Western Frontiers Auction (October 2022)

1895 Arkansas pay voucher for guarding a prisoner for 99 miles. Occupation listed as posey(posse). 3.5x8", 5 staple holes, bottom creases. Dat...

2 rare issues of The Teas Bee. Feb. 12, 1913 and Feb. 1914. Published monthly by the citizens and pupils of The Colfax School for Tuberculous. 1913 ha

When the Donner Party Museum was being established, they sold Donner Party relics to raise funds, and that sale is the source of these relics. Includ

30 vintage Grass Valley 2 sided advertising blotters. Some have paper chips and pencil writing. 17.75x11.25". Date: Country (if not USA): ...

1892 ledger from the Holbrooke Hotel in Grass Valley, California. Ledger pages list the name, and residence of the guests. Many ink blotters are inclu

Three photographs from the 1935 movie, A Tale of Two Cities, based on the Charles Dickens novel. The film starred Ronald Coleman and Elizabeth Allan.

Six mounted photographs from the movie, "The Private Life of Helen of Troy." This 1927 film was based on the book of the same name written...

10 photographs of early Hollywood actors and actresses including Lupe Velez, Olivia de Havilland, Maurice Chevallier, Jeannette McDonald, John Barrymo

Rare script for The Black Vamp: A Blackface Act by Arthur Leroy Kaser. Published by T.S. Denison & Company. Blackface minstrelsy was an early fo...

This is not a promotional script that the actors signed with the lobby photo for hand out. Originally titled "3000" by Jonathan Lawton a...

Certified Billie Burke(Wizard of Oz good witch} clipped autograph, 1.5x4". 8x10" photos-Signed Junette Davis, Tom Mix, Masked Cowboy, Buck...

Signed check from "The King of Hollywood" actor Clark Gable. Check is mounted in a 30"x 20" presentation frame, along with a 10&...

JACKIE Coogan candy container jar 1925. Westmoreland Specialty Co. Child star as portrayed in Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid", this clear ...

Four photographs for Marion Davies in the 1924 film, Janice Merideth. This was a silent film about a romance set during the American Revolution. All p

9 small movie and entertainment posters. The Long Ships, Behind a Pale Horse, tom thumb. Sierra Shakespeare, 8 on the Lam, The Complete History of Ame

Framed cowboy litho movie poster, Sundown in Santa Fe. Creases and dead center crease damage. Overall presents well. Frame 44.5x29.5". Date: ...

Lot of five movie posters for Westerns including The Professionals starring Burt Lancaster (French poster, 1966), Lonely are the Brave starring Kirk D

A collection of various Disney-themed items, including eleven (11) strips of film to be used with The Disney-Land Projector (not included), a Mickey...

Pinocchio figure 15"x 13". Material unknown. This is not a Disney authorized piece, but close. It's beautiful and still holds its bril...

This is a vintage cast iron coin bank in the image of the little wooden boy Pinocchio. This is the Disney version, as indicated by his clothes and hat

Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony Cartoons 8mm film reel in original box. This reel is for a Mickey Mouse short called "Mickey&...

An interesting array of covers and letters addressed to Ruth Disney (Beecher) Walt Disney's sister and to Elias Disney, Walt and Ruth's fath...

Lake Hume, CA & the Hume-Bennett Lumber Co.: 1) Rare photograph of the Hume-Bennett Lumber Mill at Lake Hume, located in the Sequoia National Fo...

Extremely rare. "By Tahoe Shores." Published by Southern Pacific and the Lake Tahoe Railway & Transportation Company. No date, but it ...

Tahoe Gal Vintage Parking Sign. Large Vintage White, North Tahoe Cruise/Tahoe Gal/Parking sign. 48.5x72". Some paint flaking off. The Tahoe G...

Two guidebooks from Los Angeles. A) Los Angeles, California, The City and County, Exposition Number. Written by Harry Ellington Brook. Twenty-Seventh

Addressed to A. Wiederchein for fixing gate and putting on a lock, putting iron on cell, drilling holes, riveting and fixing cell door and hinges. Tot

Two ledger that were repurposed as museum guest books. These ledgers originally belonged to the National Hotel & Annex in Nevada City, Californi...

Fancy historical binding from National Exchange in Nevada City. c. 1895 as per spine label. Has 1 page of guest list. 18x11". Date: Country ...

1876 invoice book of Rosenberg Bros. in Nevada City. Blue paper with several invoices/billheads in back. Customer include Mrs. Bean, Negro Bob on page

January to July 1884(first few pages missing) guest register from Union Hotel in Nevada City. Some guests include: Judge Searls Nevada City, Judge Di

Nice assortment of Nevada County ephemera. Mt. St. Mary's Academy 1966 booklet, about 10 Trip Teaser-travel booklets. Nuggets of Nevada County H...

Lot of 12 photographs of the Nevada City and Grass Valley area. Includes two mounted photographs of the Nevada County Courthouse and another building,

1858 Nevada County legal document related to the settlement of the estate of J.A. Nicholson. Robert Morrow is named as one of the administrators of th

Map showing Water System of the Water and Power Company of California, Nevada County by W.W. Waggoner, Chief Engineer, 1908. This slightly faded map s

Ledger of Peabody and Hall from Brush Creek, Nevada County, California. Contains a list of names of people or other businesses that paid or received m

August 13, 1896 4pp letter signed by John Bidwell, dateline "Camp in Sierra Nevada Mts-Plumas Co". To Dr. Stephen Bowers, Los Angeles, Cal...

Softcover Birdman of Alcatraz by Gaddis. Numerous Alcatraz photocopies of official procedures, maps, history, rules and regs and about 40 quality 8x10

The Complete History the S.F. Disaster & the Mount Vesuvius Horror, Death & Ruin, Eruption, Earthquake & Fire, by Charles E. Banks, 1906...

A dramatic original photo of the damage caused by the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The Fulton House stands to the right while the

Vol. 1 No. 1 , May 1906 edition of The New San Francisco Magazine with the story of the Great Conflagration. Photos of earthquake damage and more. Fro

Chadwick Official Map of the City and County of San Francisco Containing New Street Index and Street Car Directory. Prepared by the Board of Public Wo

Views of San Francisco, Yosemite Valley and the Pacific Coast, published by Davis Bros. Toklas & Co., S.F., C-1895 Attractive blue/w gold guilt ...

Palace Hotel ~ Recognized as the largest and most magnificent structure ever dedicated to the needs of the traveling public ~ Unexcelled in appointmen

Seeing San Francisco, Aboard the Sight-Seeing Car, publ. by M. Kollmann, 1905 ~ Historical photos (24) & Ads (34) ~ (9 Ω"x 6 Ω&qu...

San Francisco Bay, by Harold Gilliam, publ. by Doubleday & Co., N.Y. 1957 ~ A factual and fascinating account of the history, life & lore of...

San Francisco's Golden Era, a Picture Story of S.F. before the Fire by Lucius Beebe & Charles Clegg, published by Howell- North, Berkeley, 1...

San Francisco, the City Loved Around the World ~ publ. by Cardinell-Vincent Co., S.F., C-1920 ~ Attractive embossed and guilted cover, containing 21

Classified Directory of the Patrons of the Atlas comprising the Principal Business Firms and Professional Men of the City of San Francisco. Two loose

City & County of San Francisco, by H. A. Candrian, 1932 Two color map, 27 Ω"W x 22 Ω"H ~ Backside is 17" x 13"map ...