October 2017 Premier Auction

James G. Scrugham. Compromising the Story of Her People from the Dawn of History to the Present Time (3 Volumes) Chicago and New York: The American

First Edition. Signed by Author, Effie Mack Hardcover. Minor wear to extremities; unobtrusive spotting to front cover; slight darkening to spine el

Reno, Nevada, Elms Publishing Company 1913. Large 8 volume 647-1280pp + xxii (index). Portrait frontis, portraits, plates. Orig. 3/4 black morocco,

Mainline by George W. Malone, Nevada Lost Mines & Hidden Treasures, by Dave Basso, Ghosts of the Adobe Walls by Nell Murbarger, Where to Find Go...

9 volumes include Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps, Buckaroos in Paradise, Elko Nevada, Halleck Country, The Complete Nevada Traveler, Canyons Cuto

Lot of six. 1) Photograph identified as the Pioneer Saloon in Wonder. Found on Page 14 of the Shamberger book. 2) Photograph of a reservoir. Shamberge

8" x 10" black and white photos taken by author/photographer Donald E. Miller. Nevada photos from Patsville, Pioche, Round Mountain, Ragt...

3 plastic key fobs, 3.5" x 1.75". Gold Victory Motel, Wells, Nev, reverse More Jackpots - at- Harrah's Club Your Reno Host. Gold Pio...

Candy apple and glitter 4.75" x 2.25" Safari, Sparks, Nevada with reverse Harrah's Reno and Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Black Loretta Hotel, ...

Approx 35 vintage Nevada 8" x 10" black and white photos. Mainly ghost towns and old buildings. Includes Searchlight, Tuscarora, Ely and...

Nice vignette of a smelter, natives and an ore wagon. $1000 15% gold or silver bond. Signed by Governor Henry Blasdel, the first governor of Nevada .1

Includes The Roughneck( with notes on Reno Commercial Club paper), Katie of Desolate Springs (returned from Everybody's Magazine), The Three Los...

Lot of five. 1) Color Governor John Sparks. Taken from the last photograph of him. Hand colored. Published by Richard Behrendt of San Francisco for th

20 Volumes on various facets of anthropology in Nevada including "The Nevada State Museum Anthropological Papers" Numbers 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 1...

Lot of 32 items. Includes: 1874 Daily Independent (Virginia City, Nevada) newspaper supplement of Sutro's lecture with illustrations; unusual br...

33 Posters from either Nevada or pertaining to Nevada. Sizes range from 8.5" x 14" to 24" x 19". Examples include reproduction...

Lot of seventeen. Includes Four Copper Flat, McGill Smelter black and whites. One postmarked 1908. All circa that year. Black and White Real Photo Pos

Lot of 42. Twelve RPC's: Mark Twain's home in Carson City, US Mint, three Rhyolite shots, Sonoma Inn and Fire Hall in Winnemucca, Austin Nev...

Before there were casinos there was - 1) "Views of Atlantic City" has 40 pages of photographs. Published in 1905. 2) "Atlantic City&q...

2 Native Americans in front of a pueblo. Keystone View Company, no photographer listed. 1 Native Americans in front of a pueblo. W.H. Jackson photogra

This book was published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Joseph Walker & Sons. Biography of Walker and the story of the company. Illustrat...

Three Sally Rand pieces. Sally Rand was a burlesque dancer, stage star and actress, most noted for her ostrich feather fan dance and balloon bubble da

Six inch long lapel pin with red, white and blue enamel and pictures of the Saratoga Monument and the Grant Cottage with a portrait of Grant captioned

Beautiful metal matchcase issued by the National Union of the United Brewer Workmen of the U.S. affiliated with the A.F. of L. Headquarters: rooms 109

Medallion with a bear on the front and on the reverse: "Hunter Trader Trapper / Columbus Ohio / An Illustrated up-to-date /100 to 200 page maga...

1) 1946 Ohio pin/license for Registered Chauffeur. 3.5 cm x 4cm 2) Very small pin. I.B.of T.C.W. & H. of A. / Registered. INTERNATIONAL BROTHERH...

View from roof of Medford Hotel, uncredited. City: Medford State: Oregon Date: HWAC# 53223

Includes portraits of Meeker, driver Hardin, dog Jim and cattle Dandy and Dave. Published by Meeker City: State: Oregon Date:

Approx 15 8' x 10" black and white photos. The photos are mainly old buildings an ghost towns. Photos were taken by Montana author and ph...

3 c. 1870's McKenzie, Salt Springs and Deschuttes Wagon Road Co. unissued stock certificates. Previously unseen by us and rare. Water damage...

The Oregon Trail by Parkman. The Pioneer Campfire by G. W. Kennedy with cracked spine. Overland Monthly March 1917 with detached cover. Ghost Town

8.75 x 11.5" Hydrograph summary in Blue, 24.5" x 21" improvement in fish ladders in blue. Five Corps of Engineers U.S. Army 10.5&quo...

October 1936 issue of "Shadows" a magazine made by prisoners and edited by Hugh D' Autremont, famous Oregon train robber. Very good co...

Numerous pieces of fossilized feces known as coprolites. The biggest piece is approx. 3" long. Found in Oregon. City: State: ...

Published by Thos. Hunter of 716 Filbert Street, this 3 x 5 inch album has 48 views of the hundredth birthday of America, celebration in Philadelphia.

Representative badge from the Great Council of Pennsylvania 1913 meeting at Wilkes Barre. Four and 3/4 inches long with American flag ribbon. The Impr

Lot of four Representative badges: Du Bois, PA; 1910 Reading, PA; 1916 Mahanoy City,PA; Minnesota. The Improved Order of Red Men is a fraternal organi

Unused real photo postcard showing early view of Lemmon, South Dakota. B.&B. Photo. c.1907-1920. Wear on edges, some soiling on reverse. 3.5&quo...

This c1880 mounted 5 x 7.5" photograph was done by Eastman View Company of Sturgis, South Dakota. The photo has very strong contrast of the chl...

Balance Scale, dark wood with front and rear sliding doors. Measure 19" x 16.25" x 9". Was last used in a South Dakota school before...

The official seal of Cass County, Texas is on the document. It has been stamped by a sealer and pasted to the document on February 5, 1853. It is for

6.5" x 4.5" black and white photo of Sheriff Tom Jones and booklet The Santa Claus Bank Robbery that occurred in Cisco, TX. Photo dates fr...

.75" x 1.5" brass oil truck on front, DALLAS / MAYHEW / TEXAS on rear. Includes leather belt strap and brass colored buckle. Cit...

Issued in 1889, signed by president. Issued and cancelled. A vignette of a large building that has Texas Star Flour Mills on the outside. Texas Star o

1) Identified on back as 1914-1918. R. E. Owen on left and Ernest Snodgrass on right. of the Kirkland Lumber Company. Has a stain on bottom right of p

The man is identified on the back in period writing: Fritz Kuehn (period writing, but hard to decipher!). This was a stock backdrop for Peterson as ca

Albumen photo taken in front of the Union Stock Yards Commission building under construction in 1932 at San Antonio, Texas. Man on horse is the Union

Rare photo of CC Higgins Mercur Mercury office. It is over the Golden Gate Meat Market and Dr. Duff Dentistry. Photo is 8 x 6". Mercur is a his...

1881 Ogden Telephone Exchange Company letterhead to John Morgan of Oxford, Idaho. They are quoting a price for a Bell Telephone Company Call Box for r

132 pages of hardware. Locks, hinges, trunk locks, straps ,hasps (whatever they are), handles, bolts, hooks, keys, latches, catches dead locks,etc. Al

The high school looks to be just finished. Made exclusively for E. N.Jordan. Springville is a bedroom community for Provo / Salt Lake City. It has a l

1) RPC of the Utah Bee Hive Charcoal Ovens. Pencil note on back says Frisco, Utah. Located in Beaver County, Utah, stand Frisco's silent remains...

8.5" x 15" stock certificate book. Certificates 1-9 were issued in 1913 and 4 of them are included, certificates 10-99 are unissued and i...

Metal pin from the B.P.O.E. Hoquiam 1082 Lodge celebrating their Circus March 17-20 1909. City: Hoquiam State: Washington Date:

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Seattle 1909 diploma, signed by J. E. Chilberg, President of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and others, dated Oc

Lot of five pieces: 1916 49th annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, California & Nevada representative. Chicago Milwaukee and St....

"Frank and O. D. Casady and their delivery wagon and store in Spokane Wash 1898" inscribed on the back. The horse's name is unknown. 6...

Approx 20 vintage 8" x 10" black and white photos including old mining and ghost towns such s Winthrop, Northport, Bossburg, Skyhomish and...

Issued 1899 and signed by president Hurley. 6.75" x 10.5". City: State: Washington Date: 1899 HWAC# 52379

A beer company letterhead and another beer company billhead. 1) Nice letterhead from Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin dated 1947. Vi

Oil shale fossil (not chalk unit), Swastern, Wy. Approx. 55 million years old. 7" x 10.75". Fish image is well defined. City: ...

Real photo post card of large group of Indians in front of log cabin, writing on front "The Arapahoe Church (our father's house), Wind Rive...

Afternoon in Hope Valley by Jean LeGassick. Well known for her landscape paintings, Jean says, "It’s not just because I’m off the beaten path. ...

Nice dark cloudy scene. Rich dark blues and browns are most prevalent. Unknown artist. Framed 24.5 X 28.5". Frame has chips, Painting is in goo...

Carl R. Walline, 1888 - 1976. While working in the oil refinery business for Shell, he painted landscapes of the area around his home in oil and water

Framed oil painting of Ernest Hemingway. Fantastic detail. Earth tones. Artist remains a mystery. Painting measures 13 ½”x 17 ½”. Framed: ...

Original painting by Frank Dawson c. 1963 of a moose wading in a stream in a snow capped mountain scene. Painting is 14" x 20.5" with so...

Serene scene from Holland of a typical windmill, farm house, and cart. 20.5 x 49.5". Frame is coming apart. Pieces of frame have been chip off....

Signed and framed color print of The Domino Game by Wooster Scott. 910/925. Based in Sun Valley, ID her paintings trace the American experience. COA i

Print of painting on canvas by Jarusha. Image of three horses in the snow. Framed, 31" x 37" City: State: Date: 1...

Press print from a painting by John Abreu. Signed, framed 20" x 25". City: State: Date: HWAC# 50705

Carved Ironwood eagle, regal and striking. The bird is perched on a stand, gazing into the sky. Modern styling, beautiful in its simplicity. 14&quo...

Framed color lithograph of Feminists Beware! showing Tonsorial Parlor and a horsedrawn bakery wagon. The wife insurance vendor is selling flowers. 8

Folk Art, Shells w/ Drawings, 7 pieces and extra shells. City: State: Date: HWAC# 50721

Reproduction of bronze sculpture, ''Savage" by Frederick Remington. 9.5" x 4.75" x 5". Mounted on marble base. ...

Bronze sculpture bust of an older woman, Anni Katrina. Sculpture is by H. Pfeiffer. Signed, no. 6/12. Swivel mounted on a marble base. 8.5" x ...

Includes Lost Bonanzas by Harry Drago, Lost Mines of the Great Southwest by John Mitchell, Arizona off the beaten path by Thelma Heatwole, Nevada Lost

H. A. Snow's Hunting Big Game in Africa, also a film that came out in 1922. This booklet contains African hunting scenes taken during the filmin...

175pp treatise on book plates, published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd of London. Contents pristine, professionally rebound with mar...

Spectacular four volume set, The Bookplate Designs of Frank Chouteau Brown, printed by Troutsdale Press, sold by Goodspeed's Boston. Monograph ...

3 Hardcovers. Allan Houser(HA-O-Zous), by Perlman, Frederic Remington by Neff, The USA A History in Art by Smith. City: State:

Album of Views, The Shasta Route, Scenes Along the Southern Pacific from San Francisco to Portland. 3.5" x 5.75". 18 color illustration ...

Mostly hardcover books, some are soft cover. The Way West by Hassrick, The West by Davis, The West An Illustrated History by Commanger(2 copies), The

By Henry T Williams, New York. 1877. City: State: Date: HWAC# 52235

Crofutt's New Overland Tourist and Pacific Coast Guide by Geo. A. Crofutt. Includes a large US railway map. City: State: ...

Mostly hardbound. Poem Songs 2012 by Trent, Zopilote Press 2006, Oregon Trail Voyage of Discovery by Murphy, Utah A picture Memory by Harris, Utah A B

First Edition second printing, Westering Man, The Life of Joseph Walker by Bil Gilbert. Hardcover with jacket. The first biography of Joseph Walker (

Rare 1956 version in hardcover. City: State: Date: HWAC# 49230

5.25" x 3.25" soft covered booklet with US populations, weights and measures, presidents and much more information. Inside cover is stampe...

15 volumes including Rogers Machinist Guide by Rogers, Audels Wiring Diagrams by E.P. Anderson; Pocket Companions from Carnegie Steel. Two Volumes I.C

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 6 Volumes, September 1886 with a detached cover, June 1887, October 1887, December 1890, February 1891 and M

By Smythe. City: State: Date: HWAC# 52231

Industrial Section. Volume 1 A- J and Volume II K- Z. City: State: Date: HWAC# 52219

Valuable Extinct Securities 1929 by Smythe and Obsolete American Securities and Corporations 1904 by Smythe. City: State: Date:

The 2 best spinners from this collection. 1.75" round knobs with a ribbed outer edge. One is white with a black circle and the other is black ...

1.75" milky green with threaded insert. 1.75" red and white swirl with attached metal 2.75" threaded shaft. 2" mocha with 1...

All 4 knobs have approx 2" knobs and are probably Santay brand. Mocha and white swirl with 2 metal band on the top of the knob. Turquoise color...

2" 6-point Bakelite appearing knob with rusty clamp and broken mounting platform. 1.75" Bakelite appearing round knob with round shiny i...

5 different round spinner knobs. All are approx 1.75".Circa 1940-1950 and be perfect for a hotrod or ratrod. Green with metal trim ring. Clear ...

8 Akro Glass Suicide Shifter Knobs, probably post 1960's. 2" brown and white swirl with brass insert. 2" light brown and cream swirl, ...