Great Americana Pow-Wow Auction (August 2020)

Auction Details

We sincerely hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

This auction marks the best material we've offered in a hot August sale in many years. The variety is outstanding, as is the quality of goods offered.

A glimpse at the many categories: Native American turquoise and silver jewelry, including the best squash blossom necklace we've ever seen, baskets, Kachinas, and rugs; California token collection; Fauver American and foreign counters and tokens; rare whiskey bottles; Masonic California token; beautiful drugstore carved wood frontispiece; Nevada rare documents; major pinback collection; baseball and boxing collectibles; gold specimens including some from the Goodshaw Mine at Bodie; American and foreign medals; Victorian furniture; fantastic array of western Art; original Buffalo Bill/Pawnee Bill posters; Large ore cars and incline cars from a major Nevada City mine; Dynamite and candle boxes; American souvenir plate collection (c1900-1920); music collectibles; toys and toy trains; postcard collections, directories, maps; railroad pass collection and references; antique firearms; badges; mining & railroad stocks; US coins; token dies; a rockshop section, mining artifacts and much more.

There is truly something for everybody!

Don't forget us when its time to sell. We average about 5000 registered bidders per sale, probably the most in America for an Americana sale! With buyers all over the globe, we get to everybody. We are always after great collections! ~Fred Holabird~

Auction Schedule

Day 1, August 27th, 2020:
Art (1001-1093)
Native Americana (1094-1325)
General Americana Part I (1326-1595)
Sports (1596-1604)
Toys (1605-1651)

Day 2, August 28th, 2020:
Philatelic - Postal History (2000-2087)
General Americana Part II (2088-2599)
Firearms & Weapons(2600-2624)

Day 3, August 29th, 2020:
Stocks & Bonds (3000-3125)
Numismatics (3126-3416)
Tokens (3417-3634)

Day 4, August 30th, 2020:
Minerals (4000-4042)
Mining (4043-4320)
Bargains & Dealer Specials PART I (4321-4611)

Day 5, August 31st, 2020:
Bargains & Dealer Specials PART II (5000-5641)

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USGS Arizona Mining Professional Papers (2) and 4 Postcards (6 Items)  (122281)4196USGS Arizona Mining Professional Papers (2) and 4 Postcards (6 Items) (122281)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1) Geology & Ore Deposits of the Bisbee Qudrangle PP 21 By Frederick L. Ransome 1904, 9 x 11.5" hardbound, 29 plates, 3 in pocket, 5 figur...
Estimate : 350.00 - 500.00
Sold to 8***1 for (150.00 + 33.00BP) = 183.00
Bodie, California, Street Map by Brill  (110721)4197Bodie, California, Street Map by Brill (110721)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Bodie Street Map, by Brill, 1955. About 43” x 35”, framed. Murray J. Brill, June 1955, 1” = 5‘. Shows all existing
Estimate : 300.00 - 600.00
Sold to d******a for (130.00 + 32.50BP) = 162.50
Reagent Bottle Group (17  Bottles)  (119454)4198Reagent Bottle Group (17 Bottles) (119454)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
With embossed content labels. 5Ó. All with ground glass stoppers. Were in use at Bodie. All Unique. Purchased from Hawthorne High School.
Estimate : 240.00 - 400.00
Sold to b**********n for (160.00 + 40.00BP) = 200.00
Butte County Mining Stocks & Rare Ephemera: Cherokee, Forbestown  (107813)4199Butte County Mining Stocks & Rare Ephemera: Cherokee, Forbestown (107813)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 4. 1) Mounted photograph showing two hunters underneath ridge. Back is labelled, "Sugar Loaf, Cherokee, California." 4.5 x 6.5"...
Estimate : 100.00 - 300.00
Sold to c********r.. for (40.00 + 10.00BP) = 50.00
Correspondence Re: California Water & Mining Company  (113636)4200Correspondence Re: California Water & Mining Company (113636)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 7. 1) 1898 letter to Thos. M. Clark of Newark, NJ, to get his proxy to vote at a meeting for the California Water & Mining Co. 2) 1903 le...
Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to u********y.. for (30.00 + 6.60BP) = 36.60
New York Hill Gold Mining Co. Revenue Checks (2)  (58563)4201New York Hill Gold Mining Co. Revenue Checks (2) (58563)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Two F. Berton & Co. (one has Alfred Borel & Co. stamped above), RN-G, New York Hill Gold Mining Co. checks. Both issued in San Francisco, 18...
Estimate : 160.00 - 240.00
Sold to c*********p for (80.00 + 20.00BP) = 100.00
Prescott Hill Mine Framed Sketch of Buildings and Water Pipe System  (106487)4202Prescott Hill Mine Framed Sketch of Buildings and Water Pipe System (106487)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Framed hand colored sketch of mine buildings and water pipe system. "Mineralization is a vein deposit hosted in diabase and granodiorite. The o...
Estimate : 300.00 - 600.00
Sold to d******a for (375.00 + 93.75BP) = 468.75
Map of Mining Properties at Goldtown, Mojave Mining District  (113579)4203Map of Mining Properties at Goldtown, Mojave Mining District (113579)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
This has not been seen by us before. Compiled by Louis D. Rasor, US Mineral Surveyor for California, January 1923. Colored pencil notations on top to
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to d******a for (120.00 + 30.00BP) = 150.00
1950 Catalog Book " Braun - Knecht- Heimann Co.,  book of Laboratory Instruments, Apparatus & Suppli42041950 Catalog Book " Braun - Knecht- Heimann Co., book of Laboratory Instruments, Apparatus & Suppli
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Famous huge Mining Supply Company based in L.A. -"Braun-Knecht-Heimann-Co., Catalog 50 for "Laboratory, Apparatus Instruments and Supplies...
Estimate : 120.00 - 200.00
Sold to 8********l.. for (50.00 + 12.50BP) = 62.50
Two Photographs of Napa County Mercury Mines  (113570)4205Two Photographs of Napa County Mercury Mines (113570)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 2 different. 1) Lucky Strike Mining Company, La Joya Mine, Napa Co., Cal. (labelled bottom right). View shows outside of the mining and milling
Start Price : 75.00 | Estimate : 150.00 - 250.00