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...