{"id":40,"date":"2007-07-08T00:13:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T07:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/08\/newsletter-%c2%b7-volume-21-ebay-auctions\/"},"modified":"2007-07-08T00:13:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T07:13:01","slug":"newsletter-%c2%b7-volume-21-ebay-auctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/08\/newsletter-%c2%b7-volume-21-ebay-auctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter \u00c2\u00b7 Volume 21: eBay Auctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

A printed postcard of the cross country Walking Woolfs arriving in New York City brought $50.89:
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\n as did another of their meeting with Chief Whitehorse in OK:
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A 1926 photo archive of the building of the Carquinez bridge closed at $276.89:
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A 16′ neon cowboy sign from the Western Bar and Grill from North Platte, NE brought $2,550:
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A 1920 Lincoln Highway Association membership package with a card and Picture of Progress booklet, as excessed by the Library of Congress brought $78.60:
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A nice shield-shaped embossed steel US 31 highway sign attracted 16 bids and closed at $828.81:
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A map card of the Victory highway from Kansas City to Manhattan, KS closed at $54.99:
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A Michigan US 12 shield-shaped highway sign was popular with 13 bids, and closed at $565.83:
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I purchased what was advertised as a 1914 Lincoln Highway Association brochure for $30.70. It turned out to be the cover for a map, but without the map. Oh well……
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A copy of National Old Trails Road: The Great Historic Highway of America by Judge J.M. Lowe, 1925, National Old Trails Association, and signed by Harry Truman, only attracted one bid but sold at $625:
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A ’60s era pamphlet on the history of the Nut Tree Restaurant in Vacaville, CA surprisingly brought 16 bids and closed at $47.87:
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A shield-shaped US 50 City Route yellow porcelain sign with a lot of chipping closed at $255:
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A scarce printed postcard of the Lincoln Diner on SR 25 and US 1 in New Brunswick, NJ closed at $106:
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A very scarce printed postcard of the Lincoln Hotel west of Bedford, PA brought $56.99:
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A nice printed black and white postcard of Lincolnway looking east in McConnelsburg, PA brought $33.99:
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A 1915 real photo postcard of a brick plant in Wooster, OH closed at $73.57:
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This lot consisted of a label from a box of Lincoln Highway matches, and from a case of boxes, from Sweden!
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A color printed postcard of the Victoria Hotel from Chicago Heights, IL closed at $36.53:
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A very nice condition Texaco folded road map of the Lincoln Highway brought $95.55:
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Another one of those Lincoln Highway Garage signs from Rawlins which regularly, and suspiciously, show up every few months closed at $142.50:
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A 1925 set of 66 map cards of the National Old Trails Road from the Southern California Auto Clubbrought $381.76:
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The ever-popular Staffordshire color souvenir plate from the Grand View Ship Hotel closed at $100.99:
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A ’30s Powerine road map of Colorado and Denver attracted a lot of interest, and brought $131.39:
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A souvenir folder of the Story Book Forest on the Lincoln Highway in Ligonier, PA brought $23.50:
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A vintage porcelain highway sign of the National Old Trails Road Association closed at $1,834.99:
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A Bill’s Place – Lincoln Highway souvenir pillow case from PA brought $31.30:
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An unusual black and white highway sign for US 99 with reflector marbles closed at $710:
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A 1926 Field & Stream Camper on Tour road map closed at $57.78:
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A Motor Camper and Tourist magazine from 1924 was popular and closed at $82.99
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\n another one from 1925 closed at $32.96:
\n http:\/\/xrl.us\/2tzt<\/a><\/p>\n

A real photo postcard of Minick’s Place, Top of Bald Knob Mt., 20 Miles West of Bedford, PA brought $103.50:
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A printed postcard of the cross country Walking Woolfs arriving in New York City brought $50.89: http:\/\/xrl.us\/2tw2 as did another…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebay","post-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}