August 2018 Auction

Milo Lodge No. 48, K. of P., Nevada City, Cal. Comes with two pictorial envelopes from Whitehead & Hoag Co. that the badges would have been ship...

27 x 21" brochure c.1887 for the Pleasant Valley Tract in the Butte County Citrus Belt, 0.5 mile from Oroville, Cal. Opened up, one side of the...

The Directors of the Pasadena Board of Trade passes the resolution of endorsement of Professor Lowe & his airship. 6" x 9". Date: 191...

Lot of 3. 1) Very attractive and pictorial lettersheet for the Mount Lowe Tavern, Mount Lowe, California. Unused, 9 x 6" Four picture vignettes...

Lot of 4. 1) 1873 promissory note for the Banking House of I.G. Wickersham & Co., Petaluma. 2) Duplicate of Exchange from the Bank of Sonoma Co...

Pair of Central California Ice Company oval signs. Metal, enamel is chipped and bent a bit. Signs are identical, 28" x 34.5". Both signs h...

Lot of 4. 1) 1864 City of Placerville receipt for payment of personal property taxes. Mrs. A.C. Irwin is paying for her house on the north side of Mai

Lot of 10 pieces related to George W. Swan. In our June 2018 auction, we sold a group of Lake Tahoe toll road material that included pieces from Swan.

The premier piece in this lot is the Placerville 1866 legal sized envelope. Dated August 10, 1866 (date is derived from note). Inside was a deed from

Rare Gold Rush location. Dateline Taylorsville, Plumas County, Cal. (handwritten over printed "Rich Bar"), Jan. 3rd, 1869. Issued by the t...

Not mailed. Identified in pen as "Quarry, Rocklin" at bottom right. Two workers visible: one on surface, one in pit. This provides a nice ...

Dateline Rough & Ready Sept. 17, 1867. Sent to J. Berry in Yreka. "Will be there tonight." Signed by W.P. Trench. 5.5 x 8.5" Loca...

ACME Beer cloth hat; the Binkley Club, Sherman Texas, One Dozen Bottles of Beer; Buffalo Ice Brewing Co. Bill head. Date: 1900 City: Sacramento Sta

Lot of 13. 1) Stockton. 6 items: 1853 I.O.O.F. receipt; 1867 manuscript promissory note; two 1900 Stockton Savings & Loan Society checks; and tw...

Lot of 7. Five pieces are from the 1850s. Two are later. 1) Two pictorial Adams & Co. Express Office Seconds of Exchange issued in 1852. Sac Cit...

Bill came to $906. Signed by William Tarleton for Sheriff James W Mitchell. Mitchell did not last a year as the District Attorney was ordered to begin

Lot of 5. 1) Two exchanges: a very rare 3rd of Exchange issued in 1868 and a Second of Exchange issued in 1890. 2) 1865 letterhead that lists DO Mills

Lot of 22. 1) San Francisco: 1899 memorandum of Gold Bullion deposited at the San Francisco Mint by the Anglo California Bank, gold from the Crown Ki

Lot of 6. 1) Adams & Co. Express & Banking Office pictorial certificate of deposit, Oct. 3, 1854. 2) City Comptroller's Office pictorial...

Calling cards from members from the Duisenberg family and others: Mrs. Minna Duisenberg (wife of Charles, and a writer of poetry), C. A. C. Duissenber

Lot of 78 foreign exchanges from Mexico and Central America, all to be drawn on Otis, McAllister & Co. in San Francisco. Issued 1908-26, most in...

Pin badge "Past Chief Ranger / Court golden Gate No.5 / F. of A. Engraved on reverse: "Presented to / Aaron Jacobs / July 2, 1910." P...

4pp,mostly announcements and classified ads. Date: City: San Francisco State: California HWAC# 76525

Lot of 5. 1) Two Adams & Co. Express and Banking House certificates of deposit issued in 1854. Pictorial. 2) Two very pictorial warrants from th...

This is a pay load for the ship "Gold Hunter." What a great name! It is for 353 bundles of iron and 98 bars of iron. Together they weighed...

4 shipping receipts from H. &W. Pierce to Liverpool, England on the steamships Alexander, Detroit and Heried for wheat shipments. Date: 1868-18...

Delivering 1920 sacks of wheat. Lewis Pierce Company. Master is Amos Hewitt. Rare to have a sloop. Vignette. 1865. (Potter Collection) Date: 1865 Ci

Rare San Francisco newspaper. Vol. II. No. 1.States: "We present our readers with a woodcut of St. Luke's Hospital, (beautifully engraved ...

Lot of 6 vintage Bank of America,National Trust & Savings Association of San Francisco, travelers checks used in 1937. Three different denominat...

Lot of 6. Five are multi-color tickets that look like mini-concert posters (approx. 6 x 4") for concert series in southern California. Also tw...

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Lot of 10. 1) c.1907 tourism brochure for Santa Monica in pictorial envelope holder with many printed black-and-white photos. 2) Unused c.1870s promis

Lot of 16. Includes: "The Pioneer", booklet about Hellman Bros. stage; Orange County Savings & Trust Co. deposit book, Santa Ana, 1913...

1) Man with mules and two dogs. Bottom has a caption that reads "A Mojave Desert (illegible)" Not mailed. c.1930s-40s. 2) Frashers postcar...

Lewis Pierce Pictorial 1868 billhead. The schooner W. E. Anderson is carrying wheat from the central valley (Suisun) to San Francisco. Peter Anderson

Extra Rare issue to the Boca Brewing Company on a common Carson City Saving Bank check. Endorsed by Benson of the Boca Brewing Company on reverse. In

Period photograpf of Souther Pacific Railroad Executives, taken inside the Station. Clear and focused, sepia-toned photo of three rather serious looki

State of Nevada Land Department. Contract No. 5905. May 7th, 1892. For 320 acres to Henry Williams of Esmeralda County. Sold at $1.25/acre. Comes with

Banning & Company, forwarding and commission merchants. Received of JM Sanchez 10 bales of wool. Banning, California is named for Phineas Bannin...

U. S. 25c Revenue Stamp is tied by a strong "J. E. Rene / San Francisco" oval stamp. The 1865 San Francisco Directory lists J Ernest Rene ...

This 1862 Tax Record is for Boone Fly for $209.69. He had land on Carneros Creek. Fly was a rancher. Boone Fly was the first person to grow grapes on

Yreka to Fort Jones to Etna and Return. Large way-bill dated Oct. 27th, 1910. Three entries on the top and nine entries for the Stage Express service.

Lot of 6. Includes: AC Lowell, Fort Bidwell, Cal.,1894 billhead.; letterhead for the County Clerk and Recorder of Sutter County, Yuba City, Cal., 1880

Rare. "Museum reproductions of unique pictorial writing paper used in Gold Rush California." California Historical Society. Only 8 differe...

Lot of 7. 1) 1858 U.S. Mail Steamship Co. receipt for transport of merchandise to 69 Water Street (San Francisco) onboard "Star of the West.&qu...

Rare old paper, Reward Gold Mining Co. letterhead from the Superintendent's Office, Inyo County Cal.Citrus on Slim Princess Railroad. 7" x ...

Salt Marsh Tidelands north of the boundary of Oakland. 41 x 50" with charts of the "meanders" of the various coves in San Francisco B...

Seven point star, white metal, blue lettering: Deputy /Sheriff / Contra Costa Co. / 51. Reverse says "property of sherifs office." 2 3/4 ...

Seven point star, blue lettering: Deputy /Sheriff / Contra Costa Co. 2 3/4 inches in diameter. Date: City: State: California HWAC# 78276

Very historical piece of paper signed by Abel Stearns. In Spanish makes this even more interesting! Abel Stearns (1798 – 1871) was a trader who came t