Shawnee, Oklahoma: 1963. Unbound. This novelty dollar bill is approximately 7.5” x 3” and features a portrait of Cooper on the reverse along with the state seal of Oklahoma and an image of the earth overprinted with “22” and 22 orbital circles. The reverse has two circular images, one of... More about Novelty dollar bill commemorating the Mercury space flight of Leroy Gordon Cooper, one of the...

Unidentified: Unidentified, [1864]. Unbound. Unidentified place, publisher, and year, but probably somewhere in Ohio shortly after the Presidential election of 1864. The small broadside measures 6.5” x 9” and features a large image of a balloon ascension. The thin, fragile paper has been expertly backed with silk tissue. It is... More about Satirical “Salt River” type handbill advertising a probably fictional “Freedom of...

Providence, RI: Livermore and Knight (possibly), 1903. Postcard. A very scarce fold-over novelty postcard, possibly published by Livermore and Knight. (If not, then it is certainly in the Livermore and Knight style.) Light wear including the bull's tail and farmer's hand. Franked with Scott #300 with a 1905 Buffalo, NY... More about Masonic Fold-Over Novelty Postcard

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

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

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

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. 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

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

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

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

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...

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