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Railroad Covers

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Lot Description

304

All Aboard! Extensive RPO Collection, 1853-1947, about 500 envelopes and postcards with classic Railroad Post Office cancels; approx 75 better items (most $30-$75 each) still on auction cards including 1856 Hudson River Railroad Service corner card with Scott # 11 tied with NY postmark, 1908 St Paul & Spokane 3rd Div with Train Late Mail Delayed on UX18 postal card, four Brooklyn NY Circuit RPOs, Atlanta & Cattanooga route agents with #65 tied, 184 tied with a negative 8 on Chicago & Central RPO, and many more; 69 covers and post cards mounted on exhibit pages with extensive write ups; 200+ picture postcards tied with railway circle date stamps; at least 100 postal entires with RPO markings; two dozen disaster and train wreck photo postcards with vehicles that have definitely gone off the rails; small collection of RPO correspondence on railroad leaderhead; a few dozen commercial envelopes franked with Prexie perfin solos and cornercards including Southern Pacific Lines, Western Pacific Railroad Company, New York Central System, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe, Northwestern Pacific Railroad, Trans-Continental Freight Bureau, Union Pacific Railroad, Santa Fe, and Pullman Company; rich Marcophily and Postal History for the specialist, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 15 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $2,000-3,000
SOLD for $1,000.00
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305

Railroad and Steamship Bills of Lading Collection, an estimated 300-400, including many with name of steamboats and railroads, 1830's-1880's mostly steamboats, approximately 130 different, many with duplication, includes few Confederate States Usages, also includes five 8.5 x 11 inch photographs of different steamboats plus 15 images of steamships clipped from newsprinted publications plus 22 covers plus five pieces of ephemera and an 1872 bill of lading with 6p Mauritius revenue stamp regarding 49 packages of Whale Bone and an 1888 British bill of lading for the shipment of 500 boxes of bath bricks and 150 casks of china clay to the Naval Office in Philadelphia, Fine to Very Fine, view the lot online. Shipping charges apply - weight 13.8 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $1,000.00
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306

Railroad Stock & Bond Certificates plus Ephemera Assortment, approx 250 railroad stock and bond certificates of the 1850s/1970s featuring well-known names as NY Central (some with Vanderbilt vignette), B&O, Penn Central, Union Pacific, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Chesapeake & Ohio, etc. along with plethora of lesser known as Pittsburgh & Moon Run (1890s) as an example, also includes some railway ephemera as various corporate forms, employee railway passes, RPO cancels on covers and postal cards, etc., also includes about 25 stock certificates of non-railroad companies as Pan American, Atlantic Richfield, Howard Johnson, IT&T, etc., most of the certificates cancelled by punch or various stamps and includes some with revenue stamps affixed, many printed by ABN Co and with a wide variety of vignettes, typical mixed condition, a Fine accumulation of this popular area. Shipping charges apply - weight 28 lbs. (Image)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction