Reading, PA: City of Reading, 1908. Envelope. Ornate advertising cover promoting Reading, Pennsylvania, features the city seal, a muscular worker, mechanical products, factories, railroad trains, etc. Franked with Scott #301, postmarked at Reading, and addressed to Ithaca, New York. More about Advertising Envelope for the City of Reading, Pennsylvania
Easton, Pennsylvania: American Flag Manufacturing Company, 1908. Envelope. Illustrated advertising cover (envelope) for the American Flag Manufacturing Company of Easton, Pennsylvania. The illustration shows a multicolor U.S. flag behind Lady Liberty and a young boy surrounded by the slogan, "One Country, One Language, One Flag." Franked with Scott #300;, postmarked... More about American Flag Manufacturing Company Advertising Envelope
Kansas City, Missouri: Baker & Lockwood Manufacturing Company, 1903. Envelope. An all-over advertising cover (envelope) for the Baker & Lockwood Manufacturing Company. Printed in green. Illustration features a large party tent. Franked with Scott #301 and postmrked with a Barry Postal Supply company machine cancellation dated 26 December 1903. Light... More about Baker & Lockwood Tent Advertising Envelope
Coventry, England: Coventry Victor Motor Co., Ltd., 1922. Wrapper. Oblong 12vo. Unpaginated but 12 pages. Complete and clean. Sound binding. Full-page motorcycle illustrations accompany model descriptions for the Standard Touring Model, the Speial Sidecar Model, and the Brooklands Sporting Model. Two different sidecars are also illustrated and described. More about Coventry Victor Motorcycle Catalog for 1922
Wilmington, Delaware: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 1944. Envelope. Multicolor advertising cover features a quail on the front cover and an all-over chart with standard shotgun loads for hunting and trapshooting on the reverse. The cover is franked with Scott #905, postmarked at Watseka, Illinois, and addressed... More about DuPont Gunpowder Advertising Envelope
Binghamton, New York: G.M.T. Johnson, 1884. Envelope. Cartoon advertising cover for G.M.T. Johnson's Practical Poultry Keeping features chickens, peacocks, turkeys, ducks, geese, and other poultry marching around a large flag titled "Johnsons Poultry Book." All of the birds carry pennants, many bearing the initials, "JPB." Text from reviews of the..... More about Johnson's Poultry Book Advertising Envelope
1890s. Greeting Card. Large valentine with die-cut pansies, gilt lacework, and two colorful cherubs. Vese on the inside. Embossed envelope is franked with Scott #230. Card is clean and with almost no wear. Envelope has some light soiling. More about Large and Colorful Valentine Featuring Two Cherubs. With the Original Envelope
Portland, Oregon: Lewis & Clark Exposition Company, 1905. Envelope. Multicolor advertising cover for the exposition features America with her arms resting on the shoulders of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as all three gaze at a Pacific Ocean sunset. This cover is franked with Scott #319 and postmarked at Colfax... More about Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition Advertising Envelope
Meek, Circa 1860. Greeting Card. Approximately 3" x 4". The valentine consists of three leaves: 1) a partially gilded lace paper cover, 2) a blue paper leaf with a diecut multicolor cherub and six solid color stars, and 3) a blank card backing to which has been affixed a red... More about Ornate Lace Valentine By Meek
1860. Greeting Card. Very attrractive valentine in the style of Esther Howland, however one of her price codes does not appear on the reverse. Approximately 3.75" x 5.5". The card features lacework, gold embossing, green and red background papers, and embossed die-cut figures of a woman holding a giant flower... More about Ornate Valentine with a Young Woman Holding a Giant Flower. With Original Envelope
1860. Greeting Card. Approximately 5" x 7". The embossed card features a foral diecut with the legend "Souvenir, Love & Truth." With its original envelope. Franked with Scott #11. Manuscript cancellation. Clean with light wear. More about Ornate, Embossed Valentine with Gilt and Multi-Color Floral Diecut, With Orignial Envelope
Baltimore: The C. H. Pearson Packing Co., 1905. Envelope. Nice advertising cover for The C. H. Pearson Packing Company, located at the Chesapeake Warf in Baltimore. The cover (envelope) freatures an illustration of a woman holding a large oyster while standing upon a mound of fruits and vegetables in front... More about Oyster Packing Company Advertising Envelope
Buffalo, New York: Niagra Envelope Manufacturing Co., 1902. Envelope. Multi-color Pan American Exposition cover (envelope) addressed to Hermannstadt, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary (Nagyszeben in Hungarian, and today Sibiu in Romania). Nagy Szeben backstamp on reverse. Manuscript annotations in German and Hungarian. Franked with Scott #279 and a pair of Scott #279B; indistinct... More about Pan American Exposition Cover
Hanover, NH: The Dartmouth Press, 1901. First Printing. Printed Wrapper. 8vo. This is an actual program from the ceremonies, which were held on 14-15 September 1901; it as not the reprinted monograph of 1902 nor a modern copy. 8 pages including the cover; bound with golden-brown thread at the spine... More about Program of The Webster Centennial of Dartmouth College Celebrating the One Hundredth Anniversary...
Hyco, Virginia: R. L. Ragland, 1893. Envelope. Illustrated advertising cover (envelope) from R. L. Ragland. The illustration depicts a tobacco plant in full bloom. Text reads, "R. L. Ragland / Tobacco-Seed Grower, / Hyco, Halifax Co, VA. / The Largest Stock of / Select Varieties / In the World to... More about Ragland Tobacco Advertising Envelope
New York: Foster-Hilson Company, 1892. Envelope. Blue-green cover features a blue-green advertising collar that surrounds the postage stamp and all-over text advertising on the reverse. The cover is franked with Scott #220, postmarked at New York, and addressed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. More about Reliance Cigar Factory Advertising Envelope
Chicago: R. W. Tansill and Company, Circa 1890. Envelope. Nice advertising cover (envelope) for Punch Cigars with an illustration of the famous Punch head logo. Light wear. Franked with Scott #212. Indistinct Chicago handstamp cancellation. There is a short 1/4" closed tear at the top of the envelope. Tansill opened... More about Tansill's Punch Cigars Advertising Envelope
Winchester Repeating Arms Company, 1905. Envelope. Scarce illustrated advertising cover (envelope) for Winchester Repeating Rifles, Shot Guns, and Single shot Rifles. Illustration features a Mountain man with a Winchester lever-action rifle in the background. From a dealer, H. C. Pigott, in Philadelphia to The "American Ornithology" in Worcester Massachusetts. Franked... More about Winchester Repeating Rifles Advertising Envelope
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Cincinnati: Caleb Clark Book & Job Printer, 1865. Wraps. Complete 24-page pamphlet. Sound binding. Removed from a sammelband so a little rough along the left edge. Minor soiling to the cover, otherwise in nice shape. In 1780, before Kentucky was a state, the Virginia Assembly (perhaps prodded by Governor Thomas... More about The Announcement [catalog] of Kentucky University [Transylvania University] for the Year...
Boston: Jordan Marsh & Co., 1882. Printed Wrapper. 4to Complete with 32 pages. Full-page cover illustration of Santa Claus climbing through a window. Product illustrations throughout. Clean pages; first four leaves have some light edge-wear. Light soiling and edge-wear to the cover. No doubt this is one of the earliest... More about Holiday Catalogue: Compliments of Jordan, Marsh & Co. with a Hearty Welcome and a Merry...
Cleveland: The Peerless Motor Car Company, [1918]. Catalog. 10-panel folding brochure still stapled to its original protective card cover. Color title panel plus 4 color illustrations on the text panels; five panels of b/w photographs. The folding brochure is in excellent shape with almost no wear; the protective card cover... More about Peerless Model 56: The Two Power Range Eight (Automobile Sales Catalog
St. Louis: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904. Staplebound wraps. The illustrated advertising envelope features an image of the cover of The Woman’s Magazine and a rectangular promotion for the St. Louis World’s Fair. It is franked with a 1-cent green Franklin stamp (Scott #300) and postmarked with a “World’s Fair..... More about Advertising Booklet and Illustrated Envelope for The Woman’s Magazine and the Louisiana...
Various locations: Various publishers, 1940s and 1950s. Wraps. All complete. Each approximately 2.5” x 4”. From an Arnold, Missouri estate. Titles include: V. Fuzzynuts Presents Barney Google in Horse Flesh, Count Screwloose in Decoyed, Rub Matocas Presents Etta Kett in Endorsed, Peter B. Everhard Presents Moon Mullins in Help, Phelta... More about Collection of Six Tijuana Bible 8-Pagers (Explicit underground comic books
West Point, New York: 1929-1930. Unbound. Each of these 34 partially printed demerit slips measures 5.5” x 4.25”. Most are completed in pencil; two are typed and a red colored pencil was used for one. One has a “Late Slip” attached. All were issued to first classmen, (the equivalent of..... More about Group of 34 cadet demerit slips from the United States Military Academy at West Point
