Holiday Auction: Mining, Philatelic, Americana, & More (December 2020)

Lot of 4. Includes: When the Great Spirit Died, Secrest, 2003, sc.; The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball, Nelson, 2004, sc; Voyagers to C

Lot of 2: The San Francisco Chronicle and The County Record (Angels Camp, California). All in good condition. The County Record has scotch tape in ce

This is a collection of two sets of collectible spoons made by Joseph Mayer and Brothers of Seattle. The first set of eight (8) souvenir spoons at 5.

Lot of 41, includes 27 maps of and 14 guides from Southern California, c1970's. Maps are of Los Angeles, San Fernando, Santa Barbara, Riverside ...

This is a set of maps, 250 scale, a USG survey of 1917-1918 by David Thompson. There are twelve sheets of plates X (3 ct.), X1 (3 ct.), X11 (3ct.), X1

Map Print by Banner Printing Company, Sonora. Map of Oregon & Upper California from the surveys of John Charles Fremont and other authorities,...

"Rand-McNally Indexed Pocket Map and Road Guide California," published in 1919. Map includes shippers' guide, railroads and electric l...

Produced by the Mutual Orange Distributors of California. California miner with burro in the Sierras in lower vignette. 11 x 11 inches, chip on top e

Ninety Years, The Story of William Parmer Fuller. Privately Printed at San Francisco in 1939. 144 pp. Hardcover. Traces the development of WP Fuller...

Lot of 6. 1) Two oversized cabinet cards of women from Chas. Lainer Studios, San Francisco. c.1890s. 10 x 7" Scuffs. 2) Cabinet card portrait o...

Lot of 10. Included: The Mule Men, Jackson, 2004, sc; Eagle Lake, Purdy, 2003, 1st ed. hc with dj; Sierra Nevada Interlude, Glenn, 1975, 1st ed. hc wi

1) April 17, 1851 receipt issued to Henry Teschachaer during the liquidation of Simmins Hutchins & Company. Signed by a clerk named Walls. 2) 18...

Lot of 3. 1) Business card for Italian-Californian Wine Co., Wine & Liquor Merchants, 627 Vallejo Street, San Francisco. 2.75 x 4.5" 2) Cor...

1) Auction! Every Friday. Park Auction Yard, Mrs. Gilbert. 1/4 mile North of Roeding Park on 99 Highway. (This would place this in Fresno). No date. 8

2 calendars, 1 from Russell Gates Mercantile Co. Calhan Colorado; 1 from Thomas P. Smith, Clothier, Coalinga, Cal. 1919. Date: 1922 Country (if not

Two nice stereoviews of Denver, Colorado. View closeups for condition. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Colorado City: Denver Provenance:

Nice view shows miners underground, wearing their helmets with their mining candles lit. H.C. White, photographer, 1905. In very good condition. View

Four nice Colorado stereoviews including the Georgetown view, "Our Trip to the Mines, Ouray, Col. U.S.A.", "In the heart of Box Canyo...

Rare whiskey billhead from Denver, CO. Torn, poor condition. No date. Sold as is. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Colorado City: Provenanc

This is a rail pass on the Broadmoor-Cheyenne Mountain HIghway dated 1950-1951. Please see the photo for details. Date: Country (if not USA): Sta

1795 debenture document to Zebulon Peck signed by Andrew Kingsbury, CT State Treasurer. 4.25x7.75" Date: 1795 Country (if not USA): State: ...

Color laminated panorama of Cypress Swamp, Delray Beach, FL. Shot by Peter Lorber in February 1995 by a rotational camera, 35mm roundshot. Impressivel

Catalogue for Works at East Point on Central and A. & W. P. R. R. Manufacturers of Solid and Inserted Tooth Circular Saws. Dealers in Mill Suppl...

A rendition of The Capture of Lost Mountain Georgia by General Hooker on June 15, 1864. What appears to be torn from a magazine measures 17"x 1...

Hardback and paperback books, VHS tapes is telling about the Cherokee Nation, The Story of New Echota. Book of Etowah Papers by Moorehead; Sam Houston

4 color prints, all are signed by artists. Gold Digger Road-Auraria-1834, #171/300 by John Kollack, 13 x 19". "The Glory Hole"-Consol...

The Glory Hole, Consolidated Gold Mine 1904 by John Kollod, #'s 661, 662 and 663/1000.13" x 18.75". Print of snow covered Dahlonega st...

Rectangular street view signed by Winslow Crannel, 13" X 25.5". Rectangular color Doors of Dohlonega-January 2000 with 3 levels of color d...

Photo of James Henry Brady, an Idaho Republican who served as the state's 8th governor from 1909 to 1911. He was a US Senator for nearly five ...

Roy and Co. Importers and Designers of Fine Millinery // Masonic Temple, 874 Madison St, Chicago. Small calendar missing. Poor condition, sold as is.

Here is a very rare and interesting item. It is probably the first addition as it was a gift to Mrs. Jessie Wheeler, and also has a personal note to h

Here is the chance of a life time, the one you have been waiting for. Item # 1 of 2: Its a 24 volume set of the Encyclopedia Britannica and it comes w

Diebold was a safe and lock company in 1890. This is the company that invented the A.T.M. machine. Some tears at folds. View closeups to view conditio

Lot of 11 bank checks, nine of which are printers' proofs, c1870-1888, printed by Shober & Carqueville Litho Co., Chicago. Printers' pro...

Personal check printers' proof for the Pribyl Brothers Cutlery, Fire Arms and Fishing Tackle Company, of Chicago, c 1880's. Rare. Approx. 4 ...

Inscribed with "Wedding Day, June 16, 1904"(Easte Deutche?) on the other side of paperweight reads "14th Bundes Konferenzi / Chicago....

Here is a nice collection, of early household items. Item #1 of 6: Geneva, Ill. " 5 Star ' flat iron, 6" long. Item # 2 of 6 : Very e...

1) "Our Newspaper" (yes, that is the name of the newspaper) prospectus and advertising billhead. 8.5 x 6. ""...entertaining, ins...

Outstanding, multi colored map of the world. Beautiful color and definition . Showing new possessions, new boundaries, rivers, mountains seas, and ev

Art blotter from Jno. H. Kreke Real Estate Agency, Huntingburg, Indiana. Painting at left by artist Frank H. Desch titled, "Rosita". Knapp...

Lot of 6. 1) Best piece is an 1853 Military Bounty Land Warrant issued in Fort Des Moines. 2) Five City of Indianapolis Treasurer's Office recei...

Postmaster General of the U.S. of America appointment of Thomas H. Clarke, Esq., Manhattan, in the County of Putnam & State of Indiana. Embossed...

Very cool and rare blotter featuring a picture of a racecar on the track at Indianapolis. The blotter notes that Mauri Rose won the event in 1947 and

Approx 140 van Kamp Hardware telegrams c. 1900-1926. Business related Western Union telegrams. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Indiana City:

Lot of 2 different. Identified on reverse. One is labelled "City Hall." The other shows people in a boat rowing down a main street. Pinhol...

Lot of three related U.S. Senate items, c1954-56. Includes pass to U.S. Senate Chamber June 24-27, 1954, admitting John DeMott to the 83rd Congress,

Group includes a set of 9 chromolitho postcards plus photo book titled, "Historic Old New Orleans" and St. Louis Cathedral photo foldout a...

1)Maryland, Delaware & D.C., Engraved by Rand, McNally & Co. with color by Lithography, 1885, 21" x 14.5"; 2) Maryland, Delaware &...

Two cdv's from the expo plus one from Palace of Industry, Holland. Last view is of University Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan (backstamped Watson &...

This is an unusual and interesting receipt. It is pictorial with a sailing ship. "Surely the Isles shall wait for me." Is. 60.9. One share...