Polk County, OR (35 items)

POLK COUNTY, OREGON

  35 items    $68

  Established: December 22, 1845

  County seat: Dallas

  1900 population: 9,923

• Airlie  (1882/1943) 1911 Doane 4 on post card, 1922 4-bar on stained cover
• Ballston  (1880-1953) 1950 4-bar on Postal Card
• Black Rock  (1906-1943) 1911 4-bar on post card
• Buena Vista  (1866-1935) 1909 Doane on post card, bent corner
• Dallas  1904 duplex on stamped envelope, cover reduced as opened by slicing through the postage indicia; 1920? cds on cover, “Cronise Studio” corner; 1934 machine cancel on Postal Card; 1982 machine cancel on cover
• Post cards:  Main Street 1875 [photo reproduction]; Court House [chrome]
• Falls City  1907 Doane on post card, also Dallas Rec’d strike; 1934 4-bar on Postal Card
• Grand Ronde  1963 machine cancel on cover
• Independence  1908 duplex on post card; 1912 duplex on post card; 1930 Flag cancel on post card, untied Christmas seal; 1959 machine “Oregon Centennial” slogan on fancy cacheted cover; 1976 4-bar on cover
• McCoy  (1879-1959) poor 1910 duplex on post card; 1959 4-bar on Last Day cover, PM autograph
• Monmouth  1905 duplex on cover, Lafayette Oreg Rec’d backstamp; 1917 duplex on cover with “First National Bank, Monmouth” corner; 1934 date-out duplex on Postal Card; 1942 machine cancel on Postal Card
• Post card:  “State Normal School” [1910]
• Parker  (1880-1927) 1911 4-bar on post card, real photo of 6 unidentified people
• Rickreall  1915 4-bar on post card; poor 1934 4-bar on Postal Card; 1967 4-bar on cover; 1994 4-bar on cover
• Suver  (1881-1935) 1913 Doane on post card
• Valsetz  (1920-1984) c.1950 4-bar on cover; 1956 4-bar on cover addressed to “Painless Parker, Dentist” in Salem; 1984 fancy box on cacheted Last Day cover