Treasures from Pacific Shores: Numismatics, Mining, & Americana

Six state picnics, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, All New Englanders at Sycamore Grove Park, Los Angeles. Sa

Lets go to the West Virginia Picnic Reunion, Saturday, Oct. 22 year unknown. Sycamore Grove Park, Los Angeles. Pacific Electric Railway. 6" x 1...

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...

"See and welcome Colonel Lindbergh to Los Angeles. Tues. Sept. 20." Image of Lindbergh next to an American flag and train departure times ...

Lot of 8. Includes: Tax Collector's Office receipt, 1877, signed by J.J. Carrillo, who was the City Marshall, Chief of Police, & Tax Collect...

Frasher RPC of Palestine Exhibitition in Los Angeles Date: Location: Los Angeles, California HWAC# 53906

Third Edition. Approx 50 pages of photos of LA scenes including Santa Monica, Catalina Island, Pasadena, Ostrich farm and more. Front cover partially

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

7 point Modoc County, CA Deputy Sheriff badge, no name. Appears to be a badge for trading. Date: Location: Modoc County, California HWAC# 69063

Lot of 10. 1) Tioga Lodge on the Shores of Mono Lake. Frashers Foto. 2) June Lake Lodge four-sided fireplace. Frashers Foto. 3) Middle Fork, Bishop Cr

1) i/c Monolith Portland Cement Co. to H. Dubois 1923 #4201 10 shares. 2) i/c Monolith Portland Cement Co to AC Theysohn #4277 8 shares. Date: Loca

7 from Nevada City, 1 from Sonora. Date: c. 1880-1890 Location: Nevada City, California HWAC# 54131

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

9 postcards to Newcastle, CA and Placer County, CA. Date: c. 1890-1891 Location: New Castle Area, California HWAC# 63166

Approx 30 letters and assorted ephemera. Unusual items include c. 1880 propagation license for keeping a jack, Colusa County 1892 liquor license, seve

"Chinamen should want a little more money next week..." Addressed to Mr. Harvey of the Cosumnes Copper Mining Company. Date: 1866 Locatio...

Bird's eye view of Randsburg by Frasher Foto. Date: Ca. 1925 Location: Randsburg, California HWAC# 63557

Leather trimmed hardcover checkbook register with over 200 checks from the First National Bank of Redlands. Front cover detached. Check stubs indicate

Lot of 6 real photo postcards from the Ryan area near Death Valley, Ca. Several of the postcards show use of the Baby Gauge Railroad by tourists. 2 Fr

Large Book of Sacramento Bee Articles from July 1, 1932, to July 30, 1932. Has articles ranging from "Governor Roosevelt Wins Wide Lead in Thr...

1867 receipt from Steamer Chrysopolis, Freeman and Co. Express unused receipt c. 1850's, 1861 receipt from Steamer H-H(bottom creases and vertic...

State Controller's Warrant from Sacramento City, CA 1855. Allegorical vignette of woman with spear, beautiful mountains in background, signed b...

3 postcards (birds eye views) of San Andreas, Calaveras County, California. Black & White postcards. Date: Location: San Andreas, California ...

Homestead, bank deposit slips, many court docs, many deeds, certificates of sale, mercantile license etc. Date: 1877-1936 Location: San Berardino, C

"Charles Wilkes (April 3, 1798 – February 8, 1877) was an American naval officer, ship's captain, and explorer. He led the United States Ex...

Approx 35 brewing licenses from San Bernardino, CA Date: 1907-1910 Location: San Bernardino, California HWAC# 64325

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...

Schmidt Litho was one of the best and most colorful of the San Francisco printers. Here are 2 of there company directories, 1 has signatures of 7 com

Two advertising flyers, one 8 x 11, one 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Four page explanations of their goods and patents. Located at 543 Market Street opposite Sansom

"The Famous Hindoo [sic.] Wonder." "He stands alone, the prince of clairvoyants." Office, Rooms No. 20, 1040 I Street, Over City...

P.J. Philips & Co., No. 650 Market St, San Francisco, are advertising "New Light! The Patent Portable Vapor Gas Light. No More Exorbitant G...

Postmarked August 13, 1925 from Albuquerque, NM to San Francisco, CA. The sender's name is unknown but the letter was to a person with the last ...

Lot of four different stereoviews all featuring trolleys. Included: choice c.1900 view of busy Market Street by Art Nouveau Stereograph; c.1901 Underw

Three different cards with three different views of this Civil War era military base now located beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. 1) c.1874 Watkins ste

Lot of 4 different. 1) Best is an 1897 card titled "A Chinaman's Family." Stamped M.F. McNeil (not listed in Mautz) and handwritten da...

Lot of 4. 1) Kilburn Bros. shot from the beach looking up at Cliff House. Sign clearly visible. 2) c.1880s Watkins stereoview showing Seal Rocks. 3) B

Lot of 21 stereoviews of this iconic park in San Francisco built in the early 1870s as the city's version of Central Park. 1) Two by AJ McDonald...

c.1900 Art Noveau Stereograph Co. stereoview No. 5405 showing the Speedway at Golden Gate Park. View shows man in top hat commanding wagon with two ho

Photo of Golden Gate Park from terrace showing the Garfield and Key Monuments by Billington 4.5" x 7.5". Conservatory in Golden Gate Park...

Four different interesting San Francisco stereoviews by JJ Reilly of Marysville, CA. According to Mautz, Reilly operated the Wood's Gallery Mary...

1) c.1901 view from Sausalito Ferry by Keystone View Co. Nice contrast and detail. 2) c.1864 view from Bay Shore & Fort Point. Contrast very wea...

Lot of 8 different nice early San Francisco (and area) stereoviews. 1) Four by Kilburn Bros.: Russian Hill bird's-eye view; Telegraph Hill bird&...

Out of their San Francisco branch. All issued in 1866, signed by Smith & Coghill. Each has an adhesive revenue stamp. 4 x 7.5" Spindle canc...

Lot of five receipts from the Anglo-Californian Bank of San Francisco to Jacob Heyman of Grass Valley. Most dated 1879. Date: Location: San Fran

Three menus from the days of San Francisco culinary glory. Vista Del Mar Restaurant at Fisherman's Wharf, Old Poodle Dog of 65 Post Street (fren...

Large assortment of San Francisco related items. Includes phone directories, 1920 Women's Club yearbook, 12 unissued ticket books from Whitney&...

First issues after infamous earthquake.July 1906 Brown bear and eagle with moon background on cover. Numerous photos of after quake fires and devastat

Fancy business card for O.E. Olsen Lithograph Company, 330 Jackson St. in San Francisco. "The Drummer with Ideas." 3 x 5" on cardstoc...

Lot of eight. 1-3) Three Tabor cabinet cards. Two duplicate 'Upper Corridor' and one 'Palace Hotel Court'. One has a nice advertisem...

Lot of 7. Included: 1854 handwritten Bill of Sale from Rhodes & Lusk; 1854 pictorial Certificate of Deposit for Adams & Co.; 1867 Wells Far...

Rarely does an original western banking archive come out of the woodwork, and one has here. Not only that, it is an important "first" as w...

4 hardcovers.The Spectacular San Franciscans by Altrocchi. San Francisco 1846-1856 by Lotchin. The San Francisco Earthquake by Witts. Belle Starr by R

Hardcover with dustjacket. 1939 185pp. Impressions of Golden Gate Expo of 1939. Date: Location: San Francisco, California HWAC# 73006

1) City Comptroller's Office pictorial warrant issued for $250 in 1854 to H.W. Seale for grading and planking Beale Street. Signed by comptrolle...

1) i/u Pope Expanding Bit Co. to FH Gould 1912 #224. 2) i/void Noyo Land and Cattle Co. to HM Cochran #9 1 share. Date: Location: San Francisco, C

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Soft cover booklet, From Salt Lake City, Along the line of Western Pacific Railway, Feather River Canon Route, To San Francisco Bay. Approx 25 chromo

1) c. late 1880s Stereoview by A.J. McDonald, San Francisco. Nice view of observatory buildings on the hill. According to Mautz, McDonald partnered wi

New York Tribune, April 6, 1875 long article on page 2 reporting the hanging of the "eminent bandit" Vasquez at San Jose, California. The ...

One First Mortgage Six Per Cent Sinking Fund Forty Year Gold Bond. No. 1516, $500. Signed by President Brown. Ornate green border with allegorical vig

Receipt for $2.00 . Alexander & Banning, Forwarders, San Pedro, CA August 1,1854. Date: 1854 Location: San Pedro, California HWAC# 63431

Pictorial Receipt for cash paid $52.32. 8.5" x 4.5" Date: 1865 Location: San Pedro, California HWAC# 63436

Red cloisoine poinsetta on top of the Santa Barbara Mission with a bell at the bottom. Lodge 613 of the B.P.O.E. Bell dated 1909. Five inches long, pi

Hardcover 1939 496pp plus index, many pictorial plates. Date: Location: Santa Barbara, California HWAC# 73007

Aprrox 50 postcards including 10 RPC's-Persian Hotel and Biltmore, 5 each. 2 cabinet cards by SB photographers-man portrait by Cook, baby portr...

Rare Gold Rush COD. Manuscript Shasta (over printed Sacramento City), Feb. 12, 1854. King D. Keithly has deposited in the Sacramento City Bank at Shas

Mott School District. $500 #2 i/c 1889. Top creasing and small seam tear. Date: Location: Siskiyou, California HWAC# 65071

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. ...

Approx 15 items. 1897 San Bernardino Tax Bill. Pictorial billheads-Pacific Tent and Awning, Donahoo, Emmons Hardware. Letterheads from Los Angeles, Ne

Paasdena (7 pcs, mostly 1890s); Terminal Island (2, 1926 letters); Los Angeles (22, best is 1888 Canada Dairy, c1888-c1900) Date: Location: Calif

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;

1903 edition. Softcover, approx 30 b/w So. Cal. photos-Santa Barbara, Mt. Lowe, Figueroa St. etc. Cover edges have signs of wear. Date: Location:

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

1) River Lodge, Lake Havasu Sportsman's Club. 2) Cloudburst on Clientele Creek. 3) Deck on the Salton Sea, Frashers Foto. 4) Date garden in Coa...

3 hardcovers-History of Los Angeles, City County, Vol. 1 and 2 by Spalding. Softcover Panorama-A picture history of Southern California by Title Insu

A Step Back in Time by Santa Cruz Island Foundation. Santa Barbara's Royal Rancho by Tomkins. Santa Cruz Island by Clark. Date: Location: Ca...

One of the first public wine companies. Incorporated in the days of the nascent California wine industry in 1872. Four unissued certificates. Very rar

Incorporated April 24, 1866. Dateline Suisun City, Solano Co., May 4th, 1877. No. 94, issued for one share to J. Frank & Co. Signed by president...

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

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

Postcard shows the W.L. Co. Factory. Produced by Fidler Photo. Postmarked February 1914. Date: Location: Weed, California HWAC# 63844

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

New York tribune 8.27.1875 with long article on Yosemite, unauthored, but listed as a "special Correspondent.". Excellent expose on the Yo...

Lot of 4 different. None have the publisher identified. Similar views of the hotel with Sentinel Rock in the background. Please inspect. (Prag Collect

Lot of 28. This is a really nice set of "later" stereoviews (i.e. not 1860s-80s). Includes: a set of 11 cards from a family vacation (1920...

Lot of three stereoviews (4" x 7") from John S. Moulton (Salem, Massachusetts). Best card is No.35 view of Hutchings' Hotel with Senti...

Three different rare stereoviews by John P. Soule (Boston) c.1870 of Lamon's Cabin in Yosemite. 1) No. 1245: Close-up exterior view with three m...

RPC of Martin Itjen and his street car, Skagway, AK. Booklet of California's Twentieth Century School-Agriculture, mechanic, household arts. Fre...

1919 Rand McNally Indexed Pocket Map and Auto Road Guide, California. 89 pp plus advertisements. c. 1920's Rand McNally Indexed Pocket Map, Tour...

1) Double Truck, multi color California,/Nevada map South portion California. Asher & Adams. Nye and Lincoln Counties, Nevada. 17.5" x 24&...

Map of Public Surveys in California to accompany Report Surveyor Gen. Signed by Surveyor General of California. Gray ink on cream color paper. Slight

Double truck map of California. PP 102-103. Multicolor, Nevada and Oregon on reverse. 14.5" x 22". Date: Location: California HWAC# 5...

Old Map of California General Map of Explorations & Surveys, shows lower California, part of the Sonora Desert, the Colorado Desert, shows porti...

Rand McNally Pocket Map and Shippers' Guide of California with detached covers. Additional old California map with many tears. fragile. Please i...

Old maps-Pasadena, Los Angeles, Feather River, San Diego, Riverside, Tuolumne, San Francisco, East Bay, So. Cal Sunshine Empire Date: Location: Ca

Small card from Mrs. John Steele, San Andreas, Cal. Larger pictorial card from Mrs. A. Horstmann, Dealer in Fashionable Cloaks and Suits, Stockton, Ca

4 Billheads from California. 1) San Joaquin County, 1864 to W. B. Stamper(?) for services as County Assessor 2) Receipt for State & County Taxes...

Hardback book, with plastic jacket, excellent condition. A Yankee in Mexican California, Abel Stearns, 1798-1848 By Doris Marion Wright. pp. 144, 6.5

1 gold brooch pins, one reading "Olive Caplinger/Big Oak/Rebekah Lodge #259/December 6, 1922/California 760" it has "50" on it l...