Auction Summary, August 11, 2025

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York will present an unreserved one owner collection with absentee, phone and online bidding through Liveauctioneers.com on Monday August 11th at 5:00 PM EST.  Previews are by appointment only beginning 7/28. The sale features one man's lifelong interest in American postal history, stamped and unstamped historical letters, rare postmarks, hotel postmarks, Civil War; Union and Confederate covers, stamps and postmarks, some colonial currency, CDV and cabinet cards and other interesting material. 

A few examples of dated letters' authors include Peter Gansevoort 1818, Jared Sparks 1822, John Rogers 1878, James Turner 1836, Mathew Livingston Davis, Willian Hendricks 1820, Abraham Oakey Hall 1895, Thaddeus Stevens 1842, Charles Augustus Dewey 1846, James Guthrie 1855, Franz Lehar, Andrew Beaumont, Jacob Meyerbeer 1859 and many others. Two lots of particular interest are a group of three ca.1780 Erasmus Hall Library bookplates and a lot of two early bookplates from the New York Society Library. This auction is the first of several sales of like material from the same collection.

 Plan to preview or view the sale online. Images and listings as well as bidding links for all items are available on our website. The gallery is open for payments and pickup Tuesday 8/12 from 10am to 3pm and daily that week 9-3:30. Weekend pick up appointments can be arranged for limited pickups if invoices are prepaid. All shipping is by third party vendors only. Auction terms, links to online bidding and other info available at our interactive website www.HudsonValleyAuctioneers.com or contact sales manager Theo de Haas 845 480 2381 or auctioneer Neil Vaughn 914 489 2399