October 2017 Premier Auction

"The Seaboard-All Florida Railway was a subsidiary of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad that oversaw two major extensions of the system in the ear...

Rare $1000 5% gold bond with stream train on a turntable vignette. Signed by president Atwell in 1899. 14.5" x 10". #505. In 1899 the rail...

One year $1000 five percent gold bond. Signed by president Russell. 8.25" x 10.75". #470. City: Chicago State: Illinois ...

Pittsburg and electric lines which were merged in 1910 to form the Joplin & Pittsburg Railway Company. Labor troubles, extensions, and finances ...

$1000 5% gold bond. Signed by vice president. Nice train yard vignette. 14.75" x 10". #29766. City: State: Illinois ...

$100 5% gold bond, signed by president E.S. Orr. 14.5" x 9". #3517. City: State: Illinois Date: HWAC# 52635

$1000 5% gold bond. 10" x 15". Inc. June 9, 1900. Operations commenced over a 34-mile route with service to Beloit beginning on June 22,...

$1000 gold bond. #8540. Issued 1868. Not cancelled. Two revenue imprints on front left: RN-P5 below larger RN-W2. Reverse: RN-P5. Two different train

$1000 5% gold bond. Steam train vignette Signed by president Haynes, # 827. 14.25" x 9.25". City: State: Illinois Da...

Not in Cox 1998. Electric train vignette. Signed by president Eugene Purtelle. 14.5" x 9.5". Rare. #4016. Meant to connect Cedar Lake, Ham...

Two drawings on waxed linen 30 x 24" of plans within the American Bridge Plant in Gary. Both are part of a turntable complex. Fragile. ...

$1000, 6% gold bond, signed by president L.N. Downs. 14" x 9.25". #29. Company was to lay tracks between Marion and Alexandria and connect...

Letter from Jeffersonville Railroad Company regarding stock 9.5" x 7.75". Letter from Jeffersonville Railroad Company regarding dividends ...

Gorgeous $100 5% gold bond for this famous Western line. Signed by deputy comptroller. #126583. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was one of t

Nice vignettes of workers on the railway and a train on a bridge. $500 4% gold bond, signed by deputy comptroller Rich. 14" x 10.25". Rare...

$100 5% gold bond. Signed by president Goode. 17.75" x 11.25". #1827. City: State: Kentucky Date: HWAC# 52305

The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad (SR&RL) was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge common carrier railroad that operated approximately 112 m...

Signed by president Hanson, $1000 5% gold bond. #8. 17" x 10.75". City: Boston State: Massachusetts Date: HWAC...

$1000, 5% twenty year gold bond. Signed by president. Electric train vignette. #357. City: State: Michigan Date: HWAC#

$1000 5% gold bond, signed by president. #129. City: State: Michigan Date: HWAC# 52316

Green $1000 5% gold bond. Signed by president. #679. 14.25" x 10". City: State: Michigan Date: HWAC# 52345

$100 5% bond, signed by Vice President. 14.5 ' x 10". #1037. City: State: Michigan Date: HWAC# 52317

Issued to A. W. Wright, President of the C. S. & M. Railroad (running between Durand & Bay City). Pictorial of Pere Marquette exploring in a...

These 500 checks are from 1907 to 1912. From the Bank of Farmington. Checks made out to people, companies and currency! Quite a lot of history here!

5% gold bond. $500. Signed by president.Vignette of electric rail. 18.25" x 11.5". #488. A 7.1-mile electric interurban rail line between ...

$1000 gold bond. 5%. Signed by president Nealy. 14.5" x 10". #M180. According to Moody's, owned and operated the entire street railway...

A rare plate with blue and yellow flowers around the edges and in the center. Back of plate has manufacturer ("O.P.CO. SYRACUSE CHINA 1-3"...

Lot of 30+. Includes 5 real photo postcards; 25 black-and-white photographs (most 3 x 4.75"); cardboard sign for Chicago Milwaukee St Paul &...

"Steam locomotive passing through section of steel penstock pipe at the Babcock & Wilcox Company, U. S. Bureau of Reclamation Photo." ...

Datelined Goldfield Station and dated 1908. E. Martin Co. was shipping barrels of whisky from San Francisco to Goldfield. Stamped "PAID" a...

Nice railroad freight bill datelined Goldfield, Nevada in 1908. One barrel of whisky was shipped by E. Maarten of San Francisco to Goldfield. Stamped

Green $500 10 year 6% #588, brown $1000 10 year 6% #444, Signed by president Curtis. The Nevada Copper Belt Railroad operated 1911 to 1947. Started se

3.25" x 6.25" stereograph of a steam locomotive. Writing on back states V and T, Carson City. City: Carson City State: N...

A print of a map of the route of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad from Minden to Reno, NV. The 4 corners have small tack holes. 22" x 17"...

1) V&T construction coach in front of the now destroyed Carson yards. 2) Five car train in the desert. Frasher. 3) V&T Engine #21 next to a ...

Lot of twenty. Duplicates. Also ten tickets from the V&T Bond. 1885. Two number 1's. Some canceled, some not. All signed by George King. Ple...

1-2) Long ore car train out of Virginia City. 3) Mules Relief in Austin, Nevada. RPC. 4) Modern Streamliner SF 1 and the V&T 21 in same yard. RP...

Lot of five. 1) Black and White first train in Ely, September 28, 1906. 2) Color Ruby Range postcard with a short train making a long sweeping curve.

2.75 x 4.5". 1) Carson & Colorado #6 "Hawthorne". Rarer engine. Built by Baldwin in 1882 and scrapped in 1907. 2) Tonopah & T...

Lot of ten. 1) RPC. Different view of Western Pacific track in the middle of the Nevada desert in Elko County. "Cattle Country!". 2) Black...

Twenty year 5%. Vignette of 3 ladies, $1000. Signed by Vice President. 14.75" x 10.25". #15187. City: State: New Jersey...

$1000 5% gold bond. Electric train vignette. Signed by president Foote. 14.5" x 10.25". #735. Began trolley service in downtown Dover, New...

$5 gold bond for $1000. Issued 1902, due 2002. Not listed in Cox 1998. Signed by Vice President, steam train vignette. #49813 City: New Yor

$100 6% gold bond. Signed by president. 3 vignettes with trains, Excelsior and horses. 16.25" x 10". #305. Consolidation of the Friendshi...

The Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad was a streetcar operator in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was originally incorporated on May

Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad was a steam railway that opened in 1878 as Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island RR. It carried vacationers to the

$1000 4% gold bond. Signed by president Cox. Steamtrain and deer vignettes. 14.75" x 10. 75". #1356. City: State: New Y...

$1000, 5% 50 year gold bond. Signed by president. 14.75" x 10.75". #272. City: State: New York Date: HWAC# ...

Brown $1000 5% gold bond. Signed by vice president. #C29. 14.75" x 10.25". City: State: New York Date: HWAC# ...

$1000 4% gold bond,1892-1992. 2 train vignettes. Signed by president. 14.75" x 10.25". #58. City: State: New York Da...

$1000 5% 30 year gold bond. Streetcar and buggies vignette. Signed by president. 14.75" x 10". #781. City: San Francisco St...

$1000 5% gold bond, signed by president. #2740. 14.75" x 10.25". City: State: New York Date: HWAC# 52629

No info found on this company in our library. $1000 5% gold bond. Signed by president Brennan, #374. 14.75" x 10.25". City: ...

$1000 5 year 5% gold bond. Street car vignette, #508. 14.5" x 10.25". City: State: New York Date: HWAC# 52623

$1000 gold bond. Signed by Vice President Conway. 14.75" x 10". #392. The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad (CH& D) was a rail...

Green $20 5% gold bond #3622, green $100 5% gold bond #50387. Signed by president Porter. 11.25" x 15". Plan was for a branch from Caney, ...

$500 5% 21 year gold bond. Signed by president Martin. 14.5" x 10". #87. City: State: Oklahoma Date: HWAC# ...

$1000, 3 bonds signed by president Davis. Train vignette. 14.25" x 10". Not listed in Cox. #92, 93, 94. City: State: Ore...

Two transportation token holders full of fare tokens. One from the Pittsburgh Railways Co. 1922; Philadelphia CRT. City: State: Pen

Brown $100 50 year gold bond, signed by president #C342. Two train vignette. Orange $1000 50 year gold bond #M805. Signed by president, two train vign

Dated 1870. Office of Jay Cooke & Co., Bankers and financial agents of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. Two letters requesting payment for sto...

$1000, thirty year 5% gold bond. Signed by president. Electric train vignette. 14.75" x 10.25". #183. City: State: Penns...

Philadelphia and Easton Railway Company $1000 5% 40 year bond, signed by president Rauschberger, #483 14.25" x 9.5". The Albany and Susqu...

$1000 4% 50 year gold bond. Signed by vice president. 14.5" x 10". Pretty train and miner vignettes. Unlisted in Cox. #4588. The Pittsburg...

3 letters from Mason,Cox and Smith, Bankers and Brokers, 1870. General Casement wishes to sell his bonds of Union & Titusville Railroad. 2 lett...

$1000 gold bond, #1687 signed by president Hayne. Not cancelled. Not listed in Cox. Name given to two proposed but never completed Pennsylvania railro

Rare. # 1323. $500 5% 30 year gold bond. 14.75" x 10". The Rapid City, Black Hills and Western Railroad (aka the Black Hills and Western R...

Scarce $1000 bond and #13! Steam train vignette. Signed by president strong. Chartered on February 28, 1901, for the purpose of building and operating

Rare $1000 6% 20 year bond. #1198. Signed by president Bigelow. Streetcar vignette. 15" x 10.25". History from utahrails.net: "Ogden ...

Scarce $100 6% gold bond. Train in a valley vignette. Signed by president, 14.5" x 9.5". Some folding on right edge. #1067. City:...

$1000 5% 30 year gold bond. 15.5" x 10.25". #829. The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad (aka W& OD), the successor to the bankrupt...

We were unable to find any info on this company in our library. Washington-Northern Railroad Company, Oregon-Washington Timber Company, Blazier Timber

Green $100 #1002, brown $500 #694, orange $1000 #227. We could not find any info on this company in our library. 5.5% 20 year gold bonds. Signed by pr

1881,10 pages and fold out map. 50 mile route from Montreal to Sorel. 8.5" x 5.5". City: State: zCanada Date: ...

A wooden nickle, a wooden Four Winds Historic Village, a handshake pin, a small brass railroad tack, Union Pacific aluminum token from 1939 Golden Gat

American Railway Express wood sign, 10.5" x 70". Fabulous condition. The Railway Express Agency (REA) was a national monopoly set up by th...

This is clearly marked 'UPRR.' It was used to move heavy rails. The wedge itself is 25 pounds (and may need extra shipping). Great railroad ...

Lot of nine. Two RPC's: Coronado Incline and Mt. Hood Skyway. Others include Mount Royal Incline in Montreal, Lower Station Manitou, Lookout Mou...

Rare location. Junction City was established when a few cabins were built in the 1850s at the mouth of Canyon Creek, it was originally called "...

Taylorsville was a mining camp in Indian Valley in Plumas County. sent from ED Hosselkus. Hosselkus was actually a farmer in Genesee. Taylorsville wou

Dateline Helena, Montana, Oct. 2nd, 1871. Letter to P.V. Jackson in Sterling, Montana. Writing is difficult to read. Letter has folds but is clean.

Addressed to Wells, Fargo & Co. office in New York. Written in pen upper left: "Bills of Lading Ramsey Trench Co." Came to us in a col...

Wells Fargo & Company 1877 letterhead. From the treasurer's office. To John Potter, Esq, Supt. Eureka, Nevada. Eureka is crossed out and Pi...

Officially unused, but was used to share a message. "Further instructions in relation to our Com #599. BD Washburn with JM Buffington." A ...

3 hardcover books. Wells Fargo Advancing the American Frontier by Hungerford, Wells Fargo An Illustrated History by Loomis, Via Western Express &am...

Used as a calculator. Felt & Tarrant MFG. Co. Copper appearing skin on machine, 15" x 9.5" x 4". Steel lid with W. F. & Co....

1) 6.25 x 2.25 Purchasing and Commission Business envelope. 2-3) Two note pads form the Purchasing and Commission Department. One has one page. One ha

This stage coach way-bill is from August 18, 1877 from Nevada City to North Bloomfield. Includes 1 spade for George Wehrung, 1 box for Ching Sing (Chi

September 9th magenta double circle. Two tape marks on reverse where ti was glued. John Bamber first advertised July 12, 1858 as the only authorized C

July 29, 1869 is written in pencil as is the sender W. D. Chiladson. The 1869 San Francisco Directory lists Henry & William Pierce were loan and...

Number 58 on page 54 may have been caused by Kid Murray (of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) who robbed a Globe Express Safe on the Colorado &...

Quite literally hundreds of hides and horns of animals that have been killed in northern Michigan. Interesting topic. Card in great shape. Copyright J

Union Express local short lived express company. Original way bill book with a fancy cover. Three pages are filled in and about 75 pages are blank. Pa

The very first number of this monthly publication dedicated to expressmen. Includes article on Transportation and the Chicago Convention, The Adventur

Blue print style Pony Express map. 24" x 48.5". There are several rear taped repairs of tears and a .75" hole. City: ...

5 maps in blueprint form of the Pony Express Trail from St. Joseph, MO to Sacramento, Ca. Has a short story of the Pony Express and shows the cross c

Two sided circular, 7 1/2 x 10 inches, listing offices of the Adams Express Company West of Pittsburgh. Far West for this circular meant Ohio and Illi

Pictorial horse drawn cargo wagon highlights this mint currency envelope from the 1860s. Seal circles on the back. 3 3/4 x 9 inches. The Merchants

About one hundred 1930's and 1940's first day covers. Please see photos online. City: State: Date: HWAC# 53517

About two hundred and forty 1950's first day covers. Please see photos online for examples. City: State: Date: HWA...