Auction # 60 - The Westpex Sale

(Ephemera) San Francisco Anglo-California Trust Co. Bank Gift to Uncle Sam (1918). Presentation card depicting the Declaration of Independence and commemorating the 142nd anniversary of the U.S., the reverse with 26 mostly different postage stamps of the period and signed by members of the Western Hatters Club ($17.70 in postage), accompanied by second similar card with modest franking; some card flaws, F.-V.F. and unusual....

(Illustrated Cover) Love, Purity & Fidelity, Temperance Envelope. Caption on illustrated design with allegorical figure, waterfall, fountain, and star, "Barber & Baker, Sacramento" imprint, addressed to Sacramento Cal., 1856 docketing, carried outside the mails, repaired at right, still Very Fine appearing and scarce California temperance design.
Estimate; $400 - 600.

(Letter Books) Gregory's Express "Pocket Letter Book". Unused 1851 gold on black glazed letter book, Thompson & Hitchcock imprint, with original buff envelope, immaculate and Extremely Fine.
Estimate; $200 - 300.

(Toll House) Lewiston and Weaverville & Shasta Wagon Road Toll Ticket Collection, 1860's. Of 58 tickets; with 49 different Lewiston Road tickets showing various rates for various passenger and horse team wagons (one footman @ 10¢ to 12 horse freight team @ $26.40 toll), on either yellow of green cards, and 9 different Weaverville & Shasta Wagon Road tickets showing various rates, also included a unused Lewiston Turnpike Co....

(Telegraph) California State Telegraph. Red illustrated design on orange buff cover to Auburn Cal., pencil "July 8th 1864" docketing, no postal markings, enclosure an original telegram tape message from New York, relating to purchase of ships; cover with small tear at top, Very Fine and scarce.
Estimate; $300 - 400.

The Expressman. Illustrated J.M. Hutchings' California Envelope showing expressman on horseback delivering "Letters from Home" to news-starved miners, on cover to Kite River, Ill., franked with 1855, 10¢ green, type II tied by neat "Nevada City, Cal., 10 Paid, Dec 18" cds (NEV-1210); some cover edge wear and sealed nick at top center, otherwise Very Fine, one of ten recorded examples of this illustrated miner's cover and...

I Have Got Most Enough. Illustrated design showing Happy Miner Holding Gold Pan with Noisy Carrier's imprint below, on cover to Blackstone, Mass., with "Jackson, Cal., Mar 14" cds and matching "10" in circle rate handstamp; some cover wear, F.-V.F., a very rare Noisy Carrier's design with only four examples recorded, illustrated in Kutz Gold Fever (page 64), ex Kutz.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500.

Miners' Coat of Arms. Illustrated Barber & Baker design showing Miner and Bear Hold Up Cross With Various Miner Implements, on cover to Wakefield, R.I., "Nevada City, Cal., 3 Paid, Mar 28" integral cds and "6" rate handstamp for the transcontinental rate, manuscript forwarding notation at right edge; cover edge wear and small tears with most of backflap missing, Fine, a rare design with twelve examples recorded by...

Mining Scene. Illustrated miner's design depicting Miner Panning for Gold with Long Tom in Background with imprint "J.M. Hutchings' California Envelope" at left and "Anthony & Baker SC" engraver's imprint at bottom right of design, on cover to Vermont with blue "Sutter Creek, Cal." double circle postmark & double oval "Paid" handstamp; trivial corner mends at left, Very Fine, one of the finer examples of this...