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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Deadwood/ Custer Pictorial Ad. Cover  (115650)3420 - Deadwood/ Custer Pictorial Ad. Cover (115650)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
This is a nice cover, with a print of the Wentworth Hotel of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. There's very clean three cent green, a sharp postmark a...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to a****y for (100.00 + 25.00BP) = 125.00
 
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Clean Letter & Cover Dwight, Dakota Territory  (115652)3421 - Clean Letter & Cover Dwight, Dakota Territory (115652)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Nice handwritten letter and cover from Dwight, Dakota Territory to St. Paul, Minn. The cover has a triple ring postmark, with shield cancel on two cen
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Estimate : 100.00 - 300.00
Sold to l*******c for (40.00 + 10.00BP) = 50.00
 
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Gettysburgh Dakota Territory Cover   (115651)3422 - Gettysburgh Dakota Territory Cover (115651)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
A very nice cover out of the Dakota Territory with a VF CDS and target on two cent brown. This is a great Territory cover. Provenance: John Reynolds
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to b********t.. for (40.00 + 10.00BP) = 50.00
 
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Cover Duo From The Dakota Territory  (116212)3423 - Cover Duo From The Dakota Territory (116212)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Two covers from the Dakota Territory: Grand Central Hotel, Jamestown and Rosebud. One has a three cent green, the other a two cent green oval. Both co
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to b********t.. for (30.00 + 7.50BP) = 37.50
 
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Nice Niagara, Dakota Territory Cover  (115649)3424 - Nice Niagara, Dakota Territory Cover (115649)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
This is a very clean cover out of Niagara, Dakota Territory. This is a superb piece with a nice two cent brown (210) and a clean post mark and address
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Start Price : 100.00 | Estimate : 200.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Dakota Cover with Letter & Post Card  (116211)3425 - Dakota Cover with Letter & Post Card (116211)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Postal card and cover with letter. Both from the Dakota Territory. Card is post marked Flandreau. The cover is Wahpeton. Cover has red two center, pot
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to l*******c for (40.00 + 10.00BP) = 50.00
 
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Rare Oahe, Dakota Territory Cover (115712)3426 - Rare Oahe, Dakota Territory Cover (115712)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Nice territorial cover from the Dakotas. Manuscript "Oahe, D.T. 8 /26/ 85" This PO was only in existence for eight years, which adds to it...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to C*****0 for (140.00 + 35.00BP) = 175.00
 
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Four Dakota Territory Covers  (116213)3427 - Four Dakota Territory Covers (116213)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
This lot has four nice covers from the Dakota Territory. one has a Ree Heights postmark and a red two cents. Next, we have a Faulkton postmark also wi
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to b********t.. for (40.00 + 10.00BP) = 50.00
 
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Two Clean Dakota Covers   (115654)3428 - Two Clean Dakota Covers (115654)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
A pair of attractive covers from the Dakota Territory. One is postmarked Elk Point, the other Vermillion. Elk Point has two cent green, Vermillion, a
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to p********w.. for (45.00 + 9.90BP) = 54.90
 
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Confederate Stamped Envelopes (5 each)  (57068)3429 - Confederate Stamped Envelopes (5 each) (57068)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Five different stamps and combinations. All addressed to Isaac Cowl of Dahlonega. Cowl was a mining man and owned a one fourth interest in lot of land
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Estimate : 500.00 - 1,600.00
Sold to 8********l.. for (450.00 + 112.50BP) = 562.50
 
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1933 Chicago Exposition Covers  (115558)3430 - 1933 Chicago Exposition Covers (115558)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
A group of 67 commemorative covers from the 1933 Chicago Exposition. All are addressed and postmarked. Condition ranges from good to very good. Nice c
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Estimate : 200.00 - 500.00
Sold to d*******f for (180.00 + 45.00BP) = 225.00
 
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Mills Novelty Co. (Slot Machines) Pictorial Advertising Cover  (115131)3431 - Mills Novelty Co. (Slot Machines) Pictorial Advertising Cover (115131)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Corner ad. cover for Mills Novelty Co., Chicago. Sent in 1906 to Jackson, Michigan. Illustrate logo in color. No contents. The Mills Novelty Company w
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Estimate : 60.00 - 200.00
Sold to 6******n for (25.00 + 6.25BP) = 31.25
 
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Indian Territory Postal Covers & Postcards  (115132)3432 - Indian Territory Postal Covers & Postcards (115132)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 5. Three covers (no contents) and two postcards. 1) A.W. McCLure, Attorney, McAlester, Indian Territory corner ad. cover sent in 1894 (McAleste
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Estimate : 50.00 - 80.00
Sold to b********t.. for (75.00 + 18.75BP) = 93.75
 
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Two Pictorial Watch Advertising Covers  (116374)3433 - Two Pictorial Watch Advertising Covers (116374)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Two Watch Corner Advertising Covers: 1) canceled 1897 to Jewelers Guild Distributing Co., Manchester Iowa, from Philadelphia Watch Case Co., Riverside
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Start Price : 25.00 | Estimate : 50.00 - 100.00
 
 
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Stanley House Embossed Cover  (115714)3434 - Stanley House Embossed Cover (115714)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Nice canceled cover out of Augusta, Maine date 1860. Everything is sharp. Provenance: John Reynolds Collection Country (if not USA): State: Maine
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Estimate : 40.00 - 100.00
Sold to a**********t for (35.00 + 8.75BP) = 43.75
 
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1884 Maine Cover  (116068)3435 - 1884 Maine Cover (116068)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
This is a rare MS cancel (Wallula, NY) from 1884. It has a brown two cent oval and the end is torn. Sent to Elbridge Maine. Provenance: John Reyno
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Estimate : 50.00 - 100.00
Sold to d*******f for (25.00 + 6.25BP) = 31.25
 
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Patriotic Spanish-American War Cover & Letter (Fort Warren)  (113036)3436 - Patriotic Spanish-American War Cover & Letter (Fort Warren) (113036)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Gorgeous cover with the front resembling an American flag. Letter is dateline Fort Warren, Jan. 27th, 1898. From Harry to his mother, the handwriting
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Estimate : 60.00 - 100.00
Sold to d*******f for (45.00 + 11.25BP) = 56.25
 
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Omaha City, Nebraska Territory Cover  (115715)3437 - Omaha City, Nebraska Territory Cover (115715)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Nice Nebraska territory cover with three cent brown and very clear Omaha City 1860 postmark. Provenance: John Reynolds Collection Country (if not
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Estimate : 50.00 - 150.00
Sold to 8********l.. for (30.00 + 7.50BP) = 37.50
 
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Two Dayton, Nevada Territory Postmarked Wells Fargo Covers  (116239)3438 - Two Dayton, Nevada Territory Postmarked Wells Fargo Covers (116239)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Two Wells Fargo & Company covers from the Nevada Territory. Both have Dayton, N.T. cancellations over three cent red ovals. Both are in good con...
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold to c****s for (250.00 + 62.50BP) = 312.50
 
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Nevada Cover Trio Includes Virginia City & Candelaria (115709)3439 - Nevada Cover Trio Includes Virginia City & Candelaria (115709)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Three very nice Nevada covers: Bank of California, Virginia City corner ad; Zabriskie & Shockley, Candelaria corner ad.; and faint Wells Fargo c...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to c********r.. for (70.00 + 17.50BP) = 87.50
 
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