1800s Maine Merchant Ephemera and Postcards

Step Back in Time: One 19th-Century Maine Merchant's Ephemera, Plus a Large Postcard Selection Something special for collectors of ephemera, postal history, advertising, and Americana. Hundreds of lots, with more being added. At its heart is an extensive group of original ephemera that all belonged to a single 19th-century Maine merchant and his family in Newburgh, Maine which starts with lot 675 and runs to lot 750. Spanning the late 1800s into the early 1900s, it reads like the contents of one businessman's desk: letters and business correspondence, billheads and invoices, advertising circulars and trade cards, stamped and postmarked covers,...