"Fred Holabird's Grand Finale": Mining, Americana, & Numismatics Live Auction (2025 October)

Lot of 14. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Passes. 1908-16. All issued to Melvin G. Welker , Chemist -Laboratory. In very good cond. Internet search r

Principal cities on the route printed in the corners: "Cincinnati", "Louisville", "Cairo", and "Memphis." Pa...

# VP 17 issued 1906 to A S Dodge and Family, complimentary, signed VP. Tan color card stock, wave title shadowed, logo vignette center of title.

1902 Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway pass with printed signature of N B illegible vp. ^ Date: Country (if not USA): State: Texas City: Pr...

#290 issued 1879 to L P Barton, Railway Mail Service, signed H W Hexie Gen. Supt., blue card stock, "1879" upper right red sun burst circl...

Lot of 4 different. Includes: Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway (1897); Santa Fe Pacific RR/Southern California Rwy (1899); Atchison, Topeka &am...

Lot of 5. Southern Pacific RR Passes, 1891-99. 1892 pass on the back has a stamp from Engineer Dept. San Francisco. VG or better. ^ Date: 1891-9

Lot of 10. Order of Railroad Telegraphers Passes, 1908-16. Issued to J.B. Taft. All in VG-excellent cond. Each has the logo in underprint of the ...

This lot is a binder of Rio Grande Train photos featuring the Rio Grande Train travelling the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad through mount...

Dietz railroad lanterns (3). One's in red, one teal, one blue. The measure about 5"x 10" and are on wire bases. Founts and burners are...

Model A Union Carbide Lamp, Oxweld RR Lamp. Diameter of the lighting dish measures 6.25". Overall measurements are 6x8x10.5". Overall good...

Very eclectic mix of Railroad ephemera, ranging from Timetables to tickets to stock coupons. The star (one of many) is a 1895 California Street Cable

Nelson's Pictorial Union Pacific RR Trip Across North American Continent From Omaha to Ogden, c1874, 45 pages written trip information with ele...

11" high 16" long 12" wide, restored, new wood step, no railroad name present. reported as Virginia and Truckee RR but no proof. ^ Da...

This is a magazine issued by the Railway Express Agency dated December 1935. The lot includes a complete receipt book from the 1940s. REA developed fr

Copy of the 'St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad Company, Western Division, Mortgage Deed of Trust on Railroad Property and Franchises from Mary...

Copy of "The Pacific Railroad -- Open. How to Go: What to See. Guide for Travel To and Through Western America" by Samuel Bowles, publishe...

19 Reference Books on Western Railroads 1. Wagner Short Line Junction 1956 2. Beebe Virginia & Truckee RR 1949 3. Behan San Francisco Street Rai...

Paper sign for Marysville and Gould Stage Line. We are unsure if this is in California. 11x13.75". Partially delaminated from multi layer paper...

Lot of 3. A photo of the ship ashore after the fire. A Seaman's certificate for Alfred Tyler and his certificate of discharge from the U.S. Dep...

White Star Line passenger steamship "Georgic", 1932. A full color "map" of the ships cabins and decks. VG condition. approx. 36...

Lot of 6. An important library of all issues related to 19th century stowage: chemicals, hardware, provisions, exports, imports, coal, minerals, insur

A group of aviation things: an electric clock from Trans World Airline; ten inches in diameter; flyers from American Airlines advertising California,

Early aviation collection, scrapbook & postcards. About a dozen postcards, blank, one that's been written and sent. Postcards in good condit...

Huge group of post cards, advertising ephemera, flight route maps, airport souvenirs, flying service brochures, airline magazines, far too many to lis

This is a bank note from Wells, Fargo & Co. from Columbia, Cal., dated Oct. 14, 1857. One of the richest gold mining towns in California; Colu...

Wells, Fargo & Co. letterhead. Regarding greenbacks. They also exchanged currency; at 62.5 %. From the Columbia Office (California) of W, F &...

Nevada, California red oval Wells Fargo with Old English "Express" cancel on 3 cent red on buff pre stamped envelope, Sc U10, with boxed p...

Lot of 3. 1) 1854 San Francisco pictorial deposit slip for James Duffy. 2) Special Deposit receipt, Sacramento, Jan. 2, 1852, for $150 in coin. Missin

Lot of 9, all unused. Includes: pictorial SF check; Marysville Special Deposit form; Nevada (City) receipt; Shipment for Coinage form; pictorial Third

Lot of 2. 1) Aug. 2nd, 1855 cover to FW Page (of Page & Bacon in San Francisco). Red oval Wells Fargo express Sacramento cancel over red three c...

Lot of 4. 1) 1861 Virginia City, Nevada check signed by Charles Strong for the Gould & Curry Mine. 2) 1879 San Francisco for $1,000 for coin by ...

Lot of 8 different WF checks. Includes: 1891 Independence; 1873 Columbia; 1865 Folsom; 1891 North Bloomfield; 1902 and 1904 Taylorsville; 1854 San Fra

Lot of 14. Includes: 1870 First of Exchange, San Francisco; 1893 Second of Exchange, San Francisco signed by Frederick Lipman; 1869 COD express envelo

Lot of 2 different. 1) Extremely rare (only one seen by FH) Second of Exchange for the California Express & Exchange Office of Wells Fargo, New ...

Lot of 3 bills of exchange or certificate of deposit: 1) San Francisco, 1871 First of Exchange payable "In US Gold Coin" in New York. This...

Lot of 2. 1) 1909 Pacific Express Co. pass for DT Mervine, Supt. of Wells Fargo. In holder. Formed from the Kansas Pacific and Union Pacific Express C

This is a very clear photograph of a horse drawn wagon detailed as "Allens Express" Company about 1909. A court case develops where Allen...

Lot of 2 different. 1) Early Wells Fargo cover sent to WE Elliott Esq. in Stockton. Blue oval cancel Wells Fargo & Co. Express Aurora. Not dated...

Very early Carson City! Wells, Fargo & Co. Express, Carson City, June 3rd, 1861 (a few months after Nevada Territory was created). Receipt for C...

Wells, Fargo Express Way Bill Receipt Book, 1889, Carson City, 16 x 19", binding shot, original covers present. E. F. Pierce, Agent at Carson. ...

Only a few known. Dateline Carson City, Nev., March 7th, 1872. Issued to Wells Fargo agent (and second supt. of the Carson City Mint) HF Rice for $175

Lot of over 45 checks written on the Wells, Fargo & Company of Carson, Nevada in 1875. Printed by Bacon & Company of San Francisco. None of ...

Extremely rare cover. This is a post office envelope with overprinted Wells Fargo express bar next to the red six cent stamp. The cover has an orange

Early Nevada Territorial Pony Express postal cover dated September 3, (1862.) Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Virginia Pony Express began operations on...

Lot of 3 different. 1) Preprinted cover for the superintendent of the Silver Hill Mining Company. This was a mine in Silver City, Nevada. Not postally

Very rare. Second of Exchange for two pounds sterling to be paid at Wells Fargo's London office. Issued to VC agent CC Pendergast. Signed by Wad...

Rare. Second of Exchange issued November 4, 1880 to CC Pendergast for $50. Signed by Wadsworth. 4.5 x 9" Pendergast was a Wells Fargo agent in ...

This unusual oil painting arrived in a Reno antique shop in the 1980s and was immediately captured by an advanced collector of Wells Fargo. The oil pa

Original wax sealer for the Pacific Union Express Co, which ran lines throughout the West in direct competition to Wells, Fargo & Co. This seale...