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Summer Americana Auction--July 2019

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Welcome to our Summer Sale!

The summer sale features everything good about summer collectors – mining artifacts – and all elements of western history.

Here’s some highlights!
More than a dozen ore cars!!
Great manuscript archives, including that of a Mormon family and their trials and tribulations over several decades, from Nauvoo to Salt Lake, and back to the East coast; a newly surfaced Adolph Sutro-Comstock Lode archive and documents; an amazing archive from Nevada engineer John Heizer; a scrap book from promoter Tex Rickard; early Arizona military letters; a pair of 1860’s maps showing the location of the original adobes in Los Angeles! Wow! And there’s lots more.
The western Art section is huge, with art in every category. One of my favorites is the ornately engraved presentation silver chalice from Grass Valley, a “must-have” for any mining or California collector
Antique bottles and marbles. Hundreds of lots of California and Nevada items accompanied by a marble collection. Some of my favorites (other than bottles, which are always fun and historical) are the ceramic series of cat house decanters. This rare set has been split up by region, making it even more fun. While we’ve had a few of these over the years, we’ve never seen this many different- ever!
Stocks and bonds. This is another “wow” offering from two or more collections. Some highlights: Chinese bond collection; Arizona material- Sopori (1850’s), Gold MC, Picacho (1860’s), and from California the Bear River piece that preceded the Tuolumne stock that features a killer mining vignette; and of course a huge offering of more from the famous Prag Collection
Numismatics has about a little of everything related to coins and currency. Lots of scrip, tokens, medals (make sure you make it all the way thru the catalog!), and two spectacular gold fakes of which one was unknown, and the other very well published. There’s also a great strong box to put it all in! Medal collectors, don’t miss the late July sale as well.
Speaking of gold, don’t miss the high grade ore specimens from two major collections, the Heizer collection and Pollock. Most of Heizer’s material is Nevada-Cal, while Pollock is Mostly Utah, Alaska.
With 4000 lots, you’ll have plenty of great material to look over.

Don’t forget the search box on the “Virtual Catalog” on our web site. It can help you find the things you want in a hurry. But there’s nothing like surfing through the catalog – you get to find all sorts of neat things you might never have thought about.

Full Schedule

Day 1 (Thur, July 11) Lots 1000-1776

Apparel
Jewelry
Art
Furnishings & Décor
Native Americana
General Foreign Collectibles
Sports
Entertainment Industry
Music Related
Political
Military
General Americana Part I
Advertising
Badges
Belt Buckles
Brewing & Tobacco
Circus
Fire related
Gold Rush
Licence Plates
Lock/Key
Microscope
Scale
Tools
Toys
Dolls
Misc Americana Collectibles


Day 2 (Fri, July 12) Lots 2000-2670

General Americana Part II
(Geographically Sorted)
Bottles
Brothel
Cowboy
Gaming
Saloon
Tokens
Numismatics
Weaponry
Marbles

Day 3 (Sat,July 13) Lots 3000-3855

Minerals
Mining Part I
(California-Nevada)

Day 4 (Sun, July 14) Lots 4000-4808

Mining Part I
(New Jersey-End)
Transportation
Railroadiana
Postal History
Wells Fargo & Express

Day 5 (Mon, July 15) Lots 5000-6487

Bargains & Dealer Specials
Art
Bottles
Civil War
General Americana
Mining
Native Americana
Numismatics
Railroadiana
Transportation

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Alaska and Cape Nome Co. (106639)3070 - Alaska and Cape Nome Co. (106639)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
I/U/ No. 260 for 100 shares to W.E. Barnard, signed by M.J. Ruller(?) President. This is very early Nome, at the beginning! Good condition. Date: 19
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Alaska Gold Mining Association (Stock Cert.) (106638)3071 - Alaska Gold Mining Association (Stock Cert.) (106638)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
I/U No. 19 shares of 1000 to H.J. Barnes. Early Mining Association (Union), would have had a lot of Nome members. Signed by George Clark, Secretary. U
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Estimate : 120.00 - 200.00
Sold to u******i for (60.00 + 15.00BP) = 75.00
 
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Two Nome Alaska Stocks: Greater American and Hunter Creek (104022)3072 - Two Nome Alaska Stocks: Greater American and Hunter Creek (104022)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1) Greater American. 1902. #378 for 100 shares to Mary Cadmus. Signed by Steiner and president Doremus. Not cancelled. Allegorical vignette. 5c docume
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Two Nome Mining Stocks: Flambeau-Hastings and Port Clarence (104027)3073 - Two Nome Mining Stocks: Flambeau-Hastings and Port Clarence (104027)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1) Flambeau-Hastings Company. # 594 for 2125 shares to SS Soule. Signed by president Ryan. Not cancelled. Dateline 1907. In 1904 the San Francisco Chr
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Visually Spectacular Bear Creek Consolidated Gold Mining Company Stock (103598)3074 - Visually Spectacular Bear Creek Consolidated Gold Mining Company Stock (103598)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Vignette shows a bear standing on a large gold rock (in gold) in front of place mining. We have seen a lot of stock certificates over 40 years, but th
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Stewart River Gold Dredging Co. Stock Cert. (106640)3075 - Stewart River Gold Dredging Co. Stock Cert. (106640)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
I/U/ No. 1573 for 100 shares to Walter H. Cloudman, & signed by B.B. Ralphla(?). Stewart River is a tributary of Yukon River. Yukon Gold Dredge....
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Alaska Gold Rush Papers (6) (89145)3076 - Alaska Gold Rush Papers (6) (89145)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Letter and cover from Hollister, CA. James Parmer appointment letter and power of attorney 1898, Towle and Stetson stockholder report 1901, Towle sign
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Estimate : 140.00 - 275.00
Sold to u******i for (50.00 + 12.50BP) = 62.50
 
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Four Different Alaska Mining Stocks (104019)3077 - Four Different Alaska Mining Stocks (104019)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1) Cordova Copper. Vadex, Alaska. 2) Windham Chief Consolidated Gold Mining and Milling. 1908. Windham Bay. 3) Ear Mountain Tim Mining. Seward Alaska.
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Estimate : 100.00 - 300.00
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Six Alaska Mining Stocks (104020)3078 - Six Alaska Mining Stocks (104020)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1) Cold Bay Exploration. Kodiak Island. NUMBER 3. 2) Ear Mountain Tim Mining. Seward. 1914. 3) Orange on white Ramble Gold Mining. 1912. Number 26. 4)
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Estimate : 150.00 - 300.00
Sold to u******i for (75.00 + 18.75BP) = 93.75
 
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Various Canadian Mining Stocks (104023)3079 - Various Canadian Mining Stocks (104023)
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Nine different. 1) Copper Metals Company bond. # 543. President seems to be a rare woman - Ela Rawls Reader. 1910 bond. 2) Cobalt Exploration & ...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to p******n for (50.00 + 12.50BP) = 62.50
 
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