La Posta E-Books!
La Posta Publications offers
a whole series of books, monographs and data bases on CD-ROM.
This exciting new publication format permits postal history
works to be offered with full-color illustrations and the capabilities of sorting and
searching data bases.
Each CD E-book
is priced at $17.50 postpaid woldwide.
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Ready For Shipping:
United States Post
Offices Volume 8 The Southeast (AL, FL, GA & SC)
Volume 8
contains the complete
introductory text & alphabetical listing published in the
printed format as a PDF file readable in Adobe
Acrobat Reader© along with complete Southeast
post office data base in MS EXCEL© and full color detailed maps of
Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina from 1903.
This work contains the first complete published listing of the post offices of Alabama
and Georgia. Price: $17.50 postpaid
The following titles are
still available and ready for
shipping:
1) Early Air Mail & Aviation in
Southern California by Don Evans. This groundbreaking survey of the history of early
air mail in Southern Califiornia from 1910 to the onset of World War II was originally
published in La Posta: A Journal of American Postal History in serial format. The
copiously illustrated work has been updated and reorganized as the first in our new series
of Electronic Monographs, and the images for which color was available are reproduced here
in beautiful full-color figures. This will make a very worthwhile addition to the library
of any collector interested in the history of early air mail or the broader postal history
of Southern California. The text is reproduced in pdf format and the disc includes a copy
of Adobe Acrobat Reader©......... $17.50 postpaid
 2) Oregon Historic Images contains 111 high resolution
(400dpi) tiff images of real photo postcards dating from 1910 through the 1940s from the
State of Oregon. These represent the cream of a collection assembled over a period of two
decades by Richard Helbock and feature numerous classic small town street scenes; early
20th century transportation including river steamers, stage coaches, and horse drawn
wagons; and classic post offices. The collection is heavily weighted toward views from the
Oregon coast from Astoria to Brookings. All images are available at 400dpi and should be
suitable for making 8x10-inch
prints...................................................$19.95 postpaid
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9) United States Post Offices, Volumes 1- 7 in
SEARCHABLE & SORTABLE database format. Volume 1 - The West; Volume 2- The
Great Plains; Volume 3-The Upper Midwest; Volume 4-The Northeast;
olume 5-The Ohio Valley; Volume 6 - The Mid-Atlantic and Volume 7 - The Lower Mississippi Valley are ready for immediate shipment. Each disc contains the introductory text in pdf format from the printed version along with complete post office data bases in both MS EXCEL© and tab delimited text formats. In addition, The
West includes full size Postal Route Maps of California, Arizona, Idaho, Montana
& Wyoming in 1884; Oregon & Washington in 1883; New Mexico in 1907, and Alaska in
1903. The Great Plains, Upper Midwest, Northeast & Ohio Valley states as well as,
Nevada, Utah and Colorado are represented by full color detailed maps of
1903............................$17.50 each
postpaid
9) US Doanes, 2nd Edition, with full-color illustrations in pdf format and US Doane data bases in both MS EXCEL© and tab delimited text formats. The sortable, searchable data bases will allow collectors the ability to customize their Doane listings in a variety of ways and conduct searches to permit identifying partial or hard-to-read cancels..............................$17.50
postpaid
11) Montana Territorial
Postmarks, Wes Shellen & Francis Dunn, the complete alphabetical listing of all
recorded postmarks of Montana in the territorial era in an interactive format with
dozens of full color cover illustrations. Interactive features include "hot key"
links from hundreds of post offices to their locations on the Montana Postal Route Map
of 1883-84 and their listing of businesses and residents in McKenney’s
Directory of 1883-84...........$17.50
postpaid
 12)
Oregon Frontier Cavalryman, The Lt. William Carey Brown
Correspondence from Fort Klamath, Oregon, 1878-1880. This remarkable series of letters from a young West Point graduate to his family in Denver describes in great detail his observations while engaged in pursuit of Indians in eastern Oregon, the tedius
barracks life in Fort Klamath, and journeys north to Fort
Vancouver and the Umatilla Indian Reservation and south to
Captain Jacks Lava Bed stronghold in northern
California.........$17.50 postpaid.
Washington Territorial Postmarks
By Richard A. Long.
A Reprint of his 1990-1995
Articles in La Posta.
With the kind permission of author Richard A. Long, we are pleased to
announce the addition of a reprint of his ground-breaking catalogue and
inventory of Washington Territorial Postmarks. This series was originally
published in La Posta between 1990 and 1995,and, although all the counties of
the Territory were not completed, it remains the seminal work on the subject of
Washington Territorial Postmarks to date. We are pleased to add it to our stock
of La Posta E-books. The catalogue has been augmented with full-color
illustrations of territorial covers from the Lane Woodard Collection...........
$17,50 postpaid
Postmarks on Postcards, Revised 2nd
Edition
An
Illustrated Guide to Early 20th Century US Postmarks
By Richard W. Helbock
This 290-page generously illustrated
handbook (many in full color) is designed to provide both an introduction to all
US postmarks of the 1900-1920 era and a reference for anyone wishing to learn
more about postmarks and postmark collecting. The book has been two sections:
the first explores all US postmark types found on cards and covers of the
Postcard era; and the second provides details of the ways in which US postmarks
are collected.
Part I consists of ten chapters
featuring Doane cancels; Manuscript & Straight-line markings; Anachronisms &
Mimics; and Machine Cancels just to name a few. Each subject is carefully
explained and well illustrated, and the discussion includes comments on the
market value for each postmark type. The chapter on Machine Cancels includes a
simple technique that enables the reader to make a rapid identification of the
manufacturer of nearly all machine cancels of the 1900-1920 period. Each chapter
concludes with an up-to-date list of references that can lead the reader to more
detailed information.
Part II discusses the major ways in
which US postmarks are collected. The six chapters in this section include
collecting by Geographic Regions, Rural Free Delivery, Railway Post Offices,
Naval & Military Specialties and an entirely new chapter on Collecting Ancillary
& Auxiliary Markings. Each chapter contains information on collector
organizations and references, as well as lots of illustrations and a basic
introduction to the specialty.
The book wraps up with a Glossary of
Postal History Terms; four Appendices providing specific data on the subjects of
US Doane cancels and Military & Naval postal history; and an Index.
In addition, this CD-ROM version has
been enhanced with a gallery of nearly 1,000 full-color illustrations of the
various sorts of early 20th century postmarks described in the text
Chapter Outline
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Chapter 1Introduction
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Chapter 2 Handstamps
Versus Machine Postmarks
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Chapter 3 Circular Date
Stams & Associated Cancels
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Chapter 4 Doane
Handstamps
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Chapter 5 Four-bar
Handstamps
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Chapter 6 Metal Duplex
Handstamps
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Chapter 7 Manuscript &
Straight-line Postmarks
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Chapter 8 Anachronisms
& Mimics
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Chapter 9 Misuse of
Special Purpose Handstamps
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Chapter 10 Machine
Cancellations
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Chapter 11 Collecting
by Geographic Regions
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Chapter 12 Collecting
Rural Free Delivery Markings
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Chapter 13 Collecting
Railway Post Office Markings
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Chapter 14 Collecting
Naval & Military Postmarks
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Chapter 15 Collecting
Ancillary & Auxiliary Markings
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Chapter 16 Collecting
Other US Postmark Specialties
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A.
Air Mail
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B.
Fair & Exposition
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C.
US Possessions
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D.
Other Possibilities
La Posta Subscribers’ Auctions
#53-72 Prices Realized
This CD-ROM contains the results of twenty La Posta Subscribers’
Auction conducted between 1996 and 2004. An aggregate
of nearly 14,000 individual lots of United States postal history
were offered in these sales and approximately 70% of these lots were
purchased by La Posta subscribers. The prices realized
by these lots represents a powerful research tool for anyone
seeking to better understand the market for U.S. postal history.
The data contained herein includes original lot descriptions,
estimates of value and the actual prices realized.
Some 1,600 of the lots are illustrated--most by full-color scanned images.
Data is available in both HTML and MS Excel format.
Other titles coming very soon include:
Prexie Postal History, 2nd Edition
US Army World War II Censor Markings
of 1942;
Postmarks of Territorial Alaska, Vol.
4; and many others.
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