This 1821 stampless cover was from the Office of the agency of the Bank Of the United States, Cincinnati, Ohio telling Northrop that a payment was due on his debt.  Large and small tear at the folds and an archival repair near the bottom right edge. Clear cancel from Cincinnati and 18 paid ?  Addressed to Northrop in Lanesville, Ohio.   

The dealer who sold this item to me said that the post offices in New York were swamped with mail during the Civil War with letters going back and forth to soldiers. Delivery was actually suspended unless an extra one cent stamp was affixed to the cover.  Two cancels from New York City dated 1863 and two fancy cancels. 

Homemade cover with official seals that was cut off a document.  Bullseye

There are three letters from the 1880s in this lot, one written by E G Hayes to his wife at the Merchants Hotel in St. Paul Minnesota. and the other two from the Merchant's Hotel in Deadwood, D T.  The graphic letter sheets showing the hotel was the letter addressed to the wife and is seven pages long.  The advertising cover is from the Hotel in Deadwood.  The cancel is indistinct but presumably from Deadwood. The content of all three letters (four pages) is regarding the struggles of E G Hayes to bring his ill son home.  He was a soldier at Fort Meade.  He was able to do some sight seeing while attempting to go to Fort Meade.  ""visiting the large gold quartz mills here to day.  Some of them the largest in the world and gold quartz in the hills here to? twenty five such mills running for one hundred years.  There is now thirteen mills running five new ones building within four miles of Deadwood, turning out from 25 ? $125.00 per month for each mill.  The Terry Mills pays profit from all expenses of $75.00 per month."

Notation on the back gives the year as 1883.  Cooper was a bookseller and a printer.  Cancel from Savannah and New York. Excellent Southern cover.   Postal history

Nice graphic cover which shows the Gordon Institute.  I guess from the 1880's. Mild staining.  Cancel from Barnesville.  Here is a partial early history of this school in middle Georgia.

Nice graphics on the back of this cover dated in the 1880's..  The front reads "Return to J B Wooster & Co" and an address in San Francisco.  Cancel in from San Francisco but it not clear as to the date.  

Poor condition on this cover.  I'm not sure of the year but clear cancel from Baltimore.  Damaged stamp, heavy stains and the back doesn't look much better.  This was a chemical fertilizer firm.

Ok, I know this is a mess but it is the only one I have ever seen.  See scan.

Has an enclosure.  There is another cancel on the back from Greenville Georgia. Fancy cancel.

Impressive looking building on this illustrated cover.  No year on the cancel, but late 1800's.  This company made patent medicines. Opened roughly, see scan. 

Bullseye cancel and a nice cancel from New Orleans, Louisiana.

This cover is not much to look at as can be seen in the scan.  The handwriting reads Payne's Store Texas 1/7/75.  It was not uncommon for country stores to be the postal office in small towns. This town no longer exists. This came from the extensive papers of a prominent lawyer in Greenville Georgia, John W Park.  

Embossed advertising cover with a clear cancel from Boston and a fancy cancel. One tiny tear in top edge

This lot consists of three covers addressed to John Barlow of Frankfort Kentucky.  There are two letters from Abram Chaplin and one from his brother Willis.  These men were descended from a famous pioneer family of Harrodsburg Kentucky. Please view the scans to see the condition of the three letters.  I have not transcribed the letters as they are boring business letters regarding some land. One letter is dated 1846, one 1848, and one undated.  

Civil war era usage with hand notation April 22, 1865. 

Roughly opened, two nice cancels, one on back from Columbus and Greeneville.  Somewhat dingy.

Hand cancelled cover. I can't find a Jenkinsville Georgia so I can only assume that the Post Office is discontinued..  Letter has legal content.  See scan.

Insect damage to this early cover from Macon County to Macon Georgia. The damage is most extensive on the cover page but there are some in the written page, one affecting a word which I can't make out. A grandmother is writing her grandson  to complain of his neglect of her and the fact that she is very ill and never gets letters from anyone.  She adds in closing, "Be true to your ? old man for our time is fast hastening to a close in this unfriendly world. "   Signed Sarah Berry..  

The hand cancel (on the side) reads Poindexter, April 23. Letter indicates that it was written in 1851.  This is a discontinued post office which evidently was in a store owned by the Poindexter family.  Paid 5 in script and addressed to John S Humphries Macon Ga.  Considerable wear to the cover as can be seen in the scan.  The letter reads that the letter was sent to "Landlapper or Sandlapper, Marion County Ga.  The letter is written to his relative who complains "the girls down here are all fat and want to marry bad."  Some crop and agricultural talk.  I'm unable to read the signed name.  Tear at the top left hand edge. 

This is a hand cancelled cover from 1873. Cover and letter regarding a legal dispute.  

Cover complete with letter about a legal dispute.  Roughly opened on one end.  I can't find out much about Rocky Mount but it might be a discontinued post office.  DPO  1868 Hand Cancelled Cover

Please view the scans to see the condition.  This exposition preceded the Georgia State Fair.

Item is about one and a half inches in diameter.  It is made of gutta percha or thermoplastic, I can't tell for sure.  Top screws off.  The back has a Newton Calendar from 1895.  Nice item for the postal history collector.

I have changed my mind several times about selling this book as it is both beautiful and informative.  There are 252 pages of full color illustrations with the exception of the few introduction pages concerning the illustrated covers that were offered in an auction in 1982.  I also have the prices realized in this auction of items in the collection of John R Biddle.  I have scanned two of the pages to give you an idea. Leather like covers and wonderful condition.

Legal sized envelope 1941 cover

Included in this lot is the Morrison Hotel, Chicago Ill, Hotel Broadview-East Saint Louis, Ill, and Hotel Multnomah-Portland Oregon.

Thirteen graphic covers, many showing a lot of wear.  Please view the scans to see the condition.  1.  Hotel Richmond, Augusta Ga  2. Hotel du Pont-Wilmington Delaware  3.  The Oregon (shows a ship but it was a hotel in Greenwood S C  4.  The actual Oregon Hotel image (very worn)  5. Hotel John Sevier-Johnson City Tennessee (Sevier's portrait on the reverse)  6. New Central Hotel-Charlotte, N C  7.  Hotel Hickory-Hickory N C,  8.  Hotel Cowan Greenville Mississippi, 9.  Plaza Hotel-Augusta Ga,  10.  The Jefferson, Macon Mo.  11.  Hotel Southland, Macon Ga 12.  The Southern Hotel-Baltimore Maryland and 13.  Hotel Gayoso Memphis Tennessee.   14.  Houston Hotel-Houston Mississippi. Note the nice clear cancels on most.   Notes: Number 3 is listed elsewhere so is not included in this lot

The 1895 letter has different company for the letter and the cover but they go together.  The People's Cyclopedia re written by A H White in Toledo Ohio

Brief content.  Nice clear cancel from Frederick and 12 paid.

Very early banking related stampless cover addressed to a bank in Hagerstown Maryland.  Nice clear cancel from Batltimore Md.  Paid 10 cents.

This cover appears to have had a stamp on it despite the Free which appears on the cancel from Washington.  Crumpled cover.  May be Civil War useage. 

Prepared for mailing but not mailed.  Calkins, Griffin & Co's Union Business Institute-Oberlin Ohio. Shows nice graphics of a train and steam boat.

Partial cancel from Decatur with small advertising graphic which is rare to see on such an early cover This Rail-Road Bank operated from 1854-1861 in Indiana: Crawfordsville, Logansport  &Northern Indiana.

Somewhat dingy but great graphics on both sides. See scans

Stampless cover from 1841 sent to a lawyer in Urbana Ohio from the Lafayette Bank of Cincinnati Ohio.  Banking content. Tear at the middle fold about one third up.  

Three items in this lot.  See scan.  The catalog measures six and a half inches by three and a half inches with eight pages of illustrations.

Nice clear cancel on this cover to a man in Franklin Tennessee.  Torn at edge roughly.

Nice clear cancel from Bridgeport.  See scan to view the condition problems, tear and heavily stained graphics on the back.  "Swedoh Steel"

See both scans to view the graphics on the back.  Buck's Stove & Ranges.

I'm assuming that this company developed Jergens Lotion, my fave.  Two cancels, one on the front is from Cincinnati Ohio and one on the back from Sherman Texas.  Clip out of top left hand corner. Uncle Sam's Tar Soap

This 1876 advertising cover has a hand cancel from Goshen Texas, 1876. Goshen is now a ghost town." Dr Harter's Iron Tonic for general debility and female diseases." Cancel on the back from St Louis. 

Yes it says Segar.  Date is not given but a 3 cent George Washington stamp.  Nice clear cancel from Philadelphia PA.  Dingy appearance and discolored condition along the top of the flap on the back, possibly from being mounted. Right edge has been trimmed.

Unusual notice advertising "Splendid Lotteries" offered by J G Gregory from Washington D C.at different dates in December of 1843.  This is the earliest example that I have ever seen of Lotteries and this one was sent in the form of a stampless cover to S A Johnson of Mallorysville Wilkes County Ga.  Nice clear cancel from Washington City D C and written 50 for paid.  Hole where the seal was broken and also a tear through the addressed section.  The notice has been extensively repaired on the back side both with early archival tape and the latest accepted archival tape.  The old tape can be seen in the scan but my extensive repairs are too thin to the seen.  Almost all of the folds were separated.  The old archival tape, though no longer used held up and no bleed through is shown on the other side. Lotteries continued to be popular following the Civil War and I know that several prominent Confederate officers were involved in running them.  Many, if not most were proven to be corrupt and lotteries eventually became illegal as a form of gambling up until recent times when they have become popular and legal being run by the States as fund raising.

Nice graphics on both sides of this cover cancelled in 1884

Yuba County according to the pencil markings on the cover.  Somewhat dinby.

Nice graphics on this cover with a New York City cancel.  Cut at the right hand edge.  See scan

1887 faint cancel from Sioux Falls Dakota before Dakota joined the union.  Congregational Sunday School and publishing society, Rev W S Bell, Missionary.  Could be a school for native americans. Fancy cancel

Nice condition but the barest hint of a cancel on the stamp.  Someone who hopefully knows more than me has written "territorial" on the back which means it was mailed before Dakota was added to the union

Manufacturers of furniture and carpets. Newton N C cancel on the back.