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)