"Christmas Chronicles", 2023 December Live Auction

Hickman Lunbeck Grocery Co. / Wholesale Grocers / Greeley, Colo. No patent date. Colorado Gary Bracken Collection

The J. S. Brown & Bro. / Mer. Co. / Denver, Col. 19" long. Painted wording along base is illegible. Underside: Griswold MFG Co. Erie PA ...

The J. S. Brown / Grocery Co. / Pueblo, Colorado. Pat. Dec. 1. 1914. Mfg: T. G. Johnson Co. Quincy, Ill. Colorado Gary Bracken Collection

The Struby Eshbrook Mer Co. / Whol. Grocers / Denver Colo. "Keep Knife Clean" on back. "Mfg. By T. C. Johnson Co. Quincy Ill" on...

Collection of 3 different plug tobacco cutters. 1) Monogram // Watson, Durand, Kasper / Salina, KS. Possibly pre-1900. Broken top on one side, 1&q...

Missouri Embossed Cast Iron Plug Tobacco Cutters. The St. Joseph and Neosho cutters are not made in the same style as the 1914 varieties and are poss

1) Ridenour -Baker Mer Co / Oklahoma City / Okla. No patent date, long handle & base. Approx. 19". 2) McAllister Grocery Co / Wholesale On...

2 early Virginia cigar crate labels with bold colors. The Belle of Virginia 14x6.5". Golden Eagle 10.5x10.5". Upper right corner damage, l...

Separated into five containers~ #1 San Francisco (92), #2 Other California (162), #3 Nevada (48), #4 Hawaii (28), #5 Other U.S. states (108) ~ All sha

Very large collection of matchbooks. 2 Cubic feet in plastic presentation pages and loose. Probably half or more are from Nevada circa 1960s-80s. Othe

Nice mix of vintage cigar box labels and tobacco ephemera included folded unused boxes, signs, vintage advertisements and tobacco bags etc. About 8 lb

8 vintage clay pipes and bowls. Bowl with letters, ND and could be c. Civil War or earlier. Pipe with FB trademark and 6 point star. 2 white clay pipe

About 55 picies of assorted tobacco ephemera, mostly letterheads, c. 1879-1912, mostly older. Some pictorial.

Choice original photo of Palace Drug Co. in Antioch, c. 1905. Photo 8x10", light contrast, right side spots and triangle. Frame 14.5x17". ...

Clear oval pharmacy bottle embossed "A.B. Stewart Druggist Bodie, Cal. Bottle measures 2"x 4.25" and has no cracks, chips or imperfec...

3 Mother Lode Hutch soda bottles, all about 6.5:. Aqua C A Werle/Mok. Hill. Aqua J & R/Auburn. Off clear Champion/Soda Works/Plymouth, Cal. stai...

Very nice collection of 27 Nevada City and Grass Valley bottles. 2 different Clinch clear embossed whiskey fifths. 3 different modern crown sodas. Lar

This bottle has a very pretty cobalt teal glass and has gotten a lot of attention in the office. It is also very rare. This example has been polished.

Nice aqua Empire Soda Works/Vallejo//Embossed eagle blob top with nice drip soda bottle. No apparent chips or cracks. Vallejo California

Light green California Gold Rush applied top soda bottle. Embossed eagle, probably Eagle Soda Works, c. 1850's. 7", no apparent chips or cr...

Clear shoefly half pint. The Bulls Head/1705 Champa St./Denver, Colo. 6". Lip ding, no apparent chips or cracks. 3 unembossed half pint flasks ...

Lot of 12 Items. This Adolph Coors Collection consists of 4 wood boxes, 3 Malted Milk containers, 3 Tins, 1 Game and 1 Paper Bag. 1) Coors Pure Malt

Rare c. 1867 Golden City Pottery & Fire Brick Works, Golden, Colorado 2 gallon crock. 11.5x7.5". .5" chip on top of lip, no other appa...

Aqua applied top John Risse/Gunnison City/Col. soda bottle. S208 in Preble, c. 1889-92. 6.5". No apparent chips or cracks. Gunnison City Colo...

Founded 163 years ago in 1859 by prospectors during the early days of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, Idaho Springs was at the center of the region&#...

Very rare J.R.VANCE/COL Aqua, 7" tall soda bottle. Applied top. Marked I.G.CO. on reverse near base. Preble reference S284. .3" inner lip ...

Barrel top from W.H. Hutchinson &Son Inc. It lists the contents as a gross of bottle caps. Hutchinson and Son were bottle manufacturers and are ...

An apothecary bottle from F.H. Phelps a one time employee of the Carson City Mint, who opened a pharmacy in Carson City, Nevada in 1877. The square b

A pair of W.H. Stowell clear oval apothecary bottles. Stowell was the first in Nevada to label his bottles "Druggist & Assayer." His a...

A 2.5"x 6.5"oval pharmacy bottle from W.H. Stowell "Druggist & Assayer" No. 3 Main Street Eureka, Nevada. Bottle is clear, ...

Both bottles embossed, with an oval slug plate on the front of the bottle. Chr. Weigand ( au ) / Las Vegas / N.M. ( ad ).// Base: Embossed with an ova

Large embossed milk jug from the Rancho Grande Creamery in Las Vegas. Text on the front reads, "Rancho Grande, Cry/ 8 Las Vegas- Nev. 53."...

Thin wall and gold gilt Saltair Beach/Salt Lake, Utah souvenir beer glass. 3.75". Some upper scuffing. No apparent chips or cracks. Salt Lake ...

7 crockery canning jars with lids. 5.75-8". Macomb, 2 tone Western Stoneware, paper label Kuner's Mustard, A Steinhorst with taped over pap...

This is a matching pair of silvered back-bar bottles. They measure 3. 5 in. in diameter and 10. 5 in. high. Each bottle sports a shield with chain eng

Unusual c. 1880-1910 clear glass "standing girl" pictorial label under glass flask. Patented in 1862 by William Nalton originally for pha...

Very early screw-top whiskey flask. Cap reads: "The I.R. Comb Co. / Goodyear 1851 Patented." Bottom half of brown holder is broken (proba...

Tip tray 4.5" wide reading National Beer. National Brewing Co. San Francisco, Cal. Small scratch and a tiny rust spot on reverse, but in very n...

Tip tray for National Beer, brewed by The National Brewing Company of San Francisco, Cal. The tray measures 4" across and is in absolute mint c...

Two metal matchboxes. One is mother of pearl and measures 1.50"x 2.5". The other is an advertising piece touting R. Schoenfeldinger's ...

Supplement to The Western Brewer, February 15, 1885. Black and white (17 x 12 inch) lithograph of the Premises of C. F. Schmidt, Esq. Brewing in India

Tw really nice ad mirrors. First is a 2.25" round, labeled "Bartender's Friend" with George WM. Hoffman Co. The second is an oval...

This is a quartet of Falstaff Beer charger trays. These are reproductions, but that doesn't take away from their colorful appearance. Two measur...

A supplement to The Western Brewer June 15, 1885. Black and white (17 x 13 inch) lithograph of four scenes of Brewing in Milwaukee --Sketches of the

2 different beer or wine barrel taps. 1 is marked S.CC.BB on top, clearly older 8". Newer marked Harry Mason/Birmingham 8.5".

We have never seen one of these before. Probably a brothel or saloon celluloid over metal oval advertising plaque with a nude lady in front of a curta

2 mirror imaged heads on a carved wood figurehead in the style of an old sailing vessel. This appears to be a wall mount display piece for a saloon ne

About 15 small hand written Auburn mostly liquor licenses, c. 1851. A few tax receipts mixed in. Some on blue paper. Auburn California

About 32 small handwritten Placer County c. 1851 liquor licenses, some on blue paper. Auburn, Mansion House, Eagle Hotel, Osborne House?, Ophir, Littl

Photo of the Concord Bakery & Saloon taken in the 1880s. This is the original stick built building constructed in 1880. It was replaced in 1884 ...