December 2017 Premier Auction

Schmidt Litho was one of the best and most colorful of the San Francisco printers. Here are 2 of there company directories, one with signatures of 7

Five different. 1) Deckelman Bros., Barber's Supply House, 106 Ellis Street, SF. 2) Union Square Furniture Packing & Moving Co., corner of P...

Panorama from New City Hall, 4.75" x 8". Date: Location: San Francisco, California HWAC # 54601

6 menu's: Bergez-Franks Old Poodle Dog 1910 New Years Eve 4pp, April 15, 1922 menu with 2p insert and ala carte menu. General Bill of Fare and W...

1905 "Seeing San Francisco" Aboard the Sight Seeing Car by Kollmann. Loaded with b/w photos of San Francisco and ads. Includes Palace Hote...

On the Way to Monterey by Ben Black, California Sunset by Alex Sullivan, California by Albert Roche, My California Queen by Ivan Martin, Would You by

Lot of 8. 1) Four cards, two types, for D. Ryan, Druggist & Apothecary, 30th & Mission Streets, San Francisco. Two are earlier (2.25 x 4&quo...

31 assorted pieces of promotional brochures, letterheads and envelopes from many famous old San Francisco hotels. Includes St. Francis, Keystone, Stew

Wow. This is quite a collection. Lot of 92. Vast majority are dated 1877 and billed to NS Trowbridge & Co. who were general merchants in Tybo, N...

40+. 16 non building San Francisco pictorial letterheads 1904-1939 includes several Camille's Rotisserie and Restaurant, non pictorial Levi Stra...

Lot of 26. Includes: John Taylor & Co. (Druggist and Assay Supplies) to Savage Mine in Virginia City (1868, 1870, 1872); Anchor Shirt Factory (1...

8 buildings pictorial letterheads 1901-1948:- Hotel Terminal, The Olympic Club, Eilers Music Co., Miller Sloss & Scott, Hotel Plaza and more. 10...

Approx 80 items, mostly billheads related to San Francisco, some are pictorial. Generally 1870's to 1890 thought some are newer. Includes some p...

Three pieces. 1) "San Francisco, The Queen City." 1915 softcover booklet (8.25 x 10") of photogravures published by Cardinell-Vincent...

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, June 1, 1935 booklet from Columbia Steel Co. with photos of construction and articles. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bri

13 certs, 12 unissued, 1 issued to Isador Landsberger 1876 #9 1000 shares. Litho is GT Brown, an African American artist. Date: 1876 Location:

Volume 2, Number 2. Published monthly. San Francisco. By LP McCarthy, publisher. Professionally rebounding with hard boards. 4.5 x 7.5". 120 pa...

Lot of ten great old views. 1) Smallest is a 2.5 x 3.75" (4 x 5.5" matted) by Johnston & Company. Shows Cliff House and Seal Rock. Com...

Three bells polka composed & dedicated to Capt. Creighton. by T.J. Cook. Pearson, engraver Sarony & Co. (active ca. 1853-ca. 1857), lithogr...

1) Business card for Alphonso (Ah Gow). Your guide through "China-Town." 2) Ryan's Famous Chinatown Tours Brochure. 8 x 4". 10 pa...

1) i/u Pope Expanding Bit Co. to FH Gould 1912 #224. 2) i/void Noyo Land and Cattle Co. to HM Cochran #9 1 share. Date: Location: San Francisc

Photo of entrance to the Golden Gate showing Bonita Point and Mount Tamalpais with a steamship in the water. Photo by Billington. 4.5" x 7.5&qu...

25 unused ticket books, c.1920s-30s. Whitney's Playland was a 10-acre (40,000 m2) seaside amusement park located next to Ocean Beach at the we...

Approx 98 San Francisco trade cards including Tillman and Bendel, Doxey & Company's, American Exchange Hotel, American Clock Depot, Fountain...

1) Grateful Dead, Live at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. 2) Grateful Dead, Skull and Roses on a pumpkin. 3) Burning Man, Cargo Cult. 4) Burning Man,

Vintage Grateful Dead / Neville Bros Live in Concert Poster Dec. 30-31. Ford Coliseum. Probably a reprint, but nicely framed in double metal. Poster 2

5 San Jose CA trade cards. Date: c. 1880-1890 Location: San Jose, California HWAC # 54134

1) c. late 1880s Stereoview by A.J. McDonald, San Francisco. Nice view of observatory buildings on the hill. According to Mautz, McDonald partnered wi

One First Mortgage Six Per Cent Sinking Fund Forty Year Gold Bond. No. 1516, $500. Signed by President Brown. Ornate green border with allegorical vig

A luxury hotel located in Santa Barbara, California that opened in 1927. Operates today as the Four Seasons Resort—The Biltmore Santa Barbara. Rare 6.

4.5" x 7.5" b/w photos of ostrichs at South Pasadena Ostrich Farm. 12 page souvenir booklet from South Pasadena Ostrich Farm with ostrich ...

1) 1897 letter from Emory Smith horticulturist, Redwood City, CA with lower corner folds and tears. Letter from Chas. Hodges, Stanford University, 190

A large pocket map of Tulare County, CA 1920. Brown binder with rear stain, 9.75" x 5". Map is 27.5" x 30". Two tears on left si...

Visalia Stock Saddle Co, JC Ward Books, Visalia. Date: c. 1880-1890 Location: Visalia, California HWAC # 54136

Three different billheads from this California Gold Rush town in Trinity County. 1) Henry Junkans, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Wines & Liquor...

Lot of 34. Mini-archive for the West Side Lumber Co. of Tuolumne, California. Includes: 1919 billhead attached to Sierra Railway voucher for payment o

Edition Supreme. 6 pages of sheet music.12" x 9.25". Date: Location: Yosemite, California HWAC # 53602

Lot of 10. Includes: 5.75" x 8.75" black and white photograph of people on horseback on the Glacier Point trail in 1932 (identified on rev...

Lot of 30. Promotional guides: 1923 Yosemite Mariposa Big Trees; 1924 Yosemite Road Guide; undated for Yosemite Lodge; c.1920s "What to do in Y...

Lot of ten different stereoviews published by B.W. Kilburn (and Kilburn Bros., Littleton, NH). Rarest is No. 964--Registry Rock, nice contrast. Also i

Lot of 7 different Yosemite scenic stereoviews by E .& H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York), c.1870s. Five are from the Glories of Yosemite, Califo...

Out of the hundreds of Yosemite stereoviews in this collection, these 9 were kept separate by Prag. They were in an envelope marked Very Early Yosemit

Lot of seven Yosemite scenery stereoviews by Carlton Watkins. 1) Two are from Watkins' Pacific Coast, 22 & 26 Montgomery St., San Francisco,...

Lot of 8 different stereoviews by Thomas Houseworth & Co. Light to medium contrast. 1) Six cards from Lawrence & Houseworth, c.1865 and 1866...

Lot of 13 stereoviews by photographer J.J. Reilly (and partners). Condition is mostly good with light to medium contrast. 1) Four cards from Stockton

Group of 5 different Yosemite stereoviews c.1870 by John P. Soule (of Boston). Best two are of iconic Yosemite structures: No. 1072. Hutchings' ...

Five different stereoviews (4" x 7") of Yosemite by well-known San Francisco publisher Taber. Cards include: No. 1094--Tutocanula or El Ca...

Lot of three stereoviews (4" x 7") from John S. Moulton (Salem, Massachusetts). Best card is No.35 view of Hutchings' Hotel with Senti...

One rare stereoview of Black's Hotel in Yosemite. The only one like this in a collection of hundred of stereoviews we sorted. No photographer is...

Lot of four different rare stereoviews of the Hutchings' Hotel. Cards include: C.W. Woodward (Rochester, NY) view #600 showing the hotel and Sen...

One rare stereoview (no photographer listed) No.103--Hutchings' Winter Quarters, showing Hutchings sitting with a rifle in front of a small cabi...

1) Leydig's [sic.] Hotel, Yosemite, Cal. Popular Series. No photographer identified. Applied crooked. Nice contrast and detail. George Leidig ca...

Lot of 28. This is a really nice set of "later" stereoviews (i.e. not 1860s-80s). Includes: a set of 11 cards from a family vacation (1920...

Three different rare stereoviews by John P. Soule (Boston) c.1870 of Lamon's Cabin in Yosemite. 1) No. 1245: Close-up exterior view with three m...

Rare. Only one like it in the hundreds of Yosemite stereoviews we sorted in this collection. 3.75" x 7" view #106--Eagle Cliff. Well-dress...

Lot of 15 Yosemite scenery stereoviews. Most Includes: C.P. Hibbard No. 70 Mirror Lake; B.K. Edit Vallee de Yosemite (Paris photographer); Union View

Fun set of 4 different stereoviews that show the evolution of vehicles passing through the Mariposa Grove: Keystone c.1899 view showing woman on horse

Choice large (4"x7") stereoview by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. of the Mammoth Tree Grove Hotel. Many clear details including stagecoac...

Lot of 5 different, all published by E. & H.T. Anthony Co. (New York). Four are large format (4 x 7"): 38, Galen's Hospice (fading and ...

Lot of 11 different Big Trees stereoviews. This is a nice group, with some rare views. 1) c.1866 Thomas Houseworth & Co. No. 909, Interior of th...

Three choice stereoviews by different publishers. 1) E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. No. 38--First Log Hut erected in the Grove. Close-up view of th...

Map of Public Surveys in California to accompany Report Surveyor Gen. Signed by Surveyor General of California. Gray ink on cream color paper. Slight

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