Treasures from Pacific Shores: Numismatics, Mining, & Americana

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;