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COLORADO continued...
Lot Symbol CatNo. Lot Description CV or Estimate
961 c   [Fort Wise, Colorado Territory] yellow cover with manuscript Fort Wise C.T.Oct 661 Colorado Territory postmark with 3c Dull red (26) to Bristol, R.I., fresh and extremely fine the earliest recorded postmark from Fort Wise ex-Haas, Ja[Fort Wise, Colorado Territory] yellow cover with manuscript "Fort Wise C.T./Oct 6/61" Colorado Territory postmark with 3c Dull red (#26) to Bristol, R.I., fresh and extremely fine; the earliest recorded postmark from Fort Wise; ex-Haas, Jarrett.The Fort Wise post office was established on Sept. 5,1860 while in Kansas Territory. Its name was changed to Fort Lyon on Aug. 2, 1862. It was located next to Bent's New Fort on the north bank of the Arkansas River on the Santa Fe Trail. (Image) Est. $750-1,000

SOLD for $10,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
962 c   Julesburgh, Colorado Territory, well struck Aug 6 territorial period datestamp on cover to Missouri with 3c Rose (65, faulty) tied by target cancel, very fine.Julesburgh, Colorado Territory, well struck "Aug 6" territorial period datestamp on cover to Missouri with 3c Rose (#65, faulty) tied by target cancel, very fine. (Image) Est. $300-400

SOLD for $525.00
Will close during Public Auction
963 c   Lauret, Colorado Territory, clear Mar 26 territorial period datestamp on orange cover to Columbia, Michigan with two 3c Rose (65) tied by targets, Office ofC. G. M. Co.Lauret, Col. Ter. printed corner card of the Colorado Gold Mining CompaLauret, Colorado Territory, clear "Mar 26" territorial period datestamp on orange cover to Columbia, Michigan with two 3c Rose (#65) tied by targets, "Office of/C. G. M. Co./Lauret, Col. Ter." printed corner card of the Colorado Gold Mining Company at upper right with town name changed to "Buckskin" in manuscript, very fine; illustrated in Jarrett.Possibly used after post office name changed to Buckskin on December 21, 1865 but before new postal device delivered. Established as Lauret on 14 November, 1861 the name Laurette, a contraction of the first names of the only two women in the camp, was changed to Buckskin on 21 December, 1865. (Image) Est. $3,000-4,000

SOLD for $6,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
964 c   [Barlow & Sanderson Southern Overland Mail and Express Co.] corner card cover with handsome six-horse stage coach through the mountains design to Pierrepont Manor, N.Y. with 3c Green (158) tied by quartered cork cancel and split Kansas City, Mo[Barlow & Sanderson Southern Overland Mail and Express Co.] corner card cover with handsome six-horse stage coach through the mountains design to Pierrepont Manor, N.Y. with 3c Green (#158) tied by quartered cork cancel and split "Kansas City, Mo./Dec 31" datestamp, "New-York/Jan 2, 1880" arrival backstamp, slightly reduced at right, very fine.Sanderson's Southern Overland Mail & Express Company were operating stages between Kansas City and Santa Fe via Bents Fort, Colorado. During the 1870s the stage lines were being replaced by the railroads which were building their way west. The end came in January of 1880 when the last coach carrying the Santa Fe Mails rolled into history. (Image) Est. $500-750

SOLD for $650.00
Will close during Public Auction
965 c   Spanish Bar, Colorado Territory, two territorial period postmarks, first manuscript Spanish Bar C.T.Dec 23rd 64 on orange cover from the Shaver gold rush correspondence to Lawrence, Illinois with 3c Rose (65) cancelled by pen strokes, the othSpanish Bar, Colorado Territory, two territorial period postmarks, first manuscript "Spanish Bar C.T./Dec 23rd 64" on orange cover from the Shaver gold rush correspondence to Lawrence, Illinois with 3c Rose (#65) cancelled by pen strokes, the other with "Spanish Bar, Col./Jan 6" datestamp on cover to Philadelphia with 3c Rose (#65) tied by target cancel, former slightly reduced at left, very fine. (imagea) (Image) Est. $300-400

SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction
966 c   [Colorado illustrated covers], two handsome advertising covers from the 1870s, one for Prowers & Hough, Forwarding & Commission Merchants showing their store used with 3c Green (158) and West Los Animas, Col.Apr 5 datestamp, the other with a[Colorado illustrated covers], two handsome advertising covers from the 1870's, one for Prowers & Hough, Forwarding & Commission Merchants showing their store used with 3c Green (#158) and "West Los Animas, Col./Apr 5" datestamp, the other with allover back design for Chick, Browne & Co., Commission & Forwarding Merchants used with 3c Green (#147) and "Granada, Col./Aug 21" datestamp to Mora, N.M., latter slightly reduced at right, very fine. (imagea) (Image) Est. $500-750

SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction
967 c   Colorado Territory mid 1860's correspondence, twenty letters, mostly with the covers franked by 3c Rose (#65) from J. Shaver to his wife back home in Lawrence, Illinois, the first on his way out is datelined "Jasper Co. Iowa Near Benton, May 30th 1864" with the cover cancelled at Newton, Iowa, the next is datelined at Denver on July 5th, then Central City July 27th and 31st, then Idaho, C.T. Sept 27th and Oct. 9th, the two covers with manuscript Spanish Bar cancels, and finally thirteen letters datelined at Spanish Bar between Oct. 31st, 1864 and Jan. 15th, 1865, with seven covers bearing manuscript Spanish Bar cancels, two with Idahoe Col. T. datestamps and one Nevada, C.T. datestamp, long interesting letters, about half the covers are faulty, fine correspondence. Est. $1,000-1,500

SOLD for $2,200.00
Will close during Public Auction
968 c   Colorado postal history balance, diverse group of fifteen items, with Overland Mail & Express Co. handsome stagecoach illustrated cover with 3c Green (#184) with interesting letter from a buck board driver, legal-sized cover from Denver with pair 3c Rose (#65) and patriotic caricature label affixed, cowboy gunfight illustrated cover with 1c Gray blue (#206), "Zouave" red and blue patriotic cover from Denver with 3c Rose (#65) and town cancels of Fort Lewis (1887), Manitou (1878) and Tin Cup county type (1880), mostly fine-very fine. Est. $500-750

SOLD for $1,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
CONNECTICUT
Lot Symbol CatNo. Lot Description CV or Estimate
969 c   Manchester, Connecticut, Intemperance is the Bane of Society, allover propaganda design cover, published by George D. Jewett in Hartford, Ct., used with Manchester, Ct. postmark and matching Paid 3 handstamp, very fine.Manchester, Connecticut, Intemperance is the Bane of Society, allover propaganda design cover, published by George D. Jewett in Hartford, Ct., used with Manchester, Ct. postmark and matching "Paid 3" handstamp, very fine. (Image) Est. $300-400

SOLD for $900.00
Will close during Public Auction
DAKOTA TERRITORY
Lot Symbol CatNo. Lot Description CV or Estimate
970   [Dakota Territory] Books: General and Private Laws and Resolutions... Yankton, Kingsbury, 1864-5. 8vo, contemporary calf. Owner’s note on front cover, title page, cover wear, interior lightly toned. Minnesota & Dacotah in Letters Descriptive of a Tour through the North-West. CC Andrews. Washington, Robert Farnham, 1857. Stated second edition. Original brown cloth with gilt spine. Cracked front hinge, SD map and clipping pasted in. With Map of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming with Full Descriptions of Mineral Resources... Custer City, SD, Samuel Scott, 1897 12mo, original cloth with gilt title. With tinted color map tipped to back cover. Contemporary pencil notes on last (blank) page of booklet and one panel of map. Est. $300-400

SOLD for $525.00
Will close during Public Auction
971 c   Wounded Knee, Dakota Territory clear Dec 28, 1888 territorial period datestamp on cover to New Haven, Ct. with 2c Green (213) cancelled by target, cover with sealed tear at lower left, otherwise very fine a rare example of this evocative posWounded Knee, Dakota Territory clear "/Dec 28, 1888" territorial period datestamp on cover to New Haven, Ct. with 2c Green (#213) cancelled by target, cover with sealed tear at lower left, otherwise very fine; a rare example of this evocative postmark.This Post Office was established on 22 December, 1886 at the trading post of George E. Bartlett on Wounded Knee Creek, Shannon County in present day South Dakota. It was the site of the massacre of the Big Foot band of Sioux Indians by the 7th Cavalry on 29 December, 1890. The massacre ended the thirty years of war for the western plains, which began at New Ulm, Minnesota and came to a climax in the screaming and gunfire that was Wounded Knee. (Image) Est. $400-500

SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
972 c   Dakota postal history balance, large and valuable balance of 60 covers and cards, the large majority from the territorial period, mostly small towns including many forts such as two 1867 manuscript Fort Thompson on covers with 3c Rose (#65) that entered the mails with Fort Randall datestamps, 1876 Fort Abercrombie, 1881 and 1891 Fort Pierre, 1872 manuscript Camp Ruhlen, 1888 Fort Meade, 1875 manuscript Fort Stevenson, 1889 Fort Berthold, 1870's and 1890 Fort Abraham Lincoln, 1885 Fort Totten with illustrated letterhead enclosure, three different 1880's Fort Sulley, 1870's Cheyenne Reservation Agency and 1887 Fort Bennett, 1887 Fort Ransom, 1870's Fort Wadsworth, 1870's and 1887 Fort Sisseton, 1879 and 1881 Fort Buford, 1862 Fort Randall on a patriotic cover with patriotic letterhead enclosure, 1863 Fort Randall on patriotic cover with letter, 1860's manuscript Fort Rice, and late 1860's Fort Sanders, other town cancels include the only known example of Caledonia with Dakota Territory spelled out, 1888 oval Custer, 1888 violet Buffalo Gap, 1884 fancy straightline Williamsport, 1878 and 1890 Deadwood, latter with illustrated Black Hills corner card, 1870's Crow Creek, 1879 violet Bijou Hills, 1880 Marion county type, 1884 Watson county type, 1889 Vilas, 1887 Devils Lake and more, some usual stamp and cover faults, majority fine-very fine covers and strikes. Est. $5,000-7,500

SOLD for $22,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
FLORIDA
Lot Symbol CatNo. Lot Description CV or Estimate
973 c   Pensacola, Florida Territory, two different postmarks on folded letters with integral address leaf , first straightline PENSACOLAJune 24. on 1822 cover to Washington City endorsed On ServiceTho. WrightPay Master and manuscript Free, thisPensacola, Florida Territory, two different postmarks on folded letters with integral address leaf , first straightline "PENSACOLA/June 24." on 1822 cover to Washington City endorsed "On Service/Tho. Wright/Pay Master" and manuscript "Free", this being the earliest recorded territorial period usage of this postmark, the second with "Pensacola." in small circle with manuscript "Jany 30th" on 1827 cover to Fort Gaines with manuscript "25" rate, this being the only known example, some toning and both postmarks affected by light file folds, very fine for these. (imagea) (Image) Est. $750-1,000

SOLD for $2,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
974 c   Florida cover balance seven items comprised of four covers from the same correspondence with two different styles of Fort Pickens datestamps, each with two or three 3c Rose (#65), one forwarded twice, also manuscript "Swan River/Feb. 9th 1857" with 3c Dull red (#11), "Pensacola, Flor./Feb 28" datestamp tying 3c Dull red (#11) to 1857 folded letter, and "Titusville, Fla./Apr 1, 1889" on cover with rare "Indian River Steamboat Co." imprint and pair 2c Green (#213), Fort Pickens covers with some faults, others fine-very fine. Est. $300-400

SOLD for $600.00
Will close during Public Auction
HAWAII
Lot Symbol CatNo. Lot Description CV or Estimate
975   [Hawaii letters, 1834/1864] Ten letters from or concerning the island paradise, with other letters at sea, 1834-64. With much good content, especially from landlubbers at sea for the first time. Some travel as missionaries and some as merchants. Should be perused. With the Book: A Voyage in the South Seas…David Porter. London, Sir Richard Phillips & Co, 1823. 8vo, full leather, rebacked. Fold-out map; boards worn; offsetting from plates and light foxing. Est. $500-750

SOLD for $1,800.00
Will close during Public Auction
976   History of the Sandwich Islands Sheldon Dibble. Lahainaluna, Press of the Mission Seminary, 1843 8vo, 12mo, original black cloth with gilt spine. Folding map at front. Pen note and bookplate of Bangor Theological Seminary on pastedown. Risvold laHistory of the Sandwich Islands Sheldon Dibble. Lahainaluna, Press of the Mission Seminary, 1843 8vo, 12mo, original black cloth with gilt spine. Folding map at front. Pen note and bookplate of Bangor Theological Seminary on pastedown. Risvold label on pastedown. Exterior wear, some interior foxing, edge wear to map. (Image) Est. $400-500

SOLD for $1,800.00
Will close during Public Auction
977   A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands Bingham, Hiram. Hartford, Hezekiah Huntington, 1847. 8vo, original cloth with gilt spine. Folding map at rear, engraved frontis. Closed tear in map offsetting and foxing at front, exteriorA Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands Bingham, Hiram. Hartford, Hezekiah Huntington, 1847. 8vo, original cloth with gilt spine. Folding map at rear, engraved frontis. Closed tear in map; offsetting and foxing at front, exterior wear. (Image) Est. $400-500

SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction
978 c   [Historical letter written by Rev. Hiram Bingham from Oahu, 1825] Folded letter addressed to Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, pioneer educator to the deaf and dumb, carried outside the mails by ship to Boston, where it entered the mails with red Boston[Historical letter written by Rev. Hiram Bingham from Oahu, 1825] Folded letter addressed to Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, pioneer educator to the deaf and dumb, carried outside the mails by ship to Boston, where it entered the mails with red "Boston, Ms./Aug 21" (1826) and rated "14½" cents for 12½c postage and 2c ship fee, with matching "SHIP" handstamp, arrived at its destination with red "Hartford, Ct./Aug 30" datestamp where it was re-rated "10" cents for forwarding to Guilford, Ct., very fine; the letter took over eight months to reach its destination.Bingham writes: I have been interrupted by several calls, in particular by a pleasant visit from Kaahumanu the highest female in rank, influence, & power in the Sandwich Islands, & perhaps in the pacific Ocean. She was received last sabbath with 6 other chiefs, to our communion. She came in this evening in a very friendly manner to express her kind regards for Mrs. Bingham now recovering from her illness which has excited no small sympathy among the natives, & to talk about the establishment of law in the Islands, & adopting as a nation the laws which God gave to Moses, as the basis of all law, & all civil relations.Kaahumanu was the Queen of Kamehameha I, and what Bringham writes about the Ten Commandments actually happened. In 1821 Hiram Bringham led the first pioneer group of missionaries to Hawaii, or the Sandwich Islands as they were then called, and became the real power and most influential person to the Kings and Queens of Hawaii. (Image) Est. $2,000-3,000

SOLD for $3,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
979 c   [Death of Kaahumanu the Queen Regent, 1832]. Four page closely written folded letter datelined August 13, 1832 at Waimea to Cobain, Mass., entered the mails with red New Bedford, Mass.Mar 16 datestamp and matching SHIP handstamp, with ms. 2[Death of Kaahumanu the Queen Regent, 1832]. Four page closely written folded letter datelined August 13, 1832 at Waimea to Cobain, Mass., entered the mails with red "New Bedford, Mass./Mar 16" datestamp and matching "SHIP" handstamp, with ms. "20 3/4" rate, very fine; ex-Honolulu Advertiser.The letter, from Betsey Lyons, wife of Rev. Lorenzo Lyons, to her sister-in-law in Cobain, Mass., a few weeks after their arrival describes the death of Kaahumanu: "...The principal event which has transpired in this nation-since our arrival-is the death of the regent Kaahumanu who was one of the bright examples of christian piety which have been redeemed from among the heathen, She died in faith, leaving the whole nation to lament her loss and none more than the missionaries, to whom she has been a faithful friend… All the vessels in the harbour wore their colours at half mast, and cannons were fired at intervals during the day …The chiefs were dressed in black and the missionaries attended in half mourning - also a respectable company of foreigners with badges of mourning, she was deposited in the same tomb with the late king and queen, who died in England." A complete transcript of this lengthy letter is included. (Image) Est. $1,500-2,000

SOLD for $1,200.00
Will close during Public Auction
980 c   [A round trip letter from Boston to the Sandwich Islands, 1837] and return to Boston. Very lengthy closely written eight page letter written while on board the ship Mary Frazier enroute to the Sandwich Islands by Issac and Emily Bliss between[A round trip letter from Boston to the Sandwich Islands, 1837] and return to Boston. Very lengthy closely written eight page letter written while on board the ship Mary Frazier enroute to the Sandwich Islands by Issac and Emily Bliss between March 9 and April 26, 1837. The ship left Boston 14 December 1836 and arrived off the island of Maui 9 April 1837 after a remarkable voyage of 117 days. The Mary Frazer sailed for Boston on her return trip 26 April 1837, carrying this letter, which entered the mails with red "Boston, Ms./Aug 21" postmark and matching "SHIP" handstamp and ms. "27" cents due, then carried overland to Warsaw, Illinois.This ship carried the largest, and seventh, reinforcement sent to the Sandwich Islands by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, often called just the American Board. The letter is similar to a log. Emily gives the date and Latitude and Longitude of each entry. Issac Bliss was one of four ordained missionaries, in all 32, including a physician, school teachers and wives of all, but two single female teachers. The letter notes that the ship was only three days in rounding Cape Horn, which is remarkable. Most ships took several weeks, and Captain Bligh of H.M.S. Bounty fame had to turn eastward, around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, after loosing a month long battle with the wind. The return voyage to Boston was made in just 118 days, as opposed to 163 for the pioneer company in 1820. The letter includes a plan of accommodations on board the barque as drawn and detailed by Issac. A full transcript of this very lengthy letter is included with this lot. (imagea) (Image) Est. $2,000-3,000

SOLD for $1,500.00
Will close during Public Auction

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