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/