August 2018 Auction

1 broken slide is of Hotels & mountains in Nevada; 3 slides, 1) "Social Life in the Occident"; "Out West"; & "What ...

Framed panorama color photo of Mt. Shasta. Possible chromolitho. 9.5" x 29". Date: City: State: California HWAC# 76835

Lot of 8. Included: RPPC of Washington Hotel in Monterey; c.1906 stereoview of SF Earthquake camp in Jefferson Square; 1877 receipt from the tax colle

Sun-kissed Grower sign. Gray back, stamped: Property of California Fruit Growers Exchange on bottom of back. Possibly unused near mint condition, 19.5

Lot of 3 pairs. 1) 187- , Martinez, CA, to Judge John Henry in San Francisco: Nothing recorded since October fourth." 2) 1875, Woodland, CA to ...

1) Auction! Every Friday. Park Auction Yard, Mrs. Gilbert. 1/4 mile North of Roeding Park on 99 Highway. (This would place this in Fresno). No date. 8

Two milk cans. One can is 24" tall and 13" diameter embossed on the side CG REG. CAL. 3" brass oval tag on shoulder, Empty / Golden S...

Lot of 10. All but one by the Automobile Club of Southern California. Maps include: San Luis Obispo County, 1928 Oroville, Riverside County, Kern Coun

Lot of 8. Seven are fraternal calling cards for California members of the Knights Templar in Sacramento, Placerville, Stockton, Vallejo, and San Franc

US comics. Large folio, 20 x 24", of comics from American newspapers, all in color. Includes: Danny Dreamer Lovers, Model Ministers, Easy Life...

Rare RPC of Broadmoor Hotel mirrored in the Lake. Beautiful card. (Prag Collection) Date: 1923 City: Colorado Springs State: Colorado HWAC# 76948

4 pins 1)40th Annual Session Grand Lodge I.O.O.F., Cripple Creek Col. October 1910; pin from 1901; 20th Annual Session Rebekah Assembly I.O.O.F. Date

Societa Italiana De Mutuo Soccorso Umberto, 1, Rockvale, Col. Has color of Italian flag on back of ribbon. Unknown date. Date: City: Rockvale Stat

White metal, blue lettering, 1 3/4 x 2 inches. "Deputy / Sheriff / Vanderburgh Co. / 98." Evansville Indiana is in Vanderburgh County. ...

Lot of 2. At least one is identified as Colorado; the other may also be Colorado. 1) Shows a farm/ranch scene in front of a lake. At the bottom is wri

Lot of 3. 1) Topographical Map of Mineral Belt of Gilpin County and Official Information as to the Mineral Industry of the County. 24 x 19" c.1...

Nicely framed and matted 1861 Mitchell single truck map of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. Page 43. Map 12" x 14.5", frame 17.75" x 22...

Probably Colorado but not identified. No photographer. Not mailed. Medium contrast and detail. Date: City: State: Colorado HWAC# 77317

Pamphlet from Tabor Luck with ink writing on front, William Gilpin-Pioneer by Carr, Biographical sketch of Rollin Q Tenney, The Opinions of the Judge

Andrew Adams document has date of 1777, has list of names, dates & numbers. Very delicate condition, please inspect. Andrew Adams was a colonel ...

Revolutionary War Era Letter with the names of Capt. Benjamin Still of Woodbury, Connecticut, & David Boland. Captain Hinman is part of the cons...

Lot of 4. 1) Two cabinet cards that appear to be of Native Americans (not in traditional clothing). One is by RL Kelly of Pierre, Dakota and the other

The Wolsey post office was established December 31, 1883. This legal sized cover was postmarked September 15, 1886. There is a corner advertising circ

U.S. Department of State official copy of the "Joint Resolution Proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the right of suffrage to w...

Roose's Companion and Guide to Washington and Vicinity. Cheap Edition. Gibson Bothers, Printers. 64pp with descriptions of many tourist attracti...

Lot of 5. All pictorial. Included: 1856 Cumberland Coal & Iron Company, Port of Baltimore; 1856 Port of Providence to New York; 1859 riding in t...

Pay to bearer ONE DOLLAR in yarn. Unsigned. Note foxing and vertical creases. Date: c. 1840's City: State: Georgia HWAC# 76513

Lot of 19. 1) Set of twelve c.1945-50 photos of the same woman slowly undressing to full nude state. 5 x 4" 2) Seven other vintage tropical nud...

This saloon billhead is datelined Silver City, Idaho February 21, 1899. Signed by Dan McHenry, James McHenry and Thomas Hamilton. They propose to run

Lot of three stage way-bills, two different companies. 1) Two way-bills for the Malheur Stage Company, operating between Baker City and Malheur. Way-b

United States Inspectors Certificate to Engineers certifying that James W. Mitchell has been reviewed by steamboat inspectors of Chicago, Illinois and

Interesting piece of advertising! This is a group of ad cards encased in a circular holder meant to resemble a medal. Inside are 7 paper ad cards that

Al's Automotive Repair / Jasper Engine and Transmission Company / Re-Made in the USA / Three-year Hundred Thousand Mile Nationwide Warranty. Or...

Lot of 6. 1) Best piece is an 1853 Military Bounty Land Warrant issued in Fort Des Moines. 2) Five City of Indianapolis Treasurer's Office recei...

1 Key Fob reads "Lawrence/House/23/Dodge City, Kansas" Good condition. Date: c. 1900-1910 City: Dodge City State: Kansas HWAC# 77923

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Lot of 3. 1) Camptonville, July 20th 1886. 10 pages.Handwriting is a little difficult to read. Camptonville was a Gold Rush town in Yuba County. 2) T

Lot of 37. Most if not all is addressed to Wiseman & Waters in Golconda, Illinois (on the Kentucky/Illinois border). Earliest pieces are 1859. L...

Pictorial receipt for bales of cotton stored on Steamboat Cain(?) at the port of Frenchport and bound for New Orleans. Dated April 6th, 1848. 5.5 x 10

Small, mounted hand-colored photograph identified on the reverse. Photo is 1.75 x 2.75" on 5 x 7" mount. Dated on the reverse as Summer 19...

25 and 50 cents, pay to bearer, 1862. Signed in red by AM Hartwell. Both have creases. Date: 1862 City: Oldtown State: Maine HWAC# 76510

Lot of 9. 1) Boston and Bangor Steamship Company. Three pictorial receipts dated 1900 for packages destined for Rockland from Boston. 2) Yarmouth Ste

Dateline Salem, Sept. 16th, 1800. Early 2pp. letter sent from a sister to her brother Benjamin Peirce at Harvard University. She relates general news

Lot of 2. 1) Program for a concert to be held January 21st, 1873 at the Presbyterian Meeting House in New York where they will sing "Sacred Hym...

Lot of 5 different large format trade cards. One side features Victorian color illustrations of women and children. The other advertises a specific Ga

"An Ideal Place for a Summer Vacation. The Place to Own a Summer Home." Copyright 1904 by C.E. Cleveland. 63 pp. with many black and white...

"First Petit Jurors and Court Officials, December Term of Court held in new Court House, Fergus Falls, Otter Trail County, Minn., 1922." A...

I/U #44 Marion ray 625 shares 1895. Eagle, and 2 nice miner vignettes. Signed by president Robert Ray. Date: 1895 City: State: Minnesota HWAC# 7

Framed b/w photo of 2 men, a woman, 2 dogs and 2 girls. The girls on on a rocking horse and a pull along wagon. Photo approx 4.25" x 7, frame 7...

"Shelley Tuttle began a Butte foundry and machine shop business in 1881. By 1890, the expanded Tuttle Manufacturing & Supply Company had a ...

Shows a very rustic camp with wood structures and horses. Titled "Views of Diamond City--Confederate Gulch." No photographer listed. Contr...

All are for goods purchased by fellow post traders JH McKnight & Co. of Fort Shaw, Montana. All have Fort Benton, Montana Territory datelines. 1...

Lot of 6. The First National Bank of Helena, Montana, was organized by Samuel T. Hauser and TH Kleinschmidt in 1866. The bank erected its own building

Lot of 2. Both are RN-G revenue imprinted with a vignette of an allegorical woman at left. Both are First of Exchanges issued in 1881 in Helena to Chi

War Department, United States Telegraph message sent by TC Power, Helena, Montana to JH McKnight at Fort Shaw in 1886. Message is regarding rate for s

Western Union Telegraph Co. sent from Helena, Feb. 5, 1876 to Fort Shaw. Message is instructions for payment and someone arriving to buy horses. Signe

Lot of 3. All are manuscript Certificates of Deposit at the First National Bank in Helena, Montana Territory, 1866. All are for gold dust deposits. T

Great pair. Two 1866 Banking House of L.H. Hershfield pictorial drafts with a Virginia City dateline (handwritten over Helena) to be paid in gold coin

Rare Copper State cigar box label. Nice center image of a plow and shovel in a meadow. Date: City: State: Montana HWAC# 76845

C. early 20th century glass slides. Sentinle Butte, a church, tornado damage Wessington Springs, Bad Lands, town gathering, valley of James River, Jam

Lot of 16. Included: two pictorial 1866 & 1867 drafts from the Banking House of L.H. Hershfield with green RN-B imprint; S.T. Hauser & Co. 1...

United States Indian Service, Crow Agency, Mont., Sept. 12th, 1892. Addressed to the cashier at the Merchants National Bank in Helena. Message written

Lot of 23. Includes:Hoge, Daly & Co. (Anaconda, 1885) postal card receipt for $10,000 coin sent by express; The Miner subscription receipt, Butt...

Lot of 15. 1) Two different territorial bonds, $50 and $100, issued in 1868. Both have two vignettes and are signed by the Secretary of the Territory,

Lot of 2. 1) 1887 Lewis & Clark County typed certificate to George Taylor for presenting 642 prairie dog skins. Fort Shaw post trader JH McKnigh...

Lot of 11 stubs from licenses issued 1865-1867. Includes licenses issued in Virginia City, Blackfoot, Beartown, Lincoln Gulch, El Dorado City, German

1) Western Union Telegraph Company. Virginia City, MT, March 21st, 1867. Message sent to Isett, Kerr & Co. with instructions to pay $2,000 in cu...

Lot of 2 different. Both are territorial warrants issued by the office of the Territorial Auditor: Omaha City, 1860, and Omaha, 1861. The 18609 warran

Lot of 2. Letter is 4pp., dateline Aurora, Jan. 28, 1888. Sent to Mrs. Nettie Robishaw of Santa Cruz, California from Julia C. (illegible). Julia has

Green, yellow, blue and red on white. Manhattan Mining Company has been crossed out and American Mining Company has been handwritten. Receipt for mone

Wells, Fargo & Co. check, Nov. 29th, 1861. Issued to William Martin Gillispie for $63. Signed by Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory (a...

Handwritten letter on letterhead for the Office of Territorial Auditor. Dateline Carson City, N.T. March 2, 1864. Addressed to Mr. Beck (a county comm

Lot of 2. Letter and circular addressed to Hon. James W. Nye of Carson City (governor at this point) from the Office of the Irish National Fair. Datel

Lot of nine. Two Billheads: JH Kroeber plumber and PA Wagner grocer. Not common!!! Four checks: 1875 Wells Fargo with US Revenue stamp. 1899 Bullion...

Printed on blue letterhead for the Office of Territorial Treasurer. Dateline Carson City, N.T., December 31st, 1862. Addressed to Childs, Territorial

From the Office of Nevada State Prison, January 20th, 1871. Issued for $55 to Samuel Hyatt for 11 days service (at $5 a day) as deputy warden. Signed

Territory of Nevada, County of Ormsby, District Court, Second Judicial District. Payment receipt to BW Stoner who served as trial juror in the case of

Veto Messages of His Excellency John Sparks, Governor of the State of Nevada, Legislature of 1903. Also, Proposed Constitutional Amendments. Compiled

Four Paxton & Co., Bankers, checks issued in 1881 by the Red Bird Mining Company. All are signed by Frank Robbins, agent for the mine. All are c...

Lot of six. 1) Early Nevada 1866 billhead for Kennedy & Mallon grocers. 2) Wolf & Fletcher general merchandise. December 14, 1876. Purple pr...

In 1909 Goldfield was in its heyday and this map shows just how big the town was. The map comes with a 1911 Department of Interior letter. Blue line p

Lot of 14 checks plus 2 other pieces. 1) Seven John S. Cook & Co., Bankers checks, 4 different varieties, issued 1905-1916. One is for the Goldf...

Goldfield, NV checks ,postcard, bankslip, stock, mining claim legal document, mining prospectus, payroll statement, letter head and more. Date: Ci

Lot of 2. 1) F.B. Balzar personal check, dateline Hawthorne, Nevada, October 22, 1924. Issued to Churchill County Eagle for $50. Signed by Balzar. Fre

Seven pointed star, white metal, blue lettering: Las Vegas / Colony Police / 3. Date: City: Las Vegas State: Nevada HWAC# 78277

Unusual Lyon County District Court document, "In the Matter of the Insanity of A. Carlson." Judge C.E. Mack orders that August Carlson, a...

Lot of five. 1) WE Griffin Banker / Wells Fargo 1884 check. Pioche. Nice green on white design. 2) 1922 St. John Lodge, Masons, Pioche check. Black on

This is Equity No. A-3, a Recommended Temporary Restraining Order, 88 pages. Cover is torn slightly. In 1913 the United States filed in the U.S. Distr

A group of antiques from the Jerome Ayer ranch in Reno, which was located on Alameda, now North Wells. This group of antiques appears to date from the

2 Key Fobs to "Silver State Lodge/Tamarack/Reno, Nev." & 1 brass letter opener inscribed with A. Benetti Novelty Company Phone 7575, 1...

Lot of 6 different including three territorial. Includes: Wells Fargo & Co. 1864 Nevada Territory check signed by RN Graves for the Empire Mill ...

Lot of 8 Stateler & Arrington checks issued for the Gould & Curry Mine in 1864. Signed by either Charles Strong or Charles Bonner as superin...

Wood & canvas trunk inscribed on the side for W.E. Owens, Virginia City, Nev. Masonic imagery (shield and sword). MC Pettibone Manufacturing Co ...

Lot of 4. 1) Three territorial Stateler & Arrington, Bankers, checks issued for use by the Gould & Curry mine. Two are signed by Charles Str...

Lot of 5 Bank of California, Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company checks issued in 1871 and signed by C.C. Batterman as superintendent. All have...

Lot of 5, from 4 different Comstock mining superintendents. 1) Two different Stateler & Arrington signed by controversial mining supt. Charles S...

Lot of 5 Stateler & Arrington checks signed by Charles Bonner as superintendent for the Gould & Curry Mine. Each check is issued to a miner ...

Lot of 4 Stateler & Arrington checks issued March 28-31st, 1864 and signed for supt. Charles Strong by John O. Earl who was president of the Gou...

1) Wells Fargo 1864 check signed by RN Graves fro the Empire Mill & Mining Co. 1) Three Stateler & Arrington checks issued by the Gould &...

Lot of 7, three different varieties. All have orange Nevada revenue stamps. 1) Three of the green Bank of California Gould & Curry checks issued...