Desert Riches: Mining, Gold, Numismatics, Americana, 2025 January Auction

Two Union Pacific signal locks and two bridge and roadway department locks. No keys included. Locks are in decent condition and will add to your colle

A group of three brass padlocks from Union Pacific Railroad Company. Two are heart shaped and bear raised text on their faces reading 'UNION / P...

A round brass railroad lock with the text "PACIFIX / EX CO" on the face and the number 100 stamped on the shackle. The lock is a pancake l...

A collection of 5 brass railroad padlocks, c1851-79, each engraved with maker's name. Includes 2 identical locks with the Yale insignia, 2.5&quo...

A trio of padlocks, two with keys. Included is an American 10 with keys, a Corbin Cabinet Lock Company lock with key and a Best brand padlock, no key.

Four unmarked railroad lock. One comes with a working key. All are in nice condition. Please see photos for more details. Date: Country (if not U

Collection of 4 pieces of vintage railroad equipment, c1920-on. Includes 2 torches: Clayton & Lambert Manufacturing Co., c1921; and an unmarked ...

Lot of 16 railroad keys for various companies. All keys are about 2 inches long, most are brass. Railways represented in the lot include: - New York C

Lot of nine unmarked brass railroad keys. The keys are not marked with the railroads they belonged to, but several are stamped with numbers and one wi

A collection of seven (7) various railroad lanterns. Some have red chimneys, some missing chimneys and one has a broken chimney. An interesting unmark

Group of 10 railroad photographs, mix of originals and reproductions. 5 B&W, 5 color. Photos have dates ranging from the 1960s to the 2010s; mos...

Railroad siding water barrel and nine water ladles. Barrel measures 12"x 22" and the staves have shrunk, so this is more geared towards de...

1948 Escanaba and Lake Superior Time Table, 1865 New London Northern pictorial letterhead, 1932 San Luis Valley Southern time table, 1958 Missabe Road

A trio of Railway Express Agency padlocks, one with a key, from the early 1900s. Each is about 2.5" x 3.5" and engraved on rear, RY. EX. A...

Classic cast-iron, large Railway Express strongbox for transporting gold, bullion, coin, and money. All original handles intact, and the original fron

8 nicely colored embossed early aviation postcards. Farman biplane, A V Roe Triplane, Antionette monoplane, Le Republique, M. de Lesseps cross Channe

Collection of 3 pictures of historical balloons on 2 stereo views and 1 postcard. Stereoviews are of Professor King's Mammoth Balloon, "Buf...

1915 Williams Hardware, Automobile Accessories and Garage Equipment 248pp catalog loaded with parts illustrations and separate dealer price list. Nice

1919 Williams Hardware, Automobile Accessories and Garage Equipment catalog loaded with parts illustrations and separate dealer price list. Nice condi

Cutting over the Sierra crest was a major haul road for wagons, often seen in historical photographs by R. Waters of Truckee, and later Gold Hill. Whe

Warehouse and Buggy lanterns. Warehouse clear chimney lantern measures 12", while the buggy lantern, with red, blue and clear lenses measures 1...

3 1883 documents related to seizure of canal boat E R Held. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Ohio City: Provenance:

1959 pictorial letterhead, Starts. Mfg. Co with Rollsmobile photo. The letter is to James Black with details of the planned design of a triple deck st

Wells Fargo & Co free package transport Passes #L744 and L 3476 for Mr. C B Baker Agent Erie Railroad. In protective sleeves and exc. conf....

Wells Fargo & Company padlock, embossed on the key cover. There's no key, but it still has a chain attached. This was more than likely used ...

Wells Fargo Express Collect Shipment Book, 1918 for the San Mateo office. 7 x 17" bound by folding metal clip at left edge. "acid" p...

A whole passel of Wells Fargo & Company that originate in Tracy, California and go to points within the Central Valley like Newman and Turlock ,...

A book of documents from the Wells Fargo & Company Claim Supervisor's Office in Chicago, Illinois. These records date from 1913 to 1917. The...

Unissued 1860's Lamping & Co's Express receipt with PMG 63, 1854 and 1855 Express & Banking Office of Rhodes & Co. checks. Dat...

Original 1860's Holladay Overland Mail & Express checkbook with about 100 checks. Upper stains and detaching from binding. Please inspect. ...

Receipts signed in 1863 by Harnden Express, The Holladay Overland Mail and Express Company and a blank receipt from Wells, Fargo & Company. All ...

Receipts from Wells, Fargo Company, Lewiston Turnpike Company, Rhodes & Company, Rhodes & Lusk's Express and Banking House and more. Al...

Assortment of Nevada City Soda Works, including a green blob top embossed with the name L. Seibert, owner of the works. There's also a tooled t...

Three nice, clean, mint California sodas. Hutch: Belfast ginger Ale, SF, green-aqua; Belfast Ginger Ale, SF light aqua crown, a matched pair with the

Amber pint Neef Bros Brewing Co. Beer Bottle, Full Paper label, including neck label. Circa 1910 Date: Country (if not USA): State: Colorado C

A pair of really rare Denver physician bottles. Denver had five different embossed drug bottles made for dispensing of drugs by physicians, something

Canter Bros, Chicago pictorial Hutch Soda, Steer head Picture. Some surface wear toward the bottom quarter and along bottom rim. light aqua. "B...

Embossed R O Christian MD bottle. 5.5". No apparent chips or cracks. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Kansas City: Iola Provenance:

Jurgens & Price, Helena Aqua Hutch, Mug Base. Minor inside stain. no chips or scratches evident. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Monta...

Charles E. Dudley, Marysville Montana clear drug bottle, mint, light dirt. 1 oz, 3 5/8" Date: Country (if not USA): State: Montana City:...

Pair of brass beer barrel taps, one about 16", the other about 8" The small one is marked "Ph. B." Both found in Virginia. The P...

Early beautiful amber, hand blown IV bottle dug in the late 1960s in the "hospital dump" below the brick Virginia City hospital, built in ...

Rare citron colored, very crude glass with thousands of bubbles, possibly one of the most attractive of any USA Hospital bottles we've ever seen...

Virginia City, Nevada apothecary bottles. Three are embossed A.M. Cole Apothecary, the fourth, an oval, is labeled B'F' Shaw. All are clear ...

Two Pennsylvania mineral water bottles. Wm Andrews/Philada/A in light teal, very clean, mint; Seitz bros/Easton, PA, dark green, stain, surface wear,

Dark green Kissingen Water/Hanbury Smith 7.5 in. bottle. Small shoulder scratch, no apparent chips or cracks. Date: Country (if not USA): German

Light aqua Hostetter's/Essence/Jamaica Ginger/Pittsburg 5.5" bottle. No apparent chips or cracks. Date: Country (if not USA): State: ...

Three bottles: Dr. Von Hopf's Curaco Bitters, Des Moines. Ring/Ham V27 with full label on one blank panel. Full with contents as original, mint,...

Three antique soda bottles. J. Andrews/Phila//same, mineral water, medium deep green, uncleaned, stained. Seitz & Bro./Easton, PA//S, fantastic ...

Four roughly 8" tall colored bottles. Ammonia/Manufd by/SF Gasa Light Co., aqua, light stain; J. Walker's VB on base, med green, small sid...

Three attractive western whiskey bottles. Two tooled top amber fifths and a purple pocket flask. Best is Richardson, Brunsing Co., SF in medium dark a

Two applied top whiskies. Star and Shield is very dark amber, a beauty, has 1/32" near invisible chip on lip. Lilienthal appears near attic min...

Four square nice aqua pickle bottles, 1800s, 13.75", 11", 9", 7.15" (2). all appear mint Date: Country (if not USA): State...

Unusual Red Wing 15 gallon stoneware vessel. Similar to a pickle application, but we have not seen one like this before as this has a metal threaded t

A collection of nine souvenir glasses in red glass. Includes Port wine and cordial pieces from various fairs and events. All appear to be in decent co

Souvenir glasses from various Oregon cities. They come in an assortment of colors and designs, including green, rainbow, yellow cream and jeweled. All

Extremely rare antique metal encased glass insulator, intact. 'Ramshorn' type insulator, formed metal casing around the internal glass insul...

A pair of ram's horn insulators on original wood arm. Found in 1965 between Ely and Eureka. Specific date unclear, but likely c. 1860s-1870s. Wo...

Light aqua glass ball, 3", 2 piece mold. Japanese fish net float. No apparent chips or cracks. Date: Country (if not USA): State: ...

Two unissued stock certificates for shares in the Napa and Sonoma Wine Company, dating from the 1870s. The decade from 1870 to 1880 was the first boom

The Rise & Fall of Colorado Drugstores 1859-1915 by Preble, 2002, #84 and signed by author. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Colorado C...

About 100 c. 1898 Stewart & Holmes prescriptions. This is the same A B Stewart in Bodie Ca, Virginia City and Gold Hill, NV. Date: Country (...

About 200 nice looking Royal Canadian Sparkling Water labels. Mountie on a horse. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Several bar, retailer & saloon liquor receipts from various wholesalers and distributors. Included are receipts from Carl Weil & Company, ...

Wholesale liquor advertising a notice from the Internal Revenue, listing special tax rates that commence on July 1, 1904 to June 30, 1905. Included ar

Rare and fine condition ephemera. James E Pepper Whiskey, Livingston and Co. pictorial small letterhead-left side chip, 1876? Spruance Stanley check a

Large wood-mounted advertising thermometer, "Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey" with trademark. Full-size wood mounting plate, measures 24&quo...

About 500 Pepsi, Coke and 7Up bottle crown caps across several decades. Perhaps 1920's to 60's? Date: Country (if not USA): State: C...

Two Hires Root Beer advertisement ceramic mugs. The barrel shaped one measures 3.5" and has the Hires child picture. The next is a fluted cup t...

Original Coca-Cola advertising tin lithograph "Elaine" Girl tip tray, c1916. 6" x 4.25". Passaic Metal Ware Co., Passaic, N.J. R...

Hand drawn map of Mt. McKinley region, Alaska. 30x24" on heavy brown stock. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Alaska City: Mt. McKinle...

A group of 13 books on general Alaska topics, published 1888-2002, with most books written in the mid-1900s. The lot includes books on the history of

A group of 8 books on early voyages to/settlement of Alaska, published from 1953 to 1983. The lot includes the titles 'Ethnohistory in the Arcti...

A collection of books on Alaskan history, culture, and industry, as well as a few fiction books set in Alaska. 15 books altogether. Topics explored in

1937 Alaska-Atlin and the Yukon, An Alaskan Interlude-slight cover paper loss, 2 different September The Alaska Sportsman. Glimpses of Alaska, Alaska

14 Alaska photos, only 5x7" C D Cane, Cape Nome RR is original. Also, Natives, a building, boat and more C D Cane prints. Date: Country (if...

A collection of road tax receipts (9) received of the clerk of the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors Charles Akers. There are also bank receipts fro

17 Tombstone and Arizona history books. Cochise County, Earp, Old Wolfville, Doc Holliday, Arizona Rangers, The Earps at Tombstone etc. Date: Cou

A mounted original albumen photograph of thirteen men who made up the posse sent from Tucson to Yuma to take over the goods from a suspected major ret

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, Dept. of Interior, 1935. Contains photos, illustrations, & foldout map - (6" x 9" booklet, 42 pag...

A collection of 57 photographs from the U.S. Department of the Interior documenting Rocky Mountains National Park and Grand Canyon National Park. Phot

Two sets of ice tongs from the Boca Ice Company for large blocks of ice. The larger of the two measures 14"x 22", while the other comes in...

4x perhaps 1930's-1940's Bodie RPC postcards. Land office, Miners Union Hall, Rosa May grave, Methodist grave. Date: Country (if not USA...

1896 J S Cain letterhead with his signature, E L Benedict, banker 1891with his signature. Date: Country (if not USA): State: California C

Group of 5 checks from the Bodie Bank of Bodie, California. No. 368-390. Checks have not been cut apart and are still attached to the same sheet. They

2x 1910's Arthur Dach letterheads from Calzona, CA. "Calzona is an unincorporated community located in San Bernardino County in the U.S. st...

Photo archive of Death Valley pioneer William Lewis Manly. William Lewis Manly (April 6, 1820 ñ February 5, 1903) was an American pioneer of t...

A simple map of the area surrounding Floriston, California, an unincorporated community in Nevada County. The town was founded in the late 1800s; it w

Two key banking documents from the gold rush town of Folsom, located on the American River. A huge amount of gold was mined in and along the American

An 8"x 10" black & white autographed photo of 1940s leading man James Craig (1912-1985), who began his movie career as an extra in 193...

Vintage collectibles (2) include a Buster Brown button and a Mickey Mouse thimble. The button features a picture of Buster Brown and his dog Tige, att

1969 June Lake Loop folding illustrated travel map and 1927 RPC showing the results of a good day of trout fishing. Date: Country (if not USA):

A letter from the Los Angeles branch of the Anti-Defamation League to the Los Angeles Times, dated March 10th, 1920. The letter discusses an ad for a

Tahoe Boat Celebration Poster, Signed, Dated 2001, #1, 19 x 25", thin dark wood frame. Olaf Tamm photo of a speedboat at sunset, labeled "...

Collection of 14 postcards of scenes from the Lake Tahoe area, California, c1930s-40s. Includes 8 RPCs. Views include Emerald Bay, Reno, Donner Lake B

An 1880 edition of The Homer Mining Index, dated Saturday November 13, 1880. This is a first year edition and is in very nice condition . It was publi

Two checks from the central mother lode gold rush mining town of Mokelumne Hill, both dated 1854. Both checks were written on Adams & Co. banker...

Sets of blueprints for Nevada City High School in Nevada City, California. This school opened in 1912 after a $30,000 bond was passed in 1911. Drawin

A collection of 25 pieces of ephemera from Nevada County. These include checks written on the Idaho-Maryland Development Company, a receipt from The G

Nevada County, California newspapers (3), including two Nevada City papers "The Nevada Journal" (1854) and "The Daily Transcript"...