Berks County, PA (78 items)

BERKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
  78 items       $198
  Established: October 14, 1751
  County seat: Reading
  1900 population: 159,615

• Bally  1945 duplex on Postal Card.  
• Post card: Main Street B&W, c.1930)
• Barto  1910  4-bar in purple on post card
• Bechtelsville  1945 duplex on Postal Card; 1972 4-bar on cover
• Berne  (1878-1954) 1954 4-bar on LD Postal Card, crease
• Bernville  1908 4-bar on post card
• Bethel  Poor 1940 4-bar on Postal Card.  
• Post card: A.A. Modern Court [chrome]
• Birdsboro  c.1870 cds on cover, small tear, includes original letter; 1948 machine cancel on Postal card
• Blandon  1908 cds on post card
• Bowers  1972 4-bar on cover
• Centerport  c.1910 4-bar on post card, stamp removed
• Douglassville  1937 duplex on Postal Card.  
• Post card: Merritt Museum interior (chrome)
• Esterly  (1894-1954) 1907 cds on post card; 1954 duplex on LD Postal Card
• Fleetwood  1972 machine cancel on cover.  
• Post card:  St. Paul’s Union Church (B&W)
• Gouglersville  (1855-1953) 1953 4-bar on cacheted LD cover, PM autograph
• Hamburg   Post cards:  “Balthaser Store” c.1930]; “Blue Mountain & Reading Railroad - Temple Station” [chrome]; State Sanatorium New East Wing [c.1930]
• Joanna  1964 4-bar on LD 3x5 card
• Kempton  Post card:  “Festival Time in Hex Sign Country” [chrome]
• Kutztown  1955 machine cancel on post card: “Main Building, State Teachers College” [B&W]. 
• Post card: Crystal Cave [chrome]
• Lenhartsville  Post card:  “Covered Bridge.... at Dreibelbis Station” [chrome]
• Lorane  Post card: “Home of Mordecai Lincoln, Great Grandfather of President...” [c.1910]
• Lyon Station  1970 4-bar on cover
• Maiden Creek  (1825-1956) 1956 4-bar on LD Postal Card
• Mohnton 1908 4-bar on post card; 1970 machine cancel on cover
• Mohrsville  1970 4-bar on cover
• Morgantown  1949 4-bar on post card.  
• Post card: Heritage Restaurant & Musket Lounge
• Mt. Penn 1953 wavy roller on FD Postal Card.  
• Post card: “Pagoda on Mt. Penn [white border, 1941]
• New Bloomfield 1908 duplex on post card
• Reading 1911 machine cancel on cover, “R’ in lines; 1913 machine cancel on cover, “T” in lines; no-date-in-dial machine cancel on cover, corner “Reading Iron Company”; 1964 machine slogan “National Children’s Dental Health Week” on cover; 1970 machine cancel on cover; 1970 machine slogan “Hire the Handicapped” on cover; 1971 machine cancel on cover.  
• Post cards: Public Library (c.1930); Boys’ High School (1908); “Father Borneman Parochial School” [linen]; “Senior High School [B&W, c.1950]; “Museum & Art Gallery” [2 cards, one linen]; Pagoda, Mt. Penn (c.19100 “Spring House, City Park” [c.1910]; “First Defender Monument” (1940; “Band Shell in City Park” [white border, c.1945]; “Mineral Springs Hotel” [1910]; Horse Shoe Curve (c.1910);; “Birthplace of Daniel Boone” [linen, 1941]
• Reinertown  1962 duplex on LD 3x5 card
• Robesonia  Post card: “Bird’s Eye View” (B&W]
• Scarlett’s Mill  (1859-1894) 1870s cds & target killer on cover
• Shartlesville 1960 4-bar on post card
• Post card: Shartlesville Hotel [chrome]
• Shoemakersville 1906 Rec’d strike on post card from Reading
• Sinking Spring (1827-1960) 1949 machine cancel on cover; 1960 duplex on LD cover, PM autograph
• Spangsville (1851-1955) 4-bar on LD Postal Card, slightly off top
• Stony Creek Mills (1879-1953) duplex on LD Postal Card
• Virginville 1939 4-bar on cover; undated ms RFD marking on post card
• Walters Park (1885-1919) 1902 cds on fine cover with “The Walter Sanitarium” fancy corner
• Wernersville Sunset Hall Music Room [B&W]
• West Leesport (1872-1958) 1922 4-bar on post card; 1958 duplex on Postal Card
• Wyomissing 1913 duplex on post card; 1940 machine cancel on cover.
• Post card:  “Hex Signs for Sale” [in Berks Co.]  [chrome]