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(Nevada) Rough and Ready, Cal., 3¢ Rates, two covers, first with manuscript "Rough & Ready Cal, 26 Feb 52" postmark and matching "Paid 3" rating on yellow cover to Marysville, second with manuscript "Rough & Ready Cal, 2 Novr 1854" postmark and cross-hatch cancels 3¢ dull red (11A) on light buff cover to San Francisco Cal., F.-V.F. pair. Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $220
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(Nevada) Rough and Ready, Cal., 10¢ Manuscript Rates, group of 6 comprising 1854 unpaid "10" to Rochester, N.H. with additional "Adv 2" advertised rating totalled to "12", 1853 unpaid "10" to Bath, Me.; 1854 unpaid "10" to Morgan Oh.; 1855 "Paid 10" to Bath, Me.; 1856 circa use on 10¢ #U17 entire to Stanton Del., 1856 circa use on 10¢ #U18 entire to Woodstown, N.J.; some faults, F.-V.F. and rare group. Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $375
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(Nevada) Rough & Ready, Cal. 11 Oct 1854, manuscript postmark (Williams NEV-2000) with matching "5" rating on orange buff cover to Gold Hills Cal., blue "Well, Fargo & Co. * Express * Ophir" oval with matching "Free" double-oval handstamp; corner mend bottom right, Very Fine and choice use. Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $210
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(Nevada) "Rough & Ready, Cal. 27 June 1854", manuscript postmark with matching "Paid 1" rating on buff wrapper to Danbury Conn., Very Fine. Estimate $300 - 400.
UNDOUBTEDLY A UNIQUE USAGE OF THIS RARE TRANSCONTINENTAL CIRCULAR RATE FROM CALIFORNIA.
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(Nevada) "Rough & Ready, Cal. Novr. 8th 1856", dateline on miner's letter with great content concerning prices of provisions and political content reading in part: "…the Democrats has a large majority the state so far as I can learn has elected Deomcratic persons and old Buck. & Baack has a majority of 10,000 the Know Nothing Party will beat the Republican party as you see the Nigger worshippers is defeeted in Cal. do not think one Republican will be elected in all the state and I hope they meet with the same fate all over the Union…But if Freemont is elected all things will be free. Free trade, free speech, free press, and free Niggers…, Very Fine letter with excellent political content of the times. Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $140
Lot 18
(Nevada) Rough and Ready, Cal. - Wells Fargo & Co. Express Exchange Note, 9" x 4.375", from "Rough & Ready, Cal. Jan. 2- 1856" paid to the order of "E.B. Comstock, Agent" at the office of the American Express Company in Pontiac, Mich - One Hundred & fifty"; some creasing, F.-V.F.Estimate $500 - 750.
Lot
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(Nevada) (Rough & Ready) 1859 (Dec. 23) Sweetland, Cal., datelined receipt for mining claim reading in part, "…for a certain parcel of mining ground situated on Manzarita Hill and known as the claims of Bicknell & Co. and bounded by the Claims of Curtis the Rough & Ready and Joint Stock Claims, Sweetland Dec 23rd 1859…" and signed "Henry A. Brigham", Very Fine. Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot
20
(San Francisco) San Francisco R.P.O. Collection, 1896-1905, of well over 100 covers and cards in slips; includes 4 examples of the 1897-98 "Mission Street R.P.O." flag cancel including double strike use, 1¢ Columbian entire and a couple ad covers, 30 examples of the 1900-05 "Mission St. San Fran., R.P.O." duplex including 1903 usage on multicolored Ostrich Farm cover franked with 2¢ Philippines overprint issue, "Market St., San Fran., R.P.O." duplex with 6 examples of the scarce 1896-99 smaller type cds showing different duplex killers and one on postal card to Holland, 19 examples of the later 1900-03 larger type with "RMS" duplex, 24 examples of the 1903-05 "San Fran. Market St., R.P.O." duplex including Special Delivery usage and a illustrated three-horse moving van corner card use, 5 examples of the scarce 1898 "Sacto St. San Fran, R.P.O." duplex, four of which are Spanish American patriotic covers including "Remember the Maine" patriotic franked with 2¢ Trans-Miss., 20 examples of the 1897-1905 "Sacramento St. San Fran., R.P.O." duplex with Special Delivery, 1¢ entire uprates, usage to Hawaii and to England forwarded to Italy; condition varies with many choice strikes throughout, F.-V.F. overall. Estimate $1,500 - 2,000.
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Realized: $3,500
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(Yuba) Camptonville Cal, 8 May 1864, clear strike of cds (YUB-280) with matching grid cancel on 10¢ yellow green (U41) buff entire to Pittsford, Vt., double-strike of "OVERLAND" straightline; small flaws, reduced a bit at top and right, Fine and rare "Overland" use; signed "Genuine" by Frajola on reverse. Estimate $300 - 400.
THE IS THE LATEST RECORDED USE OF THE "OVERLAND" HANDSTAMP.
Realized: $260
Lot 22
(Illustrated Letter Sheet) The Celebration in San Francisco, in Commemoration of the Successful Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable (Baird 23) Sterett & Butler, Printer, Engravers and Publishers, 145 Clay Street, San Francisco, approximately 16¼x10½'', wood engraving around periphery 35 small illustrations: four stars in the corner, thirty small seals of the States, and one unidentified portrait at the top, body of the sheet are several larger illustrations, Cars carrying 120 little girls, uniformly dressed in white, and representing all the States, and principal European Nations, Rube Aldrich, just arrived, 120 days from St. Jo., Missouri, Adams with his family of Native Californians; and the men of the Knickerbocker 5 Fire Company in procession behind a float of a small boat with cable coiled on its deck, on blue wove paper, couple contemporary advertising handstamp on reverse; couple small nicks and some light edge toning, still Very Fine.Estimate $750 - 1,000.