"Christmas Chronicles", 2023 December Live Auction

Three (3) large 50 pound canisters that once held lard. The brands are Sun Flower of Salina, Kansas, Kaw Packing Company of Topeka, Kansas and Sweet T

A group of (27) flour bags and other baking related items. Bags include Evangeline Bleached Flour (2), Crown Flour, White Goose Flour, paper sacks fr

6 small Kansas lard tins, c. 1880-1910. Henneberry and Co., Arkansas City, 6", some rust and paint loss. E A Sh?neman, Winfield, 6.25"-som...

Shaker firkins, or buckets (2). These were constructed by the Shakers, The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, commonly kn...

Large (27"x 15") flour bin put out by Junge Baking Company of Joplin, Missouri. This blue metal container is stenciled with "Junge Ba...

Lard cannisters from Joplin and Hutchinson Missouri. First is a 47 pound capacity cannister packed by The Winchester Packing Company of Hutchinson (Th

Lard containers from the state of Missouri. First, we have a 50 pound capacity tin from Real Country Lard of Columbia, Mo. This container measures 1...

Two large metal bins, including a Beaham MFG. coffee bin. Beaham began with coffee and tea in the 1880s and morphed into a cleaning supplies manufactu

Coffee box for store counter display of Beckham, McKnight & Company's Java Blend of Kansas City, Missouri. Piece measures 19"x 18"...

Coffee tins from Pallas Coffee (3 pounds) of the Ridenour-Baker Grocery Company, Tropical Brand (2.5 pounds) steel cut from C.A. Murdock MFG. Company

3 large peanut butter tins with lids and handles. Yellow Ideal, Kansas City, 7.25", faded and reust. RedPan Tree, Kansas/Oklahoma with paper la...

3 large marshmallow tins. Round Fairy Queen, Kansas City, 6.25x10.5", some paint loss. Round Poehler King, Kansas, 6x10", bottom dent. Rec...

A ten (10) pound coffee container from Kemper Paxton of Kansas City , Missouri from the early 1900s. This piece measures 14"x 9.5" with ha...

Coffee is the name of the game here. There are five (5) vintage coffee containers from the 1800s, representing various Missouri locations. First, a Na

This is a four (4) gallon metal churn made by The Dazey Churn & Manufacturing Company. This one has all the lettering, It measures 27"x 14...

Cobalt colored metal churn container with woking gear drive churn and 2 wood lids. Cast iron base. 20.5" tall. Some paint loss on container. S...

This is a four (4) gallon metal churn made by The Dazey Churn & Manufacturing Company. This one has all the lettering, It measures 27"x 14...

An assortment of ten (10) flour sacks from Missouri and Kansas mills. Included are Town Crier Mills, Peacock Self Rising Flour, Tomahawk, Hostess Blea

Candy related items, include a 13"x 5" bottle once holding Robertson's Fruit Tablets, a 13"x 13" 33lb cardboard bucket that ...

2 Oklahoma 10" coffee tins with lids. O-So-Good, El Reno with coffee cup image, several dents. Louis Brand, Oklahoma City with girl image, some...

6 Oklahoma lard tins with lids, c. 1910-30. Sweet Top, Blackwell, 8.25". People's Packing, OKC, 10.75", rust on lid and handles, some ...

Ads & cans include ad pieces from De Laval Separator Company, The Sharples Separator, a Sharples price list and a patent plate from a De Laval S...

Bread & biscuit boxes, two vintage, one reproduction. First, we have a "Schepp's" cake box to protect your baked goods from "...

Large group of 46 various spice containers by several different companies. Brands included are Polar Bear, Tropical, Le-Hi, Pickwick, Golden Wedding,

Vintage Enjoy Coca Cola Neon sign. Tested and in good working condition. 14x26.5".

About 30 food tins. Inland Tomato Puree, several Log Cabin Syrup, Wayne Spinach, Karo Syrup, Dodge Spinach, Jolly Time Popcorn, Pelican Molasses, Snow

12 different metal coffee pots, cups, a grinder, cans adapted to carry containers etc. Nice display group. Jim & Barbara Sherman Private We...

Wood crank operated coffee grinder, 11x8x7", missing circular top insert. Juicers-Landers, Brary, New Britain Connecticut 7.5" tall. 2 qua...

Rare and Unusual Holmes Patented Carved Walnut Folding Chair, c. 1871. X-form folding legs joined by turned stretchers, labeled on a rear stretcher wi

22 1/2 x 16 1/2, 26 inches high. Oak construction, single door, reproduction of an early oak refrigerator. Brass plaque reads: Simmons Hardware Co. St

A nice vintage credenza that measures 42" in width, 30" in height and 18" in depth. It has two cupboards for dishware and two drawer...

Baking powder and soda assortment includes boxes and cans with Yellow Bonnet, Midwest Grocer, Golden Wedding, KC Baking Powder, Calumet Baking Powder,

7 different biscuit and cracker boxes. Wood J J Pierson, Parsons, KS 13x22x13". Metal-Lindquist Cracker, Denver, Colo. 10x9x9", and glass ...

About 20 lbs. of vintage commercial soda fountain items. Glass jars-Coors malted Milk with lid 8.5" Strawberry with lid and internal spoon 12&q...

A plethora of spice containers include brands like The Alton Goods, Imperial, Ranney's Finest, F&G, Arbuckles, and more. Spices range from a...

2 nested wood rounds, used for food storage or dry goods, unmarked. Each 3.75x7.75". Gary Bracken Collection

7 nested round boxes, c. 1880-1910. These would be used for everything from dry goods to food storage. Outer box is 12x6.75". Gary Bracken...

RARE coffee tins from the 1890s to the 1930s (7F.F.O.G/ ). Included are Steel Cut from Ridenour & Baker, F.F.O.G. also from Ridenour & Baker...

17 different c. 1900-30 paper rolled oats containers, about 7" and larger. Yellow Bonnet, Gold Bond, Invader, Poehler, Shamrock, Pickwick etc. ...

3 vintage round spice safes with marked small internal metal spice containers. Black metal with gold writing 3.5x8.5", some rust and paint loss...

21 different small coffee tins, about 4". Ferrils, Blue Bonnet, Shryack, Hi-Lo, Harvest Home, Pallas, First Pick etc. See photo. Gary Brac...

About 27 spice cans, up to 7". Pepper, cinnamon, baking powder, curry, nutmeg, elm bark, ginger etc. See photo. Gary Bracken Collection

Classic "security" or "valuables" spice boxes with gold/red trim(4x8") similar to the perfectly rectangular security boxes ...

Tea boxes (2) and a tea container. First is a porcelain painted box that measures 15"x 12"x 10" and there is the number 53 and the in...

9 different wooden cheese boxes, about 3.5x12x4". Hull's Cook, Wilson's, Land O' Lakes, Poehler King, Meadow Gold, Pabst, Golden Ro...

Apothecary cabinet with 12 drawers, all the same size. Possibly European. Each drawer pull has the Latin name for the contents. Possibly made of chest

Bin table base used in a kitchen for baking with two curved metal drawers under two flat drawers. Has condition problems, so please inspect. 42 x 26 x

Cavalier Oak Refrigerator, Model 928a, made by Tennessee Furniture Corporation, Chattanooga, TN. Two enclosures, brass hardware, insulated doors, and

Diamond Dyes sales cabinet made of straight-grained, white oak. Opening back door pair, with two original shelves, four missing shelves, and missing d

Large hardware cabinet made with square nail construction and refinished in a dark stain, possibly fir or walnut. There are 45 cubbies in the left si

Medical style cabinet with eight uniformly sized drawers, each with a die-cast handle and a glass panel for a label. Three are missing the glass panel

Nice, The Morey Mills Tea Importers retail dispensing cabinet with hinged lid and fancy design. 18x14.5x16", some paint loss, mainly on sides, ...

Fancy cash register in nickel and brass, made by National Cash Register. Brass sign attached at top reads // Amount Purchased //. Serial # 1401130w, 3

Display cabinet for Nun's Spool Thread with the original decal on front // Nun's Boil Proof Pearl Luster // on reversed in large letters // ...

Two-piece railroad ticket dispenser and worktable made by National Ticket Case Co, Chicago, with brass tag intact. Built of straight-grained, quarters

This oak cabinet has 36 equal-sized cubbies with holes in the bottom to lift goods. Small worktable in front is 12 x 31 inches, and it may have had a

Open-face sales cabinet made by Sun Manufacturing Company, includes the original 1/2 x 2-inch brass Sun Manufacturing Company tag on front. Made of st

Willimantic Spool Cabinet used to hold spools of sewing thread. Slant-front writing desktop with inkwell site at upper right, pen and pencil holder in

Six vintage wooden boxes, thought to be for keeping hardware such as drills and various equipment or parts. All have sliding lids. No labels found on

Three large bound volumes of three Placer County newspaper archives. This includes 1871 editions of The Placer Herald (1855-1991), The The Placer Week

Three large bound volumes of three Placer County newspaper archives. This includes 1860 editions of The Placer Herald (1855-1991), The Union Advocate

Bodie banking papers including a check written on the Bodie branch of The Anglo & London Paris National Bank, a list of collections made by Bod...

Bridgeport, California ephemera group (12). This group includes letters and receipts from attorneys, the county treasurer Joe A. Brown, land surveyor

Collection of Butte County ephemera, perhaps 60 or more pieces, c. 1873-1914. Mostly Chico and Oroville. Letterheads and billheads with some pictorial

About 40 pieces of Colusa County ephemera, c. 1858-1913, mostly older. Land letters, small promo booklets, pictorial letterheads etc. Williams, Willow

Contra Costa County, California ephemera collection (20), including two first day covers (1938 & 1946), road maps from The California Auto Asso...

Contra Costa County Recorder leather bound fee bookc. 1898-99, 16x12". 6 photos-3x5" to 6x8"-the 2 small ones on black mount have pen...

2 rare account ledgers of W & P Nichols bank, c. 1864-70. Leather bound with handwritten accounts including Blue Lead Co., Bull Run Co., Dutch F...

About 20 pieces of El Dorado County ephemera c. 1852-1903. El Dorado was the location of the landmark gold discovery at Sutter's Mill. Camelback...

An interesting find. Three pages with passages from Bret Harte's 1870s poem, "Her Letter." These were found by the consigner under the...

About 60 pieces of ephemera from Kern County and Fresno. c. 1902-23. Covers with contents to Peter Osdick, mining claims letters related to Peter Osd

An assortment of 11 pieces of ephemera, ranging from a Power of Attorney to various legal sounding letters with regards to a mine claim. Interesting a

Large group of Bank of La Porte checks to Chinese American merchants. About 7% of the total amount of checks in the Garvis collection were to Chinese,

An exquisite collection of documents from notable businesses and figures in La Porte. John Conly sold his banking business in 1871 and the Bank of La

California gold rush banks did a lot with gold, so had insufficient coin and had to order it for their bank. This lot of 17 checks are payable to &q...

32 c. 1864-67 John Conly & Co. checks to San Francisco merchants, from Kleckner & Bro. account in Port Wine, a town 2 miles SSE of La Porte....

12 c. 1864-74 John Conley Banker checks from a private account of Jonas Carter, a surveyor in La Porte. No revenue stamps. La Porte California

An exquisite and personal collection from the Stevenson Family Estate, mainly James Stevenson, who was a resident of Secret Diggings, 1/2 mile west of

About 30 c. 1864-83 Bank of La Porte checks to major Western whiskey and beer merchants and brewers. Fredericksburg Brewing, Weil & Co., a Gibs...

2 c. 1917-20 Martinez wanted posters in double mat frames. Wanted for kidnapping of a 14 year old and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to comm

Addressed to A. Wiederchein for fixing gate and putting on a lock, putting iron on cell, drilling holes, riveting and fixing cell door and hinges. Tot

About 17 pieces of ephemera from Napa and Lake counties, c. 1880-1915. Pictorial Seigler Hot Springs letterhead, 1887 Lake County Land Journal, Lake C

Ledger of Peabody and Hall from Brush Creek, Nevada County, California. Contains a list of names of people or other businesses that paid or received m

Nice assortment of Nevada County ephemera. Mt. St. Mary's Academy 1966 booklet, about 10 Trip Teaser-travel booklets. Nuggets of Nevada County H...

3 volumes of Methodist Episcopal church records c. l875-99. 1 volume has loose pages and detaching spine and boards. Includes marriages, church record

Nevada County ephemera collection (18) includes a booklet praising the area for its mining and mild climate, a first day cover from The Little Attic S

About 40 pieces of Nevada County ephemera. 1880 Glenbrook park ribbon. 1887 check. Historical Notes of the Early Washington, Nevada County California

Sierra & Nevada county legal papers and court briefs filed in both Nevada and Sierra Counties in the early 1900s. First packet is from Superior ...

About 45 pieces of ephemera from Shasta, Siskiyou, Lassen and Modoc Counties. 1889 patent signed by California Governor Robert Waterman, billheads and

About 50 pieces of ephemera from Northern California, mostly older. 1860's Billheads, letterheads, several Twin Cities Transit broadsides 1942, ...

Notebook/ledger belonging to H.H. Fassett, one of the original founders of the Contra Costa County town of Pacheco. Entries include dollar amounts nex

2 sections, originally from 1 volume, of Placer County tax deeds, representing a conveyance of real estate, sold for non payment of state and county t

About 31 nice pieces of Placer County ephemera. c. 1889-1915. Pictorial letterheads, menus, mining docs, covers, letters etc. Auburn, Colfax, Sunny So

About 11 pieces of Placer County ephemera. 5x Auburn postcards. 1865 tax receipt. 2x 1880's unissued McIntire Mining and Lumbering stocks. 1910 ...

About 45 pieces of Placer County ephemera, c. 1871-1919, mostly older. Several unused Freeman Hotel covers, land related letter, Dutch Flat advertisin

13 pieces of c. 1850's Placer County ephemera on blue paper. Mostly county land docs, 1888 Lincoln cover without stamp, list of criminal charges...

Paper labels for fruit from Red Wagon Brand of the Royal Valley Fruit Growers Ass'n, of Reedley, California. Purple background with diagonal whi...

About 30 Sacramento property entry documents, mostly on blue paper, c. 1850's. Declaratory statements of property locations. Sacramento Califor...

About 90 pieces of assorted c. 1860 and later Sacramento ephemera. Advertisements, souvenir booklet, abstract of title, letterheads, Poodle Dog Restau