"Christmas Chronicles", 2023 December Live Auction

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

7 Sacramento area broadsides in various sizes, Livery Stable, O R Gleason, New York Bazaar, Western Hotel, 2x San Francisco Railroad in Chinese, Rober

About 27 pieces of interesting Sacramento area ephemera including Pacific Bank, State Capital History booklet, Sacramento Valley Veterans Brigade 1903

Sacramento billhead and letterhead collection, c. 1860's-1900. About 100 or more items. Includes pictorial, color, sheriff, oil, candy, poultry,...

Four checks from the Sacramento City Bank in Shasta, California. "Sacramento" is crossed out and "Shasta" is written above on 3 ...

A perusal of this official book will show names like Ralston, Crocker and Zabriskie among many others. One page has three lawsuits against Crocker alo

26 different Sacramento Gold Rush billheads mostly on blue paper. c. 1852-60. John J Murphy, R Dale, Schooner Umpqua, City Water Works, J & P Ca...

1856 blue paper Sheriffs Judgement, Cafron v. Felch & Floutman for $1530. Broadside size, 21x16". 1" left crease tear, crease toning. ...

About 200 Anglo Californian Bank documents, c. 1886-1906. This bank was founded in 1873 as a successor to the London firm of J & W Seligman and ...

Daily Alta California Newspapers (4) from the year 1852. The February 1, edition has a report from Governor John Bigler (1805-1871) to the California

Daily Evening Bulletin (6) began publication in October 1855 by San Francisco activist James King of William, who was the editor of the paper until hi

Drexel, Sather & Church second of exchange, 1851-2 right side chips and light toning. The Pioneer One Dollar Store, 1870 billhead. Was this the ...

Portion of a letter handwritten/signed by Eugene Kelly, stating to the recipient that he was getting out of the dry goods business to go into the bank

Nice Golden Gate Bridge blue print drawing in white frame. 17x36.5". San Francisco California

12 pieces of c. 1850's San Francisco ephemera. John W Tucker billhead. Letter to Comptroller of State in Vallejo City about drafts. Turnbull &a...

5 San Francisco exchanges. Drexel, Sather and Church-1856 first and 1856 second. Sather and Church 1861 second with California adhesive revenue stamp.

About 65 generic San Francisco letterheads, promo items, checks, deeds, billheads etc. c. 1877-1904. Mostly pre 1900. San Francisco California

Mostly c. 1878-90's San Francisco mostly non pictorial billheads, about 100 or so. Coffee, furniture, bread, saws, stationery, drugs, steel, whi...

About 100+ San Francisco pictorial letterheads and billheads. c. 1877-1919. Boots, cigars, hardware, guns, chairs, coffee, poultry, windmills etc. All

John F. Seymour was the San Francisco Police Department Chief from 1910-1911. This small group contains a photo of the Chief and Mayor Patrick Henry M

c. 1879-80 Ridge Telephone Company letter copy book. Contains about 50 letters to various mining, utility and telephone companies. "When Alexan...

Collection of about 50 pieces of Santa Clara ephemera, c. 1864-1910. Mostly billheads and letterheads with pictorials, a telegram, Los Gatos foldout b

About 20 pieces of ephemera from Santa Cruz and Monterey, c. 1871-1904. Billheads, letterheads, promo brochures, liquor license, etc. Santa Cruz, Sole

2" original bundle of Cal Coast vegetable can labels with California map, 5x13". Saticoy California Stuart Mackenzie Montana Ephemera C...

About 22 pieces of Sonoma County ephemera, c. 1879-1938, mostly 1800's. Tax collector letter, color N S Cobb Furniture and Undertaking 2 page le...

8 pieces of late 19th century Sonoma County ephemera. 2 covers with contents, no stamps. 5 letters related to land in Sonoma, 1910 photo of Russian Ri

Lot of 8 deeds to claims in the area of Spanish Flats, Plumas County, California. Includes: deed dated March 29, 1869, from Simeon Plant to Louis Libe

About 25 pieces of ephemera from Sutter and Solano counties, Pictorial billhead, legal docs, peach promo, deed, etc. Dixon, Vallejo, Benicia, Marysvil

Mono County receipts from The Rickey Land & Cattle Company (4), receipts for Kirman & Rickey General Merchandise (2) and two (2) letters fro...

About 55 pieces of ephemera from Trinity, Humboldt and Del Norte Counties, c. 1868-1915. Billheads and letterheads, some pictorial, IOOG 1868 booklet,

13 pieces of Truckee, CA area ephemera. Boca Mill Co. cover, date 1??7. 1908 Boca postcard with trees. View from Truckee Station, Looking West stereov

About 80 pieces of Tuolumne ephemera, c. 1871-1910. Land statements, billheads-some pictorial, Sierra Railway, Confidence Gold Mining payroll ledger s

Assortment (30) of receipts from various towns in the Trinity Mining region, including Weaverville and Douglas. There are receipts from Abrahm &...

Lot of two Bank of California vintage checks: 1) 1874 Virginia, Nevada, duplicate of exchange payable in gold coin. 2) 1868 Gold Hill, Nevada with Nev

Nic mix of about 50 California color paper and color vignettes billheads and letterheads, c. 1883-1912. San Francisco, Jamestown, Sacramento etc. Colo

Lot of 8 different. Great little collection with some rare pieces! Includes: Sierra Telegraph Co. (Oakdale, 1913); American District Telegraph billhea

About 100 Central California fruit crate labels. Manteca, Visilia, Exeter etc. 15 lbs. California Stuart Mackenzie Montana Ephemera Collection

Billheads from all over the western states, including the National Ice Company of San Francisco, T.J Hammond Fruits & Produce of Fresno, Charles...

Nice, The Leadville Live Stock Company die cut advertising piece with 1899 calendar in 20x18" frame. Blue eyed baby girl in front of a basket....

Lot of two early Colorado bank checks: 1) 1869 Jerome B. Chaffee & Co. Bankers, Central City and Georgetown, with U. S. revenue stamp. 2) 1874 C...

Paper labels for cans of Ellendale All Green Asparagus, 15oz, packed by John S. Isaacs of Ellendale, Delaware. Background of pale yellow, green, and d

Paper labels for cans of Ellendale Fres Lima Bean, 20 oz, packed by John S. Isaacs of Ellendale, Delaware. Background of pale yellow, green, and dark

Paper labels for Isaac's Farm Run of Pod Early June Peas packed by John S. Isaacs of Ellendale, Delaware, 20 oz. Pale yellow background with an ...

Lot of 3 different. 1) H.T. Hall & C.E. Dexter, First of Exchange, Columbus, Georgia, 1856. Issued for $3,304.70. Signed Hall & Dexter. Pen ...

4 different Matson Lines Hawaii art cover menus, c. 1950. 13.75x10.5". Nice colorful scenes of vintage Hawaii. Hawaii

Banking house of T.L. Mackoy and Ivory Quinby, Monmouth Illinois bank check dated February 28, 1857. Vignette of little girl saluting lower left, herd

Certificate of Ownership for Lot No. 360, Section HH at the New Cathedral Cemetery. This cemetery was part of the Catholic Cathedral Church of Baltimo

Paper label for 20oz cans of Preston White Lima Beans, Albert W. Sisk & Son, distributors not manufacturers. Dark purple background with wide re...

James Tilghman signed Capias at Satisfaction issuing out of the Court of Queens County, Maryland, May 6, 1799, directed to the Coroner of said County