Great American July Auction

This ledger mentions A. Belcher, Nevada State Mill, Fulton Family and many other known Comstock merchants. Leather bound, 13.5" x 8.75". M...

The 1880 United States Census lists Fred Nichol as a butcher in Virginia City. (He is not listed in the 1870 or 1900 census.) This tag is in the form

This is a Howell reprint of an original Grafton T. Brown lithograph published by C. Kuchel of San Francisco. This territorial overview of Virginia Cit

Lot of 6. Teaspoon. All are stamped "COIN" (as in Coin Silver) and "M. M. Fredrick, Virg. Nev". All initialed on the end of the ...

Collection of twelve pieces: six salad forks and six extra large tablespoons (8.5" long, the bowl 3" x 1.85" - we'd use these for...

Several years ago we sold a large collection of about 68 M.M. Frederick silver pieces, mostly flatware, all marked as such. They included Gorham and M

Nine pieces that came with the M. M. Frederick, Eaves & Co., and Nye silver flatware from Virginia City. These pieces are NOT MARKED. Two pieces...

Nye may have gotten started in Sacramento in the late 1850's. By 1860 he was in partnership with W.T. Eaves. The pair appeared to have moved to ...

This marks the second time we've been able to offer the very rare Eaves silver. We offered the discovery piece about a year or two ago, a single...

Lynn Leong's Sharon House - Nationally Known. Chinese Foods - Tender Steaks - Seafood. Hunting scene. March thru December 1973. Excellent condit...

Lot of seven. 1) Three copies of Sutro's mining lecture supplement to The Daily Independent newspaper (1874) with great mining illustrations. 2)...

This is a "Pacific Patented Rubber Paint" wood box. Manufactured by W. P. Fuller & Company. Top of box has been stenciled 'F' ...

Washoe County Republican delegates to the State Convention include James Mayberry from Reno, William Donaldson from Wadsworth, OC Ross from Glendale,

Whereas we have seen Goble Dairy bottles, we have not seen this interesting advertising piece. It looks like an opener of some sort. Front says, &qu...

Lists candidates running for office, inspectors of elections, and polling places. Pictorial of H. O. ("Tex") Hall for sheriff! Interesting...

Two different Whitney & Company Forwarders out of Battle Mountain Station (1871) and Battle Mountain (1872). Both addressed to the Manhattan Sil...

This iconic map shows the border between California and Nevada and all the important places like and Virginia City, Lake Bigler, Aurora, Bodie Diggins

Removed in 1971, these nineteenth century chairs were the main seating in the Nevada legislature building. Four chairs plus parts, probably enough fo

State of Nevada Seal painting. gold painted round frame with "Nevada" embossed and 12 stars. At bottom of painting--"All For Our Coun...

Painting of a buffalo on aluminum. "Department of the Interior, Nevada". Metallic painted wood frame, 29.5" diameter. Found on a hunt...

Lot of twelve. Two bullets. One is a 65 caliber from a Henry Rifle. This is truly the rifle that tamed the West. One U. S. Indian Service button. One

Roughly 30 to 40 pieces. Includes five 20" straight wires marked 'U. S. Tel., CPR' (Central Pacific Railroad).. This note comes from th...

Over 90 billheads! Includes very rare FS Smith merchandise small receipt from Derby, Campbell & Kelly Foundry Tonopah, JW Britton Bar Iron unus...

Nevada Area Library, 14 items including, Lonetree Ballads, Rails and Tales of SW Nevada, Nevada State Historical Preservation Plan, Saloons of Old Nev

Lot of 380. Huge group of Nevada magazines and Nevada Historical Society Quartilies. Please see expanded description online. State: Nevada City:

Lot of ten: Mines of Eastern Sierra (Dogtown, Monoville, Homer, etc.), From My Nevada Notebook, The nevada Adventure, Virginia & Truckee, Nevada...

Nevada Historical Society Journals, 1960s through about 1990. 114 different issues. Also includes 37 issues of the Northeastern Nevada Historical Soci

12 volumes on different aspects of Nevada history. Some of the best include Nevada postal history by Harris, rocky trails of the past by Lobby, Turbul

8 Nevada Regional Books including Ghosts of Humboldt Region, Conflict on the Carson and Of Heart of Nevada. State: Nevada City: HWAC#: 48355 D

Lot of twenty-two. 1) Farmers & Merchants National Bank deposit book. Reno. Mostly blank. Some checks drawn on Southern Pacific, Frank Brothers...

33 Posters from either Nevada or pertaining to Nevada. Sizes range from 8.5" x 14" to 24" x 19". Examples include reproduction...

1) Biennial Report for Nevada Surveyor General and State Register 1869. 157 pages. Biennial Report of the Surveyor General and State Register of the S

Three rare Nevada stereoviews. 1) CPRR, Palisade-Humboldt Canon, published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., 7686. 2) CPRR, Maggies Bower and Pal...

Sixteen early prints. Nine mounted prints railroad survey prints include: Maimun a Mojave Indian, Mount Hood with Indians on horseback, big Colorado R

Approved March 20, 1872. Published by Starbuck & Dunham, Newark. 5 pages. State: New Jersey City: Ocean County HWAC#: 27524 Date: 1872

James Gore King was born in 1791 in New York City and died 1853 in New Jersey. A Congressman from 1849 to 1851, he founded King & Gracie, a bank...

A page of 16 autographs collected by a Brooklyn high school student who interviewed the personalities for articles in his high school newspaper. The t

A group of signed photos and Christmas cards to Isadore Gaitpman, a Brooklyn High School student who wrote articles for his high school newspaper on t

"Save the Five Cent Fare" 4pp flyer protesting the proposed change of fare for New York subway from 5 cents to ten cents. 5 x 7 format, fo...

2 Niagra Falls Silver Glass Framed Photos, approx 8 x 10 inches. State: New York City: Niagara Falls HWAC#: 48365 Date:

New York Worlds Fair, 1939, 1940 ticket books and a group of tickets including the MOMA and a play ticket for Aquacade with Eleanor Holm and Buster Cr

This is a 1933 reprint of a 1923 book. Great early resource for Tulsa. It starts with "Tent Town," first in Tulsa, earliest residents, fir...

1870's cabinet card photograph (6.5" x 4") of an Indian Wars officer, unidentified. Photograph by H. P. Kirk's Photographic, Mason...

Photograph (positive and paper negative) of the first U. S. Post Office west of the Rocky Mountains, in Shivley's, Astoria, Oregon (1847); color...

Oregon and Idaho Library, Approx 20 books including East of the Cascades, The Beginning of the West, Land of the Giants and Southern Idaho Ghost Town

United States 1776-1876 Centennial stock certificate No. 1015, issued for 1 share to Joseph Richetts dated May 15, 1875 of capital stock of the Centen

South Dakota Library with approx 46 issues of South Dakota State Historical Society and Board of Cultural Preservation Quarterly and 11 books includin

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Statements and inventory lists from the Scipio Coop. In March, 1860, a small party of seven men led by T. F. Robins arrived on the site of Scipio, in

One $5.00 share to F. S. Richards. Signed by OW Powers and Morris Sommely(?). Vignettes of a rooster, tent, guitar burning on an open fire, and peace/

McAdoo was Secretary of Treasury during World War I. He is addressing 30,000 soldiers of the National Army. Address was at Camp Lewis, American Lake,

This sword is a representative example of a Patriarchs Militant (Uniformed Ranks of the IOOF) society or lodge sword. It belonged to A. F. Hoska from

Lot of 41 checks. 1) Fifteen unused pictorial checks for the United States Assay Office (Washington National Bank, Seattle) with Washington vignette.

Photograph of the Tetons by Crandall in original envelope and cardboard. Brand Spanking New. Absolutely phenomenal. Approximately 5" x 7"....

About 40 publications on mines and ghost towns of Canada, primarily western Canada. The best piece maybe the book "Gold" by Stuart Edward ...

Panoramic Farm Photo in Frame, approx 9.5 x 23 inches. Sam Mills' Outfit - Kenaston Sask. 1923. Sticker on rear "Antique photograph(silve...

Artifacts--pieces of pottery, baskets, rock, and piece of corn packed in straw, from Wilber May to Clayton Phillips. Paper inside reads: Government of

New Granada by Isaac F. Holton. Title page reads as follows: New Granada: Twenty Months In The Andes. By Isaac F. Holton, M.A., Professor of Chemistr

This item was purchased from a frequent, early traveler who had several of these in his collection. It is not carved, but a Terra Cotta clay fired hai

Early history of Spain's acquisition of Peru in volumes I and II of William H. Prescott's "History of The Conquest of Peru" Publis...

A book 'Words of Alejandro of Humboldt'. Title page reads as follows: Obras De Alejandro De Humboldt. Titled: Cuadros De La Naturaleza Por ...

1) "Wild Scenes in South America" by Don Ramon Paez, 2nd edition, 1863. Hardbound, cloth cover, 8.5" x 5.5". 2) Part One by Lie...

Map of South America, Drawn from the lateft and beft Authorities by The Kilchin c. 1755 State: zSouth America City: HWAC#: 32909 Date:

An account of Two Thounsand Miles' Ride Through The Argentine Provinces Being an Account of The Natural Products of The Country, And Habits of T...

8 Idaho Saloon Tokens, Skagway, Alaska. 10 cents. State: Alaska City: HWAC#: 47867 Date:

Over sixty checks from the Maxwell Branch- Colusa County Bank from the early 20th century. State: California City: Maxwell HWAC#: 48247 Date:

300 checks drawn on the Maxwell Branch of the Colusa County Bank in the 1920s. State: California City: Maxwell HWAC#: 48251 Date:

Possibly only one or two duplicates! Checks from: San Francisco, Sacramento, La Porte, Vineburg, North Bloomfield, Lodi, Grand View, Petaluma, San Jos

100+ counting duplicates. Great variety! Los Angeles, Oxnard, Randsburg, Hawthorne, Pasadena, Perris, San Bernardino, Santa Monica, Fresno, Pleasanton

California Advertising Note, California State Numismatic Convention, April 1961. State: California City: HWAC#: 47860 Date:

Lot of 139 incl an ink blotter. Earliest is 1854 Wells Fargo San Francisco. Also seven Port Wine checks (1864-66). John Sime & Co. (SF, 1867). P...

Victor Clothing Co. advertising note. Los Angeles, issued in 1935, reverse is an image of a Confederate note. Redeemable for $10 on a Bronson Suit.

One hundred stock certificates from the Yellow Gold of Cripple Creek, Corporation with mining vignette. State: Colorado City: Cripple Creek HWAC#

One hundred stock certificates from the Yellow Gold of Cripple Creek, Corporation with mining vignette. State: Colorado City: Cripple Creek HWAC#

William L Biber Sr. for City Council 1942 advertising note with his photo on the note. Reverse is an image of a Confederate note. State: District

Societe Mines de Douaria, Tunisia. State: Foreign City: HWAC#: 47852 Date:

The last year coins were minted at the Carson City Mint was 1893. These five hundred checks were written in 1893 and 1894 to various citizens of the N

Lot of over 400 deposit receipts and checks drawn on The Bullion and Exchange Bank from 1880-1900. State: Nevada City: Carson City HWAC#: 48250

Entire portfolio of checks drawn on the Bullion and Exchange Bank Checks of Carson City in 1894. Many Carson City and San Francisco merchants. Look th

Manufactured by Le Count Bro's. Blank Book Manufacturers of 533 Market St. San Francisco, this volume contains checks numbered 62001-62500 drawn...

Two hundred pieces: checks from the early 20th century written on the First National Bank of Elko, Nevada. State: Nevada City: Elko HWAC#: 48246

George Wingfield signed these one hundred stock certificates in the 1950s. Some green, some brown print. State: Nevada City: Goldfield HWAC#: 4

Lot of one hundred pieces of The Goldfield Consolidated Mines stock certificates signed by George Wingfield. State: Nevada City: Goldfield HWAC#

One hundred pieces of The Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company stock certificates, but without George Wingfield's signature. State: Nevada Ci...

One hundred pieces of The Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company stock certificates post George Wingfield. State: Nevada City: Goldfield HWAC#: 4

One hundred pieces of The Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company stock certificates, post George Wingfield, late 1950s and 1960s. State: Nevada City

One hundred pieces of The Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company stock certificates. A mix of half signed by George Wingfield and half post-Wingfield.

100 plus Nevada checks. Carson City, Virginia, Elko etc. State: Nevada City: HWAC#: 47857 Date:

Two batches of checks: from the Farmers Bank of Carson Valley, Inc. circa 1950s; and the First National Bank of Elko circa 1920s. 170 pieces in all.

Cover addressed to Richard Kirman Governor of Nevada, postmarked June 27, 1936 on USS Antares, Philadelphia, PA. State: Nevada City: HWAC#: 4

6 assorted tokens. Aprrox. 50 checks from Nevada, California, West Virgina etc. State: Nevada / California City: HWAC#: 47856 Date:

86 Stock Certificates, The May Dept Store, issued 1947-1954 New York State: New York City: HWAC#: 47859 Date:

91 pieces of Cumulative Preferred Stock certificates, mostly dating from the late 1940s and early 1950s. 8 x 11 1/2 inches, nice eagle vignette. Stat

3 books of un-issued, uncut from Boston and New York. Over 1000 uncut checks, each page contains 6-8 checks per page. c. 1830's State: New Yo...

2 Five Cent Resort Saloon Tokens, Baker City, Oregon State: Oregon City: HWAC#: 47864 Date:

8 Salt Lake City tokens State: Utah City: Salt Lake City HWAC#: 47858 Date:

Dealer alert! 100 pieces of Norfolk and Western Railroad Company stock certificates from the 1880s. The Norfolk and Western Railway was formed by

One hundred pieces of Norfolk and Western Railroad Company stock certificates from the 1880s. State: Virginia City: HWAC#: 48610 Date:

10 tokens, Diamondville Club, Diamondville, Wyoming. Five are 5 cent and five are 10 cent. Approx 1910. State: Wyoming City: HWAC#: 47865 Da

10 Assorted Western Tokens from Kemmerer, Wyoming and Wendover, Utah. State: City: HWAC#: 47866 Date: