Treasures Galore, January 2019 Auction

The Great Seal of the State of Arizona graces the button at the top of the blue ribbon awarded Cattle Dept. Champion at the Arizona State Fair of 1920

This Alturas County Warrant is from 1804, for $64 payable to John Hovele(?), No. 122, for services as County Tax Collector & Sheriff. 7.5"...

Eleven pieces of paper from local druggists Drs. Loutzenheiser, Moulton and Manning. 1879-1915. State: California City: Grass Valley/Nevada City D

Lot of ten pieces from printers and newspapers in the Grass Valley/Nevada City area. Nevada Daily Transcript (1880), Grass Valley Daily Union (1878),

Lot of five billheads and receipts from 1870-80s, businesses in Grass Valley and Nevada City. State: California City: Grass Valley/Nevada City Dat

Poll Tax Receipt No. 1943, signed by E.F. Spence & F.P.F. Temple. Two of Los Angeles' pioneers when it was Mexican Territory. E.F. Spence re...

Smith & Angell's black stocking handbill for sale by Meyer & Latz, Modesto, CA. A boudior item. Writing on back, ink on front. State: C...

Lot of 4. 1) Two Second of Exchanges from the Citizens Bank. Issued in 1890 (500 francs, bank in Switzerland) and 1891 (52 pounds sterling, bank in Lo

1930's receipt pad from an auto parts dealer. 1930-1931 hand written dealer financial logs State: California City: Sacramento Date:

Homestead, bank deposit slips, many court docs, many deeds, certificates of sale, mercantile license etc. State: California City: San Berardino Dat

Lot of 19. 1) 1890 promissory note on letterhead from W.H. Featherson, Cucamonga. 8.25 x 5.25" 2) Riverside Improvement Company stock certifica...

Sunday, September 12, 1880, No. 59. This has only a couple pages. The front page has a cut out portion on lower left front page. Front page has miscel

Receipt for $2.00 . Alexander & Banning, Forwarders, San Pedro, CA August 1,1854. State: California City: San Pedro Date: 1854

Pictorial Receipt for cash paid $52.32. 8.5" x 4.5" State: California City: San Pedro Date: 1865

Rare!! H.A. Lockhart has purchased a liquor license good for 3 months. Dated Jan. 10th, 1853. 5.5 x 8" Folds and creases. Soiling on reverse. ...

1857 Warrant in the amount of $105.78 to Sutter County Auditor. Good condition. Plastic protective cover. 8" x 3.75". State: California ...

US Flag, Sutterville, Sacramento Co., Cal. 1.75" x 3', diagonal crease, adhesive on rear. State: California City: Sutterville Date:

Phineas Banning who was a commissioned merchant who was responsible for the development of the Wilmington Harbor in the 1850's bringing the tran...

Typed and bound autobiographical manuscript of "Chips" Pillsbury Hogkins, a Wells Fargo Messenger, 1825-1892. Note inside states"The ...

16 registered mail receipts, 1897 and 1899 Wells Fargo receipt, attorney letter, liquor billheads, 1865 Shingle Springs receipt and approx 11 other 19

23 page bound booklet by M. Rieder 1903 with colored views of Southern California. Illustrations of East Lake Park in LA, oranges, Mammouth Wharf, Old

Approx 13 items. c. 1940 color Knott's Berry Farm brochure. Cardboard folding map of Los Angeles with stains, 1951 rainfall chart of Los Angeles...

Hardback books (2) City-Makers, Remi A. Nadeau, The Men who transformed Los Angeles from Village to Metropolis During the First Great Boom 1868-1876;

Blue and white woven blanket, 66 x 44 inches with views of the mint and other buildings from the historic Northern Georgia town. Also a ceramic Indian

Initial 5pp typed prospectus for the Southwestern Brokerage and Investment Co., 1907. The company was composed og mostly Georgia men, who put assets i

Pencil or charcoal? portrait of Stephan Douglas, an American politician from Illinois and the designer of the KansasñNebraska Act. 4" x 2....

Approx 140 van Kamp Hardware telegrams c. 1900-1926. Business related Western Union telegrams. State: Indiana City: Date:

Claim No. 333, Award No. 323 signed by Commissioners Hoogland, Henry T. Acuanis(?). Vignettes of Eagle,woman holding scales in period dress, with swo

1) Butte Consistory, Valley of Montana, reunion pamphlet, 1907, 2-5) Tintype of baby in buggy and 3 small photos. All came with a large Montana colle

9 Choteau County, MT financial reports, rate of taxation table, abstracts etc. State: Montana City: Choteau County Date: 1876-1878

Custer County, MT financial report and abstracts. State: Montana City: Custer County Date: 1878

C. E. Fagan(?) is writing his lawyer, A. S. Christie of Butte, asking him to approach Governor of Montana to get clemency. All other means he has trie

3 Deer Lodge County, MT financial report, tax table etc. State: Montana City: Deer Lodge County Date: 1878

2 Letters from J.H. McKnight & Co., Post Traders & Dealers in General Merchandise. State: Montana City: Fort Shaw Date: 1885

5 Gallatin County ledgers State: Montana City: Gallatin County Date: 1876-1878

10 licenses include store license, board of health, food distributor, building permit, cigarette license, gasoline and oil, etc. c 1950 to 1975. St

Rare, 2 pages of Accounts & Statements from Helena & Benton Stage Company. State: Montana City: Helena Date: 1880's

Three items from Helena, Montana, included a 3.75-inch diameter, gummed-back luggage sticker for the Placer Hotel printed in black and gold ink showin

3 Lewis and Clark County, MT financial reports, copy of settlement etc. State: Montana City: Lewis and Clark County Date: 1878

Montana Territory abstracts and financial records State: Montana City: Madison County Date: 1876-1878

1878 Meagher County, MT financial reports, tax table etc. State: Montana City: Meagher County Date:

9 financial records, abstracts, copy of settlement. State: Montana City: Missoula County Date: 1876-1878

Articles of Incorporation of O'Grady's Great Western Shows Company. "The purpose as for which it is formed are to carry on the business...

2 pieces & several entries on this ephemera to various places & names, the Driver is George Beaber. State: Montana City: Sappington Date:...

The four items in this lot are all from Mitchell & Lewis Co. of Racine, Wisconsin, and written to S.B. Buford & Co. of Virginia City, Montan...

5 Jefferson County, MT 1878 ledgers State: Montana City: Date: 1878

Lot of 20+. Early 1900s covers, many with contents (billheads and letterheads) either from Montana or addressed to businesses in Montana. Includes pie

Approx 30 Montana Labor News cancelled check c. 1940, Approx 30 receipts from Bessette Printing Company to Montana Labor News c. 1940. Approx 30 vari

Includes C. D. Edwards Manufacturing Company road building catalog with pasted in cartoon drawings of "Alec and A'l". Pamphlet, A Tri...

10 Montana Territory assorted statistical abstracts and treasurer's reports. State: Montana City: Date: 1882-1884

Lot of about 100 pieces of ephemera from Cherry Creek Nevada. State: Nevada City: Cherry Creek Date:

Lot of 53 checks. Two different banks. Most are Paxton & Co. but 14 are for the Eureka County Bank. All signed by P.H. Hjul. One is revenue-impr...

Rare! Inc. March 2, 1895. No. 34, issued for 15 5/13 shares to Moritz Scheeline, a Reno banker, on May 24th, 1895. Cancelled on December 7, 1897. Sign

Set one) Over 100 pieces of history. C 1905-1920. Ranches include Alpine, Argenta, Beowawe, Clan Alpine , Gold Creek, Grimes, Holland, Horseshoe, Hot

1) Letter addressed to George Senf, agent for the Western Union Telegraph Company in Virginia City. From San Francisco. Please see to a "party ...

Lot of seven. 1) Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada, Assay Certificate. 1908. 2-5) Four Desert Power & Mill Assay Certificates. Millers, Nevada. ...

Lot of fifteen. Includes 1891 Land Patent signed by Governor Colcord and soon-to-be Governor J. E. Jones. Lovelocks Lake Township official document to

Fifteen checks from Reno and Carson City. Some with revenue stamps. Two from the H.F. Dangberg Land & Livestock Company. State: Nevada City: ...

Misc. Lot of Nevada ephemera includes Nevada sheet music books, pictorials & photographically illustrated calendars (numerous from 1979 to early...

Lot of 19. Includes: large (7 x 9.5") postcard c.1940 for the Nevada Club in Reno; Chinese restaurant menu (Money Tree, Reno); guides (Sky Ranc...

Lot of 15. Nevada Business College Hop 1898, Truckee Ledge 1887, Southside School Reno 1897, Clinton Consolidate Gold Party & Dance, Austin Hig...

11 Nevada and mining related checks 1871-1941 including Virginia City. 2 c.1907 US Postal Money order receipts. Postal items-chromolitho postcard of

Tuscarora-Elko Stage Line, Mineral Hill Milling, Kennecott Copper, Manhattan Silver Mining, Mathewson Bros and more State: Nevada City: Date: c187

These are hard to find because they usually went with the deer. Obviously used in the field as they are dirty and torn. Rare! 1959 to Charles Kirn of

Albuquerque National Bank service letters, 10 First National bank assorted sheets-some with tears, 4 Mora County tax receipts 1906-1919 and more. Sta

Assortment of tax abstracts from Otsego, NY from 1840, 1841, 1842, 1844, 1847, 1848, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857,1860, 1863, 1864. 6.5" x 16&q...

Letters from Jamestown Roller Mills 1895; E.A. Maglone, Attorney at Law, Devils Lake North Dakota, 1897; Letter from Geo.C. Beckwith Co., Wholesale Di

This 3pp brochure for E.F. Houghton & Co. in Philadelphia that begins by referencing "a big gold scare." We are able to date it to c.1...

9 green and brown farm related auction sale flyers for Thursday January 19, year unknown. 9.5x8" State: South Dakota City: Date: c1910-1920

Snippet of Texas Governor's letter head with state seal. Some writnig on reverse, heavily toned. Aprrox 2" 4.75". State: Texas City:...

Volume 1 Number 5, March 1887 by Reuss & Neville, Paris, Texas. 10 pages of philatelic news of the era. 8.5" x 5.75". State: Texas C...

Assorted letters, map of India on one side mounted on brown paper and a map of Palestine on back page14" x 11.5"; 5 small metal medallions...

Lot of 10 pieces. Includes: two different copies of the New Yorker published in 1840 by Horace Greeley & Co. (prolific publisher, congressman, a...

1895 US Circuit Court Commissioner, District of Wyomig letter regarding payment for horses. US Treasury Dept. 1891 draft payable to Gustave Schnitger

Two page shipping/customs document signed by W.H. Garfield, U.S. Consul at Saint-Pierre, Martinique. Dated Feb. 28th, 1881. For goods/merchandise bein

Lot of 13. Included: 1922 letterhead for Al G. Kelly-Miller Bros. Circus, Eckley, Colorado; 8 x 10 black and white photograph of Lorraine Krueger, RKO

Approx 10 items-compass set, antique brass level, 4 cased slide rules, viewing scope, manuals. Items from the collection of a prominent mining enginee

Eleven pieces of propaganda from the Iraqi War, photos of tanks, bombers, Saddam Hussein and others. All in Arabic. All 4 x 6 inches in color. State

Possible steam gauge 0-200 scale, brass bezel and mounted on brown wood. 9.75" gaue. State: City: Date:

Lot of 2 Fishing Licenses from 1800's to carry on the Cod-Fishery for one year. Some condition issues (tearing at right side of License that enc...

2 boxes of assorted goodies. Postcards, onyx pencil holder, several arrowheads, 6 78 records- Stan Kenton, Billy May,several Kahraman, 1950 Leigh Univ

Rare. Tickets $1 each. Prizes from $1 to $10,000. George Washington portrait at lower left plus other vignettes. Printed signature of secretary John

Includes Jayne's Medial Almanca 1856, two Gargling Oil Almanacs 1879 and 1883, Burdock Blood Bitters Almanac 1886, Ayer's Malaria and Ague C...

Assortment of approx 14 loops and magnifiers State: City: Date:

Pewter 8.75" pewter Bicentennial plaque, hardcover Romance of the Revolution-1870 440pp, hardcover America's Bicentennial Covers 1775-1975 ...

Two blank front statements with handwritten notes on back pertaining to sharpeners. Young Brothers Engravers, Springfield Mass. c. 1913. Wells Farg

Disney, Robinson Crusoe, Huck Finn, Pathfinder, Look to the Mountain State: City: Date:

Vintage Red Tin with 3 female images. Cap does not open, condition issues with peeling paint and a dented side. State: City: Date:

Approx 20 different wallets, mostly leather, others are alligator?, eel etc State: City: Date:

Copper appearing Empire fire extinguisher. 23" tall State: City: Date:

Ten items. Includes a price list effective 1935. All items are addressed to JM Kiefer of Easton, PA. Mostly about shipping items and cost to ship. Inc

Lot of eight. Includes an eleven page wholesale and retail price list for rifles, shotguns, shot, sites, accessories, and two cannons. There is a lett

A total of nineteen. Includes four page brochure on how to display western ammunition. with pictures. A January 22, 1935 price list. The rest are let

Lot of seven. One small (6 x 7") Pamphlet advertising the ideal ammunition for all .22 cal. air rifles. With photos. Both sides. One larger (12...

Lot of four letters. 1) To Our Jobbing Distributors. 2% off on all stock orders for Savage and Fox Rifles. 2) Letter to JM Kiefer of Easton, PA. Talki

State: City: Date:

Lot of six items. Includes bond in four different stages. Many have notes written on them. Two sets of instructions from Harrah's to the printer...

Tokens from Great Britain, from imitation 1/2 Guinea to Imitation Guinea; Spiel Mark gaming token, head with crown that says "Liberty"; co...

Deck of cards with trains, & scenery from Mission Dolores, San Francisco & Carmel Mission & many more. Good condition. State: City: ...

Lot of eighteen old Faro chips; over 30 brass ID tags from the Ely Kennecott Copper Corporation; a couple dozen wooden nickels. State: City: Dat