October 2017 Premier Auction

Advertising broadside booklet and cover for the Commonwealth Carriage Co., St. Louis, Missouri, mailed to S.R. Buford in Virginia City, Montana in 190

Two cute little leather advertising pieces in the shape of cowboy boots. One for Diamond Dan's Saloon in White Sulphur Springs. The other for Do...

Ex. historical society (deaccessioned) bound copy of this important illustrated work published by Frank T. Gilbert, Historic Publishing Company, Publi

Carnegie Library copy of the Constitution of the State of Montana, as Adopted by the Constitutional Convention Held at Helena, Montana July 4 1889. Pu

Montana Fish And Game Laws Booklet, 1931-1932. Perfect for the hunting and fishing license collector. City: State: Montana Date

Lot of 33 billheads/letterheads from various small towns in Montana. Many are mining related. An instant town collection! Includes: Dailey & Ter...

1) 1884 license receipt issued 1884 in Dillon to Utah & Northern Railroad Expressman. 2) 1889 license receipt for Omnibus & Expressman in Bo...

10 licenses include store license, board of health, food distributor, building permit, cigarette license etc. c 1950 to 1975. City: S

Montana State Boiler Inspector's Certificate dated 1926. Montana Traction Engineer's License dated 1927. Nice tractor image. Both have som...

Vigilantes of Montana or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains by Prof. Thos. J. Dismdale. Mackinaws Down the Missouri by Glen Barrett. Cit

Approx 30 vintage 8" x 10" black and white small town photos. Includes photos of a hotel, church, saloon and more. Photos were taken by ...

4 different 3" x 6" Montana coppers. Greeting from Montana, A BUCK is all I can send you now, A load of Copper greetings from Butte, Mont...

These items are made from very thin copper pressed to paperlike thickness. KGIR radio dated 1936. 2x EVERLASTING COPPER from ANACONDA/ Home of the

4 pink working cards, local 175. Savings passbook The First National Bank of Dillon Montana, 1963-7967. Due book United Brotherhood of Carpenters an

Approx 75 8" x 10" black and white Montana photos. Photos include mostly old mining and ghost towns. Photos were taken by Montana author ...

Copper City Radio Club, Butte MT. cloth patch. 5 stapled Gordon's Jewelry receipts c. 1938. Stove Catalog from Butte Stove Repair Company, Bu...

Lot of five different. Includes: copper, 5.75", mining scene on bowl and handle; patriotic handle and (gold-plated?) small Montana seal, 6"...

Includes 10 postal receipts/ working cards. Approx 100 letters from State of Montana Attorney General, State Forester, House of Representatives, gub

Approx 30 Montana Labor News cancelled checks c. 1940, approx 30 receipts from Bessette Printing Company to Montana Labor News c. 1940. Approx 30 var

1876-1976 Homestake Centennial Booklet, 96 pages and lots of photos. Old mining deeds, mining receipts, Santa Fe-The Lee Ranch Mine booklet, self gui

Old Montana checks including Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, The Thomas Cruse Savings Bank, State Savings Bank, c. 1899-1904 plus other...

Lot of 6. Includes: three 1870 Hershfield checks out of Helena w/ adhesive revenue stamps; one illustrated draft for S.R. Buford, Virginia City, 1888;

Lot of 20+. Early 1900s covers, many with contents (billheads and letterheads) either from Montana or addressed to businesses in Montana. Includes pie

Includes: stub for 1883 license; two unidentified mounted photographs (school and large wagon); small cloth bag for Montana Mercantile Co. (Dillon); w

Lot of 3. Two are pointed-badge design (approx. 1" wide) and one is shield design with 3-7-77 (1" x 3/4"). City: Stat...

Lot of 3. 1) 1895 letter from E.E. Keller datelined Ennis, Montana to S.R. Buford regarding cattle & lumber. W/ envelope (no stamps or cancels)....

Includes C. D. Edwards Manufacturing Company road building catalog with pasted in cartoon drawings of "Alec and A'l". Pamphlet, A Tri...

Lot of 9 illustrated letterheads issued to Montana merchants, c.1880s to 1910. Best is 1906 A. Leschen & Sons Rope Co. (Hercules Wire Rope) to M...

Lot of about 15 misc. letterheads issued to Montana merchants, 1906-1916. Best piece is Home Lode Gold Mining Co. (Silver City, SD) to Butte, MT, 1916

Approx 13 old items including receipts from The Tuttle Manufacturing and Supply Company, Montana Electric Co. Thomas P. Fuller Hardware, Official Bon

Collection of approx 30 paper items including various membership cards, letters, insurance policy, placemat from The Placer Hotel Coffee Shop, 1915 P

1) Silver Anniversary Encampment W.R.C., Department of Montana, Billings, April 15, 16, 17, 1909. Yellow cloth, 8" x 2.25". Vignette of ba...

4cm long super cute advertising knife. One side: Dugout Bar / "The Hide-Away" / Galen, Mont. Other side: Swede's Bar / "Sportsmen...

"Main Street, Aurora, Nevada, A Deserted Old Mining Camp." Frasher Foto. Although the town is deserted, on can see a sign for a saloon, th...

Lot of five. Boaters on Lake Mead. RPC. 2) Frasher overview of Boulder City. Definitely a company town as rows and rows of the same type of building s

In 1932 a part-Labrador puppy with a jet black coat and a white blaze on his chest was said to have been born in the crawlspace beneath the first poli

These c1930 photos all say U. S. Bureau of Reclamation. From 8 cubic yard bucket being hauled by wire to stages of the Dam's completion, the pow...

Two spectacular views of sealers hanging over the dam on ropes. One Frasher of dam nearly completed. Four Oakes views: Lower portal, power house, work

Leather 4.75" x 2.25" Hotel State Carlin, Nevada. Red State Hotel, Carlin, Nev. with reverse More Jackpots -at- Harrah's Club Your Ren...

Leather key fob from Hotel State in Carlin, Nevada. Drop in any mailbox we guarantee postage. This key was actually mailed back! Reverse has two 3

Letter dated July 21, 1869, datelined Carlin, Nevada from Thos. H. Smith to Mr. John Wilson, Portland Agn. "Herewith enclosed I send you a prom...

This letter from 'The Mint of the United States at Carson, Nevada is letting Keating, superintendent of the Savage Mine, know that the Carson Ci...

Unusual view through the massive trees on the grounds. City: Carson City State: Nevada Date: HWAC# 52959

Great Nevada history piece! Issued to J. B.Overton 1899 # 57 9 shares. Overton is a name well-known to Comstock collectors. He came to California arou

Issued in 1887 to Jacob Klein and signed by Jacob Klein president. #13 for 2 shares. 5.25" x 9.5". Klein came to Nevada in the territorial...

Issued 1888 to Trenmor(sic) Coffin, Speaker of Nevada State Assembly, 1883-1887.#18 issued for 5 shares. 5.25" x 9.25". Signed by presiden...

Issued to Cecelia Prater, signed by president Jacob Klein. Prater owned a grocery business at 130 South C. Street in Virginia City in the 1890s. 5.2...

Extra rare! Incorporated in 1875 by Henry Yerington. He constructed the first flume for sending wood and timber down the mountains; built the Carson y

"This picture taken jut before Nevada built a new road. Hank Monk is riding on the stage (on the right). Parked outside of the Warm Springs Hot...

Lot of 3. Two great resources for lovers of Nevada history. 1) 1883. Report of Surveyor General and State Land Register of the State of Nevada for the

10.25" x 7" Receipt from Carson Brewing Company in Carson City Nevada for two purchases in April, year is unknown. Receipt is folded and ...

A group of documents and a cover dated 1910 addressed to John Crosson, Esq., Deeth, Nevada. Pertaints to water rights in Elko, NV. City: De

Copper plastic STOCKMEN'S MOTOR HOTEL ELKO, NEVADA 89801 2.5" x 1.25". Green plastic ELKO HOTEL, ELKO, NEVADA 3.5" X 1.5". ...

Three large photos 5 x 7". 1) Ah Lake the Head of the Chinese tong in Tuscarora. 2) Bing Crosby as honorary mayor of Elko. 3) Mathias Glaser Ra...

1987 menus with a photo of opening night and an article on the first train into Ely. Enjoy your shrimp for $8.45. Some staining. City: Ely

This 12.5" x 8.75" black framed cocktail napkins from Hotel Nevada in Ely, Nevada and pictures a burro in cowboy attire shooting 2 pistols...

Written in gold is "Greetings from Ely, Nev." in script. Looks like it was added later. "Title of card is "Ely, Nev." Black...

"Eureka, Nevada" has been etched in. One is of the Statue of Liberty and the other is an Elks Lodge pictorial. Unused. Both have some edge...

These photos are all of Ed and Sylvia Stratton of Fairview. Although Shamberger writes nice little history of the Strattons and has a couple of photog

One is pre-1917 as the hotel is still standing. the other is post-1917, Postcard size. Both show New Fairview and Old Fairview. The earlier photo is o

10.75 x 3.25". 1925 panorama showing Gilbert townsite location in the far distance. Also identified on the map is Last Hope, Black Mammoth wit...

Different angle than the first. Closer. Shows Gilbert townsite, Last Hope Mine and Last Hope Mill and the Black Mammoth (Gold at $2,943 a ton! Double

Date identified on back as May 1, 1925. Postcard sized photograph of Charles Hendel and Harry Henry as identified in pencil on back. On the north side

A scarce document from the Goldfield Hotel in Goldfield, Nevada. Guest name was W.E. Mathewson. Below his name it says, "ROOM_BAR". Our be...

Rare photographic billhead from the heyday of Goldfield, Nevada. Pictured is the Western Gas Engine Company, located at 419 Columbia St. in Goldfield

Milton Ish was working in Tuscarora in 1900. But the strike at Goldfield drew him there and he opened a grocery store. With the money he made there, h

This Unique RPC is obviously home made as the photo is out of focus. Postmarked Goldfield, December 21, 1908. Very strong strike! City: Gol

Hippodrome was built in May of 1907 in 28 days. Dismantled in 1920. One program for Kolb & Dill in "Fiddle-Dee-Dee." The other for Kol...

Four RPCs. High contrast, Montana-Nevada Mine, gold scale, Tonopah overview 1954, Frasher B5686 miner at Goldfield. Four color postcards: Hand colored

Collection of documents from Hugh H. Brown, general counsel for Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad Company and private firm. Includes copies of complaint

1) Man on bike in front of J. B. Caro--- 2) H. B. Baseball team. It seems these came to Shamberger with a letter that they were from Goldfield. 3) 190

12 x 3.75". One shows five two story houses with a more substantial building in background. No sign of grass, but the sprinklers are on. The ot...

Lot of 5. 1) 1905 appointment of Henry Dyer as deputy county clerk. 2) 1921 appointment of H. W. Rast as deputy coroner (2 pieces). 3) 1911 appointmen

Round gold plastic 2" Caesars Palace Las Vegas Nevada. Turquoise plastic La Concha, Las Vegas, Nevada. 3.5" x 1.75". Gold plastic F...

The Star Trek The Experience key card is from the Las Vegas Hilton. The event was held there from 1998 to 2008, the date of this card is unknown. The

Lot of 53. One RPC: Oakes Las Vegas High School. Two very nice black & white: Fremont business section in 1930 and depot with train for Wilson D...

1) RPC of a man standing on the old Channel Dam on the Humboldt River. Note says "this is what the whole country looks like - simply a sagebrus...

Four pieces: 1) stock certificate from the Manhattan Combination Mining Company, of Goldfield, dated 1906. Certifies Havelock Holmes owns 100 shares.

Leather key fob from White Horse Inn McDermitt, Nev. 4.75" x 1.75". There is some sticker residue on the top front. City: McDe...

This 10" long gavel in inscribed on the head, Presented -To- Cyprus Lodge 33 McGill NEV - BY - BRO - THOS MATTHEWS May 29, 1925. The gavel ha...

Leather key fob from Hotel Metropolis, Metropolis, Nev. 4.75" x 2.25". One of the coolest fobs of the collection. City: Metro...

On May 4, 1930 the SP derailed - and I mean derailed - near Mina. The Nevada State Journal reported that the all cars - like four of them - derailed.

Lot of three photographs showing the Tavern Bar being moved by two trucks. The back truck has been converted so the building lies flat on it. License

Pickhandle Gulch was a small mining community fifteen miles south of Mina in the Candelaria Hills.The town was in a steep canyon and surrounded by ric

Quartz Mountain was fifteen miles north of Gabbs. Most people would not recognize this mining camp, but it had a post office from 1927 to 1929. This p

There four photographs came from original negatives. They are Shamberger photographs and each one can be found in the Rawhide book. 1) On page 3 is a

You may have seen this view before on postcards, books, etc., but here is an original! Taken January 1, 1908. 6x8". Heavy folds affect the phot...

Rawhide is covered in white in the photo. Only the 'Montezuma' can be identified in this overview photo. From a hillside looking down. The c...

2 black 3.5" x 1.75" key fobs. Virginia Hotel Reno, Nevada, reverse IN RENO IT'S HAROLDS CLUB. Colonial Motor Inn, Reno, Nevada, rev...

Leather 4.25" x 2.25" key fob from Hotel Golden, Reno, Nevada with skeleton key. City: Reno State: Nevada Date: ...

Grand Hotel 4.75" x 2.25" key fob with key. Motel 500 with key. Sutro Motel with key. City: Reno State: Nevada Da...

Reno Hot Springs, Reno, NV red plastic key fob. Swim for health, largest mineral pool in America. City: Reno State: Nevada Date

3 metal milk cans from Reno, NV. Two are 17" x 9" and have metal tops with chains. One is stamped Crescent Creamery. One is stamped J?D...

We were informed by the consignor that this is from the Liberty Belle. This is a reproduction print (from a printing press) of one of the all-time cla

Lot of 41. Eighteen RPC's. Includes two winter scenes on at Galena Creek. Buildings include the Methodist Church downtown, Mapes, Riverside, Lib...

This real photo postcard shows a two propeller plane in a hanger. Number is identified as "B4486". Identification comes from pencil note o...

No playground visible. No fence visible. Just a little grass in front of the building. Shows students out at recess. Cards says, "Orvis Ring Sc...

One of a kind clock is made of Burl wood. 21.25" x 30" x 1.75". Was hung on the wall of Parker's Western Wear in Reno Nevada, wh...

This 19" x 16.5" wood key case has a glass hinged door and a knob. 23 key hooks. Made by Reno Mill and Lumber Co, Reno, Nev. Likely used ...

1907 Rhyolite postcard. Front says "Sincerely yours, Mrs. Jack H." A very rugged spot for a picnic! City: Rhyolite State: ...