October 2017 Premier Auction

1) Carmel Mission, Los Angeles. Engraved handle and bowl. 5.5" 2) Buffalo, North Dakota. Gold wash bowl. 4 inches. City: Los Angeles...

Savage established a own trading posts on Mariposa Creek where he traded for gold with the local tribes. In October 1850, he traveled to San Francisco

This magnificent looking piece is for the W. R. C. in 1905. W. R. C. stands for the Woman's Relief Corp. It was the auxiliary of the Grand Army ...

Dated 1904 this letter from R. E. Bevan, Undertaker and Embalmer, Marysville, CA. Letter relates to flowers and is signed, City: Marysvill

Published in 1895 this map extends south from Marysville to Knights Landing. 34" x 23.75". Wrinkled with some tears. City: Ma...

1) Addressed to the Portland and the Oregon Iron Works from CH Leonard. 1867. The Oregon Iron Company was an iron smelting company located in what is

Includes Pacific Coast Redwood Company 1913, Terminal Lumber Co. 1907, Panama Land & Lumber Co. 1926, Holmes Planing Mill Company 1939, Hotchkis...

1) Main street property to Petronilo Rios in Monterey. Petronilo Ríos (1806–1870) was a Mexican soldier who came to California in the mid-1820s...

Approx 35 vintage 8" x 10" black and white photos. Photos of old buildings and ghost toms including Grass Valley, Downieville. Trinity an...

Approx 30 vintage black and white photos from the Southern Motherlode in California including San Andreas, Chinese Camp, Ione and more. Photos includ

Mostly 8" x 10" black and white vintage photos of California including Murphy's, Angels Camp, the mill at Deadwood, the old stamp mill...

Isaiah West Taber was an American daguerreotypist, ambrotypist, and photographer who took many pictures of noted California scenes. He was most famous

Over 50 postcards. Four RPC's (see photo). Postmarks include Echo Mountain, (1893-1910) and Mt. Lowe (1910-1937). There are duplicates. ...

Four framed Desert Magazine covers featuring the art of Victor Clyde Forsythe, a Southern California artist who once shared a studio with then young a

Colored. J. W. Powell, Director of Survey. G. F. Becker, Geologist in charge. Two maps. One is a area geology and the other is structure maps. Framed

California Steamer billhead datelined Sacramento in 1868. California Steam Navigation Company on left border. List of freight carried and received pay

Lot of three. 1) Sacramento, November 3, 1869 receipt from D.W. Earl, forwarding and Commission Merchant, and wholesale dealer in flour and grain, Nos

1914. Includes East San Diego, National City, Chula Vista and Coronado. Only major streets are listed. On very light paper. 28 x 17". Excellent...

This is a large cigar store Indian. He was in a corner store in the Mission District in San Francisco. The Indian is holding a bundle of cigars in h

Tan version of "San Francisco: The Story of the Earthquake told with views of the doomed city." 30 pages. 29 pages with photographs! Each ...