Big Tent Auction: Philatelic, Americana, Mining, Numismatics--April 2020

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Day 1, April 16th, 2020 (Lots 1000-1754)
Native Americana
Art
General Americana
Books

Day 2, April 17th, 2020 (Lots 2000-2753)
Mining Equipment
Minerals
Mining Artifacts & Ephemera
Stocks & Bonds
Mining
Other
Railroad
Transportation
Sports
Firearms & Weaponry
Military

Day 3, April 18th, 2020 (Lots 3000-3764)
Philatelic & Postal History
Ephemera
First Day
First Flight
Airships
Philatelic Covers & Postal History
Postcards

Day 4, April 19th, 2020 (Lots 4000-4763)
Tokens
Numismatics
Cowboy
Bargains & Dealer Specials

Welcome to our April Sale!

Covid-19
There’s a lot going on out there, and we’ve strived to find a way to keep operating in a safe and responsible manner. We incorporate all of the WHO recommendations, and then some. Our offices are cleaner and more sanitary than ever before, with sanitization cleanings up to four times per day! While most employees work at home, we also keep the 6-10 foot rule in place at the office. The result so far has been excellent, with a very healthy staff. Others around the country are not as lucky, and we strongly encourage following the WHO recommendations. We’ve been looking at a month, rather than 2 weeks. If it takes more, we’re “all in”.

This Auction!
This auction has another wide variety of outstanding collectibles in perhaps 30 collecting categories. Wow! Last sale we started with the John Reynolds Collection of California tokens, medals, shell cards and other Exonumia. This sale features more Reynolds tokens and his fabulous Aviation Mail (and California) Postal History Collection of more than 10,000 covers! As part of this collection, we offer his Pioneer Post Card Collection, a specialty of the earliest “picture post cards.”
Reynolds also had a major collection of Circus and Side Show photography and ephemera. We only split out some of it, such as the tokens, medals and scrip into individual lots. The bulk of the collection is so good, and of such excellent quality, inclusive of the personal collection of Nicu DeBarcsy (the most famous of the late 19th – early 20th dwarves), that we feel the collection needs to stay together as a whole – with thousands of photographs (CDV, Cabinet card, photo post cards) collected since the early 1960s, ending in about 1995 or so.
We continue with the marvelous Ken Prag Collection, and not to be outdone, we offer the Geoff Pollock Utah Mining Stock Certificate Collection in tact! More than 2000 pieces. It took Geoff more than thirty years to collect these pieces, highlighted by the fantastic 1864 Jordan Mining Co. stock signed by General Patrick Connor.
Our Art Department is ever-expanding, with this auction features a collection of wonderful Nevada artists plus many more.
The mining goods are also excellent, across the board, including part of the contents of a 1930’s assay lab! …and a mining library as a “unit” from a formerly producing mining company. And more large mining equipment from CMR Co.
A huge selection of costume jewelry is present from a southern California costume jewelry store that gave us their goods upon retiring. We remind everybody that our company is a great way to sell your inventories – the bigger the better!

Finding Your Collectibles
You’ll have fun perusing this catalog. There are great rarities in every section. As usual, we welcome calls and questions about lots. Need a better description? Just call or email us. Need help navigating? Just call! We’ve got simple ways of finding things, but sometimes we all need a little help to learn “the tricks.”

Consignments
Here at Holabird, we are, in a way, your partners in Collecting. We bring you some of the most exciting collections to hit the market every year.
Many of these collections are life-long projects, painstakingly put together by careful collectors – like you. When its time to sell, consider us! We bring more to the marketplace than any other company. Imagine this- five live internet bidding platforms in use for most auctions, all carefully picked. In fact, we work with several of these advanced forums to help make them, us, and the auction experience better for you. We bring new collectors to the table each and every auction.
Buying on the internet is at an all time high, and we understand how and why – that’s why we do so much with our internet bidding platform “partners”. Even though we are under Covid-19 WHO and Nevada guidelines, we work to make the internet sale a successful experience. And that includes shipping – we sanitize the packages before they go out.

While we work our way through the pandemic, it is important to realize we can assist. Our internet doors remain open, and we provide a huge platform from which to sell collections. If its time to sell your treasured items, let us know. If you’re home cleaning out the house and storeroom, and forgot about Grandpa’s collection, and need revenue, call us! If you run a chain of stores, such as pawn shops or thrift stores, we can easily generate that much needed revenue. Our processing is fast – we process about 3,000 lots of all forms of antiques and collectibles every 60 days. Nobody in America can match this. Our sales performance is also unequalled. Give us a call today. We have representatives in many parts of the USA. If the collection warrants, I’ll come myself and help you evaluate and discuss how we can assist.
--Fred Holabird--


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Two Pocket Maps of California  (117240)1220 - Two Pocket Maps of California (117240)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Two pocket maps: "Complete Map of California," "Showing principal automobile roads," (handwritten, "after 1909"). Elec...
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Southern Pacific Coast Directory by McKenney  (108488)1221 - Southern Pacific Coast Directory by McKenney (108488)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Not listed in Quebedeaux. This may be the only copy in private hands. Part of a series of four beginning in 1882. Southern Pacific Coast Directory for
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Estimate : 500.00 - 1,000.00
Sold to 8********l.. for (275.00 + 68.75BP) = 343.75
 
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Directory / Denver, Colorado.  (89573)1222 - Directory / Denver, Colorado. (89573)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Here is another large volume, of information...1,922 pages. Published by Ballenger & Richards Volume XXXX. This specimen, was also once part of ...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
Sold to d*******f for (250.00 + 62.50BP) = 312.50
 
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15 Photographic Images of the Sugar Mill at Swink, Colorado  (111606)1223 - 15 Photographic Images of the Sugar Mill at Swink, Colorado (111606)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Great photos look like images used for real photo postcards. Fifteen images in all. Very nice. Provenance: John Reynolds Collection Country (if not
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Estimate : 80.00 - 150.00
Sold to m******0 for (45.00 + 11.25BP) = 56.25
 
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Pinkerton Wanted Poster  (117156)1224 - Pinkerton Wanted Poster (117156)
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A great wanted poster issued by The Pinkerton Detective Agency offering a $250 reward for the arrest or for information leading to the arrest of Matt
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Sold to m******0 for (120.00 + 30.00BP) = 150.00
 
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Lot withdrawn1225 - Lot withdrawn
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Three Advertising Pamphlets: Pikes Peak, Estes Park, Rocky Mountain National park  (104495)1226 - Three Advertising Pamphlets: Pikes Peak, Estes Park, Rocky Mountain National park (104495)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1) Pikes Peak. Self-identified 1950. Twelve panels. Two panel map. 2) Estes Park,. Twelve panels. 17 photographs. One 2/3 panel map. 3) Rocky Mountain
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Two Colorado Souvenir Pennants  (115696)1227 - Two Colorado Souvenir Pennants (115696)
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Two pennants, one from Pike's Peak, the other Garden of the Gods. There is some mothe damage, Provenance: John Reynolds Collection Country (if...
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Colorado State Road Pocket Map  (116793)1228 - Colorado State Road Pocket Map (116793)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Colorado State Auto Road Map, c1924. Copyrighted by Elmer E. Sommers. Sommers Oil Company, Denver, Colo., advertisement on front and back covers and i
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Sold to 8********l.. for (100.00 + 25.00BP) = 125.00
 
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Kokomo, Colorado Cloth Photo Montage, Scenes Along the D.& R.Grade R.R.   (111611)1229 - Kokomo, Colorado Cloth Photo Montage, Scenes Along the D.& R.Grade R.R. (111611)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Sixteen inch square tiny tablecloth printed with pictures of Kokomo, Colorado. Scenes along the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Pictured are Kokomo Me
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Sold to m******0 for (325.00 + 81.25BP) = 406.25
 
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Type writer / Underwood # 5  (109738)1230 - Type writer / Underwood # 5 (109738)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Here is an oldie, but a goody. It is an Underwood typewriter, # 5 from May 1917. Serial No #1999054-5. Nice looking, and still in working condition. O
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold to d*******f for (100.00 + 25.00BP) = 125.00
 
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Fred Dennett Archive  (51848)1231 - Fred Dennett Archive (51848)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Originally belonging to Fred Dennett, 32nd Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1908-1913. The General Land Office was an independent agency of th
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Pocket Map of Idaho, 1910   (111604)1232 - Pocket Map of Idaho, 1910 (111604)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Measures 16" x 24". Courtesy Caldwell Commercial Bank. Map has some small holes at fold corners. Provenance: John Reynolds Collection Co...
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Diebold Safe & Lock Company Broadside Circa 1890  (111602)1233 - Diebold Safe & Lock Company Broadside Circa 1890 (111602)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Diebold was a safe and lock company in 1890. This is the company that invented the A.T.M. machine. Some tears at folds. View closeups to view conditio
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Bailey & Hair's Iowa State Gazetteer  (108485)1234 - Bailey & Hair's Iowa State Gazetteer (108485)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Embracing descriptive and historical sketches of counties, cities, towns, and villages, which include much valuable information respecting the agricul
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Creston's Blue Grass Palace Cabinet Photo, Creston, Iowa  (111610)1235 - Creston's Blue Grass Palace Cabinet Photo, Creston, Iowa (111610)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Photo by Spurr, Creston, Iowa. Measures 4" x 7". Provenance: John Reynolds Collection Country (if not USA): State: Iowa City/County:...
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Shipper's Guide of Iowa, Rand McNally, 1892  (111605)1236 - Shipper's Guide of Iowa, Rand McNally, 1892 (111605)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Was supposed to include pocket map, but no map. Still has information on the businesses of Iowa in 1892. 45 pp. Provenance: John Reynolds Collectio
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Business and Professional Directory of KY and IN, 1902  (82800)1237 - Business and Professional Directory of KY and IN, 1902 (82800)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Business and Professional Directory of Central Kentucky and Southern Indiana Embracing ... Statistical and Geographical Information. Union Directory C
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Mardis Gras Pennant & King Tut Tee  (115707)1238 - Mardis Gras Pennant & King Tut Tee (115707)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
This lot contains a King Tut commemorative tee shirt in Medium and a pennant celebrating the Mardi Gras. Pennant measures 27" and is good condi...
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Miscellaneous New Orleans Ephemera (4)  (110353)1239 - Miscellaneous New Orleans Ephemera (4) (110353)
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Group includes a set of 9 chromolitho postcards plus photo book titled, "Historic Old New Orleans" and St. Louis Cathedral photo foldout a...
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