 San Francisco, California Collection: Rieder, Cardinell & Co. Lot of 1930’s-1960’s A Colorful Postcard Look at 68 real photo postcards published by Rieder, San Francisco Fifty colorful and scenic views Cardinell & Co. mostly unused. Est. $300-600 of San Francisco along with some humorous HWAC# 124735 and advertising postcards. Images show views of the city and its bridges and buildings. There Lot# 3318 San Francisco, California San are also ads for restaurants and the new Francisco Earthquake and Fire Post Card theatre experience “Cinema” which played at Collection Lot of 65 real photo postcards the Orpheum on Market Street. There are also a few SF themed playing showing the destruction of the April 1906 cards included. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco. Various $100-200 HWAC# 126493 publishers: Pacific Novelty, King Bros. and others. Two printed poems by Lawrence W. Lot# 3327 San Francisco, California 1890- Harris: “The Damndest Finest Ruins.” Est. $200-500 HWAC# 124737 1945 Banks in San Francisco Bay Area Receipts & Postcards (24) Twenty-four RPCs Lot# 3319 San Francisco, California San and colorful litho postcards of banks of the Francisco Earthquake and Fire Post Card San Francisco Bay Area, c1890-1945. Includes: Collection Lot of 59 chromo-lithograph eight canceled with stamps, including three postcards depicting the destruction of the bank receipts, with S.F., Oakland, Hayward, cancels, and World’s 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. Many Panama-Pacific Exposition 1915; and the rest blank or with some showing the fires raging through the city. Est. writing. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 125730 $200-400 HWAC# 124741 Lot# 3320 San Francisco, California San Lot# 3328 San Francisco, California Bay Area Francisco Earthquake and Fire Post Card National Bank Postcards ~ 24 Beautiful Collection: Chinese Lot of eight postcards postcards of the exteriors and a few interiors depicting the effects of the 1906 Earthquake of splendid bank buildings in and around San Francisco. There are 21 and Fire on the Chinese population of San B&W with RPCs and 3 color with chromoliths. You can bank on this Francisco. All unused, one with pencil notes on deal. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 126874 back. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 124738 Lot# 3329 San Francisco, California Golden Lot# 3321 San Francisco, California San Gate Bridge Views Postcard Collection Francisco Earthquake and Fire Post Card This collection of about 70 Golden Gate views Collection: R. Behrendt Publisher Lot of 33 postcards are split between about 40 real real photo postcards published by Richard photo postcards and about 30 vintage and Behrendt of San Francisco. 31 unused, 2 older postcards. This collection features many postmarked. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 124736 different angles of the bridge, the surrounding waters, as well as close up shots of the bridge’s details and mechanisms. Lot# 3322 San Francisco, California San Est. $300-500 HWAC# 126586 Francisco Real Photo Postcards Before the Earthquake and Fire Lot of ten real Lot# 3330 San Francisco, California Golden photo postcards of San Francisco before the Gate Park Postcard Collection A massive devastating earthquake and fire of April 1906. collection of about 160 vintage and antique Eight unused, two written. Est. $60-100 postcards of San Francisco, California’s HWAC# 124739 beautiful Golden Gate Park. This lot includes about 10 real photo postcards in the 160. Lot# 3323 San Francisco, California San Popular features on the cards include wildlife, Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Postcard greenery and foliage, the buildings, pavilions, and various events on Collection Lot of 91 real photo postcards of the the park grounds. Est. $400-700 HWAC# 126577 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, completed in 1937. Some from the World’s Fair of 1939, Lot# 3331 San Francisco, California 1915 some color. Mostly unused, post marks from Pan American Airlines Postcard Group Nice the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Est. $200-400 history told through postcards of the now HWAC# 124734 defunct Pan American World Airways. Pan Am began operations in 1927 and became famous Lot# 3324 San Francisco, California San for its iconic Sikorsky S42 “Clipper Ships” that Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge Construction could fly a distance of over 8,000 miles. Cards Post Card Collection Lot of 53 real photo post have plenty of images of the aircraft used over cards celebrating the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay the years. There are black & white, as well as Bridge. Work started in 1933 and was completed in 1937. It cost $75 color. There are about 80 cards in this lot. Please see photos for more million to build and is 4 1/4 miles long. Also included are three tickets detail and condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126453 “Good For One Trip of Vehicle Described on Cover of this Ticket” Jan. 1938. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 124730 166 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3332 San Francisco, California 1879- Lot# 3338 San Mateo, California 1906-1949 1900’s RPC’s & Cards of The Conservatory San Mateo, Calif., RPCs and Litho Postcards of Flowers 50 beautiful RPC’s showing the plus Ephemera Twenty-six RPCs and litho Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, postcards, and ephemera, from San Mateo, Calif., c1906-1949. A dozen San Francisco. The building was constructed postcards are canceled, with stamps, including one from San Mateo, in 1879, making it the oldest building in the 1906, depicting ruins from the earthquake along with handwritten Park, and the oldest municipally constructed comments about it. Postcards feature street scenes, railroad depots building in the country. The cards show the building with various and a leather postcard with two 1906 cancels from S.F. and San Mateo. outside landscapes throughout it’s over 140 year history. Please see Group includes Southern Pacific RR ticket and four pieces of ephemera. photos for more detail and condition. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 125711 Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 125747 Lot# 3333 San Francisco, California San Francisco Mega Postcard Lot# 3339 San Mateo, California San Mateo, Collection A massive collection of about 150 vintage and antique California in Postcards ~ 400 Huge collection postcards featuring the many landmarks of 20th century San Francisco, of a few hundred postcards featuring California. Includes noteworthy scenes and buildings in and one double- around San Mateo, California. A little fewer length postcard, than half are B&W (RPCs, printed) and the rest embr oider ed are color chromoliths, printed, and modern San Francisco cards. There is a folded, color panorama card ephemera, and and a few advertising pieces. Some duplicates of all types, but a many other unique wonderful collection to enjoy and share the history of San Mateo. Ken pieces. Est. $700- Prag Collection Est. $1400-2000 HWAC# 126684 1500 HWAC# 126576 Lot# 3340 San Quentin, California San Quentin Prison Postcards ~ 44 California’s San Quentin Prison opened in 1852 and has grown to house more than 3,000 male inmates. This set of postcards features the prison grounds in aerial view and some on-site and interior views. There are 21 B&W including RPCs and 23 color cards. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# Lot# 3334 San Francisco, California 1909 126825 San Francisco Themed Postcards Thirty colorful postcards featuring the “City by the Lot# 3341 Santa Ana, California Postcards Bay,” San Francisco and its iconic army base, from Santa Ana, California This is a collection the Presidio. Cards show images of Fort Point, of about 140 postcards from Santa Ana, military housing and more. Also, there are California. A few are white border RPCs. 1910 shots of the Golden Gate Bridge and birds eye to 1940’s. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125626 views of the city and surrounding area. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 126490 Lot# 3342 Santa Rosa, California Petrified Forest Postcards (29) Mostly b/w, some Lot# 3335 San Francisco, California 1900’s mounted in small booklet. Salvatore Falcone Shipping Line Advertising Postcards A Collection Est. $39.996-80 HWAC# 101795 great collection of 35 advertising postcards for various shipping lines. Cards includeThe United State Lines. Cunard Lines, Anchor Line, The Belfast Steamship Company, Leyland Line Lot# 3343 Sausalito, California Sausalito, and more. Some of the cards are blank, others CA, RPCs, Dealer Set - 55 A nice dealer set of are used. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $300- high-quality RPCs with scenes from Sausalito, 500 HWAC# 126528 California, many duplicates perfect for retail sales. Most images by Zan Lot# 3336 San Franciso, California 1914-75 M. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 126872 San Francisco Cable Car Post Cards Lot of Lot# 3344 Sausalito, California Sausalito 100 plus. Eighteen are postmarked w/stamps Postcard Collection ~ 41 Scenes and sites in (1.2.3.4.5.7 cent) Many different views of the Cable Car through out and around Sausalito, California, as captured the city and many duplicates. Street views of varying time frames from on high-quality RPCs. Look for the Alta Mira 1900 to the 70’s. Protective sleeves. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-450 Hotel, views of Mt. Tamalpais, the Hotel HWAC# 125288 Holly Oaks, street scenes and ocean views, an armless artist, and other beautiful places. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- Lot# 3337 San Francisco, California San 400 HWAC# 126839 Francisco Buildings Real Photograph Postcard Collection A large collection of about Lot# 3345 Sausalito, California Sausalito, CA, 130 real photo postcards giving you a historical Postcard Collection ~ 74 About 74 postcards architectural tour of the many buildings and in and around the California town of Sausalito building interiors of San Francisco, California. -- 41 B&W with RPCs and 32 color with Est. $1000-1500 HWAC# 126580 chromoliths, and an unfolded matchbook (without matches). Come explore this interesting town through these beautiful images over decades of time. Ken Prag Collection Est. $240-400 HWAC# 126831 If you need Christmas delivery please contact us for special arrangements. View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 167

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3351 Sonora, California 1900’s American Indians of Central California Postcards Additional selections of postcards There are 20 postcards featuring Peoples from California regions like Chico, San Luis Rey, throughout the sale; Susanville (Showing 125-year-old Lucy), Lake County and more. There are some used, some Postal history cards on day 2 see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 120953 blank. They are all in good condition. Please & sports postcards on day 4! Lot# 3352 Stockton, California Postcards of Stockton, California This is a collection of about 290 postcards of Stockton, California. Many are chrome lithographed photos with a few RPCs from about 1905-1912. Note the motor cars, horses, and motorized bikes. No sailing vessels, railroad, or mineral baths. Please see photos for details. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 125616 Lot# 3346 Shasta County, California Lassen Peak Historical Postcard Collection This Lot# 3353 Stockton, California 1911 RPC historical collection of about 13 real photo of Glass Factory in Stockton, CA RPC of a postcards (with some normal print) gives a Stockton, Calif., glassworks factory, with 1911 fascinating look at Lassen Peak’s history. This Stockton cancel and stamp. Front features lot includes real photograph postcards of colorized photo of the factory, with printing at the 1914 and 1915 eruptions as well as the the top which reads: Glass Factory, STOCKTON, devastating after effects they had on Shasta County. Est. $150-200 Cal. (Largest West of Chicago.) Ken Prag Collection HWAC# 126587 Est. $60-100 HWAC# 127338 Lot# 3347 Shasta County, California Shasta Lot# 3354 Stockton, California 1909-1936 Dam Historical Postcard Collection - Lot of Stockton, Cal. Advertising & Mineral Baths 4 This lot of 4 Shasta Dam historical postcards RPCs (11) Eleven Stockton, Cal., advertising tells the story of this record breaking dam. and Stockton Mineral Bath RPCs, from the U.S., Postcard 1, circa 1930’s, shows the dam right c1909-1936. Five are canceled in Stockton after it was built, fresh and new. Card 2, circa (4) and Oakland, the rest blank or with some late 30’s-early 40’s, shows the Vista House, writing. Other subjects include Hotel Stockton a tourist hotspot to view the brand new dam. Card 3 is a printed (1936), Imperial Hotel (1932), Stockton souvenir card in a fitting 1956 style with pastel green and blue hues. Millinery (1911), San Joaquin County Fair (1911), and California Card 4, also from 1956, is a view of the Pit River Bridge over Shasta Piano House (early 1900s-photo of dirt downtown street with horse & Lake, where tour boasts have gathered at the docks, ready to show carriages). Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127339 people across the lake. This visual history is a trip to Shasta Dam in itself, from the 1930’s through the 1950’s. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 126583 Lot# 3355 Stockton, California 1904-1925 Stockton, Cal. Early Waterfront RPCs (58) Lot# 3348 Shasta County, California Shasta Fifty-eight Stockton, Cal., early waterfront Springs Postcard Collection This collection RPCs, c1904-1925. Nearly all are from 1904- of about 26 cards is divided between about 13 1915. One with a Panama-Pacific International real photo postcards and about 13 traditional Exposition cancel. Includes: 26 canceled with antique and old style cards. All of these lovely stamps, the rest blank or with some writing. cards feature shots of beautiful Shasta Springs’ Some have white borders. Ken Prag Collection waterfalls, forests, buildings and landscapes, allowing for a vacation Est. $150-300 HWAC# 127341 to one of the most famous resorts in history, tragically abandoned and left to ruins in the mid 20th century. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 126588 Lot# 3356 Stockton, California 1852- 1940s Stockton, Cal. Greeting RPCs Litho Lot# 3349 Shasta, California Views of Shasta Postcards Ephemera (37) Lot of 37 Stockton, Postcard Collection This collection of about Cal. greetings RPCs and litho postcards, plus 20 postcards show beautiful views of Mount ephemera, c1852-1940s. Includes: 20 canceled Shasta from towns all around. There are about postcards, most with stamps, with cancels 10 real photo postcards and 10 vintage and dated 1888-1948 (mostly 1888-1915), with 10 old style print postcards. Town examples are Montague, Sisson, and blank or with some writing; three 1852 receipts Charity Lodge club Dunsmuir. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 126585 dues; and three advertising cards. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127344 Lot# 3350 Siegler Springs, California Siegler Springs, CA RPC Postcards 11 RPC’s of Siegler Lot# 3357 Stockton, California 1904-1915 Springs, CA in Lake County. Mineral springs Stockton, Cal. Railroad RPCs (41) Forty-one etc. Great historical group! Salvatore Falcone Stockton, Cal. Railroad RPCs, c1904-1914. One Collection Est. $140-275 HWAC# 103356 is from 1985. Includes: 19 canceled, some with 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition cancels, most with stamps, the rest blank or with some writing. Subjects include depots (Southern Pacific, Western Pacific, Santa Fe), and trains (gas motor at Stockton Terminal & eastern Railroad, Central California Traction Co., etc. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127343 168 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3358 Stockton, Lot# 3364 Vallejo, California 1900’s Mare California 1906- Island Vintage RPC’s A vintage group of about 1953 Stockton, Cal. 55 RPC’s from Mare Island Naval Shipyard RPCs Mostly White in Vallejo, California. Established in 1852 Borders (45) as the first Naval installation of the West Forty-five RPCs of Coast, Mare Island was key to protecting San various views of Francisco and the Bay Area during WWII. It Stockton, Cal., most was decommissioned in 1996. These show the with white borders, history of the yard through its history, featuring several buildings on c1906-1953. Half the base as well as ships that went there for repairs in both World are canceled with Wars. There is also a Mare Island pin back included in this lot. A very stamps, the rest nostalgic and historic collection. Some used, some blank. Please see blank or with some photos for more detail and condition. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 126467 writing. Most are of buildings throughout Stockton and San Joaquin Valley, with some interesting shots of people in the early 1900s. Ken Lot# 3365 Vallejo, California 1900’s Vallejo, Prag Collection Est. $260-450 HWAC# 127340 Ca. RPC’s & Postcards A collection of 25 RPC’s and other postcards highlighting the port town of Vallejo, California. Images are of various Lot# 3359 Stockton, California 1910 Stockton, building and waterfront scenes. Some are used, Cal. Saloon Interiors RPCs (2) Two RPCs of some are blank. Please see photos for more the interiors of saloons, in Stockton, Cal., c1910. detail and condition.126498 Est. $100-200 HWAC# 126498 Included are: an unnamed saloon with several men Lot# 3366 Various, California California in the photo, canceled 1910 Stockton, with stamp; Postcard Collection ~134 Fullerton: 3 RPCs, and saloon interior with three men, with writing at bottom “The B&M Bar. Stockton, Cal.,” blank. Ken 1 color, 1 printed, 1 ham radio card; San Juan Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127342 Capistrano: 21 color, 8 RPCs, 3 printed; Dana Point: 4 B&W with RPCs, 1 color; San Clemente: 20 color, 20 B&W with RPCs; Seal Beach: 2 Lot# 3360 Taft, California 1900’s Kern County RPCs, 2 color; Laguna Beach: 3 B&W including RPC’s & Postcards-50 A collection of 50 RPC’s RPCs, 21 color; Anaheim: 3 color, 2 RPCs, 1 printed; Yorba Linda / & other postcards featuring the Kern County Brea: 6 color; Orange: 4 chromoliths, 4 B&W RPCs, 2 litho; 1 printed. towns of Flowers, Maricopa and Taft. Cards Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 126823 feature banks, schools and the ever present oil drilling and operations for which the area is Lot# 3367 Venice, California 1900-20’s known for. Some of the cards have been used, Venice Calif. Post Cards, Lot of 23. Color some are blank. Please see photos for more cards of amusement park both street level detail and condition. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 125714 and Birdseye view. Scenes of the scenic and Lot# 3361 Tiburon, California Tiburon and miniature railways, Race Through the CLouds Belvedere Cove, Postcards & Ephemera rollercoaster. In plastic protective sleeves, nine have writing on them and seven have 1 cent cancelled stamps and ~ 45 Twenty-nine RPCs and 12 color with postmarked 1911-17. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125537 chromoliths with scenes of Tiburon and Belvedere. A wonderful historic representation Lot# 3368 Yosemite, of a very high-income area. Three extra pieces California 1900’s Yosemite of ephemera from the area. Ken Prag Collection Indian RPC’s & Cards Est. $300-500 HWAC# 126834 Small collection of seven Lot# 3362 Turlock, California 1912 Turlock, postcards, including four RPC’s, of Indian women in the CA RPC’s & Postcard Collection A nice Yosemite Valley. Most likely, collection of 50 RPC’sand postcards featuring these women are members the Stanislaus County town of Turlock. These of the Miwok Tribe, known as photos are mostly from the early 1900’s and Wea Dukadu (acorn eaters), feature several shots of Main Street downtown. by the Northern Paiute. Cards There are also shots of the high school, the are all blank but one. Please California Theatre, as well as a birds’ eye view of the downtown area. see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $70-150 HWAC# 120955 Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $300-700 HWAC# 125708 Lot# 3369 California Lot# 3363 Vallejo, California Mare Island 1905 American Shipyard RPC’s A vintage group of 45 RPC’s Indians of California from Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, A collection of 24 RPC’s California. Established in 1852 as the first Naval featuring California installation of the West Coast, Mare Island was Indians. Included are key to protecting San Francisco and the Bay cards showing peoples Area during WWII. It was decommissioned from Amador County, in 1996. These show the history of the yard Eureka, Ukiah, Crescent through its history, featuring several buildings on the base as well as City, Arcata and more. ships that went there for repairs in both World Wars. A very nostalgic Some are used, some written on. These are all in very good condition. and historic collection. Some used, some blank. Please see photos for Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200-300 HWAC# more detail and condition. Est. $300-700 HWAC# 126465 120951 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 169

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3370 California Early Lot# 3377 California 1908-17 Northern 1900s Native American Calif. Amusement Park Postcards Lot of 18. Motherlode, South and Color lithos and B/W. Street level of parks, Central Cal. Postcards Lot rollercoasters, pavilions, Merry-Go-Round. of 16 includes 15 RPC and Birdseye of beaches and entire parks. From all Litho postcards of various over Calif.: San Francisco, Alemada,, Capitola American Indian Tribes (The Chutes), Sacramento, Oakland. Three RPC : Great Highway of of southern and central the Beach S.F., Aeroscope Pan Pacific Expo S.F., The Circular Swing California, including the Oakland., two w/whit border. Five have handwriting and postmarked Motherlode, from the early 1907-17, Four have one cent cancelled stamp. Ken Prag Collection Est. 1900s. Also included is a magazine photograph cut-out. Featured are: $100-120 HWAC# 125272 Digger Indians of Nevada City and Auburn; Mojave Indian in Needles; unidentified Indians in Fresno, Colfax, Yosemite and Calaveras County; Lot# 3378 California Postcards from Yokuts basketry in Los Angeles; and an Indian restaurant in Temecula. Humboldt and Mendocino Counties, Canceled with stamps include: 1911 Nevada City; 1907 Lodi; 1907 California This is a collection of postcards Fresno; 1908 Fresno; and 1906 Grafton, all in California. John Reynolds depicting big trees and other landmarks in Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 125471 both Humboldt and Mendocino Counties in Northern California. There are over 250 Lot# 3371 California 1908-1914 Banks postcards and many are RPCs. Please see the photos for details. Est. $600-1000 HWAC# California RPC and Litho Postcards (17) 125624 Seventeen early banks in California RPC and litho postcards, including a great RPC of Lot# 3379 California Postcards from Lompoc Valley Bank, Lompoc, CA, canceled, Larkspur and San Rafael, California This is c1908. Lot includes: six canceled, four with a lot of about 130 postcards from the Larkspur stamps, of new banks in Lompoc, Sunnyvale, and San Rafael area of California. Some as early Patterson, Stockton, Oakdale and Ojai, c1908-1914; and the rest blank as 1907.Mixed RPCs. A beautiful RPC with a of early banks in various Calif. cities. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 (then new) vintage car scaling the bridge in HWAC# 125728 Lagunitas. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125629 Lot# 3372 California 1910-1918 Banks RPCs Lot# 3380 California Shasta, Siskiyou, from Northern California (11) Eleven RPCs and Trinity Postcards ~ 40 A collection of of Northern California banks, c1910-1918. RPCs and color postcards from Shasta (16), Includes three exceptional canceled with Siskiyou (12), and Trinity (12), California. Travel through history and stamps, from Oroville (First National Bank), spectacular geography with this beautiful set of postcards. Ken Prag Eureka (Humboldt National Bank Bldg.) and Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 126203 Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz County National Bank). The rest are blank, with more from Eureka, Santa Cruz, Healdsburg, Solvang, Palo Alto, Lot# 3381 Colorado Springs/Pike’s Peak, Lodi and Dixon. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 125733 Colorado Colorado Springs/Pike’s Peak Postcards Approx 50 Colorado Springs/Pike’s Peak, Colorado postcards, mostly chromolitho Lot# 3373 California Early 1900s RPC and Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $60-120 HWAC# Litho California Postcards Forty-nine 105069 RPC and Litho Postcards from early 1900s California, includes five canceled, with stamps, and the rest blank. Lot# 3382 Fort Collins, Colorado Fort Collins Canceled are 1912 Los Angeles, 1928 (partially unreadable) Palo Alto, Postcard Group (7) Seven colored postcards 1928 Santa Cruz, 1906 Los Angeles, and 1930s Arrowhead Springs. of different scenes in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Set consists of: 15 Santa Barbara; 1 Riverside; 2 San Diego; 2 San The school, library and beet sugar factory Bernardino; 1 Pasadena; 2 Venice; 1 Yosemite; 12 Misc.; 4 Santa Cruz; are featured, and there’s a nice card showing 3 San Jose; 1 Santa Rosa; and 5 Stanford. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 120315 a street scene at College Ave. and Linden St. There’s an electric streetcar coming down one Lot# 3374 California Southern California of the streets. John Reynolds Collection Est. $20-30 HWAC# 118521 Postcards Approx 20 postcards from Indio, Perris, Elsinore, El Centro, CA with many RPC’s Lot# 3383 Greeley, Colorado Postcards of Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $60-90 HWAC# Main Street in Greeley (2 different) Scarce 103368 Greeley, Colorado postcards both picturing Main Street. One is published by the Greeley Lot# 3375 California Two Colorful California Tribune and is postmarked Greeley in 1907. Postcards Both postmarked 1909. “The Glad The other card was published by J.L. Scott of Hand Will Be Out For You” and “Will Be Glad Denver. John Reynolds Collection Est. $20-50 to See You”. Very colorful cards. John Reynolds HWAC# 118511 Collection Est. $10-25 HWAC# 111571 Lot# 3384 Longmont, Colorado Longmont, Colorado Postcard Group (4) A group of four Lot# 3376 California Lassan and Plumas Co, postcards from Longmont includes a super nice one of the Great Western Sugar Factory CA Postcards ~46 Approx 46 early-to-mid and a real photo of the St. Vrain Hospital. City 20th century scenes in Lassan and Plumas hall and the Presbyterian Church cards round Counties in California. A few color prints, but mostly B&W RPCs in out the group. View photos for closeups. John very good condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 126204 Reynolds Collection Est. $20-30 HWAC# 118399 170 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3385 Montrose, Colorado Lot# 3391 American Falls, Idaho Late 1920’s? Montrose Postcard Group New Dam and Lake, American Falls, ID Real Includes Real Photo Cards and Post Cards Set of 4 RPC Set of 4 Real Photo Street Scene Foldout Nice group Postcards, American Falls, Idaho: Snake River of cards from Montrose includes Dam, Camera Shop Photo, image of water real photo cards of the post office, running down dam gates/ New Dam and Lake, high school, a birdseye and a two American Falls, IDA, image of road on top of part foldout card of main street by dam; unused/ Close up of 4 open gates, water being released through J. Luchsinger, 1910. John Reynolds dam, side view at gate release level; black and white, RPC; unused;/ Collection Est. $20-30 HWAC# 118395 OSA Bridge Falls, American Falls IDA, frontal view of all open gates with water being released from down pouring down into river over bed of rocks; unused/black/white;/ The Dam was built in 1925-1927 just west of Pocatello, on the Snake River Est. $30-80 HWAC# 119556 Lot# 3392 Bear River, Idaho 1919 Bear River Idaho, real photo postcard, Oneida Narrows pipeline through bridge beneath Dam Bear River is near Montpelier, Idaho, black and white, RPC image of pipeline through bridge at the Oneida Narrows, beneath the Oneida Dam, postmark cancellation Oct. 20, 1919; used 2 cent stamp; Est. $20-60 HWAC# 119937 Lot# 3386 Rocky Ford, Colorado Rocky Ford, Colorado Postcards (2) Two cards from Rocky Lot# 3393 Couer d”Alene, Idaho Ford include a view of the High School and the early 1900s Couer d’ Alene other of Main Street, Rocky Ford. The Main Street Idaho, RPCs ; set of 8 five are shot is in color and is postmarked 1909 from colored, 3 b/w see description Alamosa, Colorado. John Reynolds Collection Est. $10- online for more details. Est. 20 HWAC# 118412 $20-100 HWAC# 119954 Lot# 3387 Royal Gorge, Colorado Royal Gorge, Colorado Postcards (2) Nice set of three postcards from Royal Gorge includes one with two women on donkeys in front of a waterfall. Another card shows an Observation Car from the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. The third card shows a nice color view of a train running through the gorge. John Reynolds Collection Est. $10-20 HWAC# 118516 Lot# 3388 Colorado Eastern Colorado Town Lot# 3394 Hayden Lake, Couer d’ Alene, Idaho Postcards Includes Lamar, Julesburg & 1913 Hayden Lake, Couer d’ Alene RPC Unique, RPC of “Bozanta Tavern on the shore Sterling (8) Includes four RPCs from Julesburg of Hayden Lake, Couer d’ Alene, Idaho;”black and two postcards each from Lamar and white, small photo image oval in center of Sterling. The Sugar Factory in Lamar is featured, rustic framed box on outer borders of post along with the courthouse and high school in card/ cancellation Jul 22,1913; uses; divider, Sterling. The Methodist Church (2) along with CVC Co. / Established by Cardinal-Vincent Co., San Francisco,(Made in the courthouse and public library are the cards from Julesburg. John Reynolds Collection Est. $30- Germany) green ink printed on back; green one cent stamp George 60 HWAC# 118398 Washington/ Est. $20-30 HWAC# 119955 Lot# 3389 Colorado Rocky Mountain Lot# 3395 Hope, Idaho unknown, early 1900s H-37. Beautiful Lake Pend Oreille, from National Park Postcards (6) Six RPCs include Hope Idaho RPC Real Photo Postcard: black/ 3 from Trail Ridge Road. The best shows about white, Nature scene: image of Lake Pend, Oreille twenty old cars parked at a viewpoint in the H-37. Beautful Lake Pend Oreille, from Hope mountains. Also, three Sanborn photo cards with two showing Grand Lake. A nice set. John idaho, photo by Ross Hall, serene image of still Reynolds Collection Est. $20-50 HWAC# 118514 water and three tree tops above lake; unused; dark scene; Lake Pend Oreille is in the northern Idaho Panhandle, near Lot# 3390 Hawaii 1910-1940 Banks of Spokane, and is the largest lake in the U.S.State of Idaho and the 38th- Western States RPCs and Litho Postcards largest lake by area in the United States. It is the 5th deepest lake in the (7) Seven banks of the western states RPCs US with a shoreline exceeding 140 miles. The lake is fed by the Clark and litho postcards, including one bank Fork River and the Pack River. The image is old, the lake once stationed receipt, c1910-1940. Includes: Two canceled Naval training during WWII at the Farragut Naval Training Station and with stamps, one of them 1940 Honolulu, HI; the Navy continues to conduct underwater submarine research. Est. one canceled w/ no stamp; and four uncanceled. Est. $60-80 HWAC# $20-30 HWAC# 119560 125727 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 171

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3396 Moscow, Idaho 1906-1913, 1944 Lot# 3403 Shelly, Idaho early 1900s Shelly Moscow Idaho Real Photo Postcards, Morrill Idaho, RPC, Alfafa Mill being built, early Hall, and Main Street No. 34 Metallurgical - 1900s Shelly Idaho, RPC, black/white, no Morrill Hall - Assay Laboratory, Moscow Idaho, border, field image of barn being raised. An / black white historic image view from Street Alfafa mill under construction, in the framing front to the three buildings of the Assay Lab, stage. Huge barn structure/ Photo by Thayer/ Morrill Hall, where miners go to assess their used/ illegible cancelation/ 1 cent green Ben gold; at the University of Idaho, Morrill is a four-story, brick and Franklin stamp/ Est. $30-60 HWAC# 119960 stone, rectangular construction of 28,246 feet built in 1906; postcard published by PattonPost Card Co., Salem Oreg. pencil mark date 1913; Lot# 3404 Soda Springs, Idaho unknown unused;/ and : Main St., Moscow Idaho, street front business district, RPC, Soda Springs, Idaho - Great Card! RPC, black/white image with borders, rectangular photo postcard smaller black/white, no borders “No. 3 Birds Wye View than most, cancelled mark, Oct. 16, 1944 Scott’s Flowers, Gifts, the Business Section Soda Springs, Idaho” Snow Parisian David’s corner store, correspondence refers to President FDR capped mountains in rear background, cloudy ( Franklin Delaware Roosevelt);Cancelled green one cent US Postage with storm approaching/buildings look like stamp “Freedom of Speech and Religion, From Want and Fear” Est. the late 1800s, very dark image of buildings $30-80 HWAC# 119944 surrounded by barbed wire fencing, dirt roads surrounding town. No cancellation, writing on rear mentioned the Rodeo “grand stand” in Lot# 3397 New Meadows, Idaho 19xx Meyer picture. Est. $30-100 HWAC# 119563 Bros Building Photo Postcard Meyer Bros & Metz Building white border Post card Est. $20- Lot# 3405 Sunbeam, Idaho Sunbeam Real 60 HWAC# 117810 Photo Postcard Sunbeam Store Vintage RPC Sunbeam Idaho, Sunbeam Store, 143, Log cabin buildings; Building scene- gas station and store Lot# 3398 Oreille, Idaho Bayview Scenic at the base of a mountain town; mountain behind, very forested; image is probably in the Bay RPC Bayview in Scenic Bay - Lake Bend Oreille- Idaho, photo by Lee’s Studio Est. $30- 30s-40s from the gas pump; unused/ black 80 HWAC# 117815 white, border/ Est. $20-40 HWAC# 119959 Lot# 3406 Chicago, Illinois 1900-20’s Chicago Amusement Park Group of PCs Lot of 9. B/W Lot# 3399 Parma, Idaho 19xx Parma Street and and color postcards from Chicago amusement Building Photo Postcards White border: No 5. parks: Riverview street level of The Bobs Third Street, From Depot, Parma, Idaho; No. 18 First rollercoaster and comet ticket office. Aerial National Bank Building, Parma, Idaho. Est. $30-100 view of World’s Fair, Aeria of Figure eight w/ HWAC# 117928 lake background, scenic railway, derby racer and Giant Safety coaster. Four have writing and postmarked 1907-20 w/one cent cancelled stamp. Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 125270 Lot# 3400 Pocatello, Idaho Pocatella Idaho Photo Lot# 3407 Illinois 1909- 1938 Banks of Illinois, Postcards Post cards published by Pacific Photo Co. Great Lakes, RPC and Salem, Oregon. No 26 Birdseye View of East Pocatello, Litho Postcards Thirty-six Idaho - No 33 Center Street from Viaduct Pocatello Idaho RPCs and litho postcards - No 72 Freight yards Pocatello Idaho, Est. $50-100 HWAC# 117924 of Illinois, mostly Chicago, and Great Lakes (14) banks, c1909-1938. Includes Tuck’s postcard and San Francisco 1912 World’s Panama-Pacific Lot# 3401 Ross Point, Idaho 1900’s Ross Exposition 1915 cancels. About half are canceled with stamps, the Point, Idaho RPC White border postcard of remainder are blank or with some writing. Ken Prag Collection Est. Outdoor Baptist Conference grounds at Ross $120-200 HWAC# 125725 Point, Idaho. Est. $20-40 HWAC# 117819 Lot# 3408 Wichita, Kansas 1900’s Three Advertising Postcards Three advertising Lot# 3402 St. Joe, Idaho 1907, 1903 St. Joe postcards, two RPC’s, one litho. One Real Photo Postcard Bound for Shadowy advertising....postcards. John Reynolds Collection St. Joe River, Idaho, a full load of passengers Est. $20-25 HWAC# 116109 on the ferry boat with a steam engine, classic Victorian image with flag poles, smoke coming Lot# 3409 Midwest United States c. 1900’s out of chimney, ferry boat is named the “Idaho” Midwest General Postcards General Midwest engine wheel; Cancellation Nov. 1 1907; color/ Postcards. Chromolitho’s & a few RPC’s, approx. used/ no border/ blue sky/ Picnicing at St. Joe Idaho;/ no border, 100 includes: “The Schlitz Assembly”; Happy color image, Victorian ear attire; People scene; unloading or waiting Days are Here Again in Milwaukee; Swans of at the dock; Cancellation August 1903;/ several ladies and children Northern Michigan; The Wrigley Building; in Victorian era attire/ on the waterfront with paddle boats behind Heidelberg Dining Lounge; Castle Rock Lake & them in the water, the ferry boat is a covered one story building with more! Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $180-300 steam coming out the roof pipe;/ Rear: M. Rieder, Publ. Los Angeles, HWAC# 105318 Cal, No 4197 Made in Germany ; red printed ink, divided, green one cent stamp Est. $20-40 HWAC# 119958 172 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3410 Billings, Montana Billings, Montana Lot# 3417 Carson City, Nevada 1920s-1940s Postcards (3) Neat grouping of Billings, Montana Nevada “Public Buildings Complex” postcards. Includes a real photo black and white postcard Postcard Group Fourteen RPC postcards of Montana Ave with old style motor cars on the street. A of Carson City Public Buildings from the great real photo postcard of Yegen Power Plant, run by 1920s-1940s. The postcards feature the town’s businessmen the “Yegen Bros ,” originally from Ormsby County Courthouse, Heroes Memorial Switzerland. This postcard is postmarked 1908. The Building and Supreme Court buildings in third card is a color postcard featuring Montana Ave. and Carson City, Nev., all designed by architect Frederic DeLongchamps. 28th St. with large crowds gathered on the sidewalks. Collection includes eight of the County Courthouse, with one of those of John Reynolds Collection Est. $20-30 HWAC# 118484 both the courthouse and the Heroes Memorial Building, and one of the Heroes Memorial Building alone. It also includes five of the Supreme Lot# 3411 Great Falls, Montana Great Falls Court Building. Two have stamps and are canceled in Carson City, in Postcards (6) A great grouping of six postcards 1928 and 1948. The rest are blank. The Heroes Memorial Building in Great Falls, MT. Includes three color postcards was built in 1921 and Ormsby County Courthouse from 1920-1922, published by Chas. E. Morris Co., Great Falls. while DeLongChamps was the state architect. DelongChamps was These cards feature the Cascade County Court commissioned to build the Supreme Court building a decade later. John House, a General View of B & M Copper Smelter, Reynolds Collection Est. $130-200 HWAC# 125458 and a city view on Central Avenue. Also includes three black and white photo postcards. One Lot# 3418 Carson City, Nevada 1900’s card of note is a real photo postcard of the B& Southwest American Indian Themed M Copper Smelter, taken by Great Falls Photo Postcards Twenty-two postcards featuring & View Co and postmarked 1909. John Reynolds Collection Est. $20-30 unique views of Indian life and times. Included HWAC# 118487 are images of the Indian Agency in Carson City, Nevada, Lodges in Elko, an Indian Lady in Lot# 3412 Carson City, Nevada 1897-present Winnemucca, a Mojave funeral pyre near Needles, California, a Mother Carson City Post Card Collection Lot of 33. and Infant in Bishop, California and more. Some are used, some are Colorized, color and RPC’s of various bldg’s blank. All are in good condition. Please see photos for more detail. Est. (Court House, Museum, churches, street $250-400 HWAC# 125463 views), Bowers Mansion (different years), Capitol Bldg, V&T on its last trip. And RPC of Lot# 3419 Fallon, Nevada 1908 Paiute Jim Corbett, 1897. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125524 & Washoe Postcards-40 An attractive collection of 40 postcards featuring lifestyle Lot# 3413 Carson City, Nevada 1900’s Carson images of Piute (Paiute) people. Cards show City Postcard Collection About 65 postcards images of a camp in Fallon, NV, several images showing images of the smallest state capitol in 9Photo&Paintings) of several infants in the United States, Carson City, Nevada. Cards cradleboards, elder, women at work and more. show the capitol building, the state supreme This is a very impressive and beautiful group of cards. Some cards are court building, the federal building and several used, while others are blank. All in good shape. Please see photos for cards featuring the Bowers Mansion, located more detail and condition. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 125460 just a short drive out of town. Cards are colorful, historical and would be a great addition to any domestic philatelic collection. Please see Lot# 3420 Goldfield, Nevada photos for more detail and description. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 125457 1906-? Goldfield Post Cards Lot of 9. Five RPC : street scene Lot# 3414 Carson City, Nevada 1900’s Carson Drilling Contest, B.P.O.E. bldg, City Prison RPC’s Four RPC’s of photos taken church, two of the Gans-Nelson at the state prison in Carson City, NV. Cards fight. One b/w card of Blair, NV include images of prehistoric footprints found 1908. Three color cards of stage on the grounds, as well as shots of the prison coach to Goldfield and two of in its earlier days. Three are unused. Please Mohawk Mine (Birdseye view). see photos for more detail and condition. Est. Not written on. Est. $100-200 $150-250 HWAC# 125452 HWAC# 125529 Lot# 3415 Carson City, Nevada 1910 Carson City RPC’s & More Ten postcards, including Lot# 3421 Goldfield, Nevada 1907 Goldfield three RPC’s of various buildings in Carson RPC’s- A nice selection of 17 of postcards, City, Nevada. Included are images of the public including some RPC’s featuring the historic school, the orphan’s home, the state printing mining town of Goldfield, Nevada. Cards show office, the Methodist Church and more. All but images of the high school, Goldfield Hotel, one are unused. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. a 1903 photo of early days in Goldfield, the $100-200 HWAC# 125453 courthouse and more. Nice slice of life in early Nevada. Some are used, some are blank. See photos for more detail and condition. Est. $150- Lot# 3416 Carson City, Nevada 1904-1934 250 HWAC# 125461 Carson City, Nevada Postcards A group 10 postcards featuring images of Carson City, Lot# 3422 Goldfield, Nevada 1900-51 Nevada. Included are the state museum, the Silverpeak and Goldfield Post Cards. Lot mint, a birds eye view of the city and many of 8. B&W postcards: Street view of Goldfield more. Some are blank, some are used. Please High School, Court House, Main & Ramsey St, see photos for more detail and condition. Est. distant view of New Consolidated Mill & one of $100-200 HWAC# 120954 Goldfield. Tent city 1907, 1933 fire and color Mohawk Mine, 1939 Silverpeak. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 125530 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 173

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3423 Las Vegas, Nevada 1930-60’s Lot# 3430 Tonapah, Nevada 1900’s Post Las Vegas Post Cards. Lot of 19. two RPC Cards from Tonopah Lot of 25. Photo of B24 overlooking Hoover Dam (Black Canyon) site Liberator at Tonopah Army Airfield 1944. Color 1932., Two RPC of Last Frontier and El Rancho post cards street scenes of downtown (1950’s), (60”s ?). Card of Nuclear Blast Postmarked orig. Mizpah Hotel, The Can House, Mt. Oddie Santa Barbara 1953 Fremont street 1940’s and Principal mines. Nye County Court House. (color) Postmarked Las Vegas 1945 w/now Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125528 cent stamp cancelled. And the largest rabbit I’ve ever seen. Est. $80-160 HWAC# 125527 Lot# 3431 Virginia City, Nevada 1950s Post Cards from Virginia City Lot of 32. Mostly Lot# 3424 Reno, Nevada 1912 Paiute & color post cards of various buildings, street Washoe Postcard Collection An attractive scenes of different time periods. None are collection of 37 postcards featuring lifestyle postmarked. One does have some scribbling images of Piute (Paiute) and Washo (Washoe) on it, otherwise all are in good condition. Est. people. Cards show images of a camp in Fallon, $80-150 HWAC# 125522 NV, several images (Photo & Paintings) of several infants in cradleboards, elders, women Lot# 3432 Virginia City, Nevada 1800-1900’s at work, a man on horseback and more. This is a very impressive and RPCs of Virginia City Lot of 19. Various Street beautiful group of cards. Some cards are used, while others are blank. scenes from 1875-1940’s. Birds-eye view of All in good shape. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. Gold Hill and one of V.C., Picture of miners at $450-650 HWAC# 125462 the Ophir Mine, various bldgs, picture of James G. Fair, parade, street covered in snow and a Lot# 3425 Reno, Nevada 1950’s Postcards of couple of color cards. One postmarked Reno, NV 1990. Est. $100-180 Reno, NV Lot of 25 plus. Street scenes from the HWAC# 125523 40’s and 50’s, Riverside HOtel street scene w/ Washoe Court House., Overland hotel, Golden Lot# 3433 Virginia City, Nevada 1950-70 bank Golden Girls, and cartoon cards. Est. $80- Virginia City Post Cards Lot of 32. Mostly 100 HWAC# 125534 color post cards of various bldg’s, street scenes of different time periods. None are postmarked. Lot# 3426 Reno, Nevada 1940-60 Reno, NV One does have some scribbling on it, otherwise Postcards Lot of 33 plus. Street scenes of Reno all are in good condition. Est. $80-160 HWAC# w/old and new arches, ranch scene, Birds tee 125521 view of Hunter’s Canyon, a couple of Standard/ Chevron ad card, one packet of 14 cards, 1930’s Lot# 3434 Nevada 18-1800’s Imlay, street scene Hotel Golden. One of the original Hornsilver, Genoa Post Cards. Lot of 16. ticket to Jeffries-Johnson fight 1910. Couple of Color postcards of Genoa, Pyramid Lake, Carson City churches and Z.T. Wilcox with an Dayton, Lovelock, Elko. RPC of Hornsilver 11ft beard. One is Postmarked New York 1980. Est. $80-120 HWAC# Townsite ( later Gold Point) 1908. Pyramid 125533 Lake RPC (B&W). Promotional cared for Old Sawdust Corner Bodie, Ca w/thoughts on Life Lot# 3427 Reno, Nevada 1940-60 Various on reverse., Est. $100-150 HWAC# 125526 Reno Post Cards Lot of 29 plus. Street scenes from the 40’s and 50’s, Riverside HOtel street Lot# 3435 Nevada Early 1900s Nevada RPCs scene w/Washoe Court House., Overland hotel, Gaming Native Americans (3 Great Cards) Harolds Club, Golden bank Golden Girls, and Three great Nevada RPCs from the early 1900s. cartoon cards., Both Reno arches, Piccadilly bar Includes: RPC of Native Americans gathered in and Lake Tahoe. One Postmarked Reno, NV 1910 w/cancelled one cent circle on the ground, photo by R. Ham, which stamp. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 125535 reads “Piutes (sic) Gambling - Fallon Nevada,” with 1921 Fallon cancel and stamp; blank color Lot# 3428 Reno-UNR, Nevada 1900-50’s RPC of inside a gaming room, which reads, “Columbia Hotel, Goldfield, Reno-UNR Post Cards Lot of 19. One b/w RPC Nev.”; and blank color RPC of another gaming room, which reads, of downtown Reno w/Arch 1940’s. Color cards “Early days in Tonopah, Nev.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# : Original three UNR bldg’s, Mackay School of 125739 Mines blog, Statue of Mackay, Golden Bank Casino, Masonic temple and Public library, Lot# 3436 Nevada 1900’s Vintage Nevada Getchell Library UNR. Two have been Postmarked. Reno 1921 and American Indian Postcards A nice collection other is not readable, both have cancelled one cent stamp. Est. $60- of 52 American Indian postcards. Some are 100 HWAC# 125532 from the 50’s and show Indian outfits, the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, Sitting Bull, Lot# 3429 Seven Troughs?, Nevada 1909 RPC General Custer and even an Indian themed of 11 Men Standing outside the Lexington restaurant in Colorado. A nice variety. Some are used, some blank. Club Although postmarked Lovelock in 1909, Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $250-400 HWAC# this is definitely a mining camp. In 1909 that 126460 assuredly meant Seven Troughs, or Vernon of Mazuma or a smaller camp in that area. Doing Lot# 3437 Nevada c. 1900 Gambling a quick search we could not locate its exact Advertising Post Cards 3 Post cards. Good location. Photographer was Lee Jellum, who was known to operate in Fortunes as told by Cards. Three Nines-Health the Lovelock area in 1908 and 1909. [Mautz]. A little soft, but detail is Wealth and Happiness; Good Fortunes as told stands out including the Raineer Beer advertisement on the side of the by Dice Nine; Good Luck in Business and Love Club. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 123687 Affairs. Est. $20-40 HWAC# 102764 174 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3438 Nevada 1889-1970s Nevada Small Lot# 3445 New York New York Bank Building Town Post Cards Lot of 17 from all around Postcards and Ephemera ~ 50 New York bank Nevada. Color cards and RPC’s of Ely, Jarbridge buildings exhibit their splendor in architecture jail, Carroll Summit Texaco, high schools in at represents their substance and stability. In Gardnerville and Wells, and Winnemucca Civic this collection of color (27 with chromoliths) Auditorium. Also an RPC of a parade displaying and B&W (11 printed) you can find spectacular a 42-star American flag (which was only current in 1889-90), and a facades from Utica, Syracuse, Katonah, Buffalo, Nevada Centennial postcard from 1964. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 125525 Cohoes, Poughkeepsie, Portchester, Hudson, and New York City, among others. Some are duplicates or different images of the same Lot# 3439 New Jersey 1920’s USS Los bank. There are also two images of the New York Stock Exchange. Lot Angeles Zeppelin Post cards. Lot of 10. includes 13 receipt records from the American Exchange National None are postmarked. Five RPC’s: ground Bank and Chase National Bank. You can always bank on Holabird’s for view perspective. Los Angels flying over Long Beach, Ca., over NAS the best deals. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 126891 Lakehurst N.J. (1925), Hangar @ Lakehurst NAS. Interior of Hangar w/ blimps and the Los Angeles, color litho of USS Los Angeles flying Lot# 3446 New York New York State Tour over New York, aerial view. Protective sleeves. Ken Prag Collection Est. Postcard Collection A large collection of $100-200 HWAC# 125286 about 160 New York postcards that take you from the bustling city of Manhattan to the Lot# 3440 Artesia, New Mexico Artesia, New peaceful countryside of Saratoga Springs. This Mexico Postcards (3) This is a nice group of collection includes about 50 chromolithograph three postcards that showcase Artesia, NM. cards, about 25 real photograph cards, about Incorporated in 1905, Artesia is known for 15 advertisement cards, about 60 from the their wells and the discovery of oil. One card 1930’s to mid 1940’s, and about 15 from the modern era of the 1950’s. shows Muncy’s Well, the largest in the world. A Est. $150-200 HWAC# 126578 second sepia toned card is a bird’s eye view of the city, and is postmarked 1935. The third and Lot# 3447 New York 1900’s Philip Boileu final of this grouping is a street view of Main Street, Pecos Valley Drug Postcard Collection-95 A beautiful collection of Co. John Reynolds Collection Est. $20-50 HWAC# 118468 95 postcards based on the paintings of Canadian born Philip Boileu (1864-1917). Boileu, whose Lot# 3441 Silver City, New Mexico Silver City, mother was the daughter of noted United States New Mexico Postcards (6) Great grouping of Senator Thomas Hart Benton, studied in Italy Silver City, NM postcards. Includes a tri-fold and gained fame later when he became the go postcard of Silver City Reductions Works in to portrait artist for eastern high society. These color. This grouping contains black and white beautifully colored postcards all have lady and and colorized postcards. Featured on the cards children subjects. Some are used, some blank. are The Orient Motel, Bullard Street, the M.E. Please see photos for more detail. Est. $600-800 HWAC# 126504 Sanatorium and the Sunnyside Sanatorium. One neat card of note is in color and features an underground view of a mine near Silver City Lot# 3448 Cleveland, Ohio 1936 Great Lakes with four miners, one holding a pick-axe. John Reynolds Collection Est. Expo 1936 Postcards - 28 pcs The Great Lakes $50-100 HWAC# 118473 Expo of 1936 was built in Cleveland, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. This lot includes aerial Lot# 3442 Coney Island, New York 1901-51 and street views of downtown including the Coney Island Post Cards Lot of 71. Large iconic Terminal Tower and Municipal Stadium COney Island collection. Trains, Ferris’s wheels, (only three years old at the time). Lot includes rollercoasters, buildings, bridges, even a ship wreck of “Saramac”. a small certificate of attendance with a printed Street, Birdseye, ocean views, Color and B/W. 27 have written notes signature of Franklin Roosevelt attesting that the holder attended the and most are postmarked w/stamps. All in protective sleeves. Ken Prag Expo. 19 B&W printed and 8 chromoliths. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125276 150 HWAC# 126206 Lot# 3443 New York City, New York New York Lot# 3449 Ohio 1887-1919 Bank Receipts City Chromolithograph Vintage Postcard and Postcards from Ohio, Iowa, Indiana Collection A massive collection of about 150 Thirty receipts, litho postcards and RPCs of vintage chromolithograph postcards touring banks in Iowa (13), Indiana (4) and Ohio (12), New York, New York. Popular locations in c1887-1919. Includes two pre-stamped and this collection are Central Park, the Empire canceled bank receipts from The Monroe Bank, Building, and Herald Square. Est. $200-500 Woodfield, Ohio, 1896 and Oxford Bank, Newcomerstown, Ohio, 1887. HWAC# 126581 Of the postcards, five are canceled with stamps, the rest blank or with some writing. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 125726 Lot# 3444 New York City, New York 1900’s Postcards of New York Sixty Five postcards that highlight different aspects of the Empire Lot# 3450 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1911 State, including Niagra Falls, the Statue of Jones Saddlery Co. Real Photo Postcard On Liberty Manhattan and Coney Island. Some January 3rd, 1911, the Jones Saddlery Co. met cards are used, some are blank. See photos a tragic fate due to fire. When the Oklahoma City Fire Department for more detail and condition. Est. $100-200 rushed to put out the flames, masses of ice formed on the collapsing HWAC# 126500 walls, growing with every gallon of water sprayed into the building. This postcard, postmarked February 13, 1911 documents the attempt to save the company. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 126612 If you need Christmas delivery please contact us for special arrangements. View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 175

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3451 Grants Pass, Oregon 1900’s Two Lot# 3460 1905 American Indian RPC’s A Oregon Advertising Postcards Two advertising beautiful group of 16 RPC’s featuring portraits postcards. One is for the Hotel Josephine in Grants of American Indians. Included in the group that Pass, the other the Meier & Frank Shopping Center features Navajo Boy, a Zuni Girl and Yakima in Portland. Both unused. John Reynolds Collection Girls, is the portrait of Chief Joseph of the New Est. $20-30 HWAC# 116110 Perce. All are in good condition, some used, some blank. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 125454 Lot# 3461 1900’s American Indian RPC’s Lot# 3452 Oregon Oregon Large Letter Collection of 11 RPC’s featuring images of Postcards 10 Large letter OREGON postcards. Color. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $20-40 pretty much every day life for Cherokee, HWAC# 103264 Bannock, Creek and other tribal peoples. Cards show structures as well as ceremony. These are beautiful cards. Some are used, some Lot# 3453 South Carolina South Carolina blank. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125474 Postcards Approx 30 South Carolina Postcards Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $30-60 HWAC# Lot# 3462 1900’s American Indian Warrior 102712 RPC’s An intriguing group of 15 RPC’s featuring American Indian braves in the early 20th century. Images include that of Chief Two Guns White Calf from the Glacier National Park Lot# 3454 Huron, South Dakota Huron, South area, as well as 129-year-old Ka-Be-Nah-Gwey- Dakota Postcards 3 Huron, South Dakota Wence. Some cards are used, some are blank. postcards with 1 RPC Salvatore Falcone Collection Please see photos for more detail Est. $220- Est. $20-40 HWAC# 102695 440 HWAC# 126475 Lot# 3463 1900-1940’s American Indian Women RPC’s Thirteen nice RPC’s showing Lot# 3455 Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City, UT American Indian women in various poses. All Postcard Collection Approx 125 non Mormon are in traditional outfits, one shows off some Salt Lake City, UT postcards. Mostly chromolitho, of her craft of feather headress construction. buildings and streets Salvatore Falcone Collection Some have been addressed, some are blank. Est. $90-120 HWAC# 102395 Please see photos for more detail. Est. $170- 300 HWAC# 126459 Lot# 3464 Early 1900s Native American (various) Postcard Group Lot of 27 includes Lot# 3456 Salt Lake City, Utah Utah Postcards 26 RPC and colorful Litho postcards featuring Pueblo, Taos, Navajo, Hopi, Moki, and Zuni Lot of about 15 postcards. Postcards of various American Indians, and one magazine cut- places mostly from Salt Lake City. RPCs of the Mormon temple are included. Est. $40-60 out, mostly from the early 1900s. Includes HWAC# 108233 9 canceled with stamps, postmarked: 1937 Tucumcari, NM; 1907 Ash Fork, AZ; 1902 (two cancels) Nocales, AZ Lot# 3457 Washington Washington State & San Francisco, CA; 1915 Porvenir, NM; 1908 Phoenix, AZ; 1939 Cloudcroft, NM; 1904 (two cancels) Newton, KS and Salt Lake City, Postcards (2) Includes a colorized postcard UT; 1960 Phoenix, AZ; and 1953 Vinton, CA. John Reynolds Collection Est. that features the Spokane Electric Terminal at Spokane. An electric railcar sits on track at $120-200 HWAC# 125470 the terminal. The second postcard, “Madrona Lot# 3465 1900’s Nine RPC’s of American Tree in Front of Crabapple- Bellevue, Wash.” Indian Babies Beautiful RPC’sof American showcases a massive tree in front of stores in Bellevue. John Reynolds Collection Est. $10-20 HWAC# 118460 Indian children posed in their cradleboards. While there are a few one shots of the children, Lot# 3458 Seattle, Washington 1900’s other poses include the proud mothers. All are Northwest American Indian Chromolithe black and white, some blank, some used. Please see photos for more Postcards 18 chromolithe photo postcards detail and condition. Est. $170-250 HWAC# 126458 of American Indians in the Great Northwest, Lot# 3466 Early 1900s Hopi Indian Postcard including Chippewa, Chief Seattle, Chief Group Lot of a dozen litho and RPC postcards Conquering Bear and more. one are blank, of the Hopi Indians, from the early 1900s. some used. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $180-250 HWAC# 126476 Includes colorful lithos of various Hopi costumes. Two are canceled with stamps and Lot# 3459 1905-1950’s American Indian the rest unused and blank. Cancels include 1905 El Paso & Tucscon Postcard Collection About 60 American R.P.O, and 1942 Flagstaff, AZ. John Reynolds Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 125472 Indian postcards, including 39 early 1905- 1915 chromolithe cards. Several lifestyle Lot# 3467 1900’s Humorous American images, but mostly posed photos, more or less Indian Themed Postcards Nine questionably for the tourist trade. Beautiful and noble people humorous postcards featuring American Indian depicted inspire of the trials and tribulations depictions. Some are used, some blank. Please that is a sad part of American history. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $250-500 HWAC# 126457 $70-100 HWAC# 125473 176 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 General Americana / Black American Lot# 3468 1900’s Artist Signed Indian Lot# 3478 Black History - Military, Themed Postcards 41 beautiful postcards, Political, Cultural Themed PCs About 50 some Tuck’s, depicting various American Indian cards including some RPCs of men in uniform scenes and containing printed signatures of the covering a variety of topics. This collection is mostly WW2 forward. artists who drew them. Artists include Innes, See Photo. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127103 PetersonOilette and others. Some are used, some are blank. A very beautiful and colorful Lot# 3479 Black History - Music Theme group. Please see photos for more detail and PCs Wonderful collection of about 35 vintage condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125475 post cards of musicians and musical themes. A must for any musician, this collection highlights Dixieland sound, such Lot# 3469 Black History - 1930s-40s Humor as the banjo, etc. All c 1908. Ken Prag Collection Est. $340-750 HWAC# Themed Characture PCs About 60 cards from 127099 the middle of the modern era.Mostly humor themed. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127104 Lot# 3480 Black History - Non Characature Humor plus Entertainment & Blackface PCs Lot# 3470 Black History - Alligator Humor About 29 pcs, mostly vintage c 1910, Eclectic Theme PCs A collection of about 20 vintage Group. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 127108 postcards, c 1908, using the alligator humor theme. Several different publishers. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 Lot# 3481 Black History - Portrait and HWAC# 127101 Family RPCs About 60 or more RPCs of classic family theme, mostly portraits of single men Lot# 3471 Black History - Artist or Publisher or women. Mostly vintage, c 1905-1920 or so. Ken Prag Collection Est. Signed Black Humor Vintage Postcards 38 $150-300 HWAC# 127110 vintage pcs signed by Artists or publishers. Includes Ryan, Crane, Gordon, Lewin, Porter, Sander, Robbins, White Lot# 3482 Black History - Rare Puzzle City Art and others. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 127111 Card HCJ Deeks Co. puzzle post card, 1906. Extremely Rare. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 127106 Lot# 3472 Black History - Black History Life in the South, non-humor Collection of about Lot# 3483 Black History - Souvenir PCs 100 or more vintage postcards, c1908, of life of the H-O Co., c1907 Bout 20 pcs from this in the South. These are real-life pcs, not the humorous kind. A great company that published humorous cards.. histolrical record and cross section. Ken Prag Collection Est. $260-500 Includes Jocular jinks series. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# HWAC# 127114 127107 Lot# 3473 Black History - Black Humor Lot# 3484 Black History - Specialty RPCs Post Cards About 20 non-characture vintage and Other About 30 pieces of rpcs of Black post cards c 1908. Various publishers. Ken Prag entertainers, rpcs of humor theme, and others. Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127113 Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127109 Lot# 3474 Black History - Black Humor Lot# 3485 Black History - Thanksgiving Vintage PCs, Unsigned About 42 characture Vintage PCs Collection of 14 cards, c 1908, all pcs, mostly vintage c1908, all unsigned. Ken but 2 are Thansgiving. Includes high quality Prag Collection Est. $240-500 HWAC# 127112 art, some in the style of Wentsch, some by Taggert. Choice. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127098 Lot# 3475 Black History - Black Themed Vignette Stock Certs Three pieces of this Lot# 3486 Black History - Watermelon genre. 1. Virginia State College for Negroes, Humor Theme PCs Group of about 40 vintage bond, 1937, i/c; 2. Southern Round Bale Press Co stock, 1915, i/c, (most c 1908) postcards with the watermelon vignette of cotton field, pickers and factory; 3. Platation Cotton Seed theme in a humorous mode. I’ve always thought it was amusing that a Co., stock, 1880s, Black picking cotton, ui. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- Black theme was omnipresent, since this was exactly my life as a kid 200 HWAC# 127115 - my face put in a slab of watermelon. I think all us kids were just like this! (fh) Ken Prag Collection Est. $340-700 HWAC# 127100 Lot# 3476 Black History - Foreign Black PCs and ephemera about 40 pieces of foreign Lot# 3487 Black History- Children Sketch pcs and much ephemera of various sorts. see Art PCs Ten vintage (c1907) post cards of photo. Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 127105 children charactures, all unsigned but very similar artist. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127095 Lot# 3477 Black History - Gold Dust Advertising PCs Classwic Gold Dust Lot# 3488 Black History- Historical Trade advertising cards, 4 different. This is possibly Cards About 47 chromo-lith trade cards, the most highly collected of the Black themed advertising pieces. Ken mostly pre-1900. Many with typical advertising Prag Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 127102 on the reverse. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127097 Images of ALL LOTS available online at FHWAC.com View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 177

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 General Americana / Black American Lot# 3489 Black History- Valentine Post Lot# 3498 Easter Postcards A large lot of Card Collection 21 cards c 1907-15, all but secular Easter Bunny-themed postcards, 2 are Valentine, some very high quality art. some with children, made by Tuck and others Includes 1908 Taggart series. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# in Germany and USA. Hop on over and place your bid for this set of 127096 beautiful postcards. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 126689 Lot# 3490 April Fools Postcard Collection Lot# 3499 1907-1945 Fourth of July A collection of about 21 April Fools themed Firecracker Litho Postcards (70) Seventy antique postcards. Nine are illustration style, Litho postcards celebrating Fourth of July, featuring various doves and flowers and ‘break the seal’ April Fool from various U.S. states, c1907-1945. States include Illinois, Montana, messages, as well as the French-speaking country tradition April Fish. New York, California, Indiana, Oregon, etc. Many are canceled with Includes six humor cards and six real photo type colored April Fish stamps, others blank. Very colorful assortment of patriotic postcards, cards. All card dates range between the early 1900s and mid-1910s. splashed with red, white and blue, and gold gilt, featuring the Statue Est. $80-150 HWAC# 126606 of Liberty, firecrackers, Uncle Sam, humorous cartoons and more. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 125722 Lot# 3491 Christmas High-Grade Postcards ~ 53 More than 50 high-end Christmas Lot# 3500 Holiday Postcards by Artist Ellen postcards, some by Tuck, all in very good Clapsaddle Approx 90 postcards designed by condition, featuring Santa, angels, and children. Ken Prag Collection Est. artist Ellen Clapsaddle, for year-round holidays: $200-500 HWAC# 126687 Valentine’s Day (20); St Patrick’s Day (7); Easter (8); Memorial Day (4); Independence Day (6); Thanksgiving Day (5); Christmas (35); and Lot# 3492 Christmas Memories Real New Year’s Day (5). Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 126688 Photo Postcard Collection This collection of treasured Christmas memories is divided between about 20 black and white real photo postcards and about Lot# 3501 1908 Leap Year 1908 Post Cards 12 real photo postcards with hand-colored accents. Features include ~ 86 Seems that Leap Year of 1908 popularized family photos, Christmas trees, snowmen, and festive Christmas a claim that eligible bachelors were fair game greetings. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 126627 for single women looking to get hitched. These humorous cartoon postcards featured Lot# 3493 Christmas Snowmen Postcard this proposed proposal for propositioning of Collection - 19 Beautiful Christmas postcards unsuspecting men. 86 cards, mostly color. Ken featuring snowmen by International, Gibson, Prag Collection Est. $120-300 HWAC# 126824 Tuck, Wells, and others. Printed in Germany, England, and USA. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- Lot# 3502 1911 Memorial & Decoration Day 150 HWAC# 126686 Postcards This is a collection of 30 postcards. Decoration Day was proclaimed in 1868 to Lot# 3494 Vintage Christmas Post Cards commemorate the Civil War dead. After WW1 (The Great War), the day was retitled Memorial Collection of about 400 vintage Christmas post cards, c 1902-1910. No Santa and no snowmen. Day. This group of very colorful cards pay Great collection, wide assortment of artists. Ken homage to both. Some of the cards are blank Prag Collection Est. $800-1500 HWAC# 127055 and unused, others are postmarked. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125456 Lot# 3495 Vintage Christmas Post Cards Lot# 3503 New Years Day Vintage Celebratory Post Cards About 300 vintage with Santa About 450 vintage Christmas post cards celebrating the New Years. Publishers cards with the Santa Claus theme. Contains include Winsch (the most famous post card a number of high quality artsy cards, but no artists shown, and often not the publisher. Ken artist), Tuck, German publishers of embossed Prag Collection Est. $900-1500 HWAC# 127054 cards, and others. The Tuck and Winsch cards are, as usual, a cut or two above the rest in Lot# 3496 Gladelig Jul! Merry Christmas quality. A few are date cards. Artists include Harper and others. Ken Art Card Signed by Jenny Nystrom Merry Prag Collection Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 127052 Christmas in Danish. Nice art card by Jenny Lot# 3504 New Year’s and Holiday Nystrom. Jenny Eugenia Nyström (1854- 1946)was a Swedish painter Postcards, Many Printed in Germany (150) and illustrator who is mainly known as the person who created the Very colorful group of New Year’s and holiday Swedish image of the jultomte on numerous Christmas cards and postcards. 150 in all. Many nice ones printed magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the in English but produced in Germany. A great gnomes of Scandinavian folklore (wiki). Depicts two children maybe making out their Christmas lists. Colorful card in good condition. Ken dealer lot for the postcard shows. Average Prag Collection Est. $40-60 HWAC# 118676 condition. View photos for representative samples. John Reynolds Collection Est. $100-150 Lot# 3497 Easter Postcard Collection - No HWAC# 118548 Bunnies A collection of about 85 antique and Lot# 3505 St. Patrick’s Day Postcards ~35 vintage Easter celebration postcards. This Here are about 35 postcard themed for St collection features chicks, eggs, hens, angels, lambs, and springtime Patrick’s Day. Full of green and gold, harps, flowers - does not include any eater bunnies. Unique cards in this shamrocks, and leprechauns. Some have embossed relief. Buy this lot collection include an “Easter Blessings” pull out slide card, an “Easter and Erin go Bragh! Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 125868 Greetings” velvet chick postcard, and many embossed cards. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 126601 178 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3506 St. Patrick’s Lot# 3511 Winsch Back Type Unsigned Art Day Vintage Post Card Nouveau Misc. Valentine Postcard Collection Collection About 500 A collection of six art nouveau style postcards vintage post cards, c 1902- in the Winsch back type style with St. Valentine’s Day illustrations 1915. Most are the usual likely done by Samuel L. Schmucker on the front. Each card sports a green and Irish themes. Few unique design unlike ones in other lots. Three feature a silk accent with with artists signatures. Ken the design printed onto it. Samuel Loren Schmucker’s (1879-1921) Prag Collection Est. $500- life was one of hardship and determination. He conquered crippling 1000 HWAC# 127053 polio to pursue his passion of art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and at the Howard Pyle Institute at Drexel after that. While Schmucker made his name in the postcard business, he also designed the labels for candy boxes, candy labels, and worked in accounting and Lot# 3507 Samuel L. Schmucker Ladies advertising when the postcard fad had subsided. His inspiring story of Valentine’s Day Winsch Back Type Art came to an end in 1921 when he died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 42. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 126615 Nouveau Postcard Collection A collection of six art nouveau style postcards in the Winsch back type style with St. Lot# 3512 1908 Patriotic Themed Postcards Valentine’s Day illustrations featuring young women done by Samuel This is a collection of 60 July 4, Grand Army L. Schmucker on the front. One card sports a silk accent with the of the Republic and other patriotic themed illustration printed onto it. Samuel Loren Schmucker’s (1879-1921) postcards. These are very colorful and portray life was one of hardship and determination. He conquered crippling themes like the Civil War surrender, 4th of July polio to pursue his passion of art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the parades and plenty of flags and banners. There Fine Arts and at the Howard Pyle Institute at Drexel after that. While are some unused, some used all in protective Schmucker made his name in the postcard business, he also designed sleeves. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200- the labels for candy boxes, candy labels, and worked in accounting and 400 HWAC# 125455 advertising when the postcard fad had subsided. His inspiring story came to an end in 1921 when he died of a sudden heart attack at the Lot# 3513 1900-1945 Patriotic U.S. Flag age of 42. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126616 RPCs and Litho Postcards (100) One hundred RPCs and Litho patriotic postcards featuring Lot# 3508 1914 Samuel L. Schmucker the American flag, from various U.S. states, c1900-1945. States Winsch Back Type Art Nouveau Valentine include North Dakota, Utah, Colorado, Washington, D.C., Washington, Postcard Collection A collection of three Wisconsin, California, Illinois, etc. Tuck’s Post Card, leather post cards, art nouveau style postcards in the Winsch back type style with St. many canceled with stamps, and blank postcards are included. Colorful Valentine’s Day illustrations done by Samuel L. Schmucker on the depictions of the Old Glory in many U.S. settings. Ken Prag Collection Est. front. All three cards measure 5-7/16 x 3-3/8 inches. Samuel Loren $400-1000 HWAC# 125723 Schmucker’s (1879-1921) life was one of hardship and determination. He conquered crippling polio to pursue his passion of art at the Lot# 3514 1907-1943 U.S. Flags RPCs and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and at the Howard Pyle Litho Postcards (50) Fifty RPCs and litho Institute at Drexel after that. While Schmucker made his name in the postcards featuring U.S. flags, c1907-1943. postcard business, he also designed the labels for candy boxes, candy Several are canceled with stamps, the rest blank labels, and worked in accounting and advertising when the postcard or with some writing. A few are from foreign fad had subsided. His inspiring story came to an end in 1921 when he countries, featuring foreign flags, three are died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 42. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Tuck’s postcards, and some are embroidered. 126607 Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 127331 Lot# 3509 Samuel L. Schmucker Winsch Lot# 3515 U.S. Patriotic Postcard Collection Back Type Art Nouveau Valentine Variety Show off your patriotism with this collection Postcard Collection A collection of eight of about 140 U.S. patriotic themed postcards Winsch back type postcards, all with art nouveau St. Valentine’s Day featuring flags, fireworks, parades, and other illustrations done by Samuel L. Schmucker with four heart variations. celebrations of American life. About 70 real All cards circa 1910’s. Samuel Loren Schmucker’s (1879-1921) life photo postcards and about 70 art, humor, was one of hardship and determination. He conquered crippling antique, vintage, and assorted patriotic postcards. Est. $200-500 polio to pursue his passion of art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the HWAC# 126572 Fine Arts and at the Howard Pyle Institute at Drexel after that. While Schmucker made his name in the postcard business, he also designed Lot# 3516 1903-1960 Political Miscellaneous the labels for candy boxes, candy labels, and worked in accounting and Ephemera RPCs Senate Cards (51) A wide advertising when the postcard fad had subsided. His inspiring story variety of RPCs and political ephemera, came to an end in 1921 when he died of a sudden heart attack at the including two senate cards from the 1950s, age of 42. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 126609 from the U.S., c1903-1960. Most are RPCs, many canceled with stamps, and several pieces Lot# 3510 Valentine Winsch Back Type of ephemera for early 20th century politics. Ken Miscellaneous Art Nouveau Postcards A Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 127330 collection of about 13 art nouveau Valentine’s Day postcards in the Winsch back type style. Multiple artists including Samuel L. Schmucker (1879-1921), others unknown. One card features Lot# 3517 1900’s Political Postcard a miniature book on the front with two inner pages, a cover, and an Collection A collection of 60 postcards relating illustration of flowers behind it on the card itself. Inside the book is to various political scenes and personalities. a love poem and a Valentine’s message, the cover features a woman Cards include George Moscone, Eisenhower, looking at a cupid inside a box of chocolates. Winsch copyright dates Buchanan, and various congressional on cards range between 1910 and 1914. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 126617 candidates. There are a few older RPC’s also. All are in good condition, some unused. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125961 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 179

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3518 1907-1917 Grand Army of the Lot# 3525 1901-1907 President McKinley Republic Postcards (35) Some spectacular RPCs & magazine clipping (5) Lot of five G.A.R. badges are on this group of 35 colorful includes four RPCs and one magazine clipping litho postcards, mostly from the U.S., some foreign, c1907-1917. of President William McKinley, from the Includes two blank RPCs of President Taft at a G.A.R. Encampment in U.S., c1901-1907. Two RPCs are canceled (in Rochester, NY, Aug. 23, 1911, and a G.A.R. parade in Toledo, OH, Sept. 2, memoriam Niagara Falls 1905 and Salem, OH 1908. More than half are canceled, most with stamps. Ken Prag Collection 1907), one with stamp, with the remaining Est. $300-500 HWAC# 127304 two blank. One is a Tuck & Sons’ postcard. Magazine photo is of President and Mrs. McKinley in Los Angeles a few months before his Lot# 3519 1907-1918 Political with Uncle assassination. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127333 Sam Litho Postcards (60) Sixty litho political postcards featuring many cartoon renditions of Lot# 3526 1908-1915 President Taft Uncle Sam, c1907-1918. Several are canceled with stamps, including Humorous Litho Postcards (25) Twenty-five one with a Duke Center, PA, cancel and a graphic of Uncle Sam at the colorful and humorous litho postcards about North Pole. The remainder are blank, including one with a print of a President William H. Taft, from the U.S., c1908- painting of the Great White Fleet, c1908. All are fancy, colorful, some 1915. Fourteen are canceled with stamps, with gilt gold. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127302 mostly from western states, one has stamp and no cancel, and the rest are blank or with some Lot# 3520 1900’s writing. Features possum cartoons and Billy George Washington cards. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 127324 Postcard Collection A large collection (250) of Lot# 3527 Early 1900s Humorous Taft postcards featuring the first Postcards (7) Seven postcards featuring president. The collection humorous caricatures of Taft, from 1908-1911, covers Washington’s life in San Francisco, Montana and Kansas. Includes six litho cartoons and private, military service and one RPC. Three are canceled with stamps and two have writing on as president. The cards are them with no stamps. Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-100 HWAC# 120324 illustrations of events like the Crossing of the Delaware, Lot# 3528 1904-1910 the cherry tree incident, as President Taft in Public well as static portraits. There RPCs (21) Twenty- are several Tuck Cards in one RPCs featuring the the group. Cards are vibrant 27th president, William and in very good condition. Please see photos for more detail and Howard Taft, in public, condition. Est. $300-900 HWAC# 125964 from the U.S. and France, c1904-1910. Includes six Lot# 3521 Tuck’s George Washington canceled from California, Montana, Washington, Themed Postcards Group of 18 colorful D.C., and France, with stamps, the rest blank. Some of the blank ones postcards with a common George Washington have original written descriptions of the photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. theme. Some are action, others are static like the famous cherry tree, $500-1000 HWAC# 127321 as President, etc. Several are Tuck’s cards. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 125691 Lot# 3529 1909-1915 President Taft on the Lot# 3522 Large Group of Abraham Lincoln Election Trail RPCs (59) A large assortment of 59 views of President Taft on the election Postcards (40) Lot of 40 postcards depicting Abraham Lincoln, his homes, his memorials trail, and following the election traveling and achievements. Quite a few of the cards are embossed. Various throughout the U.S., with cancel dates 1909- publishers and some are Tuck’s. Most are postally unused, but a few 1915. Fourteen are canceled with stamps, the have postmarks of 1909 or 1910. The vast majority are color cards rest blank or with some writing. Some rare and in very good condition. This is a great lot. Ken Prag Collection Est. such as “first night flight.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# $300-600 HWAC# 118699 127329 Lot# 3523 1909 Lincoln Centenary Postcards Lot# 3530 1908-1909 President Taft Portraits RPCs (39) Lot of 39 RPCs of This is a group of 8 Abraham Lincoln centenary President Taft portraits, from the U.S., c1908- postcards, six of which are taken from carte di 09. Fifteen are canceled with stamps, from vitas. All these are blank. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100-150 HWAC# different U.S. states, the rest blank or with 126513 some writing. Both pre- and post-election photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 127327 Lot# 3531 1906-1909 Taft and White House Specialty Postcards (2) Two specialty Lot# 3524 1800’s-1900’s Grant McKinley postcards from the U.S., c1906-1909. The & Harding Postcards A collection of 15 White House is depicted in a “turn and view” postcards, featuring presidents Grant, McKinley photo and on the other, presidential candidate and Harding. The Grant group features a Tuck William H. Taft is dressed in purple, red and Thank You card, an RPC of Grant’s parlor and black felt with bowtie, buttons and watch a dDecoration Day Card. The McKinley group chain. One is canceled, 1906 Illinois, with a shows the Temple of Music at the Pan American stamp, and the other has writing and stamp was removed. Ken Prag Exposition in Buffalo where the president was shot in 1901, as well Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127325 as his Canton, Ohio home. Thirdly, we have cards featuring Warren G. Harding and his home in Marion, Ohio. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125963 180 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3532 1907-1911 Taft for President Lot# 3540 1908-1909 Taft RPCs of Family RPCs and Litho Postcards (17) Seventeen and Self (10) Ten RPCs of President William pre- and post-election RPCs and litho postcards H. Taft and his family, from Missouri, of William H. Taft, from the U.S., c1907-1911. Massachusetts, New York and Maine, c1908-1909. One canceled with President Taft’s portrait is featured in frames, stamp, the rest blank or with writing. One Tuck’s Postcard from 1908 with litho backgrounds. One features President has printed autograph, others are of his inauguration, with Mrs. Taft, Teddy Roosevelt and William McKinley as well. etc. Ken Prag Collection Est. $160-350 HWAC# 120329 Nine are canceled in various U.S. cities, with stamps, the rest blank or with some writing. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 127328 Lot# 3541 1909-1910 Taft Train Stop Speeches RPCs (6) Six RPCs of President Taft Lot# 3533 1909-1910 Taft in Cars Postcards making train stop speeches, from 1909-1910. (6) Six RPCs, most of President Taft riding Two from Clarksville, one Goodland. Show crowds, close-ups and in automobiles, from New York, 1909-1910. trains. Blank, some with writing on them. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- Includes two canceled with stamps. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 200 HWAC# 120328 HWAC# 120325 Lot# 3542 1908-1909 Taft-Sherman Lot# 3534 1902-1912 Taft in the Phillipines Bryan-Kern Election Postcards (22) Lot and Panama RPCs (10) Ten RPCs of William of 22 William H. Taft-James S. Sherman, and H. Taft in the Philippines and at the Panama William J. Bryan-John W. Kern RPCs from the Canal, from the U.S. and Panama, c1902- U.S. presidential election of 1908. Seven are 1912. Includes one canceled with stamp, canceled, six with stamps, the rest blank or the rest blank or with some writing. Four with some writing. Some feature the running RPCs are of Taft, then head of the Second mates, while others have photos of the opponents, Taft and Bryan. Ken Philippine Commission, later known as the Taft Prag Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 127326 Commission, in the Philippines. Six are of President Taft in Panama. Two are copyrighted in Panama. Many are colorized photos. Ken Prag Lot# 3543 1909 RPC’s Featuring President Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 127322 William Howard Taft Twenty RPC’s related to the 27th President, William Howard Taft. Lot# 3535 1908-1910 Taft Jugates Postcards Group shows images of Taft’s summer home (14) Fourteen RPCs, most featuring President in Beverly, Massachusetts, a train reception Taft and Vice President Sherman, in jugates, in Utica, NY, a pose with his brother Charley, from Illinois, Nevada, New York, Massachusetts and Washington D.C., giving a speech and more. Please see photos for in 1908-1910. Six canceled with stamps, the rest blank. Colorful, many more detail and condition. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 125960 with gilt gold. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 120327 Lot# 3544 1906-1915 Presidential Lot# 3536 1908-1910 Taft Portraits Candidate Bryan RPCs and Litho Postcards Postcards (25) Twenty-five RPCs and Lithos (36) Lot of 36 RPCs and litho postcards, mostly featuring portraits of William H. Taft, from of presidential candidate William Jennings 1908-1910, Kansas, California, Kentucky and Iowa. Includes nine Bryan who lost to Taft in 1908, from the U.S., canceled with stamps, the remaining blank or with some writing. Ken c1906-1915. Seventeen are canceled with Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 120326 stamps, the rest blank or with some writing. Some feature Bryan’s running mate, John W. Lot# 3537 1908-1913 Taft Postcards Kern. Some have the then current president, Teddy Roosevelt. Ken Prag Portraits in Oval (22) Twenty-two RPC and Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 127332 Litho postcards of President William H. Taft, all with portraits in oval, from several U.S. states including Colorado, Lot# 3545 William Jennings Bryan Postcard Massachusetts, Montana, Connecticut, Illinois, California, New York Collection (25) Look to be all different, 25 and Iowa, c1908-1913. Includes 11 canceled with stamps and 11 cards in all. Some are very nice, early real blank or with some writing, including one written in Norwegian. Ken photo cards. William Jennings Bryan of Lincoln, Nebraska. Bryan was Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 125720 a famous orator and politican, and ran three times for president as a member of the democratic party. This is a very nice set of cards. Lot# 3538 1909 Taft Presidential Condition of most is very good. View photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. Inauguration and Parades RPCs (10) Lot $200-500 HWAC# 118686 of 10 includes nine RPCs and an inauguration advertisement, from the U.S., c1909. All Lot# 3546 William Jennings Bryan different views of William H. Taft’s inauguration Presidential Postcard Group (9) Bryan, the and parades. All nine RPCs are blank or with famous orator, ran for president three times. some writing. Many have the dates on the These cards all depict the Bryan for president theme and most also front. Also included is a Sunset Magazine offer picture his V.P. candidate John Kern of Indiana. Nine postcards in all. to qualify for a trip to the inauguration festivities. Ken Prag Collection A couple of the cards are embossed. A highlight is a card featuring Est. $200-400 HWAC# 127323 the picture of Wm. J. Bryan and A.E. Stevenson, Compliments of the Equitable Society. On the back it lists the presidential vote by state Lot# 3539 1909-1911 Taft RPCs of Crowds from 1896, showing McKinley vs. Bryan. McKinley took the popular and Parades (10) Ten RPCs of President vote by about a margin of 600,000 votes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150- William H. Taft at parades and events in various 300 HWAC# 118687 U.S. states, c1909-1911. A blank RPC is of Taft at Redlands, Calif., Oct. 12, 1909. Others include: Taft at Juarez, Mexico; in Decatur, Ill., Feb. 11, Lot# 3547 William Jennings Bryan 1911; in Beverly, Mass., postdated Sept. 6, 1910; at his inauguration in Presidential Postcard Group 2 (12) Eight Washington, D.C., March, 4, 1909; and more. Three are canceled with different postcards, a few with dupes of two or stamps and the rest blank. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# three. Twelve postcards in all. Most in average to better condition. Ken 125721 Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 118688 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 181

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3548 1902-1911 Presidents Teddy Lot# 3556 J.F.K. and Jimmy Carter Postcard and Franklin D. Roosevelt RPCs and Litho Group (43) Includes Duplicates Various Postcards (17) Seventeen RPCs and litho postcards of the two presidents. Six different postcards featuring the 26th U.S. President cards of Carter, a couple of them with many duplicates. Twenty seven Teddy Roosevelt and 32nd U.S. President of Carter overall. Ten different views of J.F.K. with three cards with Franklin D. Roosevelt, from the U.S. with two duplicates. Sixteen cards of J.F.K. in total. All full color cards in very international, c1902-1911. Six are canceled with stamps, including good condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 118701 one from Flensburg, Germany. The rest are blank, including one from France. Some have writing on them. Includes Teddy’s family photos, Lot# 3557 Nixon and Reagan Postcard Group including the children with him on horseback. Ken Prag Collection Est. (35) Nice lot of Nixon and Reagan postcards, $200-400 HWAC# 127335 35 in all. Twenty-five are Nixon related, many family photos. Lots of duplication here. One of the cards has 15 copies, Lot# 3549 Teddy Roosevelt Postcard so only about 10 different views. Also, included is a Richard M. Nixon Collection (10) Ten postcards depicting signature card signed, “Dick Nixon”. Nixon usually signed as Richard, Roosevelt, his family, or his homes. Roosevelt but we found examples where he signed, “Dick Nixon”. This signature served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. is likely legit but it has not been authenticated. Ten postcards of A few are postmarked from 1906 to 1912. Average condition. View Reagan are included. One full color card shows Reagan hitting a golf photos for closeup. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 118689 ball. This is a great view we haven’t seen before. Another card shows Nancy Reagan and son Ron riding a tandem bike. Interesting content Lot# 3550 Theodore Roosevelt Humorous overall. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 118700 Postcards Group With Possums (13) Most of the postcards feature Billy Possum (referring to Taft) in humorous photos. It just goes to show that politics has Lot# 3558 Early 1900s U.S. Presidents of always been a rough and tumble endeavor. This would be a fun group 1800s Series RPC & Litho Postcards (15) to get. View photos for more. Eight different cards with one having a Fifteen blank litho postcards with inset duplicate and one having four copies. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 photos of early U.S. presidents, c early 1900s. HWAC# 118690 Presidents are the 3rd (Jefferson) through the 21st (Arthur), with some in-between Lot# 3551 Theodore Roosevelt Real Photo missing and a couple of duplicates. Postcards Postcard Group (4) Four real photos with feature gold gilt frames with eagle, U.S. flag two showing Roosevelt making speeches and and information on each president. Ken Prag two in poses with his family. Circa 1907. The card showing Roosevelt Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127336 leaning on the rail talking to the crowd at Bellow Falls, Vermont is a rare one. All in very good condition. View photos for closeups. Ken Prag Lot# 3559 1908 U.S. Presidents Series Tuck Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 118691 & Sons’ Litho Postcards (27) Twenty-seven litho postcards featuring U.S. presidents of Lot# 3552 Early 1900s the 1800s-early 1900s, including 23 Tuck’s Presidents Wilson and postcards, one with the date 1908. One Cleveland RPCs (19) series of Tuck’s & Sons’ has 20 of the first Nineteen RPCs featuring the 23 presidents, with a few Tuck’s Post Cards 22nd and 24th president, including two duplicates, plus Taft. Four are Grover Cleveland, and the from other postcard series other than Tuck’s. 28th president, Woodrow Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 127337 Wilson, from the U.S., circa early 1900s. Two are canceled Lot# 3560 Macon Zeppelin Airship Cover (1916 & 1918), with stamps, Collection (500) Major collection of covers the rest blank or with some from the USS Macon zeppelin, 1932-1935. writing. One uncanceled but There are 500 covers in this collection, with writing is from France. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# thought to not have any duplicates. The cover 127334 collection reflects cover collector’s excitement over collecting special cachet covers for every Lot# 3553 Woodrow Wilson Postcard Group event during this short-lived blimp’s life. The Macon was built from 1931-1933 in Akron, Ohio. Iwas officially (16) Nice group of cards depicting Woodrow christened March 11, 1933. It was named after Macon, Georgia. This Wilson. Sixteen in all. Circa 1917. In average to better condition. View photos for closeups. Ken Prag Collection Est. was the political district that the head of the House of Representatives $100-200 HWAC# 118694 Committee on Naval Affairs was from. The zeppelin first flew just after the Akron crash disaster April 21, 1933. It was airborne for 13 hours Lot# 3554 Calvin Coolidge Postcard Group carrying 105 people aboard. It was commissioned into the Navy in (13) Nice group of 13 postcards depicting June 1933. Later that month, the zeppelin went to New Jersey, where Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge served as the 30th it remained for the rest of the summer performing training flights. president of the United States from 1923-1929. The lot includes some In October 1933, the Macon went transcontinental to California, its very nice real photo cards. View photos for closeups. Ken Prag Collection “new” permanent home. It was based at Moffett Field in Santa Clara Est. $100-200 HWAC# 118695 County. It was damaged in a transcontinental flight in April 1934 during horrendous weather. Fixed and fully operational, it flew again Lot# 3555 F.D.R. and Herbert Hoover in California. On February 12, 1935 in a storm off Bug Sur, the blimp Postcard Group (10) Ten postcards depicting was again damaged, landed in the water off the Monterey coast and F.D.R. and Herbert Hoover. Hoover presided sunk. Two crew were killed, and 81 rescued. This collection has covers over the Great Depression and F.D.R. endeavored to get us out of the from the entire life span of the Macon. It includes a well-used copy of ditch with the New Deal. Some of the cards are linens and all are in the book: Mellone’s USS Macon Akron; Photo Encyclopedia of the USS very good condition. Great historical content. Ken Prag Collection Est. Akron and USS Macon Event Covers by Ullmann, 1996. Est. $2500- $60-100 HWAC# 118693 7500 HWAC# 117068 182 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3561 Various U.S. Blimp Postcards Lot# 3569 1920-30’s Various Dirigible Lot of 6. Two are postmarked w/stamps. One Post Cards & Stamps Lot of 32. Mostly b/w, RPC of blimps over Grant Park, Chicago. One a couple of color and RPC’s mixed in. FIve I of US Navy Blimp flying over Queen Elizabeth super liner. Remainder cancelled stamps: three Germany, one Great Britain “Zeppelin Seal” are color lithos of blimp in hanger, cartoon characters “Look At That and one Baptist Convention Detroit 1929. Various airships including Blimp”, ground view drawing of blimp leaving NAS Glynco, GA. And Zeppelins, inflatable observation airships, landing, flyovers, street and NORGE blimp insert w/ Salem Mission Chicago. Protective sleeves. Ken aerial views. Nice are postmarked most w/stamps. Protective covers. Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125283 Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 125280 Lot# 3562 1906-15 Blimp/ Zeppelin Humor Lot# 3570 1920-30’s Hindenburg Zeppelin Cards Lot of 14. Eleven are postmarked, several LZ-129 Post cards Lot of 5. RPC’s, b/w, w/stamps. These are humorous cards. Some Ground views flying over, airfields, great pic of depicting zeppelins and others are blimps. Street scene of zeppelin the bottom and of the LZ-19 on ground w/nose in hangar., one of the arriving to a crowd, baby flying “Babyland Airline” blimp. The Barton framework under construction. Protective sleeves. Ken Prag Collection Rawson Airship. Individual protective sleeves. Ken Prag Collection Est. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 125279 $100-200 HWAC# 125290 Lot# 3571 1931-61 Goodyear Blimp Lot# 3563 1933-52. USS Akron zeppelin Postcards Lot of 20. Twelve are postmarked postcards. Lot of 8. Four are postmarked w/ w/stamps (1.2.3 cent). Two RPC’s: Both stamps (1,3,9 cent). One RPC of USS Akron postmarked and stamped. One of Goodyear home plant in Akron, H and Goodyear blimps over Miami. One of the construction of the USS and one of the blimp flying over Chicago Worlds Fair-streetview. Akron. The remainder of the cards are color Birdseye view lithos of the Possibly one color RPC (not sure) of Goodyear blimps in hangar, aerial Akron over Houston, Akron Ohio, Lake Erie, Boston, Statue of Liberty view. Remainder are flying over beaches and cities one of the Goodyear and the Empire State bldg. In protective sleeves. Ken Prag Collection Est. Zeppelin entering hangar and one of it in the hanger. Protective sleeves. $100-200 HWAC# 125282 Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125284 Lot# 3564 Zeppelin Postcards Lot Lot# 3572 1908-44 Early American Blimp of 8. B/W of Graf Zeppelin III and LT Postcards Lot of 10. Four are postmarked w/ 127. Views flying over cities, rivers stamps (1 cent, one of Statue of Liberty). Two and buildings sin Germany. Street RPC’s (b/w) : blimp offer Grants Park, Chicago and one of the “balloon views and aerial views., view from house” in Atlantic City N.J for Air Ship AMERICA (1910). Two 13 cent rooftops. One has photo f Dr. Hugo uncanceled stamps of the Graf Zeppelin trans-Atlantic flight 1928 Eckener ( commander of the Graf by Tyrol Flying “A”. Remainder are different airships around the U.S. Zeppelin and manger of Luftschiffbau Protective sleeves. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125285 Zeppelin inter war years). Protective sleeves on cards. Six have written on Lot# 3573 Postcards of International Cruise and postmarked 1940’s. One has postmark of Graf Zeppelin L.Z. 127. Ship Vessels This is a collection of Postcards, Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125275 about 300 depicting cruise ship vessels from around the world. Exterior views, many are RPCs. An artist rendering Lot# 3565 1900’s Zeppelin RPC’s Lot of 4. of the Lusitania. Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 125609 RPC’s of Zeppelin displaying Swastikas. Two ground views: one of LZ127 tethered and of it Lot# 3574 Postcards of Luxury Cruise Ships approaching to land. One flying over Friedrichafen and Frankfurt. In interior This is a collection of about 250 protective sleeves. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125281 postcards depicting cruise ship interiors for motor vessels from around the world. Many Lot# 3566 1907-21 French Blimps and RPCs. Interesting photos of comfort for the Zeppelin Post Cards Lot of 12. Seven are upper classes. Many used before the war and postmarked w/ stamps (10 cents). Three are recommissioned during the war. Please see Tuck’s cards. One 1907 RPC and possible two more.. Includes: Graf photos for details. Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# Zeppelin over Barcelona. “La Valle De Paris” blimp in hangar. Blimp 125614 “PATRIE” ground view. Zeppelin over Paris. Protective sleeves. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125287 Lot# 3575 Postcards of the Queen Mary motor vessel This is a collection of about 100 Lot# 3567 1908-15 Early Zeppelin Post postcards, many colorized, of the Queen Mary. Cards Lot of 15. Color and b/w, RPC’s All but Many interior and exterior cards. Please see two are postmarked w/stamps. One is a Tuck’s photos for details. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# Post Card, Zeppelin over water, postmarked, no stamp. Birdseye and 125618 street views I.e; Zeppelin over Berlin, great looking color of Zeppelin tied to a pier (might be drawing). All in protective sleeves. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 125278 Lot# 3576 1800-1900’s Paddle Wheel & Riverboat RPC’s 40 RPC’s and postcards Lot# 3568 1920-30’s Graf Zeppelin Post featuring riverboats around the country, Cards Lot of 31. B/W w/RPC’s, one color including the Sacramento River, Bass Lake, postcard. Zeppelins flying over cities, rivers Indiana, and of course the Mississippi. Most are countryside’s. Street, aerial and views in it’s hangar. RPC of Graf black and white, but there are some colored Zeppelin, another w/Graf Zeppelin and Capitan Konig. Nine are ones. Some of these are used, some are blank. postmarked w/stamps. One uncanceled stamp “Via Condor-Zeppelin” Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $300-800 HWAC# from 1930. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125277 126527 If you need Christmas delivery please contact us for special arrangements. View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 183

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3577 1923 S.S. Leviathan Ocean Liner Lot# 3585 1901 Postcards Featuring U.S. RPC’s A group of 15 RPC’s and postcards Monitor Warships Nine beautiful renditions featuring the United States Liner Leviathan. on postcards of monitor warships for the early Images show the exterior as well as interior of 1900’s. Ships depicted in these colorful cards the gigantic (At the time) ship that also served include USS Nevada, USS Florida, USS Wyoming as a troop transport during WWI. Please see and others. Some are blank, some used. Please photos for more detail and condition. Est. see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 126511 $100-150 HWAC# 125477 Lot# 3578 Ships Wrecked and Aground Lot# 3586 1900’s Early US Warship RPC’s Postcards - 15 B&W postcards including RPCs & Postcards 14 action RPC’s of US warships depicting ships wrecked and aground. A couple at sea in the early part of the 20th century. with ships rimed with ice. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-240 HWAC# Cards show the “Great White Fleet” as well as 126816 ships from as far back as the Civil War. Some of these are used, some blank. Please see photos Lot# 3579 1900’s Assorted Boats & Ship for more detail and condition. Est. $100-150 Postcards 25 Various RPC’s and postcards HWAC# 126517 featuring boats and ships over a few decades. Photos feature fishing boats to schooners to Lot# 3587 WWII-era US Navy Ship Postcards river boats, even a racing sloop. Some are used, - 48 A collection of ~48 postcards picturing US some new. Please see photos for more detail Navy ships and Navy life in the era bracketed and condition/ Est. $100-200 HWAC# 126519 by WWI and WWII. Good images of the state-named battleships such as the Arizona, Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho, New Jersey, Maine, Iowa, Lot# 3580 Sailboats, Schooners, and Tall North Dakota, and Arkansas. Also city-named ships such as Atlanta, Ships Postcards ~ 29 Sailing ships of all sizes Monterey, Memphis, Itasca, Cheyenne, and Baltimore. Three show the from small sailboats to triple-masted tall ships. USS Bennington after a boiler explosion. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- There are 14 color including chromoliths and 500 HWAC# 126811 15 B&W with some RPCs. Come, sail away and see the world. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 Lot# 3588 Postcards of U.S. Battleships HWAC# 126890 This is a collection of U.S. battleships. A count of over 150 including dups. Many are chrome Lot# 3581 1900’s Illustrated Postcards lithographed, others RPCs. This is naval history of Ships & Yachts 25 assorted illustrated at your fingertips. The ships include: the postcards featuring masted ships and yachts. Arizona, Kentucky, Oregon, Illinois, Missouri, There are military as well as merchants ships Ohio, Wisconsin, Georgia, Rhode Island, depicted. Some used, some blank. Please see Virginia, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Texas, photos for more detail and condition. Est. Louisiana, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, $100-150 HWAC# 126515 and Frederick. Please see photos for details. Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 125619 Lot# 3582 1905 “Great White Fleet” Postcard Convoy A beautiful group of 25 Lot# 3589 Postcards of US Sailors and illustrated Greetings from California” postcards Marines This is a collection of sailors and that feature Theodore Roosevelt’s “Big Stock” marines, some on square -riggers many RPCs. the Great White Fleet. Mostly unused, the About 90 count. Please se photos for details. cards show illustrations of the ships of the line, Est. $300-700 HWAC# 125612 including The New Jersey, The Alabama, The Georgia, The Kentucky, The Minnesota and others. Roosevelt wanted to show the world that the US was not to be messed with, so he sent Lot# 3590 US Navy & Marines Postcards and the fleet on a world tour. Please see photos for detail and condition. Ephemera ~ 60 About 60 pieces including 8 Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126518 B&W printed and 20 color postcards and ~30 Lot# 3583 1900’s Earlier Century Steamship pieces of related ephemera depicting Navy and Marine ships, people, and places. Some humor cards, decorative ship name cards, and a few Postcards A variety of about 40 or so RPC’s portrait photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 126813 and postcards of various steamships in the earlier part of the 20th century. From Canada Lot# 3591 US Navy Cruiser Postcards, 1905- to Britain to the United States, this group offers 10 ~75 A bounty of US Navy cruisers including, different looks and styles of steamers in the among others, Brooklyn, Colorado, Milwaukee, early 1900’s. Some are used, some are blank. Olympia, California, Tennessee, New York, Boston, Washington, Salem, Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. etc. There are 15 B&W printed, and 60 color with mostly chromoliths. $250-500 HWAC# 126531 Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 126812 Lot# 3584 1900 Early 20th Century US Lot# 3592 1940s US Navy Postcards - 100+ Warship Postcards 22 beautiful full color 49 printed B&W and 58 color postcards postcards showing images of various US features ships and Navy life in the era of WWII. warships, including torpedo craft, submarines Some humor cards and a 13-card group of the USS Delaware. Ken Prag and a receiving ship. All are in good shape, Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126208 some blank, some used. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100-200 Lot# 3593 1909 US Navy Postcards by Artist HWAC# 125478 L.R. Conwell, 1909 - Artist L. R. Conwell depicted a series of US Navy men in affectionate poses with their gals, all are framed in gold-toned ink. This series is copyright 1909. There are eight cards in this lot. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 126810 184 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3594 1900’s U.S. Marine Themed Lot# 3602 1938 HMS Postcards Around 20, humorous and scenic Queen Elizabeth RPC’s postcards featuring images and illustrations & Postcards 35 RPC’s of the United States Marines. Leathernecks are and postcards featuring shown at the firing line, in formation, as well the White Star Cunard as the Marine Band, post John Phillip Souza. Line’s HMS Queen Some are blan, some are used. Please see photos for more detail and Elizabeth Ocean Liner. condition. Est. $70-150 HWAC# 125476 Billed as the fastest ship in the fleet by White Star, Lot# 3595 Steamship Postcards ~ 39 the QE had its maiden Whatever floats your boat -- here is a collection voyage in 1946 and was of steamships, paddlewheelers, sidewheelers, destroyed by fire in Hong liners, and even a scene of tall ships. There are 9 B&W with RPCs Kong Harbor in 1972. and 30 color including chromoliths. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 These cards, some used, some blank, show the ship underway, as well HWAC# 126873 as several interior shots of dining and sitting rooms on the luxury liner. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200-500 HWAC# Lot# 3596 1930-1960’s Steamship RPC 126520 Collection About or so postcards featuring ships of all styles from tankers to transports Lot# 3603 1915 Cunard Lines RMS Lusitania and passenger liners. Some are photos, most RPC & Card Collection This a small group of are postcards. Some used, some blank. Please 15 RPC’s & postcards featuring Cunard Lines see photos for more detail and condition. A varied group. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 126530 Lusitania. Sunk in 1915 by a German U Boat, it heightened America’s eventual participation Lot# 3597 Foreign Battleships Postcards in WWI due to the fact that of the over 700 passengers who went down with her, 114 of them were Americans. - 10 6 B&W printed and 4 color postcards of foreign battleships. Ken Prag Collection Est. $60- These cards show one interior and several exteriors of the ship at sea. 100 HWAC# 126209 Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 126521 Lot# 3598 Tug Boat Postcards - 14 Tug boats Lot# 3604 1920’s White Star & Red Star hard at work doing what they do best; a dozen B&W RPCs and two color postcards. Ken Prag Shipping Lines Ad Cards 24 advertising cards Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 126815 for British shipping lines, White Star (10) and Red Star (14). These along with Cunard were Lot# 3599 Liverpool, 1906 RMS Mauretania thew main British shipping companies during RPC’s Over 50 RPC’s featuring interior as well the first half of the 20th century. Some of these as exterior images of The White Star Cunard’s cards are blank, others used. Please see photos RMS Mauretania (The Maury). Photos show for more detail. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 126529 staterooms, dining salons and sitting rooms in Lot# 3605 1909 Ships of the British Ships the massive ship that was launched in 1906. It Postcards 13 postcards featuring ships from was scrapped in 1935. Some cards are used, the United Kingdom, including the RMS Ivernia some are blank. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $300-700 HWAC# 126512 which, like the Lusitania, fell victim to a German U-Boat on New Years Day 1917. Other ships are Lot# 3600 RMS Berengaria the RMS Baltic, RMS Caronia and others. Please RPC’s & Cards A lot of 20 RPC’s see photos for more detail and condition. Est. of Cunard Line’s HMS Berengaria. $100-200 HWAC# 126526 She has the distinction of being Lot# 3606 German Luxury Liner “America” Cunard’s first Queen – named Postcards 50 illustrated postcards featuring after Queen Berengaria, the the German ocean liner “Amerika.”Launched Queen Consort of Richard the in 1905 as SS Amerika by Harland and Wolff Lionheart. Launched in 1912 in Belfast for the Hamburg America Line of and ended service in 1938. These Germany as a passenger ocean liner, before cards show mostly the luxurious becoming USS America in 1917. These cards interior compartments of the show all the amenities offered and the opulence of accommodations ship. Some are used, some blank. onboard. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200- Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100- 500 HWAC# 126516 200 HWAC# 126522 Lot# 3607 1930’s Japanese Liner Asama Maru Postcards Nicely illustrated group Lot# 3601 HMS Aquitania RPC’s 25 RPC’s of of 15 illustrated postcards featuring the the interior and exterior of the RMS Aquitaine, Japanese luxury liner M.S. Asami Maru. a ship from the Cunard Line. Photos show the Launched in 1928, the ship was later sunk at ;usurious accommodations that were pretty the beginning of WWII when is was rumored standard for first class passengers back during to be transporting German sailors back to Trans-Atlantic ship travel RMS Aquitania was a British ocean liner of Germany, which violated Japan’s neutrality agreement. Illustrations the Cunard Line in service from 1914 to 1950. She was designed by show staterooms, theatre and swimming pool. Please see photos for Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, more detail and condition. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 126514 Scotland. She was launched on 21 April 1913 and sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York on 30 May 1914. Please see photos Lot# 3608 Angel Postcards ~ 27 Approx 27 for more detail and condition. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 126523 postcards with classic angels with wings and white robes Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125869 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 185

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3609 1905-15 Around the U.S. in Lot# 3616 “In the Hands of the Receiver” Art Amusement Park Postcards & Ticket Lot of Card by Flagg James Montgomery Flagg was an 38. One ticket to Paragon Park in Nantasket American artist, comics artist and illustrator. Beach Mass.boasting “The Worlds Largest This card is titled, “In the Hands of the Receiver”, signed by Flagg and Rollercoaster”.Color and B/W cards. From all published in New York. Shows a couple cudding on the couch. Very around: New Jersey, Canada, Maryland, Ohio, good condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $20-40 HWAC# 118682 Mass., Nebraska, PA, New York, W. Vir. Iowa, Wis, Mich, Wash, Street Views, Birdseye view, Buildings, rollercoasters, whole parks, beaches, boardwalks.. Think Lot# 3617 “The Engagement Day” Art circular rollercoasters are new, one card shows otherwise. Four RPC’s: Card by Lyman Powell Nice art card shows of rollercoasters and merry-go-round, street level and distant view. a woman on her engagement day. Small stain Tow have writing. Eighteen are postmarked 1907-55. All but three bottom right. Signed by Lyman Powell. Ken Prag Collection Est. $20-40 have one cent cancelled stamps. One has Two cent, one has three cent HWAC# 118665 cancelled stamps. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125273 Lot# 3618 Bessie Pease Gutmann Art Card Lot# 3610 1900-82 Amusement Parks Group (78) Nice group of 78 art cards from Around the U.S. Lot of 13. Color and B/W Bessie Pease Gutmann with some duplicates. postcards from various states amusement She married one of the partners of Gutmann and Gutmann, her parks. Rollercoaster scenes from Six Flags publishers. Guttman painted mostly in pastels. Her illustrations Texas street level, Casino and Velvet Denver were widely used including in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from the water, Exposition Park San Antonio (metropostcards.com). Most of the cards are in average to better street level, Electric Park San Antonio w/three condition, but a few have creases. Overall, a very nice lot. View photos. views, State Fair Huron S.D. 1915., Montana. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 118692 Pennsylvania, Washington State Fair (RPC, Lot# 3619 Funny Choice Art Card, Woman B/W). Protective sleeves. Eight have writing and postmarked 1906-34 w/one cent cancelled stamps. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# Fends Him Off! No artist noted, but this is a 125539 great card. “He could peddle love talk like a book...But Alas and by Heck, Get the Hook! She’s got him by the nose. Lot# 3611 Early 1900s Art “Pallets & Good condition. See photo. Ken Prag Collection Est. $20-40 HWAC# 118684 Frames” Foreign RPC & Litho Postcards (22) Twenty-two European multi-media postcards Lot# 3620 G.G. Wiedergaim Art Card Collection (31) Lot of 31 art cards from G.G. featuring framed photographs and prints, from the early 1900s. Prints Wiedergaim. Grace Wiedergaim a.k.a. Grace have unique style frames, including being shaped like painters’ pallets. All are blank and in fine condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 Drayton was an illustrator of children’s books, magazine covers and HWAC# 127308 fashion pages. Most of the cards picture children with humorous content. Average condition. View photos to inspect lot. Ken Prag Lot# 3612 Artist Ellen Clapsaddle Litho Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 118697 Postcards (40) Forty litho postcards featuring Lot# 3621 Group of C.Cole Phillips Art Cards the works of early 1900s illustrator and (9) Nine art cards inscribed with C.Cole Phillips commercial artist Ellen Hattie Clapsaddle, from the U.S., c1908-1925. at the bottom. Includes four “Arms and the Included are 30 canceled, most with stamps, with one cancel from Man” and two “Home Ties”. Three additional different cards. Edward the 1915 World’s Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. The Gross, N.Y. sole distributor. Most in average condition. A few with small rest are blank or with some writing. All are festive prints of children creases. See photo. Ken Prag Collection Est. $20-40 HWAC# 118664 representing every U.S. holiday. Today Clapsaddle is recognized as the most prolific souvenir/postcard and greeting card artist of her era. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-400 HWAC# 127307 Lot# 3622 Group of Jessie Willcox Smith Art Lot# 3613 1910-1920 Artist Francis Cards (8) Eight art cards by Smith. Copyright Charles Scribner’s Sons. Reinthal & Newman Brundage Print Postcards (65) Sixty-five publisher, N.Y. Color cards show different scenes of little girls playing. litho postcards featuring prints of artwork Three of the cards have duplicates, “The Lily Pool”, “In the Garden” and done by Francis Brundage, from the U.S., c1910-1920. More than half “The Green Door”. Also a card with two girls sitting on “The Garden are canceled, with stamps, some with the Panama-Pacific International Wall” and lastly three girls “Among the Poppies”. Good condition. View Exposition cancel. Some are Tuck’s postcards. Frances Isabelle Lockwood Brundage (1854–1937) was an American illustrator best photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-80 HWAC# 118669 known for her depictions of attractive and endearing children. Ken Prag Lot# 3623 Eleven Art Cards Signed by G.G. Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 127305 Drayton Circa 1913-14. Eleven art cards Lot# 3614 1900’s Artist Postcard Collection by Drayton. Grace G. Grayton illustrated many comic books and also designed postcards and paper dolls A nice collection of Victorian to flapper era (metropostcards.com). The cards feature childred and have humorous postcards by several artists. There’s a definite content. A couple of cards are from Campbell Art Co., Elizabeth, New female theme throughout the selection, that Jersey. These have pop out heads when folded and seem quite rare. A includes several Tuck Cards. These are colorful nice group from this prolific artist. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 and a little suggestive in their content. Some are HWAC# 118681 blank, some used. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 126452 Lot# 3624 Five O’Neill Pre Kewpie Art Cards, Two Signed Five nice art cards by Lot# 3615 Four Philip Boileau Art Cards, O’Neill, pre Kewpie. Kewpie is a brand of dolls and figurines from Rose O’Neill’s comic strip. Two of the cards have WW I Era Philip Boileau was a Canadian- O’Neill’s signature. Circa 1910. Published by Gibson Art Company, born Art Nouveau illustrator known for his Cincinnati (printed on three of the cards). Average condition. One has watercolor and pastel drawings of Victorian-era women (artnet.com). a corner bend. View photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# Reinthal & Newman, pubs. N.Y. The four cards are in good condition. View photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $40-80 HWAC# 118678 118677 186 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3625 Two Art Cards by C.E. Perry Two Lot# 3634 1910s Automobile Postcards, all art cards by C.E. Perry in winter tones of two RPCs - 33 Fanstastic collection of approx 33 well dressed ladies. No postmark to date the B&W RPCs with early 20th century automobiles cards. Circa 1910. Average condition. One has a smudgy (dirty) border. with curved fenders and collapsible tops, dripping with nostalgia (but View photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $20-40 HWAC# 118673 no motor oil). Ford, Stutz, and other brands represented. Ken Prag Collection Est. $280-400 HWAC# 126198 Lot# 3626 Two Art Cards By M. Grimbald Circa 1908 Two art cards by M. Grimbald Lot# 3635 Automobile Postcards, All RPCs of children’s scenes. Both copyright 1908, - 43 Automobile postcards, approx 43 pieces. Gutmann & Guttman. Some wear in the corners. Ken Prag Collection Est. Early cars with flat fenders; 20 cards with $20-40 HWAC# 118683 collapsible tops or no tops; 11 cards of touring models; 3 adverts; 8 with hard tops. Ever ride in or drive one of these? Ken Prag Collection Lot# 3627 Two Art Cards by Robt. Robinson Est. $280-400 HWAC# 126195 Show Wanted Poster & Frozen Water Pump Two nice cards by Robinson, copyright Edward Lot# 3636 Postcards Gross, N.Y. Published by Curtis Publishing Co. One shows the sheriff depicting Automotive looking at a wanted poster. Sheriff looking incredulous at the poster. History in the The other shows a man poring hot water from a teapot onto the top U.S.A. This is a lot of of his water pump. Both very nice cards. View photos. Est. $40-60 about 100 postcards HWAC# 118666 depicting automobile manufacturing in Lot# 3628 Two Norman Rockwell Art the United States. So Cards, Soldier says, “I’m Back in the U.S.A.” you think you know Two examples of the same card by Norman a thing or two about Rockwell show soldier in uniform waving. “Greetings: I’m in the Good automotive history? Old U.S.A. “Knights of Columbus Committee on War Activities”. World Well, this lot shows many War I era, one is postmarked 1919. Brown print on creme paper. One manufacturing plants across the US and many have been gone for in good condition and the other has some creases. View photos. Ken a century. There are the usual suspects like Ford, Chrysler, Dodge, Prag Collection Est. $40-80 HWAC# 118668 Cadillac, Plymouth, Pontiac, Buick, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Lincoln, Lot# 3629 Postcards by Artist Richard F. Goodyear, B.F. Goodrich, Firestone, Kelly-Springfield, and Fisher Body. But then we have: Studebaker, Packard, Hudson, Willys-Overland, Outcault - 17 Artist Richard F. Outcault was a Auburn Automobile Co., Mason Motors, Thomas Jeffery Co. in Kenosha, famed newspaper cartoonist famous early on Wi. for Ramber and Nash (postmarked 1910), Apsley Rubber, Maxwell, for The Yellow Kid character in Hogan’s Alley. He created the Buster Continental, Locomotive Co., Interior Automotive Factory, Reo Motors, Brown cartoon strip which became an brand identity for the Brown E-M-F Automobile or Everitt-Metzger-Flanders Co., Fairmont Gas Shoe Company. This lot of 17 postcards (one of Buster Brown) shows Engine & Ry Motor Car Co., Kelley Car Co., Golden Eagle Buggy Co. some of the breadth of his cartoon creativity. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 126202 There are some dups. and other factory views as well. There are literally thousands of companies connected to the automotive industry Lot# 3630 1906-1907 Assembled Puzzle and this is a great list. Est. $240-400 HWAC# 125622 Sets of Pioneer Postcards Frog, Mosquito, Fish (3) Three complete assembled sets of Lot# 3637 Postcards of Automobile Ads in pioneer postcards from the U.S., circa early 1900s. Includes some America This is a collection of automobile ads canceled with stamps, others blank. Sets include: three litho PCs presented on postcards by car salesmen. There puzzle set of a frog, pub. Alfred Holzmann, Chicago; four litho PCs of a are about 225 postcards most are lithographed mosquito, Huld’s puzzle series, c. 1906; and three litho PCs puzzle set from as early as the 1909 Overland to the of “The Fish Story,” c. 1906, The Wildwood Post Card Co. Wildwood. introduction of the Honda Civic in the early N.J. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127318 1970’s. There is a White automobile and a Lot# 3631 1906-1908 Assembled Sets Tucker with the third headlight. Est. $400-800 Pioneer Postcards “Snake” Humorous HWAC# 125623 (3) Three puzzle sets, each with three litho Lot# 3638 Postcards of Automobile pioneer postcards featuring the same snake illustration, by two Marketing This is a collection of about 75 different publishers, from the U.S., c1906-1908. A snake chasing a man postcards depicting autos from the 1907 with clever story are featured on these three sets, two copyright 1906 Stanley Steamer, the 1915 Mercer Raceabout, by The Rose Company, and one by The Stein Co. All are canceled with to about 1940. Then there is a cache of about stamps from Kansas 1907 (3), Oregon 1907 (3) and Colorado 1908 40 postcards depicting the GM marketing of (3). Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127319 the 1953-1956 Motorama exhibition. Over 100 postcards in all with dups. The “Back fire “ and Lot# 3632 Auto Racing Postcards - 26 Total “a blow out” are my personal favorites however of 26 postcards about auto racing. Color cards I do not know what they are selling. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 125627 of Indianapolis Motor Speedway over many years, humor cards, six B&W (with RPCs) cards, and other races. Start Lot# 3639 Bank Postcards from the Your Engines! Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 126196 Northeast US ~ 39 Bank postcards from Lot# 3633 Automobile Postcards and the northeastern US, 32 chromoliths and 7 B&W printed pieces. You’ll find Pittsburgh, Ephemera ~64 pcs Approx 64 pieces of Baltimore, New Haven, Bangor, Portland ME, historical and hysterical auto postcards and and other places. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- memorabilia. A wide variety of types (color, printed, RPCs) and designs. 150 HWAC# 126889 Vroom, vroom! Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 126197 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 187

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3640 1912-1917 Banks (3) RPCs from Lot# 3645 1900’s Beautiful Women Wyoming, South Dakota and North Dakota Postcards Early litho postcards with a common Three great RPCs, in fine condition, of banks theme of beautiful women. They are colorful, in Wyoming, South Dakota and North Dakota, unique and in good shape. Please see photos c1912-1917. Includes: First National Bank, for more detail and condition. Est. $100-200 Tyndall, S.D. with South Dakota cancel and HWAC# 125705 stamp, 1917; First National Bank, Lidgerwood, N.D., remains after wrecked by explosion Lot# 3646 1900’s Boy Scout Art Postcards during fire, Jan. 17, 1912, blank; and Evanston About 45 colorful art postcards featuring The National Bank, Evanston, Wyoming. Est. $150- Boy Scouts of America. Cards have mostly 250 HWAC# 125731 a patriotic theme with pictures of founding fathers and American flag in background. There is also a rare BSA shoe ad that has to be early 1900’s since it touts a swastika as a good luck charm. A very interesting lot to be sure. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $120-300 HWAC# 126464 Lot# 3641 1885-1941 Banks Various Cities Lot# 3647 1900’s Boy Scout RPC Collection U.S. Postcards (10) Ten RPCs and litho About 50 RPC’s all having to do with The postcards of banks in various U.S. states, c1885- Boy Scouts of America. There are portraits of 1941. Includes: a receipt postcard from The scouts and their leaders, jamboree, camping American exchange National Bank, canceled and more. Some of these are blank others used. Feb. 17, 1885 in New York, pre-stamped; three This is a very unique collection of Scouting canceled with stamps; two canceled, missing memorabilia. Please see photos for more detail stamps; and the rest blank or with some and condition. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 126462 writing. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 125732 Lot# 3648 1940-50’s Humorous Boy Scout Lot# 3642 National Bank Postcards Postcards Fifty colorfully animated postcards featuring the theme of Boy Scouts. Each have and Ephemera ~ 23 pcs National Bank humorous scenes and text. There are a few that buildings across the country. Lot includes 12 are straight photos, like the Scouting Jamboree, chromoliths, 4 B&W including RPCs, 5 humor etc. Some are used, some are blank. Please cards, and two pieces of ephemera. Look for see photos for more detail and condition. Est. Omaha, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Memphis, New $150-300 HWAC# 125464 Orleans, Buffalo, St. Louis, and others. Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# 126888 Lot# 3649 1900’s Vintage Boy Scout RPC & Lot# 3643 1909 Coin/Currency RPC & Postcard Grab Bag About 100 RPC’s and other vintage postcards featuring The Boy Scouts Litho Postcards (3) Three coin and currency of America. Cards have mostly a patriotic related postcards from the early 1900s. theme with pictures of founding fathers and Includes: RPC, canceled April 28, 1909, in American flag in background. There is also a Washington, D.C., with stamp, depicting a vault rare BSA shoe ad that has to be early 1900’s of silver certificates with two men in it, with since it touts a swastika as a good luck charm. “Reserve Silver Certificate Vault, U.S. Treasury, A very interesting lot to be sure. Please see photos for more detail and Washington, D.C.,” written below; blank condition. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 126474 postcard with litho of traveler’s checks pictured above a departing ocean liner which is an advertisement for American Bankers Lot# 3650 1900’s Girl Scout RPC’s & Other Association Travelers’ Cheques; and colorful blank card with gambling Postcards Around 100 RPC’s and other litho which reads, “Dealing for Money.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-100 postcards featuring the Girl Scouts of America. HWAC# 125734 Most show camping and craft activities over the years. Founded in 1912, the GSA was the Lot# 3644 International Coin Post Cards answer to the Boy Scouts which was founded two years earlier. Cards are in good shape, Lot of three post cards featuring the coinage some blank, some used. A real peak at scouting and national flag of: Turkey, Morocco and Persia. Est. $20-50 HWAC# 114737 on the female front. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $300-700 HWAC# 126466 Lot# 3651 Business Interiors Real Photo Postcard Collection A collection of about 20 real photo postcards showcasing the inside of businesses such as restaurants, barber shops, cafes, print shops, butchers and more. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 126610 Lot# 3652 Buster Brown Postcards - 22 Approx 22 postcards with Buster Brown (he lives in your show) and his dog Tige (he lives in there too!); a humorous collection of comical postcards. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 126201 188 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3653 Colorful Advertising Postcards Lot# 3661 1906-2014 Gambling Ships and A group of 23 beautifully artistic advertising Gambling Postcards. Lot of 6. Book of $2 postcards. Advertisers include, Toledo Scales, coupons for Harold’s CLub. 1908 couple @ Planters Peanuts, California Mission Inn, The checker table holding hands (drawing). RPC New York Worlds Fair of 1939, Arrowhead of Dad Lee w/ “First Dice Table in the State” Hot Springs and more. All are in very good Winnemucca, NV 1939 written on back (very condition, some used, some blank. Would make rare). Two RPC of gambling ship “Johanna Smith” from water level a nice collage. Please see photos for more detail view. One has writing on back. RPC (1934) gambling ship “S.S. Monte and condition. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 125828 Carlo”, Birdseye view. All in protective covers. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125274 Lot# 3654 1901-1940s Composers, Orchestras and Bands RPCs and Litho Lot# 3662 1908-1960s Gaming RPCs and Postcards (80) Eighty RPCs and litho postcards Litho Postcards (63) Sixty-three items, featuring great composers, conductors, orchestras, band leaders and including RPCs and litho postcards, all with musical performances from the U.S. and around the world, c1901- a gaming theme, mostly from Nevada (Reno, 1940s. Postcards depict everyone from George Frederick Handel to Carson City, Vegas), circa early 1900s through Freddy Martin. Includes 15 international cancels with stamps, the rest the ‘60s, with most from the ‘50s. A dozen are blank or with some writing. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# canceled with stamps, with one from France, 1908. The rest are blank. 127306 Two are matchbook covers from the Bank Club and Merry-Go-Round in Reno. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 125736 Lot# 3655 1900’s Daughters of the States Litho Postcards-40 This is an interesting and colorful batch of postcards dedicated to the “Daughters of the States. These delightfully Lot# 3663 Group of 40 Kewpie Doll illustrated ladies represent each state by Postcards by O’Neill Rose O’Neill created posing with some item identified with that the Kewpie character in 1908 and it became a state. Illinois poses with a locomotive, Missouri sensation. She licensed out the images for advertisments and in 1912 with a bushel of wheat, New York, a skyscraper to a German company that produced the Kewpie Doll (metropostcard. and so on. Some cards are blank, some used. Please see photos for com). The lot includes 40 postcards of the adorable Kewpie dolls. Most more detail and condition. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 126488 in average condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 118696 Lot# 3656 1907 Early College Co-ed Lot# 3664 Hand-Drawn Art Postcards Postcards A nice group of 20 postcards ~50 Approx 50 postcards with hand-drawn featuring illustrations in both black and designs in graphite pencil, colored pencil, and white of college ladies in various dress styles. watercolor. Wide range of creative and artistic skill represented. Two Most are representing Eastern and Midwest are hand drawn on thin plywood. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 colleges. Please see photos for more detail and HWAC# 125866 condition. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 125713 Lot# 3665 Home Life in Luxury Real Photo Lot# 3657 1900’s Entertainment Themed Postcard Collection A collection of about 25 RPC’s (30) Thirty colorful RPC’s and postcards real photo postcards touring the inside of the with entertainment themes .Cards show beautiful and luxurious homes of the past with dates ranging from everything from an ad for the new Cinerama process to interiors of between 1911 to 1940. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 126613 various bars and restaurants, humorous cartoons and even President Nixon’s family. Some are used, some are blank. Please see photos for Lot# 3666 1906-1950s Immigration, Social more detail and condition. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 126808 Issues and Political Postcards (60) Sixty Lot# 3658 1900’s 85 Celebrity Postcards RPCs and litho postcards featuring subjects such as immigration, social and political issues, A collection of 85 black & white and color from many U.S. states and some from overseas, postcards, featuring celebrities from the movie c1906-1950s. About half are canceled, most and entertainment business. Personalities include Louis Armstrong, with stamps, and the rest blank or with some writing. A few depict Gypsy Rose Lee, band leader Tommy Dorsey, Carmen Miranda, Rudolph Ellis Island. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 125745 Valentino and more. Some cards are used, some are blank. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126809 Lot# 3659 1903-1950s Famous People Lot# 3667 Kewpie Doll Postcards ~50 Approx 50 postcards with Kewpie Doll figures RPCs Group (73) Seventy-three RPCs of on them. Kewpies were drawn by Rose O’Neil. famous people from the U.S. and international, Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 125867 c1903-1950s. Included are 14 canceled with stamps, the rest blank or with some writing, with one Tuck’s. Some of the famous people Lot# 3668 1907-1931 are: Ghandi, pre-stamped from India 1951, and with a 1951 Bombay Masonic Temple RPCs cancel; Calamity Jane; John Muir; James Fenimore Cooper, with and Litho Postcards 1937 Cooperstown cancel; Lillian Russell, with 1906 cancel; Sarah (55) Fifty-five RPCs and Bernhardt, 1903 Montevideo Carteros Uruguay cancel; and many litho postcards featuring more. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127309 Masonic temples across Lot# 3660 Frog Postcards and Ephemera the U.S., c1907-1931. Includes 11 canceled with ~55 pcs Hop to it and bid on this Giant Bullfrog stamps, and the rest blank, collection of postcards and ephemera. You’ll of temples mainly in the eastern U.S., but some from California and find paraphernalia from Senor Frogs, greeting Mexico. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 125735 cards, 5 RPCs, color postcards, and assorted frog humor ephemera. Be sure to jump on this one! Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 126879 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 189

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3669 1912 Mini & Standard Humor Lot# 3677 Leather Post Cards to his Wife Postcards Collection of 13 mini and standard Lot of three leather post cards all addressed to size postcards, each with a humorous bent to Mrs. Jennie Wittengal in Omaha, Nebraska. “I’m them. There are funny illustrations on each, as well as humorous and Thinking of You,” “Every Inch Like His Papa,” witty text. These ain’t Hallmark! Some are used, some blank. Please and “Mr. Jolly Joy Has Joy.” One cent stamps on see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 125701 each with postmarks from Denver & Counsel Bluffs Iowa. Also a white bead necklace. Est. Lot# 3670 Coal Mines Postcards (2) This $50-100 HWAC# 124419 pair of postcards feature miners in coal mines. The first colorized card shoes three miners Lot# 3678 Postcards of and for Ladies standing outside the coal mine in Tulsa, Okla. Approx 90 postcards featuring ladies with with a mule rigged up to pull the coal. This card their men, flowers and more Salvatore Falcone is published by S.H. Kress & Co. The second card Collection Est. $130-180 HWAC# 101787 is a colorized photographic representation of two miners inside the coal mine in Scranton, PA. and is published by George V. Miller & Co. Publishers, Scranton, PA. John Reynolds Collection Est. $10-20 HWAC# 118457 Lot# 3679 Real Photo Postcards of Kids and Lot# 3671 1900’s Collection of Post Cards their Toys Collection Lot of 19 real photo post cards of young people with their toys: cars, and Pictures. Lot of 60+. Collection of wagons, airplanes. Most unused, a couple were RPC, Holiday CDS, Specialty CDS. Passenger mailed. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 124732 ships, humorous. Picture w/Spanky/Alfalfa/ Buckwheat of Our Gang. Cards calling for Lot# 3680 1900’s RPC’s & Postcards With support of the Red Cross (1951,53,54) Most Chicken Theme A nice group of 30 RPC’s postcards have writing on them. All appear in good condition. The and cards featuring one of my wife’s favorite Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia subjects, chickens. There are B&W RPC’s as Est. $50-100 HWAC# 125487 well as color illustrations, even an ad card of a chick drini=king device. Some are used, some Lot# 3672 Dead Men’s Skulls RPC Unusual blank. Please see photos for more detail and RPC of a soldier and 4 skulls. 2 corner creases condition. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 125479 Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $30-60 HWAC# 102657 Lot# 3681 Worldwide Potpourri of Postcards, etc - 5 Inches Thick A veritable potpourri of postcards from all around the Lot# 3673 1914 Esperanto RPC and Litho world -- RPCs, chromoliths, adverts, and Postcards (3) Three postcards, one RPC and novelty pieces including humorous, bawdy, two litho, related to the universal language, and even some small musical scores. There is a Esperanto, c1914-1920s. One litho is of the small folio of B&W photos of “Bruxelles” and a folded, color panorama language creator, Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, of Paris. The whole stack is about five inches thick. Sure to find many who lived 1859-1917; another dated 1914 items in here to please. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 126680 from Paris; and an RPC showing Esperanto Lot# 3682 Music Entertainment and Radio publications, from Rio de Janeiro, canceled with stamp. Ken Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 125744 RPCs and Litho Postcards (48) Forty-eight RPCs and litho postcards related to musical entertainment and radio, from the U.S. and foreign countries, c1902- Lot# 3674 F. Earl Christy Horseback Riding 1958. Included are some canceled with stamps, the rest blank or with Themed Postcard Copyright 1907, P. Sander, some writing. Many are RPCs of U.S. radio stations. A bonus is what N.Y. Titled, “Is horseback riding bad for the appears to be an autograph by Chingwah Lee on an RPC of the actor heart?” Postmarked 1908. Christy created the college girl postcards in M.G.M.’s 1947 film, “Little Mr. Jim.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 in 1905. He was born in Philadelphia. Christy contributed illustrations HWAC# 127310 to many magazines including the Saturday Evening Post and Ladie’s Home Journal (metropostcard.com). Average condition. View closeup Lot# 3683 c1925 National Parks, Utah to explore. Ken Prag Collection Est. $30-60 HWAC# 118680 & Arizona Publications & Postcards (9 pieces!) * Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon Lot# 3675 Flower Greeting Cards Approx National Park, Bryce Canyon, Cedar Breaks & 200 flower cards, mostly US and embossed Kaibab National Forest, Issued by Union Pacific Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $120-180 HWAC# System, 1928, 7” x 10” red embossed soft 104990 cover book, 56 pages, with many photographs, illustrations and map (some color) perfect condition. * Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks, Utah, 1929 6” x 9” booklet, 25 pages with map. * Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, 1923, 6” x 9” booklet, 72 pages, with 16” x 9” color map. * 6 Vintage, collectible postcards, 1917-1940s. Grand Lot# 3676 Four Telegram Related Postcards Canyon: Look Out, Vista from Bright Angel Trail, Hermit Trail, Grand Cute little group of four telegram related Canyon from Grand View in Yellowstone, two views with Henry postcards. Western Union and United Post are Felton Huse poem, and the Window Wall in Bryce Canyon. 4 cards are two. Also, one pictures the “Mailomat”, a coin cancelled/mailed. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 120031 operated postage meter. John Reynolds Collection Est. $10-30 HWAC# 111583 190 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3684 1904-1951 Novelty Musical Lot# 3692 Women of the 1900’s Real Photo Instruments Violins RPCs & Litho Postcards Postcard Collection A collection of about 110 (65) Sixty-five RPCs and litho postcards real photo postcards, both old and new style, featuring music, dancing and musical instruments, from the U.S. featuring women of the 1900’s. Includes three and abroad, c1904-1951. Postcards are graced with pianos, horns, real hair postcards and some very unique tamborines and everything in-between. Some are canceled with designs. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126575 stamps, others are blank. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 127303 Lot# 3693 1908 Women Posed Picture Postcards- A group of 16 beautifully Lot# 3685 1900s Owl Themed Postcards photographed postcards featuring women and Such Sixty-five owl-themed postcards and from the early 20th century. This is a real other ephemera related to our hoot friends. Victorian sample of womanhood back in the Most are illustrated lithos, both straight and humorous. There’s even a day. Some of the cards are used, some are receipt for the Owl Tavern in Grass Valley, California, an establishment blank. Please see photos for more detail and where yours truly has tipped a pint or two. Some cards are blank, some condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 126489 not. Please see photos for more detail. Est. $250-400 HWAC# 126508 Lot# 3694 1906-1909 Pioneer Postcards Lot# 3686 People and their Pleasantries Assembled Sets (5) Lot of five includes four Real Photo Postcard Collection A collection sets of postcards and one fold-out postcard of about 58 real photo postcards with dates from the U.S. and Germany, circa early 1900s. Includes: Complete set ranging between 1906 and 1948 offering a glimpse into antiquarian of 4 which construct Uncle Sam, Huld’s Puzzle Series Nos. 3a, b, c, and life with images of people in all manners of life and activity. Est. $100- d, copyrighted 1906 by Franz Huld, Pub. NY, all canceled 1907 Atlantic 150 HWAC# 126614 City and Denver; complete set of 4 which construct Santa Claus, Huld’s Puzzle Series Nos. 9a, b, c, and d, copyrighted 1906 by Franz Huld, Pub. Lot# 3687 1905-1958 Prohibition and NY, all blank; set of six different Grimm’s Fairy Tales, colorful scenes Whisky RPCs & Litho Postcards (39) Thirty- from Germany, all blank; complete set of 12 Lover’s Lane, Saint Jo, by nine RPCs and litho postcards, ballot, etc., Eugene Field, c1909, all blank; and tri-fold horse cartoon, canceled San related to the Prohibition and liquor, c1905- Francisco 1907. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 127316 1958. About half are canceled with stamps, mostly from the early 1900s, with interesting Lot# 3695 Early 1900s Pioneer Postcards photos, cartoons and slogans from several Humorous Assembled Sets (3) Three U.S. states. Included is a rare four-fold double sided 1911 postcard assembled sets of pioneer postcards, from the advertising the San Francisco Turner Fair and preview of the 1915 U.S. and Britain, circa early 1900s. Sets include: set of six blank Easter Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Also included is a Prohibition holiday litho postcards, by Millar & Lang, Ltd., Glasgow & London; ballot, and more. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125743 complete set of four “You Watch Tacoma Grow,” puzzle tiger litho, Tacoma, Wash., canceled with stamps; complete set of three “Gee How It Tickles” funny puzzle graphic copyright 1906 by The Rotograph Co. Lot# 3688 Historical Prostitution Real NY, one canceled 1907 Watertown, NY. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- Photo Post Card group, c1905-1910 Group 150 HWAC# 127317 of about 300 RPC views from the interior what is probably a prostitution house. All vintage. These are hard core. Lot# 3696 1900-20’s Playing Marbles No photos published. Please preview if interested. The pc’s have an Postcard and Pic Lot of 8. Mostly marbles ( I American generic imprint on the reverse. Est. $1500-3000 HWAC# think one is actually a little gambling goin on, 122846 RPC) . Titled “No Fudging”. Clean color postcard of four boys playing marbles. Postcard of Lot# 3689 Pin-Up Antique Postcard Eskimo Children Alaska (rare RPC,clean). B/W RPC Three boys playing Collection A collection of about 210 old style marbles. Photo of four boys w/marbles. Color postcard (c two boys and antique pin-up art postcards featuring playing. Writing on back postmarked 1907 w/one cent stamp., Color. scenes, nude pieces, humor cards, and Ad card for P.Cox & Bros shoes of four children w/marbles. Protective portraits. Various sizes, some with metallic sleeves. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125271 accents and one real hair pin-up card. Est. $500-1500 HWAC# 126571 Lot# 3697 Postcards depicting Cats Doing Lot# 3690 Pin-Up Vintage Postcard People Things This is a collection of about 120 Collection A collection of about 100 new style postcards of CATS doing their usual things like: vintage pin-up postcards featuring the classic swimming, sailing, shopping, eating dinner, poses and provocativeness of the 40’s and 50’s. playing musical instruments, messing with Common artists in this collection are famed dogs, chasing dogs and mice; the usual things celebrity artist Earl Moran (1893 –1984), that cats think they can do. Est. $100-200 legendary pin-up artist and model Zoë Mozert HWAC# 125620 (1907 – 1993), French artist Suzanne Meunier (1888 - 1979), and more. Est. $260-500 HWAC# 126574 Lot# 3698 Postcards of Coffins This is a collection of sales samples coffin postcards Lot# 3691 1900’s Women in Postcards including two letters. Please see photos for Collection About 80 color as well as color details. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 125611 postcards, some photo, some litho illustrations. Some themes go back to biblical times and through to the Victorian era. Several artists. Some blank, some used. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 126454 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 191

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3699 1906-1910 Unions and Strikes Lot# 3706 Spain/Portugal/Gibraltar Postcards RPCs and Litho Postcards (20) Twenty RPCs Approx 150 Spain/Portugal/Gibraltar postcards, and litho postcards about unions and strikes, mostly modern, several RPC’s. Barcelona, Toledo, from several U.S. states including Nevada, Ohio etc Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $60-90 HWAC# and California, c1906-1910. Includes a rare 105277 blank RPC of the “Bodie Miners Union Hall, Bodie Calif.” Also included are seven canceled with stamps, with the rest blank, and an advertising card for a labor union business, Burley & Usher’s Granite State Shoes, manufactured at Milton, N.H., and Beverly, Mass. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 125742 Lot# 3707 French Assorted Postcard Collection Approx 500 French postcards. Many smaller towns Lot# 3700 Western Interiors Real Photo and cities. Does NOT include Paris, South of France or featured buildings. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. Postcard Collection A collection of four real $180-400 HWAC# 105133 photo postcards showing the interiors of four different locations throughout the west. 1) This card shows 1060 Fifth Street San Diego, a location nicknamed “One of the most interesting places in San Diego, California” on the back of the card. Postmarked 1915. 2) An early 1900’s postcard showing the inside of the “Flotsam Castle” in Malaga Cove, California. 3) An early 1900’s card showing the Lot# 3708 French Park and Monument interior of a building said to be a “store in Nevada” as stated on the Postcards Approx 125 French postcards of rear of the card. 4) The interior of a butcher shop in an unknown city. parks and monuments, many RPC’s Salvatore Est. $100-150 HWAC# 126608 Falcone Collection Est. $60-120 HWAC# 105137 Lot# 3701 1800’s Old West RPC Pair A pair of RPC’s depicting the Old West. The first is a Lot# 3709 People on Postcards Collection photo of Dixe Belle Saloon in “Jesse James” Approx 150 people postcards, many posing, Pineville, Missouri. the other is a photo of many RPC’s. 1913 Wilson’s School class photo, American Indian White Bull, billed as the “First approx 5x7” Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. Friendly Indian to visit whited in Custer, South $130-180 HWAC# 105423 Dakota. Both are in good condition. Est. $30- 70 HWAC# 120669 Lot# 3710 Four Raphael Kirchner Pinup Postcards, Art Nouveau Style Group of four. Lot# 3702 Australia Postcards Approx. 150 Very nice postcards from Raphael Kirchner. modern postcards. Surfers Paradise, Gold Kirchner was best known for early Art Nouveau and pinup work. Great Coast, Cairns, Port Douglas and more. Many dupes. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $50-75 cards in nice condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 118674 HWAC# 105218 Lot# 3711 1910-15 Postcard Collection: France, Germany and Monte Carlo Lot of Lot# 3703 Bermuda Postcards Approx 20 Bermuda postcards, mostly chromolitho Salvatore 76. Post cards most w/pictures some w/ Falcone Collection Est. $20-20 HWAC# 105222 illustrations. No writing or postmarks.. As they were originally collected while traveling Germany France Monte and Waterloo. Hotels, coastlines, bldg’s, city streets. famous art work by P.P. Rubens, B.E. Murillo. Street level, birds eye views. In a hard cover book. All are in good condition, The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $60- 100 HWAC# 125490 Lot# 3704 Denmark Postcards Approx 50 modern Denmark postcards, Copenhagen and Lot# 3712 1900’s French Liner SS Normandie more Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $20-35 RPC’s & Cards A group of about 40 RPC’s and HWAC# 105220 cards showing images of the French Ocean Liner S.S. Normandie. Photos show the interior and exterior of this luxury liner launched in 1932, but waited until 1935 for its maiden voyage. Cards show dining rooms, staterooms and all the amenities one traveled with back in those days. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 126510 Lot# 3705 Denmark Postcards Approx 30 Denmark postcards. Kobehhavn, Sonderbrogade, majestic old buildings. Several RPC’s Salvatore Lot# 3713 Berlin, Postcards from Berlin, Falcone Collection Est. $10-30 HWAC# 105212 Germany This is a collection of postcards from Berlin, Germany with many RPCs. About 140 cards in all. Some pre-war and others post-war vintage. It is not hard to believe that Berlin was the Paris of it’s time. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 125607 192 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3714 Dresden, 1901-1907 Germany Lot# 3721 1890’s Pioneer Postcards Lot City of Dresden Turn of Century Postcards of 23. Grus aus (greetings from) postcards (61) Collection of 61 pioneer postcards from from 1890’s. From Hanover, Uglei, Flensburg. Germany, featuring the celebrated, historical Hamburg, Munster and Brefkort Sweden. All and beautiful city of Dresden, some of have been written w/stamps and multiple Berlin, c1901-1907. RPCs depict the classic postmarks showing the travel from origin architecture long before the destruction of to the US. Illustrated w/multiple building WWII, and subsequent rebuilding. Eight canceled with stamps, the scenes from different angles and levels, ships, rest blank or with some writing. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 sailboats, military gatherings on majority of cards, All but two in HWAC# 127301 protective plastic sleeve of which Brefkort, Sweden has four stamps and seven postmarks. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125491 Lot# 3715 Koln, Post Cards from Koln, Germany This is a collection of post cards, Lot# 3722 Postcards from Germany This is roughly 140 count, from Koln, Coln, Cologne, a collection of postcards from Germany with Germany. Many feature the world renowned many between 1905-1915. Many RPCs and Cathedral which is the tallest twin spire in the some dups. About 380 count. Please see photo world. Many RPCs and some dups. Est. $150- for details. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 125606 300 HWAC# 125605 Lot# 3723 1898-1906 Three German Ship’s Lot# 3716 Arthur Thiele Art Cards Includes Kapitan Postcards Three rare and early Humorous Cat Cards & Various Subjects postcards (postkartes) showing an illustration of captains and their ships. These are during the (40) Great group of art cards includes many time of Kaiser Wilhelm and in very good shape humorous ones depicting cats. All signed by Arth. Thiele. Circa 1907, for their age. Two are blank, one used. Please 1908 as a few are postmarked. People dancing, a few showing dogs, see photos for more detail and condition. Est. horse racing,etc. All in very nice printed color. Large group of 40 cards $60-100 HWAC# 126525 is very desirable. View Photos to inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 118670 Lot# 3724 Monkeys at the Chalkboard Art Lot# 3717 1900-20’s Collection OF Postcards Card by L. Maggendorfer Cute card shows three monkeys at a chalkboard. One monkey Of Winter Sports Lucerne Lot of 60+. Picture has already drawn a picture of a jackass. Maggendorfer was a german post cards of winter sports St. Moritz, Lucerne postcard artist. Ken Prag Collection Est. $40-80 HWAC# 118675 Zurich. Most appear to be around early 1900’s. There are street scenes. Birds eye view, lakes, Lot# 3725 Three Bumler Art Cards from mountains, people skiing, sledding, ice skating, Germany Three nice art cards, “Havenstein”, hotels, bob sledding. Only one has writing and “Schapbach”Wnd “Markgraflerin”. Women in a postmark Lucerne 9-11-03. Stamp “Helvetia” 10. In small hardbound fancy dress. All signed Bumler. Good condition. Joh. Elchlepp, pub. books. Each is in a protective cover. Looks like one tourist had a lot of Frieberg. Ken Prag Collection Est. $40-80 HWAC# 118679 fun collecting and traveling. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $60-100 HWAC# 125488 Lot# 3726 1910-15. Postcards From Ireland. Lot# 3718 Early 1900s German Military Lot of 16 packets. Each packet contains Fromm 3-8 postcards(avg. is 6). Some will have RPCs WWI (25) Twenty-five RPCs of German writing. Pictures and illustrations of hotels, military officers and scenes from WWI. Many Blarney Castle, kissing the Blarney Stone, The are of military officers, some war criminals, Old Irish Jig (illust. People dancing), shooting such as Hermann Goring. Two are canceled the rapid, pict of Dublin and lots more. In small in 1917 and 1912, with stamps, and the rest hard book cover. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s blank. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# Western Memorabilia Est. $50-75 HWAC# 125492 125748 Lot# 3727 Japan Old-Style Postcards Lot# 3719 1894-1909 Germany Pioneer with People and Portraits ~ 28 Old-style postcards with formal portraits and scenes of Postcards Historical Color Art (74) Best people. There are four B&W lithographs and example of German pioneer postcards 24 chromoliths that appear to be hand-tinted. featuring colorful historical and artistic lithos Dōitashimashite. Ken Prag Collection Est. and RPCs, c1894-1909. All beautiful scenes of $100-300 HWAC# 126885 Germany and its people in the late 1800s-early 1900s. Almost half canceled with stamps. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 127300 Lot# 3728 Japan Postcards, B&W & Color - ~198 Large lot of postcards, most likely made Lot# 3720 1898-1907 Germany RPCs in Japan and labeled with Kanji characters, Pioneer Postcards Towns & Great Views (58) depicting temples, scenery, people and places in the Land of the Rising Sun. There are 70 color Large collection of 58 RPCs, with a few lithos, cards, (some are hand-tinted, chromoliths, and featuring scenes of various views of Germany modern color) and 128 B&W (mostly printed in the late 1800s-early 1900s. Includes about and some RPCs). Few duplicates. Ken Prag 30 canceled with stamps, the rest blank or with Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 126892 some writing. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 125749 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 193

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Postcards Lot# 3729 Japan Postcards, Old-Style Lot# 3737 Snow in Mexico Chromolith Postcards ~ 58 Almost five Postcards Approx 20 mostly dozen old-style, chromolith postcards with RPC’s of snow on Mexican views of Japan including Tokyo, Osaka, mountains Salvatore Falcone Geishas, temples, hotels, and landscapes. Collection Est. $30-60 HWAC# Classic hand-tinted black and white images. 105359 Arigatōgozaimashita. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 126884 Lot# 3730 Japanese Art Postcards - 19 The beauty of Japanese art is featured is represented in this lot of postcards. There are two B&W lithographs and 17 color images (some chromoliths, some modern color). Kore o kattekudasai. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 126886 Lot# 3738 Middle East Postcards Approx 130 postcards-Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Lot# 3731 Tijuana, 1912 Tijuana RPC Israel, Jordan etc Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. Collection Around 65 RPC’s and other $60-90 HWAC# 105236 postcards celebrating that notorious South of the Border town, Tijuana. RPC’s and color lithos show images of the night and day life of tourism and drinking that’s given Tijuana its rather dubious reputation. Some cards are Lot# 3739 1920’s RPC’s & Postcards From blank, some used. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 126473 Holland America 13 postcards and -two pieces of ephemera from Holland America Lot# 3732 Tijuana, 1900’s Two Tijuana shipping lines. There is a first class lounge stamp and a freight ticket, along with 13 RPC’s Postcards-Rare Two very rare postcards from the border town of TiJuana, or in the older of the different lounges and dining areas on the spelling, Tia Juana. Both have the same street ships in the line. Some are used, some blank. scene, but one has an inserted note tablet. Unique and unusual. Please Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 126456 126524 Lot# 3733 1900’s Bullfight RPC’s & Other Lot# 3740 Agnes Richardson Art Cards of Postcards Several (About 50) RPC’s and other Little Girls (3) Three nice art cards by Agnes postcards, featuring the politically incorrect Richardson, published in London. All three are sport (?) of bullfighting. There are several RPC of little girls in different outfits and poses. Copyright, Charles Hauff, renditions as well as hand drawn and animated London. View photos. Ken Prag Collection Est. $40-60 HWAC# 118667 cards showing various scenes of bullfights Lot# 3741 Cinderella Art Card by Illustrator in progress. Some are blank, some are used. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100-200 HWAC# Flora White ”Cinderella” by Flora White art 125465 card. White was a children’s book illustrator whose imagery was also used on postcards. Shows a mice team riding Lot# 3734 Mexico Historical Real Photo a pumpkin before Cinderella, with the wicked witch in the background. Postcard Collection A large collection of Imprinted Flora White. VF condition. View photo. Ken Prag Collection about 200 historical real photo postcards of Est. $40-80 HWAC# 118672 the beautiful landscapes, buildings, people, Lot# 3742 Six Humorous Cat Postcards and culture of Mexico and it’s many cities. Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 126570 by Tuck, circa 1909 Cats hugging, flirting, hanging out with a mouse, and shopping. Lot# 3735 Old Mexico Postcards ~70 Scenes A nice group of full color Tuck postcards of humorous cats. A few from Old Mexico, approx 50 B&W, including postmarked 1908 and 1909. Very nice. Ken Prag Collection Est. $50-100 RPCs and printed, and about 20 color, including HWAC# 118671 tinted and chromoliths. Scenes of buildings, city streets, and people. Lot# 3743 Tuck Art Cards by Unknown Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 125865 Artists (5) Five Tucks art cards unsigned. Most Lot# 3736 Tour of Mexico have cute or funny content and are love related. Postcard, Photograph, and From the “Love Messages” series. A nice set. View photo for closeups. Ephemera Collection A Ken Prag Collection Est. $50-80 HWAC# 118685 massive collection of about Lot# 3744 1900-20 England Postcards From 200 postcards, about 6 the Tate & National Galleries. Lot of 50 stereograph photographs and (approx). Collected by a tourist but noostcards about 4 vintage tour guides have no writing or post marks. Most are of the giving you a grand tour of art work located in Tate Wallace and National Mexico’s beautiful cities Art Galleries of London, it appears a collection and culture. This collection of all the art at the time. One color postcard of painting “The Virgin includes vintage, antique, and Two Angels Weeeping OVer the Body of Christ (Raibolini). Three chromolithograph, and real photograph postcards to make for a diverse collection of cards. Ken postcards of Westminster Abbey: exterior from street view, two interior Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 126579 photo’s. In small hardback book cover. All are in good condition. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $50-90 HWAC# 125494 194 December 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Stamps - USA Lot# 3745 Louis Wain Postcard Group, Lots Lot# 3752 1990’s-2000’s Golden Replica of Cats, Some Unsigned (66) Large lot of Stamps An enormous collection of Replica Louis Wain postcards of cats. Some of the cards stamps in 22k gold. The collection, mounted in are Tucks, but there are a number of publishers. Wain’s cats showed four albums, was compiled by David E. Bradley. human traits and emotions and in his later years it is reported that he Three of the volumes are entitled “Golden suffered from Schizophrenia, which shows up in his work. Louis Wain’s Replicas of the Stamps of the Century,” while works are highly collectible. Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 the fourth book contains “Golden Replicas July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which of the 50-State Greetings Stamps. There are even two envelopes consistently featured anthropomorphized large-eyed cats and kittens. containing stamps waiting to be mounted in the books. All in near new In his later years he may have suffered from schizophrenia (although condition. See photos for more detail. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 121772 this claim is disputed among specialists), which, according to some psychiatrists, can be seen in his works (wiki). This lot features 66 art Lot# 3753 Golden Replicas of United States cards from Wain. Average to better condition overall. View photos of Stamps Created by PCS Stamps & Coins of this fantastic lot. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 118698 Norwalk, Connecticut. Each cover has a 22kt gold replica of the stamp on the First Day Lot# 3746 Hawaii 1875-1928 Hawaiian Cover. These first day covers were distributed Postage Stamps Group A dozen Hawaiian to subscribers for $7.20 cents each. A shipment postage stamps. Group includes stamps from contained three covers, so these 52 envelopes have over 150 first day 1875, 1882, 1883, 1893 (3), 1894 (2), 1898, covers still in their original packaging. Most collectors had binders 1899 (2), AND 1928. Hand canceled. See photo for the collection, this one does not. Most date from 2011-2013. Est. for more details. Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 125467 $100-200 HWAC# 124716 Lot# 3747 First Day Issue All Aboard Train Lot# 3754 Gimbels Mint Sheet Album - Filled Stamps This is a collection of first day train A Gimbels Mint Sheet Album with 100+ United stamps called “All Aboard” issued in 1999. States Mint postage sheets. On inner front cover There is the stamps booklet of cancelled of album is a 1-3/4 x 1-1/2 inch sticker reading, stamps dated Aug. 26, 1999; a perf’ed plate “Property of Stephen M. Klee 167.” The album is of 20 train stamps unopened flat at .33 cents; black with green striped accents and text on the ready to mail postal stamped cards unopened; front reading “Gimbels Mint Sheet Album.” There and a collection of the five engines depicted in is minor scuffing to corners and aged sellotape on prints also unopened. Est. $80-200 HWAC# 125586 the inner cover. Album dimensions are 11-7/8 x 12 inches. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 122312 Lot# 3748 American Stamp Collection - Lot of Three, Large collection Lot of Three. Lot# 3755 Gimbels Mint Sheet Album - Filled 1) “American Commemorative Stamp Album” A Gimbels Mint Sheet Album filled with 100+ approximately 92 percent filled with space for United States Mint postage sheets. Mint sheets new additions. Stamp and card dates range are housed in brown glassine dividers and from 1893-1974, all items in album are in separated by brown manila fold-over folders. excellent condition. The album itself is three Taped to inner front cover of album is a 3-1/2 ring bound and copyrighted 1971. Album dimensions are 9-3/4 x 11- x 2 inch paper reading, “Property of Stephen 1/2 inches. 2) “American Plate Block Album Airmails: 1918 to Date” M. Klee.” The album is black with gold striped approximately 90 percent filled with space for new additions. All accents and text on the front reading “Gimbels items in album are in excellent condition. Album itself is three ring Mint Sheet Album.” Album dimensions are 11- bound and copyrighted 1973. Album dimensions are 9-3/4 x 11-1/2 7/8 x 12 inches. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 122313 inches. 3) A box filled with approximately 300+ Mint U.S single stamps housed in glassine envelopes, all in excellent condition and organized Lot# 3756 1948 The Adventurer Stamp by number. Box itself is 5-1/2 x 11-3/4 inches and has a brown wood Book August 6, 1948 hand written on inside pattern with a brass handle and label slip on the front. Est. $300-500 cover. Most pages have a few stamps, about half HWAC# 122311 are half full and some are very full! Some U. S. stamps have been removed. No other stamps Lot# 3749 1980’s-2000’s Collection of Gold seem to be missing. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 123490 Replicas of U.S. Stamps Almost 1,000 Golden Replicas of United States stamps, affixed to Lot# 3757 Five Stamp Collector Book covers, are contained in this lot. The stamps, Volumes Lot consists of five large stamp organized in 12 volumes, are 22k gold and volumes. They are from several different themed from Olympics to Broadway and countries and in the old style. Mostly empty, Hollywood. All are in pristine condition and ready for your collection to fill them up. They from the collection of David Bradley of Sonora, are in good condition, but you should check California. See photos for more details. Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 121143 out the photos for more details. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 121519 Lot# 3750 Nevada Golden Replicas of United States Stamps Albums by David E. Bradley Lot# 3758 New York, New York 1866 Phelps, Highly Collectible Est. $150-250 HWAC# 122541 Dodge & Co. Receipts with Imprinted Revenue Stamps Lot of 2. Both are shipping receipts dated 1866. One for goods bound for Blackwell Island. Lot# 3751 1980’s-90’s Golden Replicas of Both have RN-B1 imprinted revenues. Rare. Fred U.S. Stamps Three albums of 22k gold replica Holabird Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 113567 US stamps. One volume contains flag stamps from a 1976 issue. The others contain state stamps and postmarks. Two are collections compiled by Dr. G.D. Coke, the flag stamp volume by David Bradley. These are all in new condition. See photos for more details Est. $70- 125 HWAC# 120899 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 195

DAY 3 Saturday, Dec 19 Philatelic - Postal History / Other Lot# 3759 US Mail Bags - Canvas and Nylon, et al. A variety of six heavy white canvas US Mail bags, a lighter-weight, brown cloth mail bag (all approx 22 x 22 inches when flat), and a large orange nylon mail bag (approx 36 x 27 P inches). Canvas bags are marked DOMESTIC US MAIL, and the orange one is labeled 10- 70 on one side and AIR MAIL / PARCEL POST on the other. All bags CONSIGNING WITH except the orange one have their closure cords with latching buckle. To accompany this collection are a four 3/4 x 36-inch leather straps with Holabird Western Americana Collections metal cinch buckles, three 1/2 x 24-inch leather straps with metal cinch buckles, and nine 1/2 x 18-inch leather straps with metal cinch P buckles. And to top it off, there is a right-handed (armed?) canvas fencing jacket in this lot. En garde! Est. $60-100 HWAC# 126194 Lot# 3760 1900’s-2000’s Commemorative Postal Collectibles A collection of Historically Researched Descriptions commemorative stamps, centenary covers and postal covers all placed in nice albums. Included in the collection is Fity Years of Professional Photography Airmail Stamps, Millennium Stamps, U.S. Liberty Series, Constitution Bicentennial Covers, 50 State Covers & Centenary Anniversary Panels. These were put together by David Bradley of the Postal Commemorative Society. World Wide Audience of Collectors All in near new condition. See photos for more details. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 121131 Extensive Marketing Lot# 3761 Mercantile Agency the R. G. Dun and Co Lot of 1. Mercantile Agency the R G Dun and Company, Postal and Shippers Guide. 1884. Superior Customer Service Xerox copy of directory. Postal and shippers guides for the US and Canada containing post offices, railroad stations,railroads, coastlines, and US Forts. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 119632 PREMIER AUCTIONS Strong Prices Consign your items to the experts and let us help you realize the most for your collections. We’ve sold many fantastic collections over the years and we’re always excited for more great material! Consign with us and enter into a lasting and beneficial partnership. Holabird’s Western Americana Collections Email us at [email protected] Call us toll free 844-HWAC-RNO (4922-766) 196 December 2020

DAY 4 Sunday, Dec 20 Art / Oil Paintings Lot# 4000 Labrador 1952 Ice Off the Lot# 4005 Orpheus and Eurydice - Large Oil Labrador Coast Oil Painting by William M. Painting Very large oil painting of the ill-fated Hekking Oil painting on canvas by William Orpheus and Eurydice of Greek mythology. Matthew Hekking titled Ice Off the Labrador Orpheus, sone of the sun god Apollo and famed Coast dated 1952. Attached to the back of the for his beautiful singing voice, went into the painting is a sticker from the artist reading, depths of Hades to plead for the return of “By: W.M. Hekking. Title: “Ice Off the Labrador his dead wife, beautiful Eurydice. The god of Coast” Price: 75.00 1952 Davis Strait March.” the underworld consented on the condition The painting itself is of an iceberg which has that he not look back during their journey to fractured apart. There is a large steam vessel in the distance. Hekking the surface. When Orpheus could not hear earned a love for marine painting while on a five-week cruise with the Eurydice’s footsteps behind him, he turned to check on her, only to see International Ice Patrol aboard a United States Coast Guard vessel. her return to her spirit form and be drawn back to the land of the dead Painting dimensions are 10 x 8 inches. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 122254 -- the instant captured in this painting. Note the snake in Eurydice’s hair -- a foretelling of her fate -- and the lyre with a broken string held Lot# 4001 California Cyprus Trees by the by Orpheus. This painting is in a gold-toned wooden frame approx Pacific Oil Painting Beautifully painted oil on 43-1/4 inches square with an opening of about 37-1/2 inches square. canvas by Mason (signed Mason). We have not The artist’s name is in the lower right corner, but we cannot make been successful in finding info about the painter. it out. There are some chips in the edge of the frame, and there are Vivid colors of a California central coastal area. two patches on the back of the canvas which may indicate there had Ornate wood frame, 44” x 32”, Linen over mat been some restoration work performed at one time. See photos for has water damage. Actual painting, 36” x 24”. condition and content details. Age is undetermined. Est. $400-1200 Est. $350-600 HWAC# 117692 HWAC# 122305 Lot# 4002 c. 1900’s Landscape Oil Painting Lot# 4006 Portrait of Old Man Oil Painting by (Original), G. Heston Late 20th-Century oil Levoyer Ecuadorian artist, Jorge Levoyer (early landscape painting on canvas by G. Heston. 20th century), oil on board, painting of an old man. Framed, 28” x 31.5”. Est. $800-1000 HWAC# Levoyer was known for his great portraits. 11” x 85812 8.5”, framed: 15” x 12”. Good condition. Est. $150- 400 HWAC# 119002 Lot# 4003 On The Dock, Oil Painting by Lot# 4007 Nevada Mountain Town Oil Robert H. Blair On The Dock, oil painting Painting by Nevada Artist Max Bunnell 16 by Robert H. Blair (1937-2016). Blair lived x 20” framed original oil by Nevada artist Max in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. He was a Buunnell. (frame damaged upper left corner). well-known western American painter/artist. Bunnell founded the Moapa Valley Artist Guild This is a fine example of Robert H. Blair’s in 1959. He taught in Clark County schools work (autographed on lower right). 18 x 24 for 29 years before leaving to teach at Dixie in. painting in wood frame, 22” x 29”. Very College in St. George Utah for anotehr decade. small repaired spot to the right of the boathouse--please inspect. Est. He is well knwon for his landscapes. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 114357 $1500-2500 HWAC# 104924 Lot# 4008 Nevada early 1900’s Oil Painting Lot# 4004 2000 or by J. Laverne Lane Beautiful oil painting Earlier Oil Painting by Nevada artist J. Laverne Lane. This is a “The Goddess” By structure of masonry, trees, & water. Very soft Terri Brody Elenzweig colors. Has slight damage (paint coming off Beautiful oil painting of at edges). Unframed.19.5” x 15.75”. The Fred beautiful dark haired Holabird Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 79167 Grecian beauty, in her home around 34 Lot# 4009 Nevada early 1900’s River B.C. I call her “The Through Time Oil Painting by J. La Verne Goddess” (I made up Lane This painting is on canvas. It is called that name, the painting “River Through Town” on back of canvas is is untitled). There written “This picture was painted by my father”. are many Greek Key Blue sky with white clouds, trees in brown & designations all over lavender with foreground being wheat, taupe, the scene, including & some soft burnt orange. Ready to be framed! Grecian bowls and 18” x 13.75”. The Fred Holabird Collection Est. $140-300 HWAC# 79166 urns. This painting was done and signed by Lot# 4010 c. late 1800’s-early 1900’s Antique Terri Brody Elenzweig. Country Landscape Paintings Antique She is 80 years old, still oil on cardboard landscape paintings. Both alive and well, lives appear to have been painted by the same in Florida, and is still person, unsigned. 1) Houses on edge of lake, painting. Framed and mountains in background, sailboat in water dark coloring. Painting ready to be hung. Size has some surface scratches. Original frame: 15” x 21”. 2) Boat on lake is 51-1/2” x 40” wide. Would look great in the hallway, by the entrance by unusual building, mountains in background. Original frame: 13.25” door, or any other place of importance in your home. Fine piece. Est. x 16.75”. Both have a European feel to them. Please inspect. Est. $70- $800-1200 HWAC# 102124 150 HWAC# 117701 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 197

DAY 4 Sunday, Dec 20 Art / Oil Paintings Lot# 4011 Autographed Original Artwork! Lot# 4017 Colorado 1970 Two Colorado Two Oil Paintings and One Reproduction Church Paintings by Luke Buck Lot of two - (Lot of 3) 1) Ocean Sunset, oil on 11” x professionally framed and double-matted 14” canvas in beautiful ornate 22” x 19” paintings. Church at Blanca, Colorado and vintage frame. Autograph at lower left is Church at San Luis, Colorado by Luke Buck. illegible. Brilliant yellow from sun’s last light Both are signed, and dated watercolor illuminating darkening blue of ocean is striking and the silvery paint and graphite paintings. Item one of two is titled Church at Blanca, on the wood frame compliments the artist’s use of light and the silvery Colorado. Signature and date are in graphite at the bottom left corner sky. 2) Arrangement of Flowers, oil on 12” x 16” canvas in 15” x 19” of the painting. Signature reads “Buck”, and it is dated 1970. Written white-washed vintage wood frame. Autograph at lower right “Kendall”. in pen in the top right on the back of the frame is a note from the artist Gallery sticker on reverse names artist Connie Kendall. We found an reading, “Church at Blanca Colorado, Aug 1970”. Frame dimensions oil painter named C. Kendall in one reputable fine-art database but no are 13-9/16 x 12-1/16 inches. Painting in matte opening dimensions further information was researched. Nice use of pastel color shades are 6-9/16 x 4-7/8 inches. Item two of two is titled Church at San in this piece. Background, highlights and frame compliment the work Luis Colorado by Luke Buck. Signature and date are in graphite at the and show an eye for aesthetics and skill with presentation. Nice, bottom right corner of the painting. Signature reads “Buck”, and it is happy, light, pretty piece of art to inspire a pleasant atmosphere. 3) dated 1970. Written in pen in the top right on the back of the frame Beautifully framed and matted lithograph on paper, of painting titled is a note from the artist reading, “Church at San Luis Colorado, Aug “Canal with Roses” by Martin Roberts. Autographed on lower right 1970”. Frame dimensions are 13-9/16 x 12-1/16 inches. Painting in on matting M. Roberts. Overall size 22” x 18”. Wood frame is simple, matte opening dimensions are 6-9/16 x 4-7/8 inches. Est. $200-400 but well made, stained a dark cherry that brings out the colors in the HWAC# 122307 lithograph. Very attractive piece. Martin Roberts began his artistic career as a boy with a brownie box camera. Today, he is one of the Lot# 4018 1939 Watercolor by J. Raleigh most collected and “owned” artists in the country, with his works in Abraham Framed 15 by 11” watercolor of such spectacular settings as the Venetian and Bellagio Resorts, the house and garage, dated 1939 and signed by Vatican or in simple stores of main streets across America. Est. $150- J. Raleigh Abraham. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 300 HWAC# 108788 125513 Lot# 4012 Framed Painting and Prints (4) Raccoon watercolor print 130/200 by M Sta??? Lot# 4019 Carl Walline Original Western 22x18.5”. Fruit Arrangement oil painting Watercolor Carl R. Walline, 1888 - 1976. While by Sisemore 1963 17.75x21.5”. Flowers oil working in the oil refinery business for Shell, painting by Sisemore 1962 17x21”. Racoon pen he painted landscapes of the area around his and ink drawing by P Bang 1974 17.5x14.5” Est. $100-150 HWAC# 106490 home in oil and watercolor. This watercolor is 11.75” x 16.25”. The scene is a Western forest. There are 3 tack holes in the corners and a torn Lot# 4013 High Tide Painting by Mailer off upper left section. Est. $250-500 HWAC# Vivid painting of high tide, signed Mailer. We 49918 could not find any information on th artist. Framed with linen liner: 19.5” x 23.5”. Vertical Lot# 4020 Watercolor on Asian Paper Water Color line of paint smudges on right side of canvas. attached to linen. This is an original water color, artist Est. $80-160 HWAC# 117709 unknown. Beautiful Japanese landscape with water falls, cherry blossoms & people. This is ready to hang on wall. The water color is 23” x 46” & with Linen Lot# 4014 Snow Scene Painting by M. backing is 27” x 71”. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 61230 Jensen Painting by M. Jensen of a snow scene, trees, mountains, creek. Oil on board, 18” x 24; framed, 20.5” x 25.5”. Could not find information on the artist, however, may be Lot# 4021 1820’s Japanese Woodblock Print by Danish. Good condition. Est. $120-400 HWAC# 64479 Kikukawa An Edo period (1603-1868) wood block print of a bird by noted Japanese woodblock artist Eizan Lot# 4015 1980 Blue Barn Painting by Kikukawa. Piece measures 11”x 29” and is matted an framed. Eizan Kikukawa ( 1787-1867) was a designer of Pipinich Image of old wood building/barn, ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints. He first studied acrylic on canvas painting signed by Pam with his father, Eiji, a minor painter of the Kanō Pipinich. Painted in all blue, 18” x 24”. Framed, 25” x 31.5” with linen liner. Est. $200-300 school. He then studied with Suzuki Nanrei (1775–1844), HWAC# 116202 an artist of the Shijō school. He is believed to have also studied with the ukiyo-e artist Totoya Hokkei (1790– 1850). He produced numerous woodblock prints of beautiful women Lot# 4016 Lake Tahoe, California Lake Tahoe in the 1830s, but then abandoned printmaking in favor of painting. Watercolor by K. Young Ross Great east shore This, being a depiction of a bird, is a bit of a departure from his usual of Lake Tahoe watercolor. Painter, Kathy Young subject. Eizan was the most prolific, longest-lived and ultimately the Ross, from Gold River, California began painting best of the late followers of Utamaro, who attempted to carry on the as a commercial artist. She later taught painting master’s bijin style after his death in 1806. Along with Kikumaro, and did her own works in watercolor and acrylic. Tsukimaro and Utamaro II, Eizan has generally been dismissed by This colorful landscape painting is nice depiction connoisseurs as a plagiarist of Utamaro’s late style, but his work in fact of Tahoe. Framed size: 29” x 25”. Est. $200-350 develops, like that of most ukiyo-e artists, from a close identification HWAC# 109913 with a leading master to a studied independence, and contains pieces of remarkable beauty and interest. A beautiful work, it is waiting to be displayed. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $600- 1000 HWAC# 125971 198 December 2020