Auction # 71 - The Sescal Sale

Wells Fargo & Co. Cover Collection. Of approximately 150 covers; nice range of town handstamp throughout, including conjuctive usages with Bambers, Langtons and Pacific Union, ad covers including many allover shaded ads, several red frank usages and one rare blue frank, agent handstamp, uprates and paste-up usages, railroad with nice R.P.O. section, early handstamp frank usages, woodblock and misplaced company franks, collection...

(Alaska) 1891 (Jul. 25) Sitka, Alaska to Honolulu, Hawaii. Cover with bold "Sitka, Alaska, Jul 25, 1891" duplex postmark and endorsed "ships mail", "T" in circle due handstamp and "Honolulu, H.I., Aug 16, 1891" receiving duplex postmark, San Francisco transit backstamp, Very Fine.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500.

AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE USE FROM ALASKA TERRITORY TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.

Buena Vista, Col., Oct 27, 1879 (Chaffee). Discernable manuscript (B1) on registered cover with Grocer's corner card, franked with manuscript canceled 3¢ + 10¢ Banknotes; tear into manuscript cancel, otherwise Fine.
Estimate; $100 - 150.

Central City, Colo., May 11. Cds with matching circle of wedges handstamp canceling 1870, 3¢ green on James Burrell, Mineral Land Agency corner card cover to Boston, Mass.; cover missing backflap, otherwise Very Fine.
Estimate; $75 - 100.

Loveland, Colorado, 1882. Cds duplexed with cork cancels 3c green (207) on cover with illustrated corner card depicting Hersinger & Harter Building, reverse with light Fort Collins octagonal receiver, F.-V.F.
Estimate; $100 - 150.

Pueblo, Colorado, 1888-93 Illustrated Advertising. Selection of 4 illustrated corners, 3 depicting "The Farris Hotel" all slightly different and one with Portrait, franked with banknotes 1¢ pair and 2¢, 2¢ bureau and 2¢ Columbian, all tied by Pueblo, Colo. cds., all backstamped.
Estimate; $150 - 200.

Pueblo, Colorado 1899. Cover franked with Trans-Mississippi 2¢ sent to New York, with attractive illustrated corner J.J. Rice, Pueblo, Colo, Saloon/Emporium scene, tied by Pueblo flag machine cancel, reverse with New York arrival.
Estimate; $150 - 200.

Trinidad Col, Aug 1, 1870. Double-circle cds in red duplexed with spokes cancel ties 3¢ ultramarine (114) on cover to Woodstock Va., a Very Fine Colorado Territory use.
Estimate; $200 - 300.

The Central Overland California & Pikes Peak Express Company, Denver City K.T. Dec. 1. Clear strike of oval datestamp on 1853, 3¢ Nesbitt entire to New York, reverse with second strike of Denver City oval without date used as company frank, oval "The Central Overland and California, Pikes Peak, Express Company, St. Joseph, Mo., Dec 10" date stamp, entered the U.S. mails with "Saint Joseph Mo. Dec. 11" cds and matching grid...

Hinckley & Co.'s Express, Denver City, Aug 9, 1860. Clear strike of cds on cover addressed to "W.R. Dorn, Nevada City, Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory", franked with 1857, 3¢ dull red, horizontal pair (tiny perf flaws) tied by manuscript "Dorn's Gold Mine, SoCa. 24 Jul, 1860" manuscript cancel, endorsed at bottom left manuscript "Care Hinckley & Co., St Joseph, Missouri"; light cover soiling and expertly...

(District of Columbia) Washington D.C., Apr 2 (1840). Cds on oversized cover to Ohio City, with "Henry L. Ellsworth" commissioner of patents free frank and "Free" handstamp below, with original enclosures including official patent for "Improvements in the mode of constructing bales & drivers for Grist Mills" signed by commissioner and Secretary of State John Forsyth, includes technical drawing of machine parts, F.-V.F. and...