December 2017 Premier Auction

Auction Details

This three day, 2,200 lot sale features items in numerous collecting categories including Native Americana, Firearms, Cowboy, Mining, Railroad & Express, Numismatics & Tokens, Postal History, Gaming, Bottles, and Military.

Highlights include:

*A big batch of Western trade tokens including a large Nevada collection.

*Coins, currency, and checks in our Numismatics section including a Ukiah bank note and a $20 gold piece.

*A Railroad section that includes a large number of Eastern Railroad Passes, including a Jay Gould autograph piece.

*Wells Fargo & Co. and American Express collectibles, including company archives.

*Mining stock certificates, photographs, books, and other ephemera.

*A large Postal History section featuring many hundreds of postcards, many real photo, as well as stamps and other philatelic ephemera.

*Gaming collectibles including an assortment of Nevada casino ashtrays

*A group of Antique Bottles including whiskey, bitters, medicines, and soda.

*A very large General Americana section featuring: a collection of presidential autographed letters, photographs & other ephemera; a large World's Fair & Expositions section full of stereoviews from the Prag Collection; jewelry; Western art; a huge Yosemite & Big Trees section; a big collection of San Francisco documents and early stereoviews; and U.S. documents, trade cards, business cards, and other ephemera.

*Our best Firearms selection to date with an 1869 Sharps Rifle, a rare Flintlock pistol, and rare antique ammunition. Our Firearms & Weaponry section also has Japanese katanas and Chinese swords.

*Military collectibles including a large Civil War section full of Confederate bonds, letters, photographs and more.

*Another world-class offering of Northwest and Southwest Native Americana featuring Nome Gold Rush ivory art and tools, baskets, kachinas, pottery, points, and much more!

*Our Cowboy section has postcards (including a Buffalo Bill collection), photographs, chaps, saddles, and saddle bags.

*A small selection of African and Western taxidermy for your office/den wall.

Full Auction Schedule

Day One, December 1st, 2017 (Lots 1000-1735)

Tokens (Geographic Sort) (1000-1118)

Numismatics (Lots 1119-1152)
Coins (1119-1128)
Checks (1129-1138)
Currency (1139-1146)
Medals & So-Called Dollars (1147-1152)

Railroadiana (Lots 1153-1292)
Passes (1153-1219)
Books (1220-1231)
Stocks & Other Ephemera (Geographic Sort) (1232-1292)

Wells Fargo & Other Express (Lots 1293-1322)
Wells Fargo (1293-1308)
American Express (1309-1313)
Other Express (1314-1322)

Mining (Lots 1323-1545)
Hard Goods: Candlesticks, Signs, Etc. (1323-1331)
Books (1332-1338)
Stocks & Other Ephemera (Geographic Sort) (1339-1545)

Postal History & Philatelic (Geographic Sort) (Lots 1546-1714)

Gaming (Lots 1715-1735)


Day Two, December 2nd, 2017 (Lots 2000-2750)

Bottles (Lots 2000-2043)

General Americana (Lots 2044-2700)
Jewelry (2044-2059)
Art (2060-2098)
Worlds Fairs & Expositions (2099-2130)
Political (2131-2152)
Geographic Sort (2153-2588)
Misc. Categories incl. Maps & Atlases, Black Americana, Fire, Ephemera (2589-2700)

Foreign Collectibles (Lots 2701-2750)

Day Three, December 3rd, 2017 (Lots 3000-3734)

Firearms & Weaponry (Lots 3000-3167)
Ephemera (3000-3007)
Ammunition (3008-3058)
Pistols & Revolvers (3059-3084)
Rifles & Shotguns (3085-3095)
Scabbards & Misc. (3096-3111)
Swords & Katanas (3112-3167)

Military & War Collectibles (Lots 3168-3231)
Revolutionary War & Civil War (3168-3219)
Spanish American War (3220-3223)
World Wars & Misc. (3224-3231)

Native Americana (Lots 3232-3593)
Alaska incl. Ivory (3232-3307)
Art (3308-3320)
Baskets (3321-3331)
Beadwork (3332-3347)
Rugs & Weavings (3348-3353)
Jewelry (3354-3359)
Kachinas (3360-3385)
Points & Stone Artifacts incl. a Large Georgia Collection (3386-3409)
Pottery (3410-3588)
Ephemera (3589-3593)

Cowboy (Lots 3594-3724)
Ephemera (3594-3626)
Chaps (3627-3666)
Saddle Bags (3667-3685)
Saddles (3686-3718)
Spurs & Misc. (3719-3724)


Taxidermy (Lots 3725-3734)





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Little Miami & Columbus and Xenia Railroad 1865 Pass1190Little Miami & Columbus and Xenia Railroad 1865 Pass
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Rare! Also the Dayton, Xenia & Belpre and the Dayton & Western Railroads. Signed by Joseph R Swan. Swan was ardently in support of the war a...
Estimate : 100.00 - 300.00
Sold to F********h for (75.00 + 18.75BP) = 93.75
Pittsburgh, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad Complimentary Pass, 18651191Pittsburgh, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad Complimentary Pass, 1865
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1865. Signed by superintendent CH Allen. For a few short years in 1860's the Pittsburgh and Steubenville Railroad operated as the PC&C Railr...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold to F********h for (120.00 + 30.00BP) = 150.00
Two "St Louis" Railroad Passes (1886 & 1889)1192Two "St Louis" Railroad Passes (1886 & 1889)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1) St. Louis, Alton, & Terre Haute Railroad. 1889 in blue surrounded by Cairo Short Line Service. Issued to NL Hobart and signed by George H Par...
Estimate : 50.00 - 100.00
Sold to 6******n for (120.00 + 26.40BP) = 146.40
Toledo & Ohio Central Railway 1886 Pass1193Toledo & Ohio Central Railway 1886 Pass
Holabird Western Americana Collections
First full year of operation!!! Number 937. Issued to NL Hobart from J Martin. Pristine condition like many of the passes in this collection. Toledo a
Estimate : 40.00 - 100.00
Sold to j*********t for (30.00 + 7.50BP) = 37.50
Allegheny & Kinzua Railroad 1892 Pass1194Allegheny & Kinzua Railroad 1892 Pass
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Number 505. To ML Lee of the NYLE&W RR. The historic Allegheny & Kinzua Railroad began in 1888. The man who owned the "A & K RR&quo...
Estimate : 40.00 - 70.00
Sold to F********h for (140.00 + 35.00BP) = 175.00
Allegheny Valley Rail Road 1880 Pass1195Allegheny Valley Rail Road 1880 Pass
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Number 39A. Signed by David Cargo. Issued to George M Taylor and family of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Heavy cardstock. Light blue. Very nice condition
Estimate : 40.00 - 60.00
Sold to F********h for (50.00 + 12.50BP) = 62.50
Allegheny Valley Rail Road Pass with Two Vignettes1196Allegheny Valley Rail Road Pass with Two Vignettes
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Vignettes of an oil rig and a serene country scene with n engine and train going past a factory. .882. Number 595 to George M Taylor signed by David M
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to j*********t for (65.00 + 16.25BP) = 81.25
Clergy Half Rate Pass from the Pennsylvania Lines1197Clergy Half Rate Pass from the Pennsylvania Lines
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1894. Number 4775. Issued to Reverend George A Dreibelbies of the Reformed Church in Carrothers, Ohio. In the 1900 census he was ministering in Sugar
Estimate : 50.00 - 100.00
Sold to r******8 for (225.00 + 56.25BP) = 281.25
Fall Brook Coal Company 1886 Pass with Dramatic Bridge Vignette1198Fall Brook Coal Company 1886 Pass with Dramatic Bridge Vignette
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Bridge is the Watkins Glen Viaduct on the Syracuse, Geneva, and Corning (SG&C) RR line. Fancy script! The Fall Brook Coal Company was a coal com...
Estimate : 100.00 - 300.00
Sold to 6******n for (350.00 + 77.00BP) = 427.00
Mont Alto Railroad 1882 Pass1199Mont Alto Railroad 1882 Pass
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Number 99. Signed by George B Wiebling(?). Lots of fancy scroll work on this one. The Mont Alto Rail Road was a railroad in Franklin County, Pennsylva
Estimate : 40.00 - 100.00
Sold to F********h for (140.00 + 35.00BP) = 175.00