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

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

Campbell and Hoog's San Francisco Directory for February 1850. This is the first issue of the first San Francisco directory - one of only three ...

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

The San Francisco Directory for the Year 1852-53. Embracing a General Directory of Citizens; a Street Directory; a New and Complete Map of the City; a

LeCount & Strong's San Francisco City Directory for the Year 1854: Embracing a General Directory of the Citizens, and a Street Directory; wi...

San Francisco City Directory for the Year Commencing October 1856. Containing a general directory of citizens, a street directory, and an appendix of

Very rare. No. 618, issued for one share to Lewis Cooper on March 21st, 1856 in Philadelphia. Signed by president FN Buck and secretary William Lippin

Rare San Francisco Wharf stock tied to the Gold Rush. Certificate No. 457, issued for 46 shares to Alfred Poett on May 1st, 1865 in San Francisco. Sig

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

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...

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

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

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

Lot of 2. 1) Certificate of Special Deposit, Bank of California, San Francisco Sep. 28, 1874. A. Austin has deposited $50,000 in US Gold Coin (over a

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

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

Freeman & Co's New York & California Package Express, Successors to Adams & Co. Dateline New York, May 1st, 1856. Two cases sent fro...

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 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. As listed on the left side of this exchange, this banking firm was composed of numerous power players in California and New York, including:

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...

ORGANIZED 9th JUNE 1851* REORGANIZED 14th MAY 1856 / COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE / 1472 // BE JUST AND FEAR NOT * FIAT JUSTITIA RUAT CCELUM / SAN FRANCISCO

San Francisco Vigilance Committee of '56 with Some Interesting Sketches of Events Succeeding 1846. Edited by Frank Meriweather Smith. Published ...

Palmer Cook & Co. check (handwritten above Wells, Fargo & Co.). Dateline San Francisco, May 15, 1854. Issued to James King of William for $2...

Lot of 2. Both are related to Gold Rush SF banker and commission merchant Abel Guy. 1) Abel Guy check for $10,420 (listed in FRENCH COIN), San Francis

Hentsch & Berton were the successors in 1863 to Henry Hentsch's banking and assay business in San Francisco. Hentsch was born in Geneva in a...

Very rare; possibly unique. Ex. John J. Ford Jr. Collection. Memorandum of Gold Bullion deposited at Hentsch & Berton's Assay Office. Dateli...

Choice ingot mould from John Taylor & Co., San Francisco. This is an old multi-ingot mould that allowed for small pours of gold ingots of rough...

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

Tables of the Value of Gold and Silver per Once Troy, at Different Degrees of Fineness. Also tables showing the net returns from gold and silver of di

Extremely rare. Memorandum of Gold Bullion Deposited at Peterson & Trinius' Assay Office, No. 124 Sacramento Street. Dateline San Francisco,...

Lot of 3. 1) Extremely rare billhead for A. Kuner, Seal Engraver & Die Sinker, No. 611 Washington Street, 3rd Floor. Dateline San Francisco, Dec...

"List of Lots Sold in the City of San Francisco and Purchased by Members of the Town Council." Report from Horace Hawes, Prefect of San Fr...

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...

Lot of 3 different. 1) 1854 City Comptroller's Office draft to HW Seale for $250 for grading and planking Beale Street. Signed by mayor CK Garri...

Rare Treasury of the United States Second of Transfer for $10,000 to the Ast. Treasurer US at San Francisco. Dateline Washington, October 1st, 1858. S

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...

Lot of 2. Cover with corner ad for Page & Bacon Bankers St. Louis plus letter. Page, Bacon & Co. was composed of Daniel Page and Henry D. Ba...

San Francisco straight line postmark with magenta manuscript date. Matching 40 rate. Written in two parts. First is North Bend March 3 at Sea and seco

San Francisco letter dated March 28, 1857. Interesting combination of two letters concerning the disposition of over 38 oz. of gold dust to the San Fr

One page letter sent from Greenway & Co. of Baltimore, Aug. 29, 1850 to Ludlow Beebee & Co. in Philadelphia. Message states that they have s...

Wow! Mailed from San Francisco. Addressed to W. H. English care of Winslow, Lanier & Co. Wall Street, New York City. Winslow, Lanier & Co. w...

True 49er letter. 3.5 pages. 2.5 pages about the voyage over. Stampless cover with San Francisco, Oct. 1 stamp. Handwritten 40 for postage. The letter

Stampless cover with a straight line San Francisco postmark. Handwritten 40 for cost to mail. One page. Letter has staining and tape to keep the conte

Very rare. Pictorial lettersheet for the Tehama House, Corner Sansome and California Streets, San Francisco, G.W. Frink, Proprietor. Great large vigne

Lot of 3 different stocks (plus some photocopied research materials). 1) Flag of Our Union & Twin Consolidated Gold & Silver Mining Company....

"Emma Frances Lode, Silver Mountain District, Mono County, California" (printed at left). Inc. December 1862. No. 226, issued for 5 shares...

State of California, Office of the Board of Examiners. Dateline Sacramento, August 15th, 1861. Issued to A. Pool for $273.33 for "his services ...