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Browse & Pre-Bid NowFor decades, the mail that came to one 19th-century merchant in Newburgh, Maine never got thrown away. Letters, billheads, advertising circulars, and postmarked covers from druggists, sword makers, seed dealers, and pension agents piled up and survived — still together after more than a century. The Maine ephemera begins at lot 675, alongside hundreds of antique and vintage postcards. It's a rare, intact window into everyday business life in 1800s Maine — and it's live now.
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Coastal Village Watercolor by Evelyn Montague Bicknell, American (1857–1936)
The Incredible Hulk #157 — CGC 9.8 White Pages, Highest Existing CGC Grade
Robert Berks (1922–2011) — John F. Kennedy Bust, Kennedy Center, Signed Print
HENLITHCO Christmas Postcard — Snowman with Rifle and Deer, Snowy Winter Landscape
Laguna Beach, California — Original Black-and-White Snapshot, July 1946
1956 Pontiac Star Chief Sedan — Original Auto Advertising Postcard (Two-Tone)
“Listening In” by Albert Bye — Wireless Radio Postcard, C.W. Faulkner London, 1924
Czechoslovak Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair — Tichnor Brothers Lithograph
Montague River Town, Prince Edward Island — W. Cumming Photo Postcard, c.1910s
Wreck of the Steamer Turrett Bell, St. Peters Bay PEI — King Edward VII Era
Maple Sugar Camp, Andover Vermont — S. Langsdorf Color Postcard (Made in Germany)
Church of Penitentes, Dolores Hidalgo Mexico — Real Photo Postcard
“Coming Home by Rail” — T.H.E.L. Theochrom Postcard, Plymouth MA, 1909
Congress Avenue, Austin Texas — Linen Postcard with WWII Military Postmark, 1942
“This Town of Onset Mass. is Some Speed Town” — Humorous Auto Postcard, 1910
Ladd Observatory at Brown University, Providence RI — Hugh C. Leighton Postcard, 1908
Hotel Huntington, Long Island — Real Photo Postcard, 1930
Roman Catholic Church, Blackrock Ireland — F. von Bardeleben Postcard, Undivided Back
Steamer Chateaugay on Lake Champlain — Hugh C. Leighton Postcard, 1907
The Boulevard at K.P.S.H., Plymouth Massachusetts — Lithograph Postcard, 1910
Admiral Dewey at Manila Bay — Patriotic Spanish-American War Postcard with Verse
Lake Louise Hotel, Alberta — Canadian Pacific Railway Color Postcard
Christmas Postcard — Children on Horseback in Winter Landscape, 1916
Dublin Castle Courtyard with Bedford Tower — F. von Bardeleben Postcard
Palace Electric Theatre, Charleroi PA Street Scene — Hugh C. Leighton, 1909
Woman Posed with Plymouth Valiant — Original Snapshot, Early 1960s
“We Are Five” — Five Kittens Real Photo Postcard by Raphael Tuck, Landor’s Cat Studies (Series 5093)
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