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Treasures from Pacific Shores: Numismatics, Mining, & Americana

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Welcome to our June 2018 sale!

This 5-day auction has nearly 3,600 lots covering many categories including: Numismatics, Mining, Minerals, General Americana, Railroad, Tokens, Antique Bottles, Gaming, Firearms & Weaponry, Wells Fargo & Express, and much more!

Highlights include:

NUMISMATICS
*The Hawaii Numismatic Collection: rare early Hawaiian coins, medals, and currency.

*A large coin and medal section featuring gold, platinum, and silver coins and medals from around the world. Morgan dollars, peace dollars, St. Gaudens, pennies, nickels, dimes, and more! Rarities & high-grade specimens plus large groups and sets.

*Ingots and bullion bars.

*Numismatic collectibles and ephemera.

TOKENS
*Our second large offering of tokens from the R.B. Worthington Texas Token Collection

MINING & MINERALS

*Aurora, Nevada ore specimens from the famous Gottschalk Collection plus the fabulous Con-Virginia/Dayton Cons. Comstock Ore Collection.

*Museum-quality mineral specimens from around the world.

*Mining lamps and hard goods plus stock certificates feat. Arizona, California, & Nevada

*The Prag Canadian Mining Collection

RAILROAD
*A new offering of railroad and steamer passes from the Potter Collection and others.

BOTTLES
*A pictorial Owl Pharmacy Co. bottle from Seven Troughs, Nevada, one of the all-time great Western mining camp pictorials! One of a large group of great Nevada medicine bottles in this sale. Plus an Excelsior Soda & Mineral Water bottle and other great California & Gold Rush bottles.

GENERAL AMERICANA
*Two different Wurlitzers, a Mason player piano, National cash registers, and a great group of ephemera from the Potter Collection, Prag Collection, and others!

*Finally, a large Bargain/Dealer Section featuring both entry-level collectibles and large dealer lots ideal for resale. Our philosophy for this section is to help beginning collectors start their collections and to restock dealer inventories, therefore helping grow the collecting community as a whole.

FULL AUCTION SCHEDULE

Day 1 (Lots 1000-1718)
Numismatics (1000-1614)
Currency & Scrip (1000-1042)
Gold Coins (1043-1150)
Platinum Coins (1151-1160)
General Coins feat. Hawaii Collection (1161-1418)
Medals (1419-1537)
Ingots (1538-1551)
Numismatic Ephemera (1552-1614)
Gaming (1615-1644)
World’s Fair & Expositions (1645-1667)
Wells Fargo & Express (1668-1718)

Day 2 (2000-2690)
Minerals (2000-2158)
Mining (2159-2690)
Lamps, Candlesticks, & Other Hard Goods (2159-2222)
Assay (2223-2239)
Ephemera (Geographic Sort) (2240-2690)

Day 3 (3000-3704)
Railroadiana (3000-3150)
Railroad Passes (3000-3019)
Steamer Passes (3020-3045)
Ephemera incl. Lamps (Geographic Sort) (3046-3150)
Bottles (3151-3268)
Medicines (3151-3218)
Soda (3219-3250)
Whiskey & Misc. (3251-3268)
Tokens feat. Part II of the Texas Collection (3269-3512)
Political & Presidential (3513-3544)
Civil War & Military (3545-3626)
Firearms & Weaponry (3627-3704)
Pistols, Rifles, Shotguns, Etc. (3627-3639)
Swords & Knives (3640-3661)
Ammunition (3662-3689)
Ephemera (3690-3704)

Day 4 (4000-4726)
General Americana
Assorted incl. Furniture, Hard Goods, Hats, Misc. Ephemera, Books (4000-4149)
Ephemera (Geographic Sort) (4150-4726)

Day 5 (5000-5712)
Native Americana (5000-5101)
Art (5000-5007)
Baskets (5008-5026)
Jewelry (5027-5064)
Points & Tools (5065-5072)
Ephemera (5073-5101)
Cowboy (5102-5136)
Philatelic (5137-5210)
Postal History (5137-5183)
Stamps & Revenue (5184-5210)
Art (5211-5247)
Antique Lamps (5248-5262)
Bargains & Dealer Specials (5263-5713)
General Americana
Mining
Railroad
Numismatics & Tokens

SHIPPING & HANDLING: Shipping and Handling cannot be estimated prior to invoicing, based on the size and weight of your purchase. All shipping is subject to a minimum charge of $19.00. If additional shipping and handling costs are required, the buyer will be reinvoiced for the balance due. Items are not shipped until the invoice is completely paid. Many buyers purchase a number of lots. Every effort will be made to include all lots in a single shipping charge calculated to cover the weight and size of the package(s). NOTE: Some shipments (of unusual size, dimension, or weight) may require sp...
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Goldfield Specimen, Gottschalk Collection2119 - Goldfield Specimen, Gottschalk Collection
Holabird Western Americana Collections
3 x 2 x 1.5" high grade gold specimen from the famous Florence Mine at Goldfield from the famous Gottschalk Collection.With original label. Cut...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 300.00 - 600.00
Sold to n*******g for (1,400.00 + 350.00BP) = 1,750.00
 
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Miners Gold Mine Gold Ore2120 - Miners Gold Mine Gold Ore
Holabird Western Americana Collections
3 x 6.5" High - extreme high grade large slab specimen. Brecciated wall rock of rhyolite cemented together with mineralized banded epithermal v...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to c******u for (50.00 + 12.50BP) = 62.50
 
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Gold Crown Gold-Silver Vein2121 - Gold Crown Gold-Silver Vein
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Drill core with crystalline calcite in vein, RMC-69, down-hole depth 546. 4 ft. 2.5" diameter. 4" long. (This specimen was found at the mi...
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Start Price : 50.00 | Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
 
 
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Rosebud Gold-Silver Mine2122 - Rosebud Gold-Silver Mine
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Beautiful. Drill core with crystalline barite in vug, RL-264, down-hole depth 833.3 ft. 2.5" diameter. 8.5" long. (This specimen was found...
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Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Rosebud Gold-Silver Mine2123 - Rosebud Gold-Silver Mine
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Clay altered rhyolite with marcasite ± barite-clay-gold mineralization on fractures. 4x6x4.5". Field Guide: staff. (This specimen was foun...
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Start Price : 100.00 | Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Ruth, NV Copper Specimens2124 - Ruth, NV Copper Specimens
Holabird Western Americana Collections
High grade copper from Ruth, NV. Collected by a mine supervisor, c. 1960's. 5 pretty specimens, largest is 4.5". Date: Location: Ruth, N...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 60.00 - 100.00
Sold to F****e for (85.00 + 18.70BP) = 103.70
 
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Eberhardt Mine High Grade from the Gottschalk Collection2125 - Eberhardt Mine High Grade from the Gottschalk Collection
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1.5 x 1 x 1" specimen of argentite plus bramergyrite, collected 1868-9, with the Gottschalk label plus an older label. This is teh first high g...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 300.00 - 600.00
Sold to 8********l.. for (1,350.00 + 337.50BP) = 1,687.50
 
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Tuscarora Banded Quartz with Gold2126 - Tuscarora Banded Quartz with Gold
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1.5 x 1.5 x 3" extreme high grade specimen with cut surface showing native gold from the Fisher-Watt open pit. This specimen contains a rare fo...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 150.00 - 300.00
Sold to r****d for (95.00 + 0.00BP) = 95.00
 
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Grand Prize Mine Gottschalk Specimen2127 - Grand Prize Mine Gottschalk Specimen
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1.5" cubed specimen from the Grand Prize Mine at Tuscarora, one of the better producers in the district. Proustite, pyrargyrite, argentite, ste...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 150.00 - 300.00
Sold to 8********l.. for (200.00 + 50.00BP) = 250.00
 
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Tuscarora Native Gold In Quartz Breccia2128 - Tuscarora Native Gold In Quartz Breccia
Holabird Western Americana Collections
3.5 x 2.5" Extreme high grade Specimen. Cut slab with significant gold in the smaller half. This specimen contains a rare form of gold called “...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to r****d for (425.00 + 0.00BP) = 425.00
 
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Tuscarora Native Gold in Quartz Vein2129 - Tuscarora Native Gold in Quartz Vein
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Extreme high grade thick cut slab with quartz crystals on one edge. Gold easily visible on the side without the label. From the fisher-Watt small open
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to r****d for (100.00 + 0.00BP) = 100.00
 
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Belcher Mine High Grade Specimen2130 - Belcher Mine High Grade Specimen
Holabird Western Americana Collections
2 x 2" mineralized quartz with silver sulphides and electrum. Specimen was broken and re-adhered exactly along crack. The Belcher claims were s...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to b*****s for (50.00 + 12.50BP) = 62.50
 
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Yellow Jacket Mine Extreme High Grade Specimen2131 - Yellow Jacket Mine Extreme High Grade Specimen
Holabird Western Americana Collections
cut slab 2.5 x 4" White quartz vein breccias cemented with an ~equal number of olive green, possibly altered wall rock with blebs of silver gol...
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Start Price : 70.00 | Estimate : 140.00 - 300.00
 
 
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Yellow Jacket Mine Extreme High Grade Specimen2132 - Yellow Jacket Mine Extreme High Grade Specimen
Holabird Western Americana Collections
5" square cut slab. White quartz vein breccias cemented with an ~ equal number of olive green, possibly altered wall rock with blebs of silver ...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold to r****d for (225.00 + 0.00BP) = 225.00
 
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Con-Virginia, Dayton Consolidated Ore Collection2133 - Con-Virginia, Dayton Consolidated Ore Collection
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 12,500.00 - 15,000.00
Sold to 8********l.. for (12,500.00 + 3,125.00BP) = 15,625.00
 
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Con Virginia Bonanza Ore2134 - Con Virginia Bonanza Ore
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Large slab 4 x 4" extreme high grade specimen: This slab is very interesting and beautiful. The mineralization is intense with abundant visible...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
Sold to f*******d for (200.00 + 50.00BP) = 250.00
 
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C & C Mine Extreme High Grade Specimen2135 - C & C Mine Extreme High Grade Specimen
Holabird Western Americana Collections
3 x 4" slab of mineralized quartz vein with abundant silver sulfides. It also has strong chalcopyrite plus minor pyrite. Gold is also present w...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold to r****d for (200.00 + 0.00BP) = 200.00
 
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Gould & Curry High Grade Gold & Silver Specimen2136 - Gould & Curry High Grade Gold & Silver Specimen
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Classic Bonanza Ore from the Gould & Curry. 1.5 x 3". Extreme high grade specimen: This specimen contains intense mineralization. Most of...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
Sold to d**********3 for (130.00 + 32.50BP) = 162.50
 
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Gould & Curry High Grade Gold & Silver Specimen2137 - Gould & Curry High Grade Gold & Silver Specimen
Holabird Western Americana Collections
2 x 1.25" Extreme high grade specimen: This specimen contains intense mineralization. Most of this rock is made of silver sulfides in quartz. W...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to p********n for (325.00 + 81.25BP) = 406.25
 
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Hale & Norcross Extreme High Grade Specimen2138 - Hale & Norcross Extreme High Grade Specimen
Holabird Western Americana Collections
Two specimens about the same size, 2.5 x 1 x 1", with cut surface. The pair are matching halves. This is another fine specimen from the Comsto...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to d**********3 for (100.00 + 25.00BP) = 125.00
 
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