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"The Aloha Guide / The Standard Handbook / Honolulu and The Hawaiian Islands" Originally priced at 75 cents. Written by Ferdinand J. H. ...

Six volumes beginning with the first session of the House of Representatives, Idaho Territory, December 7, 1863. The first session was printed by Jame

1) Steward Brothers letterhead for 1893. 2) Seven copies of the Ketchum Keystone newspaper. June 20, 1883. Plenty of Ads and town tidings. State:

Postal cover addressed to W.R. Callahan of Rocky Bar Idaho with a brochure advertising Clark's "O.N.T." Cabinets including spools of t...

This is a group of four court summons documents from the Second District Court of Boise County in the matter of Hill Kane versus J.R. Tolman over a de

Lot of 18 postal covers from various hotels in Idaho. State: Idaho City: Date: FHWAC#: 42246

1) 50c blue revenue stamps on Idaho Territorial documents. Collection of six different 50c blue US Revenue. All are Idaho City, 1865-67, and all court

1) Four Banner covers. All have the oval stamp with a star in the middle. One pictorial corner advertising cover of the Barnhardt Brothers & Spi...

Nineteen early 20th century advertising covers from Idaho. All different, many businesses. State: Idaho City: Date: FHWAC#: 42242

Lot of nine postal covers advertising Rodeos, County Fairs and Elks Indoor Circus: "A Seething Blast of Frivolity." State: Idaho Cit...

Lot of 11 early 20th century advertising covers from various sporting goods and hardware companies in Idaho. State: Idaho City: Date:

With New Street Names, Steam Railroads, Street Car Lines, Street Numbers, and Sections. Published by Rufus Blanchard, 169 Randolph St., Chicago. Map i

In original presentation box, this badge was made by the Shepard Manufacturing Company of Melrose Highlands, Mass. and is the only official souvenir b

1) Fourth Class, $2,000, Endowment Fund. Issued June 21, 1887 in Jeffersonville, Indiana to Chas. W. Saunders. Ornate border and logo with fraternal i

Puma Agency is crossed out and Park City is handwritten. TO U(?) Harris for $1.20. Drawn on the Cowley County Bank of Arkansas City, Kansas. State:

A nice group of Kansas stock certificates. 1) Rock Town Company, cert. #9, issued at Topeka, KS in 1886. Was located in Cowley County. Most of these t

Hand written letter sheet from R.P Buck of New York to Clark Sewall of Bath, Maine. Buck was informing Sewall that the gold dust sent by Sewall had b

Pre-prohibition stoneware souvenir mug from the 1904 National Convention of the Fraternal order of Eagles. Colorful and in pristine condition. Inside

Lot of 3 ribbons. (1) is the Grand Army of the Revolution (G.A.R.) Department of New Hampshire, 24th National Encampment of 1890. (2) is a Representat

2 Different photos of a North Land Northern Steamship Company vessel leaving the "Old Lock" and another entering the "Soo" from ...

Lot of 3 territorial letters from a scarce location. Two have dateline Blackfoot City, the other simply "Blackfoot." 1874, 1875, 1876. All...

5 cards: Sheep shearer's Union of North America No. 1, affiliated with A. F. of L. Cards with leathers holder. State: Montana City: Butt...

Four tokens: Chapter no. 3, RAM, 1874, copper; three of Valley Chapter no. 4 RAM, 1880, copper. State: Montana City: Deer Lodge Date: F

Lot of nine choice RN imprinted checks. eight different for L.H. Hershfield & Bro., Bankers in Helena. Includes four pictorial pieces: 1866 (RN-...

Lot of seventeen. Warrant for janitorial services for Governor's office. This includes a letter from Governor Leslie requesting this. Also warra...

A lot of 14 Jefferson County, Montana warrants, mostly in pretty good condition, between 1868 through 1884 from the treasurer of the county paying cer

Diversified information concerning Fergus County, its history and resources. Map on back cover, dated Sept. 1, 1899. Soft green cover, some tearing, t

1) Boston & Montana Smelter Souvenir Plate. Nice dark green color of the "...largest smokestack in the world." It stood 506 feet high....

1) Unlisted in Shellen & Dunn. Missoula, June 19. Corner advertising for Bonner & Welch Dry Goods and Groceries. Definitely territorial. Pos...

Interesting lot of three different hand-drawn proof or sample checks drawn by printers. Included: Nowlan & Weary, Bankers; Allen & Millard, ...

Lot includes 3 RPC--Train engine, Whitefish and two landscape cards. Also, Miles City Roundup; Heaven's Peak; Richest Hill on earth, Butte; Glac...

Five Montana Territorial Centennial "slugs". State: Montana City: Date: FHWAC#: 41527

Hotel Montana photograph. Location is not known. Dated by car in photo. One photo is pristine and sharp. The other has a full length bend in it. Size

24 early Montana checks, a copy of the 1887 Northwest Illustrated Monthly magazine, a handful of Montana billheads from the 1800s. State: Montana

12 Items: Midland National Bank, Billings; Mission High School; Missoula General Hospital; Hungry Horse; Columbia Falls; and more. State: Montana

Titles include: An Army Wife on the Frontier - The memoirs of Alice Blackwood Baldwin (1st edition), First Lady in Congress - Jeannette Rankin, Fron

Insight into Montana's Spiritual Side: A nice collection for the library! Please inspect photo for details (two w/ autographs) * note, oldes...

Titles include: " Westward I Go Free " The story of J. F. K. in Montana, Frank Baney, Forty Years a Montana Law Enforcer, Yankee from ...

More Great Montana Resources & References: Please see photo for details. State: Montana City: Date: FHWAC#: 30847

A great addition to ones western library - Including four 1st editions (The Grizzly Bear, The Great North Trail, For each a Women, and Strange Empire

Aluminum card-New Federal Building, Butte; 3 Leather cards: Northern Pacific Railway Depot, stamp and postmark; 2 other leather are Greetings from Liv

19 pieces in lot: S & d Montana Pioneers; Achievement in Club Work; University of Montana, Missoula; Butte Anglers Club; Build Montana, buffalo ...

1) April 15, 1878 Esmeralda Herald of Aurora. Includes a story about a Columbus murder. Peter Scully killed Nicholas Gregovich. Also news from Patters

The paper was first published in Austin, Nevada on May 16, 1863. It was published as a weekly newspaper, and intermittently as a daily paper. These pa

1) Four views of Carlin including a Mallet and steam engine. Cancelled in 19254. 2) Overview of the town. 3) Railroad yards and depot. 4) Town, depot

Signed by the first Governor of Nevada: H. G. Blasdel. Issued. Only one stamp remains. Cancelled. State: Nevada City: Carson City Date:

Postcard collection: 14 Carson City, 4 Virginia city, 5 Reno, 1 Moundhouse, 21 Dayton, plus about 30 more cards. All are addressed to miss Vera Johnso

December 13, 1873 issue of the Nevada Tribune out of Carson City. Includes ads for the Genoa Hot Springs, D. Walley proprietor. This would be later kn

This is a pristine silver plated bowl was used at All Saints Episcopal Church in Dayton. The bottom is jeweler engraved, "All Saints / Dayton /...

Silver handled mirror, brush, and comb belonging to Emma Johnson of Dayton Nevada. Her initials are engraved on each. Also included is a clothes brush

Suede leather bound, tied on end, 4" x 8". Inside the front is written: "All the pictures in this album were taken prior to 1910, Eth...

Two writing slates, hooked together, wood frames, edged in felt, 7" x 9". These were used in Dayton, Nevada. A writing slate is a thin pie...

Lot 19. Hotel Mayer, Stockmen's, Commercial (Monte Carlo, large bears), RanchInn, Jay's Cottages, Holiday Motel. Elko Motel. Inside scenes, ...

Eight post cards. Includes color post cards of Catus Pete's gaming tables in Jackpot, roulette, One Armed Bandits at Stockmen's, poker deck,...

1) Postcard of hunters at Liberty and Castle Lakes in Elko County. 2) Pack team stopped at a lake in the Ruby Mountains. 3) Lamoille Creek. 4) Large f

Four post cards: two different radio ID cards: W7VIU. Two animal post cards: bob-cat and mountain goats. One Henderson Banking Company reply card. Elk

Lot of 4. 1) Nevada ranch near Elko RPC. 2-3) Cattle post cards. One summer and one winter. These are RPC's. 4) Two cowboys out on the ranch pho...

Many RPC's. Several views from different eras of Idaho Street. Includes large tree lined street with bicycles. Fifth Street. JC Penny Building w...

Nevada includes: Potts (from the Potts family) Goldfield, Carlin, Fernley, Elko Christmas cards, Lee, Reno University Station, Montello, Sparks, Eurek

11 post cards. Includes a rare proof ? A used post card seems to be the actual post card that came from the proof. Also, street scenes, railroad yards

Lot of 11 includes: teepees, WPRR signal, Shoshone Indians, teepees, highway to Elko, Tunnel Number 1 with Train number 1 near Ryndon, SP depot in Elk

Lot of 35. All are mounted on paper and many are described. Includes general Nevada scenery, Elko, Jarbidge, advertising, cattle, Egg Rock, Jackpot, W

Eleven interesting postcards. 1) Magnificent Metropolis color post card. c1920's. See photo. 2) Two Montello postcards. One is a 1910 (Ogden can...

Emigrant Pass Museum RPC, two newer black and white RPC's, and three color post cards. Nice presentation. (Rhodes Collection) State: Nevada ...

Includes a nice St. James Episcopal Church, Old Fire Station, 3 Court Houses, Eureka Theatre, Described and mounted. (Rhodes Collection) State: Ne

9 post cards from Eureka, Nevada. All neatly presented with descriptions. Includes 5 later RPC's. One page shows Eureka form the East and West. ...

Four described and present RPC's. 1) View of Eureka from western hills, 2) view from eastern hills, Eureka Sentinel, and 4) Old Fire Station. (R...

Six mounted post cards of Eureka: two bird's eyes, three street scenes, and one view coming into town. (Rhodes Collection) State: Nevada ...

Both are cancelled in 1912. One winter and one summer view taken from the eastern hills looking northwest toward Spring Street and Buel Street. Mounte

Lot of 12. 1) Palisade post card used in 1908. 2) Divided back color post card of Palisade. 3-4) Two oversized color post cards of Fish Ranch and Russ

1) This paper was issued at the height of the Comstock. Includes the combined V&T and CP time tables. Also legislative news (a Gold Hill fireman...

One RPC of Eagles Drum corps, June, 2-1911, Goldfield Nevada. The other, hand colored image of "a bonanza Lease on the Mohawk, goldfield, Nevad...

Fold out of naked ladies with a proverb about each one. 17 nude drawings. "Forbidden Fruit is Sweet." "Women Loved to be Squeezed.&qu...

A Long Dust on the Desert by Edward M. Hanks; Ghosts of Humboldt Region by Dave Basso; The Humboldt by Dale Lowell Morgan; Last Rig to Battle Mountain

An early panorama of Lone Mountain in Southern Nevada before the development of Las Vegas. Has original cover and is in excellent condition. Perfect

Aluminum Hunting and fishing License, 138, State of Nevada, Expires Feb. 28, 1917, issued in Lyon County. From the Phillips Family, Dayton. State:

Measures 10 inches long, 5 inches wide, and 5 inches tall. Presentation piece to C. W. Torrance, Grandmaster of Steptoe lodge, June 3, 1938, McGill. T

1) c1910 colorized postcard of the Nelson Mill. 2) c1940 postcard RPC of main street. 3) c1950 postcard RPC of main street. Postcards are mounted on p

Lot of 4. 1) Souvenir Views of Rawhide: Ned Johnson's photographs. Great photographs: city, mines, people, buildings etc. First tent, first hote...

Large collection of Reno postcards that contains hundreds of postcards from Reno and surrounding areas. Includes RPC's, color postcards, later ...

1) First high school in Reno--Reno High School with class of 1905 (reprint). Framed, 22.5" x 18.5". 2) Original Reno Arch, 1936. Matted 13...

Description of Bower's Mansion given by Fannie G. Hazlett in 1917. She gives a history of Sandy Bowers and the fancy party he gave in the 1860&#...

Original check from Joe Conforte's Mustang Ranch to Margrette Whitaker who was most likely one of the girls who worked for him. The amount is fo...

Four issues from this newspaper where the famous Sutro Tunnel was located. Includes articles on 1) Placer excitement in Bodie, 2) Ruby Hill stage robb

Catalog of Mexican Pamphlets In The Sutro Collection 1623-1887 With Supplements 1605-1887 from the California State Library. Sutro Branch, San Francis

Approximately 30 different varieties of checks from The Bullfrog Bank and Trust Co. in Beatty Nevada and assorted banks in Tonopah. 5 Varieties are fo

1.5 x 3.5". Embossed. Brass. We have never seen one of these before. State: Nevada City: Tonopah Date: c1910? FHWAC#: 42657

Very early #11. $1000 Gold Bond Issued to bearer in 1878. Signed by Oliver Eldridge, President, and W. C. Gibbs, Secretary. Vignette of a dry dock loc

Mineral and agricultural resources of the Silver Land. Includes Lake Tahoe and the High Sierras. Excellent condition! One corner torn. Paper. Printed

Words by G. H. Devany, music by H. Laycock. Published by Shapiro Music, New York. 3 pages. Cover has photo of Gretchen Hartmann in center, surrounded

Excellent condition, first edition book by the editor of the Territorial Enterprise. Original blue cloth decoratively stamped in gold, lettered in gil

Noe & Lee Studio was located at 82 South C Street c1878-1880. Also a picnic in the woods. The gentleman at the end is brandishing a long gun jus...

Leclerc opera glasses. Very nice engraved gold and wood in small leather case with puff cleaner and mirror. Used at Piper's Opera House, from th...

Wood & canvas trunk inscribed on the side for W.E. Owens, Virginia City, Nev. Masonic imagery (shield and sword). MC Pettibone Manufacturing Co ...

The Appendix to Journals of Senate and Assembly of the 28th Session of the Legislature of the State of Nevada, 1917 identifies the Crosby Company as a

Three 1875 issues. Eight 1889 issues. News of the Emma Mine, widening cross streets, etc. Plenty of other news and lots of ads. All from the (arguably

Lot of 4 reproduction photographs of Comstock saloon interiors done by Hardy Photographs (Carson City, Nevada). All are 8 x 10" printed on glos...

Lot of 4. 1) Key tag for E.C. Hubbard, Lodge No. 1, Virginia City, Nevada. 2 x 4.5 cm. 2) Two unused tags from Keller & Batchelder, Dealers in G...

Fabulous metal handbag for a very fancy woman to carry to very fancy occasions. Approx. 2" x 3" No markings on purse itself. Original box ...

Rare. Coin silver fork with a "medallion" pattern (by Schultz & Fischer, San Francisco). Reverse is etched "Coin" and "...