Western Americana Signature Sale (May 2021 Auction)

Adobe brick marked FORT CHURCHILL 1860, approx 9-1/2 x 4-1/2 x 3 inches. In June of 2019, the Explore Your Nevada initiative completed work to arrest

A box of 98 blue gambling chips with HM on the obverse (not WH) and 25 on the reverse. Attributed to the Ritchford Casino Hotel in Gardnerville, Nevad

Mounted 7 x 9". Taken from high up a mountain. Although the details are small, they are very sharp! Glenbrook was a major wood facility for the...

Lot of seventeen. 1) Nine post cards. One used. Consolidated Mill. Cancelled Goldfield. Sent to Rawhide, Nevada. Two brown general views of mines, bus

Dated December 25, 1906, Photos by P.E. Larson, Palm Studio. Not Listed in Paher's Nevada, An Annotated Bibliography, 1980. Goldfield Daily Tri...

Lot of three gaming chips from Lake Tahoe casinos: 1) Nevada Club Crystal Bay $500, reddish orange with blue, yellow and black, R4. 2) New Cal Neva Lo

Lot of two: yellow $25 & red $100, Tahoe Biltmore Casino. The Tahoe Biltmore opened in1948, closed in 1957 and reopened in 1986 in Crystal Bay,...

"Las Vegas, City of Sin", by Dick Taylor and Pat Howell. Dustcover intact, a little frayed on edges. This 123-page book tells through text...

Rare gaming chip from Moulin Rouge Las Vegas. Black with ivory trim. R-8. No drill hole. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Nevada City: Las

Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

This lot includes a cased box of un-opened playing cards from the Dunes Hotel Casino closed in 1993. A tourism booklet on the Boulder dam dated 1935,

Lot of eleven gaming chips from Nevada casinos: Long Branch Saloon North Las Vegas ($1 & $5); Fitzgerald's ($1, $5, $25 & "GG"...

Binder of 150 vintage poker chips, only three are dedicated: Odwyer's, New Orleans; Palais de la Mediterranee, Nice, France; Doug's Montana ...

"Where it is and what it contains, close to California, made up of rich valleys and mineral-laden hills" Stamped "distributed by Neva...

An unusual find. This is the cross piece to a telegraph pole from near the ghost town of Newark, Nevada. The piece measures three feet in length and 3

Osceola in White Pine County came to life in 1872. But from 1880 to 1900 it was the placer mining that made the camp. That helps to identify this loca

A vintage 1956 calendar advertising Harold's Club casino in Reno, Nevada. Piece measures 17"x 11" and has all the months intact. Ther...

Plated steel coin bank, approx. 3 x 3.5 x 1 inches, hinged at the top, with slots for dimes, nickels, and quarters. Brass label at the bottom has / 6%

A variety of items, mostly from the Reno area. Included are a city business directory from 1958, a first day issue of a postal cover celebrating Calif

This is a fire bell from 1876 that is inscribed "Silver City, Nevada 1876 LIBERTY Fire Dept. No.1." Bell measures about 7"x 10" ...

Identified on reverse. Extremely nice! Four buggies in front of a white picket fence with ranch in background. (W. D. Miles Collection) Date: c1895

Group of five. 1-2) Teamster’s check from A. J. Spencer. One for 3 packages weighing 160 pounds and on for 11 packages weighing 525 pounds. T

Colorful map of State of Nevada with crisscrossed pick & shovel and steer & sheep circled – Calendar has complete months and is in gre...

This lot is a calendar from the Virginia City Bank dated 1927. All tear-away months appear to be intact and present. The map of the state shows all ma

6 Blank Pages, plus book full of written and blank stubs. Taped binding, front cover torn in half. Handwritten recording of payments for daily busine

A Lawrence & Houseworth stereo view of Virginia City, Nevada of the Mariposa Mill from the top of Cedar Hill in Virginia City, Nevada. This ph...

Collection of several key billheads and one stereoview. 1) The stereoview is by Continent Stereoscope Co. of New York, entitles "05 C Street, ...

The first Psychodelic rock poster, created in 1965 by George Hunter and Mike Ferguson for the opening of the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada.

Over 50 posters and other notices, most related to events in Virginia City, as well as just plain posters. Included are events and concerts being hel

Official Grand Labor Day Celebration. Approx. 38 pgs Great ads. Buy a Waltham watch for $10. Buy a Reo motor car in Reno for $1300. FOB to any p

These are five fragments of smoking pipes - four ceramic bowls and one reed pipe - found in the vicinity of Washoe Lake, Nevada, in the 1930s. See pho

Handshake vignette on top, two American flags, United Ancient Order of Druids pin, Glalilto Galilei, Grove No., UAOD, Yerington Nevada. Reverse in bla

WOW! What a resource for that narrow window in Nevada history where the Goldfield and Tonopah area were the center of all activity. By the 1910 census

10h diameter. Made by the Scioto Sign Company of Kenton, Ohio. Scioto Sign Company, founded in 1897, is located in North-Central Ohio approxi

"Complete Indexed Map of California and Nevada," copyrighted 1902 by C.F. Weber & Co., with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. ...

These guides were made from 1906 to 1931. They contain information on the state "Probably more misconceptions exist about Nevada than any state...

This map drawn and engraved by W. H. Gamble Philadelphia. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867 by S. Augustus Mithcell Jr. ....

Lot of 14. 1) Five, J.E. St. Cry Jitney Service Fallon, Nev business cards. Stand in front of the Morris & Loring Drug Store. Back is blank. In ...

A group of 17 maps that chart the areas of desert in eastern California and Nevada. Sixteen of the maps measure 21"x 16" and one, showing...

This map is not dated but thought to be printed in 1862. Nevada is shown with about five counties including Lake County shared with California, establ

A bound collection of early highway maps of Nevada, separated by county. This 18"x 18" collection is very rare and gives a nice insight in...

The first map of Nevada is published without date but lists Carson as the state capital. Washoe County is a small likeness of itself with Roop County

1) Trail of Memories, Lincoln Highway booklet. 5 x 9.5”. Three page foldout map. 32 pages of valuable information. Papish Ranch, water, summi

Includes the Classic Nevada coffee table book by first national bank 1976; Brushwork Diary Broadhead; Basque Hotel by Lacksalt; Tales of Nevada in 2 v

1) Nevada Magazine Special Ed. “125 Years of Travel & Recreation”, 1990 – 2) Nevada Stories in Pictures, N.D. 3) Western Ne

Reno and Minden calendars, both about 16 x 9.5", unused, c1950. Classic Nevada collectibles. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Neva...

1912 First edition This is a can’t do without resource for Nevada historians and researchers. Two Volume set! Had some water damage and was r

An excellent and very rare first edition History of Nevada by Sam P. Davis in two volumes. Near-fine set in original brown leather boards (showing v

Thompson and West’s History of Nevada 1881. Author: Myron Angel. Format/Binding, Brick cloth. Used - Near fine, no dust jacket. Reprint of th

1) Roughing it. First edition, second printing. Spine issues. Binding very loose, but pages are still attached. 2) Finn. 1885 edition. Poor conditio