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Catalog 23-1 (January 2023)

Catalog 23-1 (January 2023) contains 45 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history related to the American Civil War, the Atomic Bomb, British rule in Florida, Dutch New York, the Early Fur Trade, Enslaved Workers and Slave Trading, Franklin's Pennsylvania Hospital, Missionaries, the Old China Trade, the Revolutionary War, Spanish Louisiana, Westward Expansion, the child prodigy artist Lilly Martin, and more.

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Catalog 22-5 (October 2022)

Catalog 22-5 (October 2022) contains 30 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, and postal history related to John James Audubon, the early fur trade, impressment, the Seven Years War, the Revolutionary War, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Confederacy, the Philippine-American War, China missionaries, the San Francisco Vigilance Committee, privateering, the Louisiana Purchase, medicine, Huckleberry Finn's Dauphin, railroads, the Panic of 1837, the Great Depression, and more.

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Catalog 22-4 (August 2022)

Catalog 22-4 (August 2022) contains 44 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, and postal history related to African-Americana, Alaskan Natives, Crime, Food & Drink, American Indians, Medicine & Nursing, Military & War, Pirates, Servitude & Slavery, and more.

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Catalog 22-3 (Mid-Spring 2022)

Catalog 22-3 (Mid-Spring 2022) contains 30 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, commonplace books, friendship albums, and postal history related to African-Americana, Alcohol, Boxing, Civilian Repatriation, Coolie Labor, Cults, Education, Folk Art, Japanese-American Concentration Camps, Medicine & Nursing, Military & War, Pirates, Pornography, Slavery & Plantations, Westward Expansion, Women, and more.

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Catalog 22-2 (April 2022)

Catalog 22-2 (April 2022) contains 30 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and postal history related to African-Americana, American Indians, the Civil War, Education, Immigration, Murder, the Pony Express, Quack Medicine, the Revolutionary War, Slavery & Servitude, Westward Expansion, Women, and more.

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We always have an inventory of unique Paper Americana on hand; that is, we keep a selection of personal narratives such as diaries, work journals, photograph albums, correspondence collections, scrapbooks, and similar items that shed light on some aspect of North American life, history, culture, or society.

Although not all is included in our website database, we also have a nice selection of Postal History. To view the covers that we have available online (the tip of iceberg, as they say), click on the Philately link to the left or enter the word "philately" in the search box above.

We hope you'll take some time to look around our website or, better yet, visit us at one of our shows. We take our better items to several book fairs and stamp shows each year, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic area, however we do travel as far south as Florida, as far north as Michigan and Massachusetts, and as far west as California.