SS Central America Shipwreck Artifacts Auction, Part I (December 2022)

Letter dated January 12, 1851. Sent from Sacramento City on Jan. 14. Paid 40 stamp. Content includes (without causing damage) received two letters yes

Lot of 4. John M. Freeman started his express service between San Francisco and Sacramento at the beginning of the gold rush in California (July 1850)

Certificate of Deposit No. 453. Dateline Sacramento City, July 2, 1850. Barton Lee, Banker. H. Gorham has deposited $400 to be paid in one month with

Lot of 4. 1) Bank of California Second of Exchange. San Francisco, January 18th, 1867. Issued for 200 Prussian Thalers to Rosalie Pazena. Signed by DO

Rare. Banking House of Burgoyne & Co. Dateline San Francisco, Feb. 11th, 1852. Second of Exchange. No. 10099, issued to Elizabeth Winston for tw...

Lot of 2. Fretz & Ralston were Ralph S. Fretz and William Chapman Ralston. In 1849, CK Garrison and Ralph Stover Fretz established a transportat...

Lot of 2 different. Sonora was founded during the Gold Rush by Mexican miners. It is located in Tuolumne County, at the southern portion of the Mother

Rare location. Printed dateline of Sacramento City is crossed out and "Sonora" is handwritten above. Aug. 12th, 1854. Second of Exchange N...

Rare location. Handwritten dateline Sonora, Calfa. June 2nd, 1856. No. 50.927, issued to WH Simmons, agent, for $700. Signed Wells, Fargo & Co. ...

Lot of 5. Two are original period illustrations (from books) and the rest are modern copies. John Sutter started constructing Sutter's Fort in 1...

$1,000 bond to be paid in gold coin in 1886. Dateline Marysville, July 11th, 1866. Signed by Chairman Board of Supervisors Wm. Carpenter, County Audit

Cover sent to HH Page in St. Louis, Missouri. (Page is likely tied to Page & Bacon, who operated out of St. Louis and SF during the 1850s before...

Autograph on cover sent from D.C. Broderick, U.S. Senate, to Edwin Carpenter in Schenectady, New York. No stamp or cancel. David Colbreth Broderick ca

Autograph ("W.M. Gwin") in upper corner of small envelope to the Secretary of the Treasury. No contents or stamp. 2.75 x 5.25" While ...

What I Saw in California: Being the Journal of a Tour, by the Emigrant Route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, Across the Continent of North Amer

The Romance of the Age or Discovery of Gold in California by Edward E. Dunbar. Published in New York by Appleton and Company, 1867. First edition. Ori

Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with Scenes in El Dorado, in the Years 1849-50. With an Appendix Containing Reminiscences of P

Lot of 2 different. 1) Adams & Co. Express Office, Boston, Nov. 3, 1852. No. 162, issued to Edward Smith for $1,514, payable "in bars or go...

Great name! Very rare; we have no record of listing this in the last 10 years. Location: Tucson Mining District, Pima County, Arizona Territory (print

Small size 5 page letters from Charles Houton (?) to Harriet Jones of Sunbury, Ohio. One dated July 23, 1853 and the other dated Oct. 10, 1853. Autho

Lot of 2 different. 1) Adams & Co. Express and Banking House. Handwritten Downieville dateline above printed San Francisco. Nov. 11th, 1854. Fir...

Lot of 2 different. Rare. Calaveras County mining town founded in 1848 by a group of Oregonians. Very rich gold deposits. 1) Adams & Co. Express...

Lot of 2. Montezuma was located in Tuolumne County, 2.5 miles north of Chinese Camp. Originally a trading post called "Montezuma Tent," op...

Lot of 3. 1) Check from Chas. W. Mulford. Dateline Nevada, Jan. 17th, 1859. Side of check advertises "Gold Dust Bought and Advances Made On Dus...

Extra rare--we've never offered this before. Garrison & Co., Gold Dust Buyers. Dateline Horseshoe Bar, 18--. Receipt is for the purchase of ...

Manuscript receipt. Dateline Rattlesnake, Jan. 12th, 1856. Received of Peter E. Mead $400 in coin for deposit. Signed Baldwin & Co. by GW Blackb...

Receipt for this steamer that carried Pony Express mail from Sacramento to San Francisco. Dateline Sacramento, Feb. 20, 1860. Issued to Captain Wright

Gold Rush era bond. No. 660. $500. Signed by Thos. Rofs, President of the Board of Supervisors, and Josiah Howell, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.

Lot of 3 different, Gold Rush era. Adams & Co. dates back to the early 1840s. The Admas Express Company was founded in 1854/1855. Adams & C...

Lot of two different. A First and Second of Exchange, Adams & Co. Express Office, San Francisco. Each is numbered and filled out to Hunter &...

John Taylor & Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Assayers' Materials. Published in 1899. This catalogue contains illustration...

Rare and early. Dateline Vallejo, California, Sept. 23rd, 1851. Issued for $360 to Reichoff, DeSola & Co. out of the "War Loan Fund" &...

Cover sent September 1862 to Mrs. George Wallace in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Sent "Free" from Milton S. Latham, U.S.S. (which stands for Unit...

Cut square autograph, John Conness, Cal. 4 x 5.5" Conness served as a US Senator for California from 1863-69. Before that, he was a member of t...

Governor's Message, Benicia, March 27th, 1853. To the Assembly of California from Governor John Bigler. Discusses the sale of water lot property...

The Pioneer; or California Monthly Magazine, edited by F.C. Ewer. Vol. I. January to June, 1854. Published by the W.H. Brooks & Company. Contain...

The Pioneer or California Monthly Magazine, edited by F.C. Ewer. Vol. III January to June 1855. Published by Lecount and Strong, 1855. Contains articl

Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49 by L. Dow Stephens. Actual Experiences of a Pioneer Told by Himself in His Own Way. Published in 1916. A sca...

Ex. Doc. No. 99., 35th Congress, 1st Session. "Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to A resolution of the House calling for a statement...

Lot of 2. 1) W&P Nicholls, Bankers, check. Dutch Flat, Sept, 13 1864. Drawn on the Bank of California in SF, Charles Adler, $93. Signed W&P ...

Lot of 2. 1) Second of Exchange from BF Hastings & Co., Bankers, Sacramento, Cala, Sept. 3rd, 1855. To Mrs. Nancy Bennett for $84. 4 x 8" F...

Lot of 2. 1) 1876 pamphlet about a legal case between Anthony Egl et als. vs. The Central Pacific Railroad Company. In reference to bonds issued by th

Adams & Co. California Express pictorial check no. 37. Dateline San Francisco, August 9th, 1854. Issued for $10,000 as "Remittance to Stock...

Dateline San Francisco, Sept. 30th, 1854. Promise to pay Drexel, Sather & Church $4,000. Signed by H. Meiggs. Two vignettes: bank building (bott...

Fretz & Ralston, Bankers, check, San Francisco, Sept. 7, 1858. Issued to J.A McDougal for $400, with note to "charge to a/c of RS Fretz-set...

Lot of 4 different. 1) Second of Exchange. 1860. NMR&L. To Providence Tool Co. for $537.50. Blue paper. Signed by Davidson. 4.25 x 9.75" 2)...

Lot of 3 different checks. 1) McNulty Carothers & Co. March 3, 1853. Banking House at No. 118 Montgomery St. Issued to Seymore for $50. Signed b...

1890 Levi Strauss & Co. billhead, with stamped Agency of the Marysville Woolen Mills. Pink 7.5x8.5". Very rare. Date: Country (if not US...

Lot of 2. 1) Original exchange issued Dec. 26th, 1855. No. 25713, issued for $1,000 to IM Campbell. Signed Page Bacon & Co. Black print, three v...

Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-First Congress.

Message from the President of the United State to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-First Congress. Me

Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-First Congress.

Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-Third Congress.

The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction by Hinton R. Helper. Published by Henry Taylor in 1855. In this book, Helper recounts early travels in San Fr

Eldorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold

The Land of Gold. A Tale of '49. Illustrative of early pioneer life in California and founded upon fact. Dedicated to California pioneers. By Ge...

Books of the California Gold Rush: A Centennial Selection by Carl I. Wheat. Published by the Colt Press in 1949. This is a selected bibliography of th

Private Gold Coinage of California, 1849-1855, Its History and Its Issues by Edgar H. Adams. Published in 1913. Original pages, rebound with gold gilt

A) Catalog for Sotheby's 1999 auction, "Treasures from the SS Central America: Glories of the California Gold Rush." This catalog is f...

Library of thirteen books related to treasure hunting. Titles include the Handbook of Sailing, Treasure Hunting: The Treasure Hunter's Own Book ...

12 treasure related books. Royal Mail Steamer Route, The Macuquiba Code, Treasures of the Spanish Main, Sedwick Treasure Auction #5, Spanish and Engli

Second of Exchange. Handwritten Marysville dateline over printed San Francisco. No. 7502, issued for $100 to Ruth Bair on March 29th, 1854. Signed Ada

Lot of 2 different. Both unused. 1) Weaverville & Shasta Wagon Road Company. Dateline Weaverville. Great vignette of Conestoga Wagon. Kachel &am...

The Adventures of a Forty-Niner. An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days by D

11 Florida ship wreck books. Atocha, 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet, Marigalera, Concepcion and more. Atocha DVD. Date: Country (if not USA): State:

El Dorado County, California. Nov. 14, 1866. Received of the Smiths Flat Toll Road Co. $143.73. Their property is listed as "two & one half...

J. Horace Culver's Sacramento City Directory for the Year 1851, with a History of Sacramento to 1851, Biographical Sketches, and Informative App...

Extra rare! Dateline Sonora, Cal. March 23rd, 1863. Check No. 7, drawn on Donohoe Ralston & Co. bank of San Francisco. Check issued to DM Winfie...

Message from the President of the United States to the Two House of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-Third Congress. P

Gold Rush: The Journals, Drawings, and Other Papers of J. Goldsborough Bruff, Captain, Washington City and California Mining Association. April 2, 184

A) The World's Richest Wrecks: A Wreck Diver's Guide to Gold and Silver Treasures of the Seas by Robert F. Marx and Jenifer Marx. Published ...

7 treasure diving related books. The Treasure Divers Guide by Potter, I Dive for Treasure by Rieseberg, The Underwater Dig by Marx, Pieces of Eight by

The San Francisco City Directory by Charles P. Kimball. Originally published in San Francisco by Journal of Commerce Press, 1850. This is an 1890 repr

Sheet of two unused Health Certificates, San Francisco, 1852. These certify that a passenger from one of the PMSS Co.'s ships has paid the Healt...

No. 14489, issued for 88 shares to Louis McLane on March 22, 1867 in New York. Signed by the vice president Joy and treasurer Henry Smith. Pen and pun

6 treasure books, Cities of Gold by Yenne, The Beale Treasure by Viemeister, Canadian Treasure Throve by Basque, Fantasies of Gold by Sayles, Treasure

7 treasure related books. Treasure by Cussler, The Sea Hunters II by Cussler, The Pirate Hunter by Zacks, Disney Pirates of the Caribbean, The Self Su

Intermission- 30Minutes Lots 2000 to 2276 are Gold Rush related items, not from the SSCA Shipwreck.

Second Cabin passenger receipt recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck and issued for Jacob B. Clark, reportedly a veteran of the Mexican Wa

Second Cabin passenger receipt recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck for William A. Adams, 27, of Maryland, and his dog. There is no recor

Steerage passenger receipt for William Curless on pre-printed neutral US mail Steamship/ Pacific Mail steamship form. Datelined San Francisco. Curless

The order of issuance of the SSCA passenger receipts began to become clear after we were able to interpret the very old handwriting that suffered 150

The original passenger receipt recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck for Ansel and Addie Easton, "A. I. Easton & Wife", 4 ...

Capt. Thomas Badger First Cabin Passenger Receipt, First Cabin ticket No. 9, recovered from the purser's safe of the S.S. Central America shipwr...

First Cabin receipt recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck for Dr. Kitteridge from San Francisco to New York, August 20, 1857. First Cabin

Passenger receipt recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck for Henry H. Childs of New York, First Cabin Ticket #31 from San Francisco to New

Another of the very important people onboard the S.S. Central America were James E. Birch and his wife. His first cabin ticket was #34 in line. Birch

Passenger receipt recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck for John V. Dobbin, brother of James C. Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy, 1853-1857.

First Cabin passenger receipt for F. Jones and Servant from San Francisco to New York recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck. This is one o

Passenger receipt for first cabin, #11, to E. Hirshfield recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck. We include this receipt because there is v

One of two of Fremont's Gold Rush Attorneys, Rufus Lockwood, Passenger Receipt. First Cabin, ticket #2. San Francisco to New York, August 20, 18...

Forward Cabin receipt recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck. Issued for San Francisco to New York for "Mrs. Easton's Servant&qu...

A passenger receipt recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck, filled out for the Panama Railroad (not a specific named passenger) on a US Mai

This is the finest known of all the S.S. Central America passenger receipts on pre-printed US Mail Steamship Company forms coming from New York. // Un

A unique pair of a physical tickets recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck for Second Cabin from Havana to Aspinwall and a passenger receip

Second Cabin transfer ticket recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck for passage from Havana to Aspinwall on the trip down from New York, im

In 2014 the crew recovered the contents of Purser Hull's safe found at the S.S. Central America shipwreck. In it were two black smudgy bundles o...

Two fascinating and historical passenger receipts recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck for the United States Mail Steamship Lines, with...

Brass luggage tag recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck, approx 2 x 1-5/8 inches, embossed // N.Y. TO SAN Fo / 1371 / VIA PANAMA //. The n

Brass luggage tag recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck, approx 2 x 1-5/8 inches, embossed // N.Y. TO SAN Fo / 2475 / VIA PANAMA //. The n