Spooktacular Auction: Americana, Mining, Numismatics, & More (October 2020)

From 'The Crystal.' Thyes was involved in Nevada and Reno in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Herman Thyes came to California durin...

Very early Tonopah ore shipping receipts. Lot of two. Teamster from Tonopah was R. Stewart and weigher in Sodaville was Mark Averill. Both signed the

Number 10! By Moise Klinkner Company of San Francisco. Three inch diameter. Bent to center. One protrusion is missing. Lettering is extremely strong.

Lot of 15. Great variety; only one duplicate! Includes: Derby & Garhart (VC, pictorial, 1872); John McCone (Silver City, 1868); Fred Boegle (VC,...

Lot of 16. Great variety: only one duplicate! Included: McGinnis & Carrick (Silver City, 1878, condition issues); Gillig, Mott & Co. (VC, 18...

Lot of 12. Most different. Included: HC Lillie & Co. (VC, dupes, 1868 and 1869); Brunswick Exploration Co. (VC, 1896); Fulton Iron and Brass Fou...

1) Rare and unlisted buff United States revenue imprint. Imprinted with H. M. Yerington and signed by Yerington. Yerington was in charge of the famed

1-2) James Fair signs these two Nevada Bank of San Francisco checks. One issued for the Rhode Island Mill Pay Roll and the other to the Nevada Silver

1) The Iconic Gould & Curry Green Bank of California Check. Green 2c imprinted Nevada stamp on left. Signed by none other than Issac Requa (Coms...

Here is a great lot for any collector. 1) Bank of California check signed by Mackay. 1874. Bacon Mill print. 2) Bank of California check signed by Yer

Seven gravestone rubbings, that appear to come from the Silver Terrace Cemetery in Virginia City, Nevada. These rubbings measure about 33"x 20...

Both are imprinted with Bacon Mill. Both have been over stamped with Pacific Company. They are blue on white with an imprinted revenue stamp. On Neva

W.S. Hobart / Ophir Mill, Bank of California, revenue check, RN-B16a. Imprinted Nevada 2c revenue stamp over the U. S. imprint. Issued in 1872 in Vir

Prescriptions dispensed from June 12, 1910 to August 25, 1910. Five hundred prescriptions on sheets from the Pioneer (B. F. Shaw proprietor), Dr. J. J

This is a rather unique Comstock collectible. This business size card advertises a race on December 24, 1890. Cost is 50c and $300 has been set aside

North 12 feet of lot 11 in block 43 near 'A' street and Howard Street. Jose was a newspaper agent and part of Stephens & Jose, druggist....

1870) Iconic green one white check, Imprinted Rn-B17 revenue, rare imprinted Nevada two cent green revenue stamp. Singed by Isaac Requa, mining and ra

Unlisted 2c buff revenue. Bank of California check imprinted with H. M. Yerington. Issued to Fred Boegle. 1876. Endorsed on back. Yerington was a key

The two best are unthreaded E. C. & M. Company( which was used to replace Ram's Horn) and the Chester. Both are damaged. The others are in p...

Reno and Minden calendars, both about 16 x 9.5", unused, c1950. Classic Nevada collectibles. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Nevada C...

Lot of 45. There are some definite goodies in here. Please inspect. Includes: Eldorado Enterprise Gold Mining Company prospectus (1916); 1883 pictoria

Lot of 10 different including a territorial piece! 1) Virginia City: Stateler & Arrington, early 1862, Gould & Curry Mine; Con-Virginia Mini...

Rams horn insulator in wood block used for telegraph lines. Please see photo for detailed condition. The entire piece is tight! Measures 6" fro...

Rams horn insulator in wood block used for telegraph lines. Please see photo for detailed condition. The wood is coming apart and needs attention! Inc

Three phone directories from the state of Nevada. Published by Bell Telephone Company of Nevada, the editions are from January, 1941 &1943 and N...

Both are Brooks dated 1867. Two different variations. One clearly and strongly marked CPRR and would have been used in the building of the transcontin

Lot of four. Three "Views of the Great South West" by HT Hiester of Santa Fe. The fourth is an unusual double stereo-view with"Apache...

Headquarters of Mexican Insect Fluid, the Mexican Roach Food Co. on Mulberry St. in Buffalo, New York also acclaimed the Mexican Hair Tonic and Nit Ki

Lot of seven. Most interesting in "Falls at Copenhagen, 160 feet high, Gems of Lewis County." Hand written from Van Aken's Gallery, Lo...

Handbook Bedford Springs. PA. Provided by the Bedford Springs Co. Booklet outlines the hotel, grounds, activities, the many uses of the mineral wat

Two of the same. View of Coining presses at work. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Pennsylvania City: Philadelphia Provenance: Ken Prag Col

Ultra rare billhead for the Star & Bullock Hardware Co., Dealers in Heavy and Shelf Hardware, Mine and Mill Supplies. Advertises Hercules Powder...

c1885. One shows a group of tents and in hand writing identifies it as "A camp on the North Fork of Little Laramie." Can you say GOLD? The...

Framed nautical map of the Bahamas and the southeast end of Cuba. E&GW Blunt, New York, 1844. 40 x 26-1/2. Shows signs of water damage, but enti...

There are five maps (1-5) of the Crowsnest Forest and Waterston Lakes area Rocky Mountain Reserve (Alberta), scale 62.5, surveys by Bridgland and Hyat

This is a reconnaissance map of the Mt. McKinley area of Alaska made by the U.S. Army in 1904, scale is 625, by Brooks and Reaburn in 1902 printed by

Two maps from the U.S. Geological Survey. Reconnaissance Map of the Fairbanks Quadrangle, 33 x 40 inches, showing rainfall and water supply. Part of R

Map of Northern California dated 1856 and measuring 32"x 32". Although very fragile with fold tears, it is intact and could easily be moun...

This is a map of the County of San Mateo, California dated 1927 and surveyed by George Kneese at a scale of 1:2500. This cloth backed-map is 56 in. X

1) Gunnison (D&RG) 1927 24" x 58" 2) Gunnison (C&S) 1918 24" x 58" 3) Silverton 1917 36" x 72" 4) Silvert...

A set of three framed maps of Hawaii, also called the Sandwich Islands, pre-statehood. Professionally mounted, exquisitely matted (see photos), and fr

Four maps for the Queen Mining and Milling property Elmore County Idaho. Original pen and ink on paper. Survey J.L. McPherson 1926. Three other small

State of Missouri. By M. Lewis Clark, Surveyor General, son of William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame. Titled, "Diagram of the State of Missouri...

Rare, possibly unique, map of the Gold Hill Mining District. 4 x 5 feet, mounted loosely on board with Plexiglas covering. Chips, fading, some conditi

This is the rare wall map version of the famous Parkinson map of the Comstock Lode. It pre-dates the published, yet different, pocket map of a similar

Rand McNally Standard Map of Nevada, about 28 x 20-1/2 inches, that was part of a bound volume, The New Commercial Atlas of America. Shows stylized to

Nicely framed Nevada map, 17 x 14", published by Encyclopedia, 9th edition with inset of Tahoe-Carson City region. Date: Country (if not USA...

This is a Water Resources Dept. land use map of the Rogue River Basin dated 1978. Printed in color by the WRD in 130000 scale. Originally taken in 19

Large map of the Republic lode claim mine shafts and workings. The neighbor property is the Aileen patent with two shafts within ten feet of the Repub

Lithographer Geoff Baker of San Francisco printed these early maps by L. L. Paulson of San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties. Each page is 6 x 9 inches an

One page, 18 x 15 inches, with maps of the states of Washington and Oregon and a map of the Territory of Alaska published by Warner & Beers. Mus...

April 3, 1860 From St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California. Shows all 156 stops along the route and the 102 riders that made them. 24" ...

11"x 38" geological map showing a railroad surveyed route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Map has some frayed edges, but...

About 40 maps issued by Shell and Chevron service stations, or the California State Automobile Association.Mostly western states including Mexico and

Souvenir photo album to commemorate the visit of the United States Fleet to Victoria Australia in 1925. "With the Compliments of the Government...

Lot of eighteen black and white real photo postcards of early 20th century Cuba. Street scenes, churches, fountains, people and animals. Date: Cou

Perhaps 400 original photos and photo post cards of Alaska and the Arctic. Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard (1888-1962) was a geologist and explorer who was

A very folksy photo of builders and family on a Sunday morning in 1920, after completion of a home in about three and a half hours, according to the n

9x7” B/W photo of hay press at J. Goularte Ranch, 1885 Antioch, California. Entire team of seven men and five horses. Joseph V. Goularte

Lot of two 6 x 4 inch black and white photos of Maurine at Calico Ghost Town, near Barstow, 1955. Walter Knott (of Knott's Berry Farm fame) owne...

A nice 5"x 7" photograph taken by W.R. Chapin at Gold Gulch, California. Gold Gulch as with several California Gold Rush towns, had severa...

An 8"x 10" production still featuring world famous magician/escape artist, Harry Houdini. The still appears to be from one of the few film...

Two large images of Lake Tahoe's spectacular Emerald Bay -- one an enlargement of a very old BW photo, one full-color photographic print showing...

48" panorama by West Coast Art Co of LA in 1910. Taken from the south east side of Owens Valley. Shows unnamed ranch in foreground. The Carson...

Multi-photo panorama in black and white, of a town thought to be somewhere north of Los Angeles, California. Handwritten note at the bottom left indic

A group of twelve vintage black& white photographs, mostly of the area around the Monterey Peninsula and the bay. Photos are mostly 7"x 9&q...

Lot of approx 50. 4 1/4x 6 1/2 “ B/W, sepia photographs of individuals ( men, women, children of all agesSan Francisco from various stud

Two 8"x 20" photographs of Pacific Gas & Electric Company employees in both 1932 & 1949. The group photos were taken by Larry O...

Lot of 22 photographs from the 1920-30s from San Francisco. Turk Murphy's Jazz Band, Playland at the Beach, Adolph Sutro for Mayor campaign post...

Lot of 15. 1) Twelve cabinet cards, most identified as SF photographers. Includes: Flaglor; Chas. Lainer (x2); Imperial Studio (x2); Elite Photographi

Lot of 47 CDVs by various Northern California photographers: Godeus, Peters, Luther, Vaughan, Olsen, Bush and others from San Francisco. Price of San

A collection of 24 very dramatic stereo views taken in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and fire that his San Francisco on the morning of

Collection of 67 stereo views showing the devastation that occurred on the morning of April 18, 1906. Views include Telegraph Hill, The Jewish Synago

This is a photo portrait of eight beautiful women by Willard E. Worden of San Francisco. The back of this frame lists Worden as the premiere photograp

Photo 9 1/2x 8”, B?W of car covered by thousands of cherries for the Cherry Festival. Six people in the car., including the owners the Vega

Three framed items with the common theme of the 1988 Lake Tahoe Summer Festival of Arts and Music. Valhalla poster is framed with glass at 22-1/4 x 33

Four vintage photos, from about 1880 of the Mowrry family of Stockton, California. Photos show the family and their stable, interior and exterior, wh

Lot of nine stereoviews and 31 vintage postcards from Yosemite. 16 of the post cards are unwritten, 15 were used and postmarks date back to 1907. Many

Two albums of over 100 pages with a few hundred photos of a family's vacations in Yosemite, Soda Springs and Napa. The photos depict a gentler ...

Lot of 10 stereoviews of the Golden State: Santa Barbara Mission Gardens; a young redwood tree; Orange groves in Riverside; Tokay grapes in Acampo; Ba

A 19 page album containing color and black & white RPC's of California scenes, including coastal and mountain settings. There also several i...

Lot of five vintage stereoviews: Oakland Wharf, San Francisco; Cliff House and Seal Rocks by Moonlight (1897); Mission Santa Barbara; Santa Barbara M

Exceptional group of pre1900 photographs, mostly stereo and cabinet cards from San Francisco plus one postal cover. San Francisco China Trading Compan

A rare printed Shasta store card for D. Jayne's Expectorant, and three stereoviews of Mt. Shasta, one dated 1902. Date: Country (if not USA)...

Lot of 2. 1. State of Montana Centennial 1864-1964 Jim Beam Decanter. Free from chips and Cracks, no contents, nut still has a broken seal. 11 3/4

Collection of 68 pages showing black & white photos of Yosemite National Park, Tahoe and the Orient. These are taken in a more innocent time and...

An 18"x 21" framed photo gallery of the 21st General Assembly of Colorado in 1917. Also included is a 9"x 12" photo of the asse...

Three vintage baby portraits from photographers in Denver and Aspen. Four stereoviews of Ouray; Burro Train, Aspen; Climbing the Rockies (ladies on ho

Steroview, titled "Fetters broken, but not all..." Image of the 'Negro Building" at the Exposition in 1895 The 1895 Cotton State...

Two beautiful images on stereo view of Hawaii. Included are images of Mauna Loa Creek and The Royal School in Honolulu. Both are taken by The Keystone

Photos taken by The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of the eruption of Muana Loa on the island of Hawaii on April 18, 1926. Six of the photos show the pr

Three aviation themed photographs, each measuring about 25"x 36" and in black and white. Photos include a Navy dirigible U.S.S. Macon over...

Founded in Chicago in 1869, the canned-goods company we know today as Libby's was originally Libby, McNeill and Libby. This is a black and white...

Stereo view cards showing various locations in the Sears & Roebuck Chicago based headquarters. The cards, 42 of them, show images of everything ...

Thirteen photos circa 1910 of houses and street of Concord, Massachusetts. Also photos of the memorials to "The Shot Heard 'Round the World...

Stereoview of The Great Bridge, St. Louis, Mo. with a paddlewheel steamboat. Photographed and published by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, New Hampshire, 189

A nice collection of 70 stereo views of Yellowstone National Park. Scenes captured include The Golden Gate, Hayden Valley, Pulpit Terrance, The Old Fa

Six beautiful black & white photos depicting family life in the towns of Holdredge and Lincoln, Nebraska in the late 1800's to the early 190...

Lot of 12 photo portraits, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches, black and white by various photographers. Studios were in the towns of: Franklin, McCook, Holdrege...

20 or so photos from a 1980's calendar with black & white photos of Reno during the 1930's and 1940's. these are in very good condit...