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El Dorado Hills Gold Rush Paper Show TBA Summer 2021
Holiday Inn Express Hotel HWY 50 Exit 30A Latrobe Road
4360 Town Center Blvd (Enter at Post St) El Dorado Hills CA 95762
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Saturday 10:00 am-6:00 pm
Sunday 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair March 27 2021
Scottish Rite Temple
6151 H Street Sacramento CA 95819
Mark Baker,Buying Stamp Collections ,Covers & Post Cards,Photo Albums
(Office Phone 530-417-1117)
Saturday 10am-5pm
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Our newest featured items
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1854 Spanish Flat Cal Manuscript 1 Page Letter Date Lined American Flat Adams Co Check Sent
Enclosed date of Nov. 10th, manuscript cancel dated Nov. 14 (ELD-3770) Letter to Father signed by John E. Jordon
id #5096 |
$300 |
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1914 Hong Kong China Letters 49 Years a Cook for W.T Ellis Family Marysville Yuba County
1914 Marysville CA Hong Kong China Letters 49 Years a Cook for W.T Ellis Family Yuba County Mount photo of Yuen Yeck Bow (better known as Jack Ellis) Cook for W.T. Ellis Sr. for Forty-nine years. manuscript in pencil at back of mount Yuen Yeck Bow (Jack Ellis) Sailed for Home June 12th 1913. 3 letters after going back home to China to Ellis Jr.. Two Decker Jewett Marysville Exchange for money sent to Jack. From 1864 until the end of Ellis life, the employed a Chinese cook Yuen Yeck Bow,Cook and Family manager for the banker John J. Jewett and before that injured in The Sierra Mountain during the construction of The Central Pacific Railroad. Jack Ellis worked from 1864 to 1913 for the Ellis Family,In 1913 W.T. Ellis Sr passed away and Yuen Yeck Bow took leave of the family and returned to China. He lived both in Hong Kong and Kungyifow and the province of Goungdong. While there he wrote letters back including news about Yuen and His Family and also request for money. The larger photo of Jack with Gold Watch of W.T. Ellis SR. given to Jack before return to China, also a photo from Jack in Feb. 1915 in China. More to this story is written in Book Memories,My SeventyTwo Years in the Romantic County of Yuba by W.T. Ellis, Printed by J. H. Nash, 1939. id #5031 |
$2500 |