Pioneers & Patriots Auction: Americana, Militaria, Mining, & More (2025 March)

Early RPCs (7), all with an Alaskan dog team theme. Interestingly, the dogs appear to be collies or shepherds, as oppose to the husky or malamute bree

C. 1880's roulette wheel from Jim Letson's Turf Club in Bisbee, AZ. Wheel is about 21" diameter with a wood outer race. Wheel is housed...

Scarce Mar 25, 1886 early Tombstone Wild West newspaper containing several inside pages with very racist Anti Chinese rhetoric during this period of l

This cook set is from the Aztec Boarding House in Tombstone, Arizona. The Aztec House lies in the historic district across the street from Fly's...

Group of five books related to Arizona, including: "History of Arizona" Vols. I & II, Thomas Edwin Farish, 1915, 392 & 348 pp., 8....

6 Alpine county letterheads. 2x 1901 Woodfords-1 with cover, 1864 short Silver Mountain, 1898 and 1901 Markleeville, 1899 Woodfords billhead. ^ Date:

This is from the diary kept by Miss Sarah Haight who attended the wedding of William Ralston and Elizabeth Fry, along with their trip to Yosemite Nati

5 Bodie checks. 1881 Bodie Bank with RN, 1911 Anglo & London Paris National Bank, 1870's Gillson & Barber Merchants, 1878 The Bodie Bank...

4x perhaps 1930's-1940's Bodie RPC postcards. Land office, Miners Union Hall, Rosa May grave, Methodist grave. ^ Date: Country(if not USA)...

1855Corlis Andrews, Gold Rush, lumber receipt letterhead for lots of wood! What were there building? Maybe sluice boxes or houses? Wrinkles and light

Columbia was one of the absolute key California gold rush mining camps located at the southern end of the mining region near Sonora. Today, it is a Ca

Signed First Edition autobiography of Sennett Studios and Keystone Cops producer Mack Sennett. Sennett's discoveries included Mabel Normand, Ros...

Two lobby cards 14"x 11" from the 1951 film "The Secret of Convict Lake." The film starred Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney and Ethel Ba...

Tour books and pamphlets of the "City of Angels" Los Angeles, California. These publications cover the area from the early 20th century, u...

Ribbons, pins and medals from various conferences, expos and organizations, including California Expo Japan Day in 1915, the Hospital association of 1

A collection of six California fraternal badges in a 6.25" x 8.25" glass-top case. The group includes: 2" missionary on medallion, re...

Letter is on pictorial letterhead for the observatory and has a photo vignette showing a large telescope. Addressed to GMM Ross in Virginia City, Neva

Canvas backed rollup map by Fred H Tibbetts, engineer, San Francisco, Grass Valley District office. Nevada Irrigation District. 1929. 1" to 5 m...

A really nice group of 10 original large photographs in excellent condition in this scrap book with cover labeled History/Land & Marks/of Placer...

Dated: Rattlesnake, Jan. 12, 1856. Peter E. Mead deposited $400 in coin to be returned to him on his order on presentation of this receipt, signed Bal

Duke of Sacramento, A Comedy in Four Acts by Warren Baer (77pages) is one of two books centered on the city of Sacramento. the other The Pioneers of t

Reprint of The California Star edited by Sam Brannan, containing Yerba Buena and San Francisco, Volume I 1847-48. With an introduction by Fred Blackbu

1863 San Francisco directory, compiled by Henry Langley. 639pp. Front board detached, rear board detaching, binding separation at page 80 and 336, spi

Interior view is Watkins and the exterior view is Continent Stereoscopic Company. The Palace Hotel was built by San Francisco banker and entrepreneur

Dozens of c. 1879-93 Castle Bros. correspondences to S R Buford and Henry Elling, Virginia City, MT related to food orders, a wrong coffee shipment, d

Daily Evening Bulletin (6) began publication in October 1855 by San Francisco activist James King of William, who was the editor of the paper until hi

Two exchange notes from Drexel, Sather & Church, Bankers and Dealers in Bullion and Bills of Exchange. The partners in this bank covered the cou...

Two deposit receipts issued by Adams & Co express and banking office of San Francisco, both dated 1854. Vignette of their office building with p...

Group of (9) different post cards, plus (1) Free Pass to the Portola Festival. (3) official post cards from the 1909 Portola Festival. There are (4) c

A collection of 23 postcards of parades and festivals in San Francisco, CA, c1909-14. Includes 21 RPCs, 2 chromolithos. Fantastic pageantry. Includes:

There are over 80 cabinet card photos in this group and all from San Francisco photography studios. All photos are portraits taken between 1880 and 18

A Pacific National Fire Insurance Company metal calendar sign. It measures 19"x 11" and has cards with month and days that are inserted in...

Brass 1.5" Sierra/Vista/8107/Ranch pin back. "Corporate farming first appeared in Delano in the late 1920s, approximately the same time is...

1901 souvenir booklet of Native Daughters of the Golden West, Postcard album of views of the Missions of California,-several front cards damaged from

401pp with attractive gilt cover and spine. Full page map, 2 steel engravings with many illustrations. Tales of a Knights Templar journey from Boston

About 20 California checks, 1860's to 1922. Willits, San Francisco, Napa City, Downieville. ^ Date: Country(if not USA): State: California ...

A mix of vintage California ephemera. Business cards, mini greetings card, 1906 L A Fireman's Relief Assoc. by laws, 1870 Tulare county sheriff ...

Nevada City 1904 K T ribbon, 1911 corporation license, 1864 declaratory statement, 1898 North Bloomfield receipt, 1887 American Headlight, 1890'...

c. 1904 California Moline Plow catalog with prices and many plow illustrations. 216pp plus index. Some red ink bleed on page edges in front, light wat

7 c. 1876-1918 California mostly Western Union telegraphs. Eureka, San Francisco-1 with Rockwell holiday illustration, Bishop, 1876 in rough conditio

Auburn, Placer county. 300 feet to 1 inch, 39x30". Marysville, Yuba county, with 1856 sketches by famous lithographer Grafton T Brown,42x54&quo...

Map of routes by military detachments in spring of 1855 from SLC to SF. 4 different routes were examined by Capt. Ingalls, Col. Stepto, Lt Mowry. Prin

1st edition. From the U.S. Indian Sub-Agency, Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River to the City of Sacramento, California. Contains a Table of Distanc

"Crofutt's New Overland Tourist, and Pacific Coast Guide," a hardback book about traveling on the "Union, Kansas, Central and Sou...

A true rarity comes to us from an historic California and Vermont family. Lorino's Terrestrial Globe, Gilman Joslin, Boston, Revised, G.W. Boynt...

Artemus Ward: His Travels. With Illustrations by Mullen. Part 3 is entitled; Miscellaneous, Part 33; Among the Mormons. Hardcover, 231 pages. In nice

Bancroft's Handbook Almanac for the Pacific States 1863: San Francisco H.H. Bancroft and Company 1863 Hardcover Good 4.25" x 6.5", pp ...

California Imprints, 1833-1862, A Bibliography. Robert Greenwood, editor. 1961, limited edition, 750 copies, Talisman Press, Los Gatos, CA. A bibliogr

"California's Pictorial Letter Sheets, 1849-1869." Joseph Armstrong Baird, Jr. 1967, David Magee: San Francisco. 475 copies printed by...

The Henry H. Clifford Collection, Auction Catalogue 2, Part 3, California Pictorial Letter Sheets, to be sold at auction, The Biltmore Hotel, 506 Sout