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Agriculture Entires/Postal Stationery
Lot No Type Description Price
1 ENT (Image) U.S.A. (1902) Corn. Oats. Bran. Hominy. Cottonseed meal. Hay. Postal card (O) with printed price list for various agricultural products on reverse. Vertical crease.
AVAILABLE AT $20
3001 ENT (Image) U.S.A. (November 4, 1898) Man with wings* holding corn cob* emitting rays of light*. Statue of Liberty*. Extraordinary used advertising cover for McFaden & Gorman in Walla Walla, Washington. The corn cob represents the lamp held by the Statue of Liberty in New York. Fantastic cover for its symbolic representation of agriculture! Exhibition item!
AVAILABLE AT $100
3002 ENT U.S.A. (1899) Timothy. Clover. Straw. Corn. Postal card (O) with printed price list for various crops of different grades. Pitt Bros & Co General Commission Merchants. Not easy to find! (Image a)
AVAILABLE AT $15
3004 ENT U.S.A. (1900) Hay. Postal card (O) with printed ad on back showing grades and prices of hay, also gives estimate of the hay crop in the US. N. A. Fuller Co, Commission Merchants. Some light toning on one edge. Hard to find! (Image a)
AVAILABLE AT $15
3005 ENT (Image) U.S.A. (ca. 1910) Plow*. Seeds. Postal card (N) with printed ad on reverse for Joesph Breck & Sons Seeds, Agricultural Warehouse, Woodenware.
AVAILABLE AT $15
3006 ENT (Image) U.S.A. (1912) Corn. Oats. Wheat. Postal card (O) with market prices printed on reverse for different types and grades of corn, wheat and oats. Interesting use of terminology, for example, "Turkey grades" of wheat. Vanderslice-Lynds Company. Hard to find!
AVAILABLE AT $15
3007 ENT (Image) U.S.A. (1912) Wheat. Corn. Oats. Barley. Rye. Postal card (O) with printed form on reverse for pricing of various types of grain. Interesting!
AVAILABLE AT $15
3009 ENT (Image) U.S.A. (1929) Sulphur pool. Postal card (O) with advertisement for Inoculated Sulphur Pool for Aroostook (Maine) Federation of Farmers. No idea what this would be used for.
AVAILABLE AT $20
9002 ENT U.S.A. (1895) Boxes of popcorn*. Clover. Timothy. Postal card (O) with detailed ad for various types of seed, peas, flax, beans, etc. Albert Dickerson Co. (Image a)
AVAILABLE AT $15
9003 ENT (Image) U.S.A. (1899) Corn. Postal card (O) with printed price quote list for different types of corn: Dry 3 High Colored, New Mixed, etc. Postal service must have been a lot faster back then because quotes are guaranteed open till 9:30 Chicago or 10:30 Toronto time.
AVAILABLE AT $12
9004 ENT (Image) U.S.A. (1931) Sacks of flaxseed*. Postal card (O) with illustrated ad for Kellogg's Pure Flaxseed.
AVAILABLE AT $12
9024 ENT INDIA (1977) Oil seed. Postal card (O) with printed advertisement on back for an oil seed merchant. Hard to find! (Image a)
AVAILABLE AT $12
12004 ENT (Image) RUSSIA (1930) Tractors plowing field*. Wheat*. Postal card (O) with illustrated advertising "Agricultural Credit Association."
AVAILABLE AT $50
12005 ENT (Image) RUSSIA (1930) Farmer holding wheat*. Postal card (O) with illustrated advertising "Fertilize using peat to improve the harvest!"
AVAILABLE AT $50
12007 ENT (Image) RUSSIA (1930) Farmers bringing grain to grain elevator*. Postal card (O) with illustrated advertising "Peasants! Bring Grain to the Collective!"
AVAILABLE AT $50
12008 ENT (Image) RUSSIA (1931) Man carrying sacks followed by huge tractor*. Postal card (O) with illustrated advertising "Successful spring sowing comes to all by means of continuous collectivization. That will be enough to eliminate the Kulaks as a class!"
AVAILABLE AT $50
12009 ENT (Image) RUSSIA (1931) Man filling out application*. Postal card (O) with illustrated advertising "Accurate and timely improved assistance for workers and peasants. Follow directions where to apply for information regarding farm and industrial problems."
AVAILABLE AT $50
12010 ENT (Image) RUSSIA (1931) Wheat*. Numeral "5"*. Recycling. Postal card (O) with illustrated advertising "Gather and collect for the State all sorts of old and useless things: books, papers and cardboard to aid in completing the Five Year Plan in four years!"
AVAILABLE AT $50
16001 ENT (Image) U.S.A. (1864) Farmland. Postal stationery envelope (N) with corner advertisement for farm land near Philadelphia. "Good loam soil, highly productive for Wheat, Corn, Grass, Fruits and Vegetables." Prices are $25 to $35 an acre. Fascinating bit of agricultural history.
AVAILABLE AT $25
16002 ENT (Image) U.S.A. (ca. 1874) Hoe. Interesting postal stationery envelope (N) with advertisement for some type of mechanical hoe, it reads: "The teeth of this machine drop in outward curves. It can be run much closer than any other, fairly hoeing any properly planted crop, and 10 acres a day," Then the ad just ends. Looks like only part of the entire ad was printed on the envelope. Perhaps there was supposed to be a picture also. Interesting!
AVAILABLE AT $15
16003 ENT (Image) U.S.A. (ca. 1880) Corn sheller*. Postal stationery envelope (N) with lovely detailed illustrated ad on reverse for Howard Gano Tiffin Corn Sheller - "Separate the Corn from the Cob - A Right Hand Sheller."
AVAILABLE AT $70
16004 ENT (Image) QUEENSLAND (1898) Wheat*. One penny postal card (N) with sepia illustration of wheat stripping. Not easy to find!
AVAILABLE AT $30
16006 ENT (Image) U.S.A. (1935) Plow*. Seeder*. Sled*. Postal card with illustrated ad printed on back for agricultural implements. Scarce!
AVAILABLE AT $25

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