Auction Details
Montana 'Big Sky' and Holiday Auction is a four day feast for the collector. This sale begins with a one day Montana only auction focusing on tokens and postal history. The next three days run the wide range of a traditional Holabird Auction: minerals, numismatics, Native Americana, railroadianna, mining, photographs, stock certificates, express, saloon, exposition, assay, tokens, badges, Gold Rush, etc. Heavy emphasis is placed on Colorado, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and the Western States.
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1231Two Different Territorial Montana Mining Stock CertificatesHolabird Western Americana Collections
1) Gorgeous certificate for The Bonanza Chief Gold Mining Company. Issued 1881. Stamp cancelled. Mining and Native American vignette. ABN. 2) Big Hole
Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold to m********y for (75.00 + 15.00BP) = 90.00
1232Montana Mining Stock Certificate CollectionHolabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 17. Most pictorial. Includes: Original Butte MC (1882, cxl), Legal Tender MC (1885, not cxl), Montana Mineral Land Development Co. (1902, 1903,
Start Price : 125.00 | Estimate : 250.00 - 500.00
1233Two Montana Mining Souvenir Plates, #2Holabird Western Americana Collections
Two mining souvenir plates. 1) B. & M. Smelter, and the largest smokestack in the world, Great Falls, Montana (made by Buffalo Pottery). 2) Anac...
Estimate : 250.00 - 350.00
Sold to m********y for (125.00 + 25.00BP) = 150.00
1234Montana Ephemera (Checks, Stocks, Billheads)Holabird Western Americana Collections
Over twenty pieces of early Montana history: check from the Territory of Montana, Madison County, Virginia City, 1873; First National Bank of Helena,
Estimate : 120.00 - 200.00
Sold to i*********1 for (60.00 + 13.80BP) = 73.80
1235Montana Ephemera (incl. territorial checks)Holabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 10. Five checks: three different territorial L.H. Hershfield & Co. (Helena) issued 1866 and 1867; A.M. Holter, Hardware (Helena) check 18...
Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to i*********1 for (65.00 + 14.95BP) = 79.95
1236Montana Ephemera Collection (Checks & Billheads)Holabird Western Americana Collections
24 early Montana checks, a copy of the 1887 Northwest Illustrated Monthly magazine, a handful of Montana billheads from the 1800s. City: State: Mo
Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
1237Montana Illustrated Lettersheet CollectionHolabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of nine. Many illustrated. Includes: The Manhattan Malting Co. (Manhattan, MT, 1892, illustrated), A.M. Holter Hardware Co. (three total, two diff
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to l*******c for (50.00 + 11.50BP) = 61.50
1238Montana Indian Traders Ephemera (Fort Shaw and Fort Benton)Holabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of 4. 1) Two billheads for T.C. Power & Bro., Freighters and Forwarding Merchants and Dealers in Indian Goods. Fort Benton, Montana Territor...
Estimate : 60.00 - 120.00
Sold to i*********1 for (65.00 + 14.95BP) = 79.95
1239Montana Non-Mining Stocks & BondsHolabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of eight pictorial pieces. Includes: The Butte & Montana Commercial Co. (1893, not cancelled), Broadview Farmers' Elevator Co. (1921, no...
Start Price : 60.00 | Estimate : 120.00 - 200.00
1240Montana Stage Company Way BillsHolabird Western Americana Collections
Lot of four. Two different stage companies. 1) Three Way Bills for Benton & Billings Stage Company, all dated 1886 for travel between Benton and...
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to i*********1 for (50.00 + 11.50BP) = 61.50