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1850s Mariposa City California Gold Rush Street Scene Illustrated Lettersheet Published by Quirot
and Company (Baird 151) measures 8 X 10 5/8 inches, with printers imprint trimmed away at lower. Per Peters California on Stone pp. 132-138 this imprint being between 1851-1852 a rare engraved illustration of Mariposa City.
id #7239
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$1100
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March 26 1850 Culloma Alta CA 40 Rate Cover 2 PG Letter GOLD Discovery Place called Sutters MIll
(ELD-400) red double-ring datestamp with magenta manuscript date and red 40 handstamped rating on 1850 cover to Boston Mass. Cover with original miners enclosure included describing the town of Culloma and mining in the area, We started up on the fifth of February and stopped at Weavers Creek three weeks where we made expenses in the intervals of fair weather, but the constant rains swelled the Creek and drove us out, which induced us to come up here - This is the place where the gold was first discovered, formerly called Sutters Mills, it is a place of some five hundred inhabitants and is the general depot for the supply of the adjacent mining region, we intent to strike tent and leave for better diggings.
id #7238
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$2900
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James W Marshall Coloma Gold Discovery Site Sutters Account Gold Rush Illustrated Letter Sheet
James W Marshall Coloma Gold Discovery Site Printer Britton & Rey Letter Sheet with Outer sheet only, No Letter addressed to Mrs. Fanny Leonard Foxboro Mass. crease folds, Captain Sutters account of the discovery of gold, with portrait of James Wilson Marshall, and picture of Sutters Mill printed in 1854. History: Letter sheet tells John Sutters version of how gold was discovered in 1848. He was at home resting, he says, when James Marshall, who had just left two days earlier to repair the sawmill Sutter owned on the American River, returned with gold samples that had been found in the stream below the mill. The two men returned to the site and discovered gold nuggets up to an ounce and half, both above and below the mill. Unhappily for Sutter and Marshall, they could not keep their find a secret. By the end of 1848, the news had flashed around the world, and the Gold Rush was in full swing.
id #7237
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$3000
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Nevada City Oct 25, 1850 At the Eureka Cabin 6 Page Folded Letter Forwarded by Bowers Express
(Thomas BOW-100) letter entered the mails with blurry black cds San Francisco Cal. Oct 40 integral rate datestamp with handstamp PAID and manuscript 40 rate marking to New Hampshire. Part letter read - woke up to find ourselves sailing up the beautiful Sacramento River. we engaged a four mule team to take us up to Nevada City, and about sunset we left Sacramento City with our blankets, and our carpet bags (one each) for Nevada. At night we encamped near the Indian Spring. The next morning we passed through Rough and Ready where we had our first glimpse at the elephant in the shape of gold digging and washing in the ravines near the town. At Nevada city, we were astonished at the intent of the mining operations. We visited the cayote works and found that some of the shafts had been sunk more than sixty feet. They are called cayote holes, from the fact that the cayotes (the prairie wolves) dig their holes in a similar manner, for winter lodgings. letter with a lot more detail on the trip, the mining activities etc.
id #7236
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$1500
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March 14 1850 Steam Ship 30 to Cedar Swamp New York Gold Rush Seekers Letter
letter reads in part, The mail leaves in about an hour and as there will be no opportunity of sending a letter for about a month I embrace the opportunity to inform thee of my arrival here. We arrived at Chagres on first day last and that afternoon started in our canoes for Gorgora. It took us about two days and a pleasanter time I never had…The first night we stopped about 12 miles from Chagres at an Indian Town wrapped ourselves in our cloaks and slept on our baggage in the canoe People may talk about the Chagres never being unhealthy but with common prudence (It is as healthy at least at present as any other place) we walked from Gorgona here yesterday (about 30 miles) with the thermometer at about 90 and over one of the hardest roads in the world. There are about 1500 Americans with tickets purchased before they came for steamers that have not yet arrived, and have been here from two weeks to two months…I think I shall take the Bark John B. Gardner. L. Frost
id #7235
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$875
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1850s Murphys Calaveras Paid 12 Oval Illustrated Miners Mining Scene by J.M Hutchings Cover
to North Attleboro Mass. Mining Scene depicting Miner Panning for Gold with Long Tom in the background. Anthony & Baker SC engravers imprint at bottom of design. addressed to Mr. Stephen Clarke North Attleboro Massachusetts , some wear and minor faults.
id #7234
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$750
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1850s Goodyears Bar California Grizley Bear Embossed Cameo Illustrated Gold Rush Cover
addressed to Alex Willard Esq. Sacramento ,Cameo titled The Grizley. Embossed red cameo design on cover franked with 1851 3 cent dull red with pen cancels, postmarked red Goodyears Bar, Cal, Feb 6 cds addressed to Sacramento, minor deterioration at upper left and reduced at right, This is the only known example, this cover is illustrated in Coburns Letters of Gold (page 232). The grizzly bear is the official California state animal and is featured on the California State Flag, which was adopted in 1911. The grizzly bear first appeared on the banner raised over Sonoma during the Bear Flag Revolt against Mexican rule in June of 1846
id #7233
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$2750
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Miners Illustrated Embossed Cameo Fragment of Envelope Corner Card
measures 2 X 2 2/3 inches. A rather large cameo design.
id #7232
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$250
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1850s Grass Valley Nevada Co 10 Stampless JM Hutchings Miners Express Letters from Home Cover
Oct 14, cds Williams (NEV-630) Illustrated Expressman on Horseback Delivering Letters From Home To News-Starved Miners. Artist Anthony and Baker. Back flap stain spots.
id #7231
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$2000
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1861 Pony Express East to West Frank St Joseph to Placerville addressed Sacramento
re-backed creased front as visible at vertical. line at left near Frank. addressed to John Smith Esq. Sacramento City Cal. , this item appears to be a remainder with manuscript lines at red frank and 10c green Pumpkin Frank No. U41. This is a type 2 frank that were made for Eastern Express to go west. Twenty Two used examples are known, government contract set to go into effect July 1 1861. Wells Fargo order from Nesbitt and Co. New York , the earliest reference from Wells Fargo advertising the franks for sale at their office was August 1861 , and the Earliest recorded type 2 date used is Aug. 14 1861, latest date is Oct. 26 1861 to San Francisco.
id #7230
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$1750
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