December 2017 Premier Auction

Double truck map of California. PP 102-103. Multicolor, Nevada and Oregon on reverse. 14.5" x 22". Date: Location: California H...

Double truck 1885 Rand McNally map of California pp 488-489. 14.5" x 21". Some toning. Date: Location: California HWAC # 54459

12 Maps of primarily California, also includes Arizona and Nevada. 1) Double truck, multi color map of California; 2) City map of San Francisco, singl

1919 Rand McNally Indexed Pocket Map and Auto Road Guide, California. 89 pp plus advertisements. c. 1920's Rand McNally Indexed Pocket Map, Tour...

1) Double Truck, multi color California,/Nevada map South portion California. Asher & Adams. Nye and Lincoln Counties, Nevada. 17.5" x 24&...

1903 published by M. Rieder. 63 pp and 62 b/w photos of San Gabriel Mission, Figueroa Street, Riverside,The Breakers, Salt Fields, Santa Monica, Arch

23 page bound booklet by M. Rieder 1903 with colored views of Southern California. Illustrations of East Lake Park in LA, oranges, Mammouth Wharf, Old

3 nice California tourist booklets with b/w photos of California scenic and building highlights. California The Wonderland paperbound 22 pp 8"...

Cute "Martian" Bank of America dime saver. Bank of Italy estate solution brochure, deposit slip, annual report 1927 20pp. Date: Loca...

1) 18 Unissued Felton Water Co. 2) 28 unissued Eureka Mining Co. c. 1890's 3) 9 unissued Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson c. 1880's Date: ...

Approx 50 unissued certificates, Capital Woolen Mills. c 1860's. Date: c1860s Location: California HWAC # 54412

Lot of 5. 1) Wing Chung Lung & Co, Importers Chinese & Japanese Bazaar, 1321 Washington Street, Oakland, CA. 2.5" x 4.5" 2) Leong...

Approx. 50 California business cards, many pictorial. Includes: Truckee Coffee Shop and Soda Fountain; colorful and pictorial Schmidt Lithograph Co.,

Lot of 13, mostly California. Included: Cook & Knox (Pharmacists, Merced), Sanborn, Vail & Co. (San Francisco), 2x John W. Roberts (SF), W. ...

8 trade cards from St. Helena, Napa, Petaluma, Santa Rosa and Eureka CA. Date: c. 1880-1890 Location: California HWAC # 54130

3 Lodi, 4 Stockton, 4 Hollister, 1 Modesto. Date: c. 1880-1890 Location: California HWAC # 54127

2 Chico, 1 Oroville, 1 Woodland trade cards. Date: c. 1880-1890 Location: California HWAC # 54128

7 Southern CA trade cards from Riverside, Arrowhead, Oceanside, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Los Angeles. Date: Location: California

Lot of 12 pictorial, colorful member cards.. Most are NSGW including: Sacramento, Maxwell, Hayward, Nevada City, Davisville, two Auburn, Merced, and S

A rare item we have never seen before from an organization of men who were born in California whose mission it would be to preserve the state's ...

Pictorial letterheads from California. C. F. Weber with a wood school desk. Baker & Hamilton with factory. Acme Auto and Taxicab, 2 California A...

6 different California sheet music pieces. I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Golden Gate by Jolson, Cable Car San Francisco, The California Polka by D

Lot of 9 billheads & receipts all from different California steamers. This is a unique collection that we haven't assembled before. Included...

Lot of 21. Includes: 4 passes, two each for the California Transportation Co. (1933 & 1937) and Wilmington Transportation Co. (1936 & 1938);...

Early CDV of Pacific Steam Navigation Company's R.M. Steamers, Araucania & Cordillera. Reverse has cabin plan. Image is very weak contrast a...

Lot of 20. A few duplicates. This is a balance lot of California stereoviews. Most date to early 1900s. Publishers include Keystone, Kilburn, Underwoo

Blank invoice from Vina Distillery, Palo Alto Winery and Vina Winery with color vignette of Brandy bottles and a steam train c.1890's. Business ...

Nice collection of Chinese in California items. Includes 14 stock certificates from Lung Kong Shaw Co. 1 share each, signed by president, owners are n

Early Mitchell map of area #15. Yellow, green and pink highlights. piece missing on left edge and lower left. Pre-Gold Rush! Pre-Nevada Territory! D

Lot of 13 different, many illustrated. Includes: Castle Bros. Wolf & Sons, Shipping & Commission Merchants, San Francisco; pictorial W.D. Co...

30 items including pictorial billheads c 1880's First Class from Pickford Bros butchers, California Meat Market, RM Beebee hardware, First Clas...

Lot of 9. Included: 1905 pictorial letterhead for Santa Rosa; 1909 brochure for proposed dam in Iron Canyon, Tehama County; undated brochure for the U

Ocean and ship Photograph by John Akhtar. John's background in physics helped him develop a mathematical way of looking at things. This carried ...

...a Complete Tourists Guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound, and the Great Northwest." By Stanley Wood,...

One First Mortgage and Collateral Trust 5%, fifty-year sinking fund gold bond. No. 535, $5000. Issued to R. B. Mott and signed by Vice President W.R.

15 volumes. Pacific Service Magazines for Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Issues from 1920 through 1922. Published in San Francisco, CA. Learn about

Stanford University press, 1946. early edition. Classic reference of California Paddle-wheel steamboats during the Gold Rush and the Comstock. 157 pag

Photo of Babe Ruth with his signature (very faint). He has just hit and just ready to drop bat and run! Document of authentication on reverse from the

Paperback 110 pp. 24 b/w plates of outdoor wonders including 4 by Ansel Adams and mountaineering trip notes. 925" x 6.25". Date: Loc...

This is a lot of two pictorial booklets from Denver. 1) Souvenir Album of 1891 of Denver, Colo. It was complied by W.A. Barbot and produced by the Str

Red softcover. 128 pages with 39 illustrations and an index. For the Year Ending Dec. 31st, 1891. Olney Newell, Secretary. Details things such as cons

c.1900 business card for The Brown Palace Hotel, Broadway at Seventeenth Street, Denver. H.D. Harvey, personal representative. 2.75" x 4.25&quo...

Business card for Art Rindskopf, Photographer, 912 E. 13th Ave., with Golden Eagle D.G. Co., Denver, Colorado. Card has original photograph of man pos

The Western Pottery Co., Denver, CO catalog. 16 pp and b/w photos of pottery and stoneware. 6" x 9". Date: Location: Denver , Colo...

Total of twelve bonds. Earliest is number 53. All twelve are intact with all 10 coupons. Signed by John Hodges Jr and JC Hummel. Horizontal fold. Page

Lot of nine. Earliest Number is 35 and latest is 52. Overall in good condition. Curls at upper right. Not do to water damage though. The Western Pipe

Rare! I/C to LL Bailey in 1890. #54 for 20 shares. 8.5" x 11". Signed by the president (illegible) and A.G. Siddons, cashier. Opened in 18...

6 b/w trade cards with photos of Pikes Peak, bottling works, Manitou and bath house. Date: c. 1880-1890 Location: Manitou Springs, Colorado H

Gray ink on cream color map showing Colorado Territory and Reservation of the Cheyennes & Arapahoes. Condition issue with 10" tear in fold ...

11 Colorado trade cards- Central City and Denver. Date: c. 1880-1890 Location: Colorado HWAC # 54138

Lot of eight. 1) 1896 speech of the Honorable Henry m. Teller on Freed Coinage of Silver. 2) 1908 pamphlet for the National Democratic Convention. 3)

1) Church key from Manitou Springs Mineral Water Company. Some rust. 2) "I'm for Colorado" pin c1896. 3) Wagon to hang around neck. Ne...

Includes: Indian Duel, Women's news, Oracle of Mulberry Center, Tourist Invasion of Colorado Springs, Mining & financial, chauffeurs and whe...

Old telephone directory for Canon City, Florence and Siloam Colorado. Paper bound 26pp 1" top tear thru all pages. 9.25" x 6.25". ...

1) The Beecher Island Annual. Sixty-second anniversary of the Battle of Beecher Island. 124 pages. 9 x 6". Pages are separating and soft cover ...

Lot of 4 different. 1) W.H. Jackson No. 575--Emigrant Peak, from Bottlers. c.1870, when Jackson became the official Hayden survey photographer. 2) Two

20 Colorado pieces includes pictorial billhead from National Garage 1938, 7 stereoviews of outdoor scenes, Seven Falls tourist brochure, 5.5" x...

Great reference work. Biographies of Governor Alva Adams, James Rice, Peter Breen, Darwin Kingsley, James Freeman, Edwin Ballard, Henry Lee, John H Po

1 single sheet map, Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado showing the portion of Dacotah. Entered by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr., in the Clerk's Office of ...

Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company. Directory for the cities of: Clifton, Collbran, De Beque, Fruita, Grand Junction, Mesa, Palisade,...

1) Official List of Denver State Lottery. 1890. Some rips and tears. Center fold is very fragile. 2) 1905 Rocky Mountain News. Includes: President Ro

This beautiful authentic antique bucket is embossed with the name "E. Miller and Co. Meriden, Conn. Pat. Aug. 11, 1868 Pat. April 27, 1869 Pat....

Price list and illustrated catalog of brass and iron bedsteads and cribs. National Wire Mattress Co , New Britain, Ct. April st 1881. 48 pp with bed l

Lot of 7 different Keystone stereoviews. Includes: Doubling frame in large woolen mill, Lawrence, Massachusetts; weighing and sorting raw silk skeins

1884 Bradley p33 15.25" x 12.5". Note left edge tears. Date: Location: Dakota Territory HWAC # 54445

1 Lincoln NE trade card. 8 Dakota Territory trade cards- Broken Bow, Omaha, Marion. Date: c. 1880-1890 Location: Dakota Territory HWAC # 54

2 maps, multi color Plan of the City of Washington, The Capitol of the United States of America. Page 30. 12.75"X15.5". Page 18 shows Conn...

Lot of 10 stereoviews, 9 of which appear to be from the same series, although no photographer/publisher is provided. "Florida, the Land of Flow...

Large Florida map by A. Plat, dated Oct 1855. Lists Forbe's Purchase, Jacksonville, Ft. Lauderdale and a few other cities in this undeveloped er...

Lot of 8, 7 different. Includes: St. James Hotel, Jacksonville (Webster & Albee); two Keystone views, Harvesting Indian River Pineapples and Old...

Single page multi color map of Counties of Georgia and Alabama p.3312.5" x 15.25". Single page multi color County Map of Florida 1870, p. ...

Lot of 3 different. 1) Keystone, c.1901: On the beautiful Mauna Loa Creek. 2) Keystone, c.1901: Pretty Hula Girls, Honolulu. 3) Underwood & Unde...

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Single sheet, multi color map of Nebraska, Dakota, Colorado, Idaho & Kansas by Johnson and Ward. Page 63. Historical and Statistical View of the...

Single page, multi color lithograph, Johnson's Washington Oregon and Idaho, Page #65; 2) Single page, multi color lithograph, Colton's Washi...

Four pictorial Official Certificates for the American Trotting Register (horse vignette) issued in Chicago 1892-1893. "The Pacing Standard.&quo...

6 different dress catalogs.Spring 1893 32 pp, 1896-1897 38 pp, 1897-1898 with an invoice 39 pp, Fall 1897 38 pages, Spring 1899 10 pp foldout and pric

Lot of 50+ stereoviews from a Sears, Roebuck & Co. set c.1908 that promotes the company. Each stereoview has a typed description on the reverse....

Very rare Goes Lithographed and Steel-Litho Stock Certificates sales catalog. We have never seen this item before. Circa 1920. Bound catalog of approx

One Debenture Gold Coupon Bond, $100, 6 percent, 10 year No. 176, 20 coupons attached. Signed by President A.D. Gates. 9.25" x 16.5". ...

1) Single page, multi color lithograph County Map of the State of Illinois with inset of Springfield, page #45; 2) Single page, multi color lithograph

1907 catalog of carriages, 16pp price list and 120pp catalog.112 b/w illustrations of open and covered carriages. 7" x 8.5". Cover has low...

Certificate number 110 for 10 shares to RB Taylor on October 24, 1890. Three weeks later (on back) he turned all of his shares back to the company? Si

Peter Hangsted insured his life on September 25, 1914 for $2500. The policy opens to 12 x 19, with coupons on the interior. The only Peter Hangsted in

Two Gold Debentures. 1 bond is for $500 No. D7, 6%, 14 coupons, signed by President Moore. Beautiful ornate orange border. 9.75" x 15.25"....

32 pp plus advertising. Some pencil writing on both covers. 9" x 6". Date: Location: Council Grove, Kansas HWAC # 54333

Letter dated 1912, Lodi, CA on color Cyrus Noble Whiskey letterhead about a returned check. 1 fold, 10.75" x 8.5" Date: 1912 Location...

County Map of the States of Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Multi color, double truck. 15.25"x23.5". Plan of New Orleans single, mult...

Double truck multi color map of railroad and counties of Maine. Pp. 6&7, slight tears in fold. 23.25" x 17.25". Single page, multi col...

Single, multi color map of Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey. 12.5"x15.25"; single, multi color map of Plan of Baltimore. 12.5"x15.25...

The Fashion World by Jordan, Marsh and Co, Boston, Mass. 1885. Catalog of fashion accessories pottery, Japanese curios, jewelry, books and more. Some

Brown cover, Boston Mass. 1905-1906. 66 pages with b/w photos of many famous historical paintings. 8.5" x 5. 75". Date: Location: ...

Involved with industrial engineering and construction. Lockwood, Greene & Company was established on March 1, 1882 by Amos D. Lockwood and Steph...

Fairbanks & Cole Boston, Mass. Date: c. 1880-1890 Location: Boston, Massachusetts HWAC # 54142

Photograph of a small child with some fun props. The photograph was taken by C.E. Pinsonneault who was located at 87 Main Street, Chicopee Falls. The

Pictorial large way bill for stage passage from Brattleborough and Keene to Lowell and Boston. Dated May 6th, 1839. Thirteen passengers, some identifi

1) Double truck, multi color lithograph of Railroad & County Map of Massachusetts & Rhode Island with with indexes on back, page #14. 17&quo...

Choice vintage photo of a boat on a boathouse ramp in Massachusetts, 42 star US flag (c.1890). By JR O'Hara, Jr. in Winthrop, Mass. Photo is 4.5...

This is a photograph of the Detroit Horse Infirmary of Dr. J. Hawkins Veterinary Surgeon in his booth at an unknown exhibition. The photographer is id

Lot of 9 (8 different). Eight are Keystone: 22058--Tire Plant in Akron; 22058--Different of Tire Plant; 29228--Testing cord fabric for tires; 22142--T