October 2017 Premier Auction

High Contrast Seven Troughs RPC. Printed "Main Street in Seven Troughs, Nevada 48A." Contrast is so good, one can even pick out a wood sig...

Lot of five. 1) RPC. 1910 Sparks cancel. "Mallet Compound SP freight engine, Sierra Grade." 2) RPC. 1913. Ogden and San Francisco cancel. ...

Postcard is from Pearl. It is of her and her 5 year old son Jack. Unique!. Two areas above the people have been scrapped off. Sparks rec'd used ...

In January 1887 the Nevada Legislature created "The Indian School Commission" for the purpose of establishing an Indian school in Ormsby ...

Four postcards and one photo. 1) Photo is on a dry lake bed 25 miles north of Tonopah, Has creases especially in the upper right. Unique view of a ver

42 4" x 7.75" felt pennants in very nice condition and 1 2.75" button. City: Tonopah State: Nevada Date: ...

This newspaper was active from 1863 to February 6, 1869. On that date it was sold to an anti-Chinese militant group bought the paper and changed the n

Extremely rare. Five copies listed as known in Quibedeux. "Storey, Ormsby, Washoe & Lyon Counties Directory, Including the Cities and Towns...

Lot of 4 tickets/invitations for social events at this iconic Western opera house. 1) Gosse's Second Grand Bal Masque, Friday, April 9, 1886. Gr...

Lot of four. 1) Really pretty color pictorial Fraternal Order of Eagles invitation for their Fifth Grand Annual Ball, 1908. String attached. 5"...

Nice lot of two items related to education on the Comstock Lode. 1) Pictorial Commencement Exercises Program for the Virginia High School Class of 188

Lot of 23. Includes: Consolidated Mill John Mackay signed revenue check, 1874; an 1866 Gould & Curry Mining Co. check signed by Janin with adhes...

Rare. Coin silver fork with a "medallion" pattern (by Schultz & Fischer, San Francisco). Reverse is etched "Coin" and "...

A wonderful collection f six glass plate negatives of scenes in Virginia City in an ornate framed custom light box designed for the wall. 18 x 24&qu...

Lot of 4 different letterheads for the fraternal organizations on the Comstock. Three are pictorial. 1) Best is 1873 IOOF letter and Wells Fargo cover

Three original posters advertising the Virginia City Camel Races, September 5,6, & 7th, 1969. "Fun - Thrills - Excitement - Side Attraction...

1) RPC of children sitting on the steps. 2) Handwritten, "Eighth grade class, Fourth Ward School. From Hilda. No stamp or cancel. RPC. 3) 1914 ...

One very high contrast showing Con. A. Ahern and McGrath's. Two 1952 snowstorm shots. One of the Crystal Saloon and one of Sazarac. C...

1) Five RPC's. Burro BIll's Antiques by Zan-T. 2) Roos Brothers Clothing Store. Frasher 9109. 3) Old 62 Bar reprint. 4-5) Two St. Mary's...

Lot of six. Three RPC's: Hollywood special bus on way to a March 16, 1940 premier (for the Errol Flynn movie title 'Virginia City' - per...

Lot of 4. Includes: 1865 Gould & Curry Silver Mining Co. draft (with NT dateline) for the delivery of castings to the mill; 1879 Methodist Episc...

Lot of 9. Includes: 1896 IOOF letter w/ cover to Dayton Lodge; 1887 Knight of Pythias Bond (14" x 8.5"); two different IOOF Grand Secretar...

Lot of 16 items. Best pieces are: Savage Mine paystub 1871 when James G. Fair was supt.; 1889 Wells Fargo Consignee Receipt for the transport of a bul

Gray 1.5" x 4" Molinelli Motel key fob. Virginia City, Nev. City: Virginia City State: Nevada Date: HWAC# 5...

15 small photographs, 5 medium sized photographs, and three large (3.5 x 5.75") photographs. These are mostly focused on people, but there are ...

1) On back identified as "Final and last Post office (after Succett (?) moved his building to Mina). 2.75 x 3.5". 2) NPS #206 postcard. Sh...

Lot of two. 1) Photo of man hauling ties for wood to Weepah. "Bill Merchant the Desert Merchant" is identified. Another Johnson photograph...

2 oval 5" x 2" compressed material key fobs from Allen Hotel and Restaurant in Wells, NV. Drop in any mailbox we guarantee postage. One ...

2 leather 4" x 1.5" leather key fobs from Allen Hotel & Restaurant in Wells, Nev. Drop in any mailbox we guarantee postage. One with...

3 Different key fobs from Allen Hotel, Wells, Nevada. Leather oval 4.75" x 2.25", Drop in any mail box we guarantee postage with skeleton...

2 leather bell shaped single sided key fobs from Allen Hotel & Restaurant in Wells, Nev. 3.5" x 2". Drop in any mailbox we guarantee...

2 leather 4.75" x 2.25" fobs with skeleton keys, Owens Motel and Standard Motel. 5 different plastic 3.5" x 1.75" from Motor Par...

1942 Wells, Nevada RPC with Wells postmark. Shows Subb Brothers Garage, Richfield and Chevron gas stations, cottages, cafe, etc. Nice scene. 2) Color

Five vintage calendars. 1) Cos-Mo Club Cafe; Wells, Nevada, 1955; pin-up girls, only July and November missing. 2) City Club Choice Liquors and Wines

A cancelled check from Club Pool Hall dated 1930, postcards from Allen Hotel and Victory Motel, July movie guide from Nevada Theatre. A Western Brewer

Possibly homemade stereograph of a 20 mule train, part of right image is cropped. Mounted on cardboard. Writing on back says 20 Mule Train, Nevada Bor

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...