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06/08/2023

This week's spotlight is a county lot from Bell County, Texas!

BELL COUNTY, TEXAS
13 items $34
Established: January 22, 1850
County seat: Belton
1900 population: 45,535

Belton: 1944 machine cancel on Postal Card
Post card: “Ruth Stribling Hall, Mary Hardin Baylor College [linen]
Harper Heights RS: 1962 4-bar on FD cover-sized card, Killeen PM autograph
Oenaville: (1872-1958) 1958 4-bar on LD Postal Card
Oenaville RS: (1965-?) 1965 4-bar on FD cover-sized card
Salado: 1917 4-bar on post card
Post card: Old Stagecoach Inn [chrome]
Temple: Post cards: Kyle Hotel [linen]; Hospitality Inn & Restaurant [chrome]; Ramona Courts [linen]; Scott and White Sanatorium [c.1910]; Santa Fe Hospital [linen]
Troy: 1908 4-bar on post card, upper right corer missing

02/27/2023

This week's spotlight:

DELAWARE COUNTY, INDIANA
24 items $54
Established: January 26, 1827
County seat: Muncie
1900 population: 49,624

Albany Post card: Albany School [1950]
Daleville 1971 machine cancel on cover
De Soto RS (Muncie) (1956-1962)1962 4-bar on LD 3x5 card
Eaton 1964 machine cancel on 3x5 card
Gaston 1930 4-bar on cover; 1964 machine cancel on 3x card
Muncie 1904 Flag cancel on cover w/ backstamp of Goldfield, Colorado (dpo); 1941 machine cancel on cover, R.M. Thomas Co. corner; 1963 machine cancel on cover; 1978 machine cancel on cover. Muncie RFD 1903 hand stamp with “6” in bars, Goldfield, Colo. backstamp.
Post cards: Vatet Block [c.1910]; New Hotel Roberts [1938]; Carnegie Library [c.1910]; Post office [linen]; “Hazlewood” [linen]; Indiana State Normal School Administration Bldg. [c.1930]; Ball State Science Hall [linen]; Ball State Music Hall [1963]; McCullough Park [1910]
Unusual item: “The Muncie News Co.” cloth bag, mailed 1972
Oakville 1971 4-bar on cover
Selma 1970 machine cancel on cover
Yorktown 1970 machine cancel on cover

02/13/2023

This week's spot light is on:

BENTON COUNTY Oregon
19 items $50
Established: December 23, 1847
County seat: Corvallis
1900 population: 6,706

Alsea 1910 4-bar on post card
Blodgett 1910 Doane on post card; 1911 4-bar on post card
Corvallis 1903 duplex on cover; 19?? Flag cancel on post card; 1916 straight-line machine cancel on Postal Card; 1925 machine cancel on cover, includes 2 letters
Post card: Two Aerial views [one linen, one Continental-size]; Fisher’s flour mill [1909]; OSU Administration building [1920, creased]; OSU Waldo Hall [1916, edge damage]
Monroe 1972 machine cancel on cover
Kings Valley (1844-1974) 1910 4-bar on post card; 1951 4-bar on Postal Card
Philomath 1909 4-bar on post card
Summit (1868-1959) 1951 4-bar on Postal Card; 1959 round dater on LD cover
Wells (1880-1936) 1910 duplex on post card
Wren (1887-1968) 1911 4-bar on post card

02/07/2023

This week's spotlight is one of our largest county lots to date (as usual there are many more pics available on our website!):

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
123 items $142
Established: February 18, 1850
County seat: San Diego
1900 population: 35,090

Alpine 1950 duplex on 3x5 card
Bonsall 1940 4-bar on cover
Borrego Springs 1949 4-bar on Postal Card, Cacher for First Day on back; 1955 duplex on 3x5 card
Boulevard 1941 4-bar on Postal Card
Camp Joseph H. Pendleton Bx (Oceanside) (1942-1946) 1946 duplex on Postal Card
Camp Pendleton Bx (Oceanside) 1967 machine cancel on cover
Cardiff-by-the-Sea 1933 4-bar on cover; 1947 duplex on cacheted airmail cover
Chula Vista 1958 “Pray for Peace” slogan on cover; 1964 machine cancel on 3x5 card
Coronado 1941 machine cancel on cover, Christmas card inside
Post cards: Hotel del Coronado (3 exterior views, 1 dining room, all chrome); Bridge [chrome]; Sunset [c.1910?]
De Luz (1882-1955) 1930 4-bar on cover; 1948 4-bar on cacheted cover, “Smallest Complete Post Office in the World”
Descanso 1977 4-bar on cacheted cover [picture of p.o.], post office centennial
Dulzura 1965 4-bar on cover
El Cajon 1956 machine cancel on cover
Encinitas 1906 Doane on post card
Escondido 1971 machine “Pray for Peace” slogan on cover
Post card: Main Street [chrome, 1950s]
Fletcher Hills Sta. (El Cajon) (1957-1975) light 4-bar overstruck El Cajon on Postal Card, FD of Postal status
Guatay 1947 4-bar on 3x5 card
Jacumba 1933? 4-bar on cover; 1955 duplex on post card, also “Desert View Tower” mark
Post card: “Desert View Tower” [chrome]
Julian Post cards: Aerial view [2 different views, all chrome]
Kearney Br. (San Diego) (1917-1921) 1917 machine cancel on post card
La Jolla 1903 duplex on cover; 1913 duplex on rumpled cover; 1925 machine cancel on post card; 1970 machine cancel on cover
Post card: aerial view [chrome]
La Mesa 1947 machine cancel on cover; 1966 machine cancel on cover
Lake San Marcos B (San Marcos) (1966-1990) 1966 4-bar on 3x5 card, FD of Postal status; 1968 4-bar on cover
Lakeside 1910 4-bar on post card; 1955 machine cancel on Postal Card
Leucadia 1965 machine cancel on cover
Mission Beach Post card: Aerial view [chrome]
National City 1907 duplex on post card, also Brooks “Received”
Post card: Main street [linen]
Naval Hospital Bx (San Diego) (1929-1982) 1945 machine cancel, ”free” soldiers’ mail
Post card: Hospital building [chrome]
North San Diego (1870/1943) 1921? 4-bar on cover
Ocean Beach Sta. (San Diego) 1930 date-out duplex on post card
Oceanside 1932 machine cancel on cover, corner “Rosicrucian Fellowship”; 1963 machine cancel on cover; 1971 machine cancel on cover
Pala 1962 4-bar on cover
Palm City (1914-1956) 1930 4-bar on post card; 1940 4-bar on cover
Palomar Mountain 1948 machine cancel on cover, FD of 3¢ Palomar Observatory stamp
Post cards: Palomar Observatory [3 chrome views]; Palomar Valley [chrome]
Pauma Valley 1951 4-bar on 3x5 card, FD of name
Pine Valley 1958 duplex on Postal Card; 1966 4-bar on cover
Point Loma poor 1935 machine cancel on cover
Post cards: Aerial view [chrome]; View from sea [B&W real photo]
Potrero 1951 4-bar on 3x5 card
Ramona 1947 machine cancel on 3x5 card
San Diego 1887 cds & cork killer on cover; 1890 duplex on cover; 1905 Flag cancel on post card; 1907 duplex on cover; 1915 slogan “Panama-California Exposition” on post card; 1919 machine cancel on cover; 1930 machine slogan “Air Mail Saves Time” on cover, original contents, Christmas seals on back; 1934 machine cancel on tax notice card; 1935 machine slogan “California Pacific International Exposition” on cover; 1938 machine cancel on cacheted cover “U.S.S. Winslow”; 1943 machine slogan “Buy War Bonds” partly off right of cover, “free” soldier’s mail; 1955 machine slogan “California Public School Week” on post card; 1967 machine slogan “Navy Seabees 25th Anniversary” on cover; 1969 machine FD of issue 6¢ California stamp on cacheted cover; 1985 machine slogan “Always Use Zip Code” on cover, original contents
San Diego Sta. A 1931 machine cancel on cover
San Diego Sta. B 1920? date-out duplex on post card; 1936 machine cancel on cover
San Diego Sta. No. 16 1964 round dater on 3x5 card
San Diego Post cards: Aerial view [chrome]; distant view [chrome]; Main Street in 1921 [B&W reproduction]; Cortez Hotel [chrome]; Motel 6 [chrome]; Aztec Motel [chrome]; Tourlodge Motel [chrome]; Harbor boat Cabrillo [chrome]; Post office [linen, 1946]; Cabrillo Bridge [linen]; San Diego Zoo [chrome]; Mission Valley [1909]; Marineland [2 chrome]; sunset [chrome]; Ramona’s Marriage Place [4 cards, 3 linen, 1 chrome]; Poinsettia field [linen, damaged]; Mission Cliff Gardens [c.1910]
San Marcos poor cds on Postal Card
San Ysidro Post card: Custom House [linen]
Serra Mesa Sta. (San Diego) 1965 roller pmk. on 3x5 card, FD of Postal status
Sorrento (1888/1959) 1959 4-bar on LD cover
Spring Valley 1967 machine cancel on cover
Tecate 1956 duplex on cover
Tierra del Sol (1956-1964) 1960 4-barn on cover
Tijuana Post cards: aerial view of California side of border; Boundary Monument [c.1910]
U.S. Naval Air Station (1925-1982) undated machine cancel on cover
Vista light 1943 machine cancel on cover; 1966 machine cancel on cover
Post card: “Welcome to Vista” sign [chrome]
Warner Springs 1950 duplex on Postal Card
Post card: “Sweetwater Reservoir” [c.1930]

01/30/2023

This week's spotlight is a County lot from Adams County, MI : (There are more pictures form this lot available on our website!)

ADAMS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
27 items $45
Established: April 2, 1799
County seat: Natchez
1900 population: 30,111

A nice selection of Ante-bellum homes.

Kienstra (1890/1957) 1957 4-bar on LD cover, torn corner
Natchez 1948 duplex on post card, view of “Gloucester” ante-bellum home [linen]; 1948 First Day cacheted cover of 3¢ Mississippi Territory stamp
Souvenir booklet: Numerous views, undated
Post cards: “Natchez Under the Hill [chrome]; Bellemont Motor Hotel [chrome, tiny tear]; Mississippi River Bridge [Continental]; Ante-bellum homes: Arlington [white border]; D’Evereux [chrome]; Dunleith [chrome]; The Elms [linen]; Elmscourt [linen]; Greenleaves [linen]; Holly Hedges [chrome]; Hope Farm [linen]; Linden [linen]; Longwood [chrome]; Melrose [linen]; Monteigne [linen]; Mount Repose [1 linen, 1 chrome]; Ravenna [linen]; Stanton Hall [linen]; Twin Oaks [chrome]
Pine Ridge (1872-1963) 1963 4-bar on LD cover-sized card, PM autograph on back
Washington oversize 1976 4-bar on cacheted cover for Mississippi Statehood anniversary Mississippi Flag stamp

01/23/2023

We also have a variety of unique books (mostly historical) both new and used that we have sorted by County and State wherever possible, such as:

WESTERN UNITED STATES
Bob Fudge, Texas Trail Driver, Montana-Wyoming Cowboy 1862-1933 by Jim Russell

The biography of a cowboy who led an exciting life on the cattle trails from Texas to the boundary of Canada and from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean.

Copyright 1981. 135 page hardback, includes a note from the author, and an introduction.

01/23/2023

A sample of a "County Lot" of postcard and postmark collectibles:
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
33 items $52
Established: March 11, 1889
County seat: Santa Ana
1900 population: 19,696

NO Disneyland or Knotts Berry Farm view cards

Anaheim 1963 machine cancel on 3x5 card; Anaheim EXPO ’77 Station 1977 pictorial cancel on cover; Post cards: EXPO 2000 space cards [4 Continental cards]
Army Air Base (Santa Ana) (1942-1946) 1942 machine cancel on post card, soldiers “Free” mail
Atwood 1977 4-bar on 3x5 card
Balboa Island (1928-1955) 1938 Flag cancel on Postal Card
Cypress 1983 4-bar on cacheted cover, Cover Collectors Circuit Club
Dana Point Post card: Coast line [chrome]
El Modeno (1910-1961) 1939 4-bar as rec’d backstamp on cover from Oakland; 1961 round dater on LD cover
Garden Grove 1909 4-bar on post card; 1977 4-bar on cacheted cover [photo of p.o.] Centennial cover
Ghost Town RS (1951-1963) 1955 4-bar on Postal Card; 1959 4-bar on post card; 1962 4-bar on post card
La Habra 1959 machine cancel on cover
Laguna Beach 1908 Doane as rec’d over L.A. Sta, G on post card; 1912 4-bar on cover
Post cards: View from Heisler Park [chrome]; Homes along the Shore [linen]
Souvenir booklet 16 different views [linen]
Newport Beach Post card: Seaport Landing restaurant [chrome]
Olive (1887/1963) 1908 4-bar on post card, also Homestead IA Rec’d; 1936 4-bar on post card; 1963 4-bar on 3x5 card (as Sta.)
Orange Post card: Orange City Park [chrome]
Santa Ana 1910 Flag cancel on post card; 1998 machine cancel on Postal Card
Seal Beach 1927 4-bar on post card

01/23/2023

We have resources to help you figure and organize what you want to collect:

ARKANSAS, UNITED STATES
A Checklist of Arkansas Post Offices by Alan H. Patera and John H. Gallagher

This booklet provides a list of all of the post offices that ever operated in Arkansas with their establishment and discontinuation dates. It is a valuable resource for postmark collectors. Illustrated with postmarks, maps, and vintage photos.

Paperback. Published by The Depot in 1988. 52 pages.

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