California Postal History, Sixteen items, 1850s to modern, towns include Igo, Gold, 1860s Todds Valley with 10c Green, 1859 San Francisco with #35, 1862 Downieville fancy with #68, 1871 Ukiah with #114, a state duck license, also registered prexie, postage due, airmail and other usages, many are Fine or better, owner-+s marked retail about $1,000 (Image)

CV. 200-250

Five California County Postmater Covers, all from the 1880s includes Volcano Amador Co, Pino Placer Co, Donner Placer Co, Alila Tulare Co and Taison San Joaquin Co, all selected for clarity of strike, a few faults, F-VF, an interetsing group (Image)

CV. 200-250

Aqua Fria, Cal, Jun 3 postmark with matching 'Paid 10' on yellow envelope, addressed to Augusta ME, Very Fine. (Image 2) (Image)

CV. 100-150

Poverty Bar P.O. July 18 manuscript postmark at upper left of 10c entire, addressed to East Ashford NC(?), with East Otto NY Aug 18 cds and manuscript 'Missent & Forwarded' at right, enclosed "Miner's letter", Fine. (Image)

CV. 150-200

Providence CAL, Feb 10 1884 cds with target killers tie 10c banknote to 2c Wells Fargo entire, addressed to San Francisco CA, Fine. (Image 2) (Image)

CV. 100-150

Sacramento Nov 5 1849 PAID 40, straight line postmark on buff envelope, slight soiling with some edge wear, addressed to Balston Spa, New York, Fine and very scarce. (ASCC $2,500) (Image)

CV. 600-900

Two Sacramento CAL 40 rate Covers, both with Mar 7 oval strikes and red crayon '40' one which was forwarded so + 5c = 45 addressed to New York and New Jersey, nice pair, Fine.

CV. 200-300

Sacramento CAL, Apr 17 1902 machine cancel ties 2c stamp to envelope with multicolor illustrated advertising for "The Sacramento Floral Street Fair and Festval", addressed to Topsfield MA, Very Fine and attractive (Image)

CV. 150-200

San Francisco CAL, Jan 14 (1853) blue postmark ties 1851 12c (Scott 17; in at bottom with small nick), addressed to Cleveland OH, manuscript "per Golden Gate" , buff envelope with some wrinkles, Fine, scarce single franked double weight use (Scott $1,500)rnThe "Golden Gate" was described at the time as one of the finest ships of her class in the Daily Alta California of August 31, 1851. (Image)

CV. 400-600

1854 to San Francisco, Paid Melbourne (Australia), crown, OC 28 1854 red rimless oval postmark on folded letter addressed to San Francisco CA, 11 Feb receiving at left, carried "pr Fanny Major", scarce "SHIP 6" clamshell type strike applied at San Francisco in center, scarce and Very Fine. this ship made many stops at Honolulu at least by a couple years later, did it do so on this trip, (Image)

CV. 600-900

Earth Quake Cover, San Francisco, CAL., Apr 24 1906 machine cancel on envelope addrssed Black Bear CA, manuscript "emergency" in pencil under postmark (cover posted six days after the earthquake), Very Fine.; this was the BIG one, a chance to own a piece of history (Image)

CV. 200-300

San Francisco Cal, Jan 1 (1850) postmark with matching boxed '40' transcontinetal rate on "San Francisco Letter Sheet" folded prices current datelined Dec 29 1849, addressed to New York, Fine; nice early history of the West (Image)

CV. 400-500