1857 (3) #24 & 26 w/ pen cancels & very scarce well struck Johnson's Ranch, CA pmk at left -- the rescue of the Donner Party was launched from Johnson's Ranch (Image)

Est. $100-150 SE

#65 XF-S w/ jumbo margins, 1864 cover to NYC tied by Holmdel, NJ cancel w/ ms date 8/15/64, the postmark which immediately followed the famous Holmdel patent cancel, (CV XF-S $200) scarce cancel, exceptional stamp (Image)

Est. $125-150 SE

#69 Legal envelope to Court of Common Pleas, Highland Co., Ohio, 1863, franked w/ F #69 pen cancel, manuscript pmk Camp Nelson (Kentucky), a Civil War era Union supply & hospital camp which recruited African-Americans and is now a national cemetery south of Lexington, F-VF (Image)

Est. $100-150 SE

#112 Strip of (3) tied by target cancels, corner card N.H. College of Agriculture at Hanover, founded as land grant college in 1866 (later it became U of NH); stamps sound, F, part backflap missing (Image)

Est. $150-200 SE

#112-113, 119, 1869 Registered cover Castle Rock, MN to Adams County, IA, franked w/ 1¢, 2¢ and Type II 15¢ Pictorials, fancy cancels tie, manuscript registration at bottom, F+ (Image)

Est. $500-600 SE