No Tricks Just Treats

Includes the following papers: 1) The Writings of James Smithson (founder of the Smithsonian), 2) Casts of Indian Heads, 3) Lists of articles deposite

Includes reports from the executive committee, etc. With illustrations of the evolution of satellites, x-rays, cathode rays, mechanical flight, light

Includes reports of the Assistant Secretary, and Head Curators. With the following papers: "Anthropological Studies in California," Holmes...

Two ornately embossed spoons, each 5.25" long. 1) A New Mexico spoon, front and rear of handle embossed, with "Hotel Alvarado/ Albuquerque...

This is Bill Weber's Telephone and Telegraph document collection. It is a major collection, mostly nineteenth century, comprised of several par...

A major collection of telephone and telegraph stock certificates. Two notebooks full, 186 total pieces. Highlights include: Aspen & Glenwood Spr...

Lot of 8. There are 3 bell shaped figures with telephone companies on them, 2 are made from glass and 1 is plastic. 1 pin that reads –Buy a Herald!”.

Includes: two color stereo views (Indians in canoe at Sitka and Klondike); 1948 personal letter from Port Richardson, Alaska; 1950 color collectible c

Group of 18 brass & nickel so-called & souvenir dollars, mostly uncirculated Date: AK hwac 8364

Almost 100 years ago, a rancher displayed his prized possessions at the Arizona State Fair. There are first and second small agricultural department p

Lot of 72 postcards depicting various towns and scenery in the Grand Canyon State, including Bisbee, Tombstone, The Apache Trail, some old army forts

Includes papers on the following: 1) Introduction by J.W. Powell, 2) "Pictographs of the North American Indians- A Preliminary Paper," Mal...

Introduction by J.W. Powell. Some pages stuck due to moisture problems. Rebound in green cloth with gilt lettering. 326 pp. 8" x 10.5". D...

Lot of 5: 1 is a "Peabody Coal Co. First Aid Kit," water-tight box (box is empty). 2 is a Safety Award blanket, dated 1978. 3 is a yellow ...

Arizona Trapper`s License with serial number 224. piece is in good condition. These were usually attached to the trap being used by the individual to

Includes news of an Infantry attack on Indians at Rancheria of Miraha's band. News of the Glove District. As with all old newspapers the paper i...

Article on the sheriff of Coconino committing flagrant outrages against the Navajo Indians. Also a large poster of Company K of the United States Infa

Article how Arizona and New Mexico will not be admitted to the United States because the senate is afraid of a stronger 'Silver' contingent!...

Description of a new settlement called Walnut Grove - 20 miles from Prescott. As with all old newspapers the paper is very fragile, but the historical

Article on court martial trial at Whipple. Lots of advertisements for local businesses. As with all old newspapers the paper is very fragile, but the

Mining news and lots of 1880 advertising! Also "The United States recently sent a man-of-war to open trading relations with Corea , a distant ...

Lot of 4. 1) Silver medal created for the California State Numismatic Association. Literary Award. San Jose April, 1963. Wm. R. Weber. 65mm. 2) ANA 19

Lot of eight badges to various expositions from the 1930s and 1940s. Date: CA hwac 10194

Lot of 4 pieces, including 1) Location certificate for quartz claim Titania No. 1; 2) Ludlow & Southern Ry .Co. receipt; 3) Hesperia 1907 letter...

Lot of 8. Varying designs, but all have a 3-ring motif. Some examples are: Crossed swords, keys, feathers, drumsticks and hourglass, all joined at the

Lot of 7 pink and green ribbons: 1) A 6" long "Delegate", "Rebekah/ Assembly/ IOOF/ California/ 1925/ San Francisco" ribbon...

A group of 5 pieces relating to the Mountain Spring Canyon Mines, Ltd. from 1930-31. The mine was located in the Argus mining district in Mountain Spr

Atolia¾is a¾ghost town¾in the¾Mojave Desert¾near¾Randsburg. It was at the site of a¾tungsten¾mine that start...

Melinda's Pack Train in 1880's reprint. Valley View Hotel, First National Bank, Schober's Mountain Ranch, Garage, etc. Some duplicates. ...

1) Forbes beautiful Victorian Mansion. 2) Street scene (Ames Collection) Date: c1915 Bishop CA hwac 3817

This is a page from the 6Jan1880 edition of the Daily Bodie Standard, a daily (except Sunday) publication that was in business from 1878 to 1880. The

Volume VII, Number 85, 1882. Lots of advertising on the front page (saloons, banks, hotels, breweries, etc.)! Newspapers are notoriously hard to keep

Lot of 4. 1) RPPC by Frasher's Foto, Pomona, Calif. View of town and mines. "The Historic Old Mining Town of Bodie, Mono County, Calif.&quo...

Also Native Americans, Los Gatos, Corinne Griffeth home, navy, Gay Lion Farm and lions, Lake Arrowhead, etc. Date: 1927 Bodie CA hwac 2204

9" diameter fancy porcelain bowl made for O'Donnell of Placerville by Wheelock Date: c1900 Coloma CA hwac 20511

Devil's Post Pile, Arcularius Ranch, The Minarets, Rainbow Falls, Convict Lake, Crowley Lake, Owens River, Benton's Crossing, Box Lake, Rock...

Lot of 35. Includes two post card booklets. Also Furnace Creek Ranch, Steam Traction tractor, Dante's View, twenty mule team, Death Valley Scott...

16 post cards. 12 are real photo cards. Willard and Frasher. Date: c1930's Death Valley CA hwac 20523

Over 40 books, pieces, and pamphlets. 1939 Castle Chronicle, panoramic Bullfrog photo, reprint of 1909 Rhyolite Herald, Death Valley Days, Death Valle

Three page document from the California gold rush recorded in Amador County in 1859 with an orange Amador County District Court seal. Indenture docume

Garlock was the site of the first mill for the mines at Randsburg. Fancy script on this letterhead for the general merchandise and lumber company. Bro

Three Yellow Aster Mining & Milling Company letterheads. One Garlock / Yellow Aster letter. One patriotic (flag and battleship vignettes) letter...

Signature of Buffalo Bill's son on front of Cody Family Reunion booklet. Date: Hanford CA hwac 8501

Certificates, No. (332, 823, 848, 869, 877). Dated 1941 to 1972. First four were signed by Paul Jennings as President, while he most recent was signed

Logging scene/snow scene Date: Hobart Mills CA hwac 5713

Large "Silver Jubilee for Adolph Zukor" motion pictures medallion. Date: 1937 Hollywood CA hwac 10197

Two M. J. Colson billheads. Colson dealt in lumber. One Johannesburg Milling and Water Company billhead. All for the Yellow Aster Mine of Randsburg. P

1)¾Brass plate (with screws) for the Ninth Biennial Reno Tour, Reno-Tahoe _, June 1966. 2 1/2 –. 2) Indian baby in papoose. 6”. Date: Lake Ta...

Lot of 2. 1) Ranchos of the Sunset. The Story of Long Beach. Bank publication of Security Trust and Savings Bank. Includes photographs of historical L

1931 Commencement Exercises. Gretta Houser card. 1935 Kappa Delta Sorority certificate. 1933 "The Claw." 1928 "The Baccalaureate Serm...

Group of 18 City of Los Angeles Bonds, including: Water Works (1905 x 2, 1907, 1913, 1922, 1930 x 2, 1933); Electric Plant (1919, 1924), Street Constr

Lot of 600 issued bonds! They fall into four different categories. 1) 378 water works bonds, including four different varieties. Nine were issued in 1

Large group of Los Angeles bonds including: 30 Water Work bonds; 7 Sewage Disposal bonds; 15 Electric Plant bonds; 8 Fire Protection bonds; and 3 Stre

This is a 40-page soft cover book about an icon of Hollywood, Shirley Temple. Itês titled –HOW I RAISED SHIRLEY TEMPLE” and is credited –By Her...

Lot of 25. Many Frashers. Many show groups on horses. Several stated that Mt. Whitney is the highest peak in the United States. It was at the time, bu

Three pictorials: billhead with great pictorial selling Ginger Ale, Soda and Distilled Water, receipt, and SP shipping receipt. Two covers: 1902 that

Ledger for the IOOF chapter in Oroville, CA. Spine says "Ledger" and "Oro Encampment No. 22." Ledger begins with alphabetical li...

Lot of 16 showing various people, cars buildings, and scenery. Includes desert, lake, city, and mountains. Date: c1920s-1970s Palm Springs CA hwa

View of the Scheelite Tungsten Mine in Pine Creek. Surface map of the Pine Creek Mine, 1944, United States Department of Interior, Geological Survey,

8 x 9.5" photo, trimmed, of a stage stop near Placerville. The sign on the tree reads: "Georgetown 5 miles" Date: c1890 Placerville ...

This lot consists of several sets of court documents, most are blank and include Chattel Mortgages, Assignment of Lease, an Affidavit for Publication

Lot of nine. Includes letters to Golden West Plating Works and back. Four letters to John McClintock from John Taylor. Billhead. Mine report. (Ames C

Lot of 9. 1) Beautiful letterhead from the sheriff of Kern County, EL Borgwardt. 2) D. E. Early billhead from Daggett, California. 3) Kern Valley Abst

Desert Garage 192-. Two C Asher & Company, General merchandise, 1907. W. B. Broadwell, 1899. Randsburg Oil & Fuel 1899. Tehachapi Milling an...

Rare and unusual certificate from "The South Riverside Land & Water Co." (uncancelled). Certificate #706 grants Walter E. Brown 50 sha...

Certificate #46, from the "Orange Heights Water Company" (cancelled) with attached receipt along a perforated edge, all hand-inscribed. Is...

Lot of 4: certificates from the "Orange Heights Water Company" (uncancelled) 2 have register titles along a perforated edge, all hand-insc...

Willard photos. Three different views of Ryan, unused. Date: c1930 Ryan CA hwac 20522

Augustus, Woods, Kershaw, Holmes, McEwers, etc. Daily record of money made. Date: 1931 Sacramento CA hwac 2196

Lot of 2: Grocer's billheads from Hall, Luhrs & Co. Wholesale Grocers and Liquor Dealers. Excellent condition. Date: c1895 Sacramento CA ...

Lot of 11. Included are: 1) Idyllwild Dairy cardboard bottle cap from Idyllwild, CA.; 2) Card from A.C. Rudolph Fine Candies; 3) 1930s era post card

Lot of 8: unissued certificates from the "Pleasant Valley Land and Water Company," with attached receipt on left side. Litho by F.M. Dalma...

September 21, 1878. Printed every Saturday Morning. Newspaper entitled "California Spirit of the Times and Underwriters' Journal Devoted to...

Mostly Pictorial. Mostly different! Includes San Francisco Tool Co, Arnett & Rivers, Goodyear Rubber, J. W. Girvine, California Gas Engine Co, J...

The Alcatraz Company was incorporated in West Virginia in 1890, with its office and principal place of business in the City and County of San Francisc

First of Exchange from Page & Bacon (St. Louis) and Page, Bacon, Co. (Sacramento City). Redeemed in red, 1857? Blue printing. Holes on left side...

1897 Cover seems to be to the Assembly Chamber in Sacramento. Unused. Contents are titled "The Pest House, Arguments against the Location!"...

"The German Bank." 1913. Lists board of trustees and key employees. Date: 1913 San Francisco CA hwac 2206

Certificates No. (18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27), all dated April 3, 1909. Each issued to Henry Cailleaud Sr. for between 1 and 1,000 shares. Signed by

J T (Thomas) - 04 reference. Tooled inside thread with the matching stopper. 12". Bright yellow amber with a strong strike. It probably dates a...

2 _ ounce bar that was .857 fine. $42.07 deposited to Mercantile National Bank. Signed by H. Mahler. Folds and some fading. Date: 1910 San Francisco

5.2 ounce specimen that was .882 fine. $89.37 deposited to Mercantile National Bank. Signed by H. Mahler. Nice condition, some folding. Date: 1910 Sa

We have had many unusual stocks, but this is an amusement park stock certificate. Toyland was the "mythical" highlight of the Joy Zone of ...

Certificate No. 200, issued 30 shares to L.G. Harvey, Trustee on July 1, 1878. Signed by Frank Williamsbise as President and J.H. Thompson as Secretar

GREAT HISTORICAL WORK on the San Francisco earthquake. ¾Formally titled and subtitled: Earthquake & Fire, 1906 San Francisco. Concerning th...

Lot of 23 stereo views. Printed by "World Series, reproduced from original stereoscopic photographs." Views of the aftermath to the 1906 S...

Three 1877 telegraphs delivered between Carson City Savings Bank and San Francisco through the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company. Two are written

Lot of 2: reproduction W-F belt buckles in brass and copper. Both feature different castings of the famous W-F logos. The slightly larger, more ornate

Four Western Sketches, 1959, by Charles Crouch in original folder. All of Cowboys and horseback. 45 unused post cards in various condition: two Indian

Lot of 2: billheads from E. Chevalier & Co. Whiskey Merchants & Liquor Dealers. Features a great vignette of "Chevalier's Old Castl...

Two exteriors and one interior. Two are from the Watkins' Pacific Coast collection of stereo views. The Palace Hotel was built by San Francisco ...

Memorandum for billing from Fredericksburg Brewery. Features a great vignette of their trademark castle on the upper left corner. Excellent condition.

Lot of 8 various "Old Spanish Days" Fiesta Souvenir Ribbons some have medals. Date: 1923 Santa Barbara CA hwac 10193

Multi-page booklet by Peter J. Curtis (manager) illuminating the healthful & wonderful delights of these established hot springs. Full of period...

Lot of 31. Includes Official Press Guide, Olympic Souvenir issue of Skiing, Sport Illustratedês Olympic special issue, Sports Illustrated Openi...

Almost 150 pieces. Mostly billheads from Stockton. Includes (among many others) Stockton Insane Asylum, Whittier, Fuller, & Co, R. F Wilson, Uni...

Five Odd Fellowsê Association Stock Certificates. 1)Four are from the Odd Fellowsê Hall Association of the City of Stockton, CA, No. 197-2...

Lot of 3: certificates from the Odd Fellows Hall, with attached receipt on left side. 2 have revenue stamps on the left border. Litho by O.M. Clays...

Cert#3843. Issued to J.H. Churchill in for the amount of 50 shares of capital stock. Signed by J. Ariesbill (spelling?) as secretary and J. E. Adams a

Group of two Suisun City Hotel Stock Certificates: No. 81 issued to James Keyes for 5 shares on February 28, 1893. Location Suisun City, Cal. Incorpor