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

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Auction Details

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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Print (Lithograph) Signed by Artist  (86801)1100 - Print (Lithograph) Signed by Artist (86801)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Beautiful Print signed by artist (unrecognizable signature) is embossed & numbered 113/279, abstract painted horse. Matted & framed. Frame i...
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Rose Melville Lithographs (2)  (78971)1101 - Rose Melville Lithographs (2) (78971)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1) Girl looking over the fence 20.5" x 25", done by H.A. Thomas & Wylie Litho Co. NY, 2)Rose Melville in "Sis Hopkins"20&quo...
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Start Price : 100.00 | Estimate : 400.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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15 Antique Gold Frames  (110705)1102 - 15 Antique Gold Frames (110705)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Antique style frames, mostly ornate gold. Various sizes, about 12" x 18" for most. Frames contain various Victorian images. Provenance: ...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 900.00
Sold to D******a for (190.00 + 47.50BP) = 237.50
 
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Two Crystal Glass Sculptures of Dolphins  (116051)1103 - Two Crystal Glass Sculptures of Dolphins (116051)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 2. 1) Dolphin Crystal Sculpture. Shannon Crystal by Godinger. 6.25" tall. 2) Trendy Crystal sculpture with laser-etched marine mammals i...
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African Ceremonial Wood and Shell Mask  (87474)1104 - African Ceremonial Wood and Shell Mask (87474)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Carved and painted African ceremonial wood mask with coconut straw edges. Boars teeth and small snail like shells. Approx 29x13". Some shell se...
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Amphora   (105469)1105 - Amphora (105469)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
This is a contemporary piece of pottery made to look like amphora. Amphora, ancient vessel form used as a storage jar and one of the principal vessel
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Harold Sampson Pfeiffer Sculpture, Signed  (83547)1106 - Harold Sampson Pfeiffer Sculpture, Signed (83547)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Harold Sampson Pfeiffer 1908-1997. After the WWII, Harold taught crafts at McGill University. During the mid-1950s, he became an occupational therapis
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Estimate : 400.00 - 1,200.00
Sold to 8********l.. for (110.00 + 27.50BP) = 137.50
 
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Eskimo Engravings from Bankes New System of Geography  (115617)1107 - Eskimo Engravings from Bankes New System of Geography (115617)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Page with two engravings from Bankes's New System of Geography which described and depicted what Captain James Cook saw on his voyages. These tw...
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Pocket Map of Alaska, Atlin, the Yukon  (117241)1108 - Pocket Map of Alaska, Atlin, the Yukon (117241)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
"Map of Alaska Atlin and the Yukon," issued by White Pass & Yukon Route, Chicago, Illinois, and Seattle, Washington, in 1917. Map back...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 300.00
Sold to 4*******x for (85.00 + 21.25BP) = 106.25
 
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Air Show Ticket & Stamp  (117090)1109 - Air Show Ticket & Stamp (117090)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Second Annual Tucson Arizona Air Show ticket dated February 17-18 took place at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and featured the famous United States
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East Bay Area Business Card Group  (113140)1110 - East Bay Area Business Card Group (113140)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 200+ business cards from East Bay locations such as Oakland, Richmond, Berkeley, Hayward, and others. Some pictorial. Duplication. Businesses s
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to r****2 for (55.00 + 13.75BP) = 68.75
 
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Benicia F&AM (Free & Accepted Masons) Membership Certificate  (113181)1111 - Benicia F&AM (Free & Accepted Masons) Membership Certificate (113181)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Pictorial membership certificate for Marson Forsythe for the Benicia F&AM lodge, dated August 22nd, 1877. Signed by Master Geo. Poon and secreta...
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Estimate : 60.00 - 100.00
Sold to r******W for (25.00 + 6.25BP) = 31.25
 
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Boca Mill Company Ephemera  (113169)1112 - Boca Mill Company Ephemera (113169)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 5. 1) Three printed letterheads, 1894-95, two different types. All sent to TH Johnstone of Cedarville, California. Regarding shipments of eggs
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Bodie Daily Free Press Official Journal of Mono County 1882 Newspaper  (110381)1113 - Bodie Daily Free Press Official Journal of Mono County 1882 Newspaper (110381)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Volume VII. Bodie, California, Thursday October 12, 1882. No. 85. Published every morning by Osborne & Cleveland. Employment ad for Drug Clerk, ...
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Estimate : 50.00 - 100.00
Sold to p********e for (40.00 + 10.00BP) = 50.00
 
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Cabinet Card of NB Hunnewill, Prominent Bodie & Bridgeport Rancher & Lumberman  (113164)1114 - Cabinet Card of NB Hunnewill, Prominent Bodie & Bridgeport Rancher & Lumberman (113164)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Cabinet card by Rieman & Pray, San Francisco, of NB Hunnewill (identified on reverse). A few stains. Hunnewill came to California during the Gol...
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Estimate : 60.00 - 100.00
Sold to 6*****b for (225.00 + 56.25BP) = 281.25
 
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Four Bodie, California Prints  (115608)1115 - Four Bodie, California Prints (115608)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 4 different prints of sketches of Bodie by Stone. Each is limited edition and numbered and signed by the artist. All are 117/500. 1) Main Stree
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Central Pacific Railroad Way-Bills for Items Shipped to Bodie  (115602)1116 - Central Pacific Railroad Way-Bills for Items Shipped to Bodie (115602)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 8 way-bills for items shipped from Sacramento to Carson (Nevada). Most have at least one consignment listed that is en route to Bodie, Californ
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to 8********l.. for (50.00 + 12.50BP) = 62.50
 
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Bodie History Library  (115280)1117 - Bodie History Library (115280)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 6. Included: Photographing Bodie, Morse, 1990 sc; Bodie Bonanza, Loose, 1971, hc with dj; Bodie: Boom Town--Gold Town, McDonald, 1988 sc; The G
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Estimate : 50.00 - 80.00
Sold to p********n for (55.00 + 13.75BP) = 68.75
 
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Calistoga 4th of July Pennant  (115699)1118 - Calistoga 4th of July Pennant (115699)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
This is a July Fourth pennant from Calistoga, California. It measures 32" and has some edge wear. Provenance: John Reynolds Collection Countr...
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Estimate : 60.00 - 100.00
Sold to D******a for (45.00 + 9.90BP) = 54.90
 
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Dixon May Day Pennant  (115706)1119 - Dixon May Day Pennant (115706)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
A Dixon May day Pennant that measures 28". Very bright colors but some minor moth damage. Provenance: John Reynolds Collection Country (if no...
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Estimate : 60.00 - 100.00
Sold to Y******O for (45.00 + 11.25BP) = 56.25
 
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