Montana Big Sky & Western Americana

Lot of six stock certificates for the Felton Water Company (Felton, CA, near Santa Cruz). Three are issued: two 1889, one 1891, all pen cancelled. One

Two gorgeous certificates. Columbia dateline. One issued 1854, the other 1862. Cut cancelled. Two different sets of corporate signatures. Fabulous pla

A nice group of water company stock certificates from California. Included are Pleasant Valley Land and Water Company, 188X, San Diego County, Calaver

Lot of eight. Best is an issued 1921 stock for Promontory Ranch Company. Signed by William Henry Crocker as president (Crocker was also president of C

Lot of six pieces. Includes: Perris Irrigation District (San Diego & San Bernardino) $500 bond (issued 1891, not cancelled, large irrigation vig...

Lot of three. 1) Two rare 1902 $500 bonds for the Turlock Irrigation District (Stanislaus and Merced Counties). Both are stamp and punch cancelled. Vi

Lot of eleven. Rarest is 1856 Tuolumne County Water Company, though it has deep folds and stains. Also: Grass Valley Water Company (1880s unissued pic

Lot of five. 1) A pair of gorgeous certificates for the Tuolumne County Water Company (Columbia), issued 1862 and 1864, pen and cut cancelled. Stunnin

Lot of six. Four different companies. Includes: Brookside Water Company (3, 1901-21, stamp cancelled), The Central Colorado Power Company (1910, not c

Lot of seven early certificates. 1) Six for Norwich Water Power Company. Connecticut. Five issued 1864-1871, plus one unissued. Three not cancelled, t

Lot of two. Athens City Water Works Company. Two $1,000 first mortgage gold bonds issued 1891. Signed by Cowell (president( and Church (secretary). No

Lot of five. 1) Idaho Irrigation Company. Four different bonds: $100 (green 1913), $100 (brown 1913), $500 (red 1913), and $1,000 (blue 1913). None ar

Lot of eight. Bonds: Rochester Water Works ($1,000, 1869, not cancelled, 37 coupons attached, red seal, no vignette), specimen $1,000 bond for Adirond

Lot of twelve. Stocks: very early certificate for The Washington Water Gas Company (1859, not cancelled) and seven certificates for the Consolidated W

Lot of nine. Stocks: The Diamond Water Company (Hazelton, three issued 1896-1897, all cancelled, nice vignette of waterfall), St. Lawrence Water Compa

Lot of four. 1) Gorgeous 1884 $1,000 bond for The Lampasas Water Company. Not cancelled. Green border, gold seal, and allegorical vignette. Thirty cou

Lot of six. Includes: Puget Sound Commercial Company( unissued 18--, gorgeous vignettes of town beside sea), Bannock Ditch & Mining Company (uni...

Lot of nine. Fair condition. Includes: United Water & Power Co. of California (1911, not cxl, mining vignettes), Universal Tide Power Co. (MS, 1...

Lot of twelve. Stocks: The American Water Works Company (New Jersey, four issued, two types, all 1892, not cancelled, vignette of water facility, blac

Two stock certificates for the Georgia-Alabama Investment & Development Company issued in 1891 and signed by Benjamin Butler as president. Not c...

Certificate #1, issued to and signed by John Anderson, the company president. Comes with two issues of Dagger Comics, including Arena Force and Maveri

Chalfant was an important citizen of Bishop as he as the owner and editor of the Inyo Register. Chalfant was a member of the "San Francisco Par...

Rare issued to Chinese merchant. Inc. August 6, 1892, only two months prior to this stock being issued. Issued for 10 shares to Tong Sing Wo & C...

Framed copy of original certificate, 16" x 20". Beautiful vignettes of firefighters, their tools, and the town of Bodie. Five year award f...

1) No. 11, March 2, 1907. List of rates for the Bodie, Mono Lake & Lundy Stage Line. Big Boom in Yerington. Goldfield population now 18,000. 190...

Delury arrived in Bodie in 1882. He bought the Temple Saloon (yes, the famous Bodie token) in the late 1880's. In 1898 he moved to Bridgeport wh...

Lot of 8. 1-4) c1927 Bodie Photographs attributed to Ned Johnson (Nevada's premier photographer in the early 1900's). 5) Bodie, California 1...

Unique stock for The Bodie and Hawthorne Telephone Company. Issued for 25 shares to Kuhlman Bros., a noted Bodie druggist (and prized Bodie bottle). S

Album of Calico Print and the Pony Express newspapers, all from the Bill Luther Collection, aka "Bodie Bill". About 25 papers, 1950's....

Nice cyanotype photo of wrecked stagecoach--Summer Stage. Mounted, board messy, but photo is good. City: Colfax State: California Date: hwac

The lowest point in the United States (279 ft (85 m) below sea level), Badwater" in Death Valley National Park is the scene of this beautiful w...

Framed poster, 14.5" x 11.5". $50 Reward for the arrest and detention of James Morton who escaped from the State Prison at Folsom, Califor...

Lot of 8. LA Sprague, Beatty, WA Clinch. Children, babies, ladies and men. A few names are identified. One is dated 1889. City: Grass Valley State

All photographs were taken by Moore of Grass Valley. 1) Men at the picnic. 2) Women around the kettle at a picnic. 3) Men and women getting ready to s

Includes a photograph of Lakeview Park and George Wilhelm's Saloon (Steam Beer), William Riker for Governor, negatives, Grass Valley cabinet car...

Hydraulic Parlor #58, Native Sons of the Golden West passing through arch on Main St. near Mill. Photo is by V. L. Dorsey, Grass Valley, California. N

Handwritten "Grass Valley" on back. Photo shows 14 men and 2 women in front of tent structure with wood boards lying on the side. Saloon? ...

Although we can only identify it by the "Grass Valley" written in pencil on the back, it is a fabulous old baseball turn-of-the-century ph...

Decorated wagons, horses and American flags. Must be a Fourth of July Parade. Photograph by Sprague. Mounted. 9.75" x 7.5". City: Gras...

1) Moore photograph of the Congregational Church on he corner of Neal & Church. Photo is 7.5 x 9.5". Some Crinkles on photo. Has been glue...

Toned photo of group of men in parade dress, some with horns in front of the Hotel Holbrooke. Register page for the hotel, dated December 2, 1897. Two

Native Sons of the Golden West badge for Admission Day in 1910. Gold writing and bear on white with light greenish tint background. Also Grass Valley

Three fabulous ribbons. The longest measuring over 13" long for a member. All 'Pride of Grass Valley.' City: Grass Valley State: ...

Double sided. Both in excellent condition. City: Grass Valley State: California Date: hwac# 35631

Lot of 21. Billheads: Geo. Gaylord (NC, 1881), K. Casper pictorial (NC, 1882), M.L.&D. Marsh pictorial (NC, 1893), L.Hyman & Co. pictorial (...

Two unidentified logging photographs, except for the pencil writing, "Murphy & Diggings", near Harriette, Nevada County." "...

By-ways of the wild nature and highways of industry. 112 pages. Covers logging, shipping, agriculture, towns, buildings and no Chinese! Multiple photo

Early. Nothing more than a wagon with roses decorating it. Identified in pencil on back. 3.5 x 4.75". City: Los Angeles State: California ...

Copper three piece badge to the 8th Biennial Session, Los Angeles, April 1905; Woodmen of the World Pacific Jurisdiction, map of the western states.

Absolutely pristine condition for such an old and historic piece. General Merchandise. Dixon's office was in the Wells Fargo Building. "Gol...

Rare. Three certificates, one issued in 1875 (dateline Nevada City), the other unissued. Issued is pen cancelled. Signatures and ink very faint. Print

California Scholarship Federation Nevada City H.S. Steel Die- seal w image of book folded open with chapter 10 engraved at center-1 "x 1.25&quo...

Nice framed overview photo of Nevada City (12.75" x 14.5"). Nicely mounted. City: Nevada City State: California Date: c.1905 hwac...

Six different and great framed stereoviews and photos of the Pine Street Bridge in Nevada City. 29.5" x 23.5". City: Nevada City Stat...

Two framed photographs and two matted photos. 1) A framed photograph of a family in front of their house with a horse. Family members named on back. 2

Huge map of Nevada County listing everything you could hope to find. Conditions issues. The very top is starting to flake. Approx. 47"H x 94&qu...

These are rare photos of the Church Ranch in Nevada County. One shows the ranch house in the distance. The other is a close view of the house with a w

Nice contrast. Information is handwritten on the back. City: Newhall State: California Date: c1910 hwac# 30963

36 x 48". Shows Berkeley, Alameda, Piedmont, etc. Thomas Brothers. Red, Yellow and Green. Heavy paper is crinkling. Staining on back. City:...

A. A. Van Vorheis, manufacturer of and wholesale dealer in harness and saddle. His saddles were used by the Pony Express. "The name of the gent...

Cabinet card 4.25" x 6.5" that shows two-story brick building with sign "Keseberg & Co." Four gentlemen standing in front of...

Possibly Sacramento. 8.75 x 10.75. City: Sacramento State: California Date: hwac# 30967

Very rare! Pre-Transcontinental Telegraph! Certificate No. 695. Signed by Justin E. Strong (the company president) and secretary. Not issued to anyone

Nevada Bank of San Francisco check issued to Geo. C. Shreve & Co. for $142 on March 29, 1888. Signed by Adolph Sutro. Shreve & Co. were a ve...

This is a ledger looking for a researcher. Find the judicial warrants from 1920 on page 344. Salary of clerks on page 424. Payments of Wells Fargo, Pa

For the Wing Coffee Company. Pictorial of the bay. Was located at 956 Stockton. City: San Francisco State: California Date: 1929 hwac# 30960

High quality photograph by well known San Francisco photographer Taber. "B530, Chinese Quarter, SF Cal." matted, 11.25 x 9.25". Impor...

The story of the city that was primarily a red wood city to D. O. Mills, who choose to build his edifice with earthquake safety in mind. What survive

Twenty three photographs of the devastation caused by the earthquake and fire in the City By the Bay. Seventeen of the pictures are 3 x 6 1/2" ...

This is an incredible photograph with an incredible story. Sign says bank will open Monday May 28, at 9:30 and is posted by vice president and manager

Cert. #124, issued for 60 shares to Richard Schmidt in 1884. Signed by M. Schmidt as president and S Desbecker as secretary. The co. incorporated in C

Lot of two. 1) Ribbon is 10". Bright red. Some staining and one tear on top left. 2) Badge has a Lick Observatory medallion. City: San Jose ...

This spectacular and rare collection of original "blue toned" photographs deals with the construction of the Santa Ana Canal, an early L. ...

No. 118 (Second Issue): Arrest for Forgery for Ed. W. Travers, true name Justice Greely, age 25, etc. The photo on the flyer is Greely, but another wa

Great Tahoe collectible four page newspaper published every evening except Sunday. Published from the Grand Central Hotel, located in present day Taho

Gorgeous framed panoramic of a steamer on Lake Tahoe with smaller boats in the foreground. Framed size, 15" x 39". City: Lake Tahoe St...

Original photograph album, 30pp, some with 2 photos per page. Most of the album has Tahoe photos, perhaps half on the north shore. Photos are general

1) Photograph of three buildings: Hardware, groceries, and dry goods. It looks like the owners are posing in front of their stores. Hand written says

Stamped on back and it looks like "Julius T". Julius T Bosyen was not Yosemite's most prolific or famous photographer, but did leave i...

Very rare and beautiful book. First Edition: Yosemite and Its High Sierra by John H. Williams. Green soft cover; heavy grade oversize paper covers wi

Published by Pacific Novelty Co Market Street San Francisco, 1913. 1st edition. Large oblong, 10.25" x 12.75", 36pp. 18 b/w photo plates t...

Large group of stereo photographs. (1) 15 Yosemite National Park. (2) 14 Yellowstone National Park. (3) 1 Utah - Castle Gate. No duplication. Ci

Four issued California bank stocks. Includes: Citizen's Bank, 1876, Nevada City, Cal. pen cxled, some glue residue at left edge, Anglo-Californi...

1) "California Spirit of the Times and Underwriters Journal" newspaper, September 21, 1878. Full page spread on the 25th annual state fair...

Twenty five checks dating from 1851 drawn on historical companies, and signed by historical figures. Banking house of Tallant & Wilde is the 185...

1) Jaqueline, Made in German, #3971. Beautiful inlay (silver or nickel silver) with a full frontal nude of Jaqueline on handle. Still sharp!. 2) Railr

Lot of eight. Mostly California. 1) Sutro Baths business card 1895, 2) 1857 Tuolumne County Water, 3) 1894 Sutter Creek Knight & Co., 4) 1923 La...

1) Joaquin "Joe" Lopez, 1914. Freighting from Marysville, CA to Plumbago Mine. Hand-colored photo framed in elaborate oval frame, 25"...

Proprietors of Arlington Springs, Bent County, Colorado. Inc. in Colorado. No. 168, issued for 1 share to Oliver H. Perry, president of the company, o

Very rare to find an uncancelled stock from this company! No. 90, issued to 10 shares to W.W. Cooley, the company's vice president. Also signed ...

Group of 2 badges: 1) white celluloid pin cover with crossed American flags with a red/white/blue ribbon supporting a round, white celluloid cover wit

Two Colorado State B.P.O.E Association Twentieth Annual Reunion Colorado Springs June 6th-8th, 1923 buttons with blue ribbon. In good condition. C

Colorado Springs Annual Meeting Grand Lodge of Colorado. Three interlocking rings makes this an Odd Fellows piece. Badge made by The Whitehead &...

Souvenir 25th Anniversary Colorado Springs, CO Sun Flower Carnival Badge Aug. 3rd-8th 1896 City: Colorado Springs State: Colorado Date: 1896 h

Sixth International Delegate Dry Farming Congress Conservation, Cultivation, & Education Colorado Springs Copper Badge with gold ribbon. Cit...

A gold color Flower Carnival Colorado Springs Souvenir 1895 pin with sunflower design. City: Colorado Springs State: Colorado Date: 1895 h

A gold color Flower Carnival Colorado Springs Souvenir 1895 pin with sunflower design. City: Colorado Springs State: Colorado Date: 1895 hwac#

Quarter Centennial Flower Carnival Colorado Springs 1896 Masonic Gold Badge with blue ribbon. City: Colorado Springs State: Colorado Date: 1896

Ax shaped Delegate Cripple Creek, CO Aug. 1902 Head Camp W.O.W gold Badge City: Cripple Creek State: Colorado Date: 1902 hwac# 35749

Souvenir Cripple Creek Greatest Gold Mining Camp on Earth Masonic Badge (Missing Souvenir top attachment) City: Cripple Creek State: Colorado Dat