Western Frontiers Auction (October 2022)

Rare doctors black pill container bag. Full of glass containers for pills with cork tops. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance

Collection of medicine bottles, jars, assorted drug store items, and medical tools. Examples include a bottle of liver salt, an inkwell from Tombstone

Collection of antique medical equipment. Includes a galvanic body belt, a bleeding pan, a book of Berbecker's non-corrosive surgeons' needle...

Group of antique medical equipment. Includes three boxes of bandages, two bars of soap (one in original packaging) two medical vial cases with glass v

4 19th century medical kits in wood cases. Surgeon's amputation set with bone saw, tourniquet and assorted instruments, 16x19". Eye surgery...

Early 20th century Rheotome medical device, used for electrical stimulation, likely quackery. Wood case 4.5x8.75x5.25". Date: Country (if no...

Ear trumpet that would have been used by a deaf or hard of hearing person as an early hearing aid. Ear trumpets were used as hearing aids into the ear

Unusual wooden press from the 19th century. No manufacturer markings are visible, possibly handmade by an individual. Wooden pressing plate with metal

Pair of rare, antique whisk brooms, c. 1880-1900. Whisk brooms were mostly used for dusting furniture or clothing. Each of these brooms is approx. 3.5

1 sided Bucking Bronco Roundup Coal metal sign. Bucking bronco center logo. 13.5x19.5". Colors faded, some rust and corner dogears. Date: Co...

Curved rectangular aluminum De Laval Cream Separators and Milkers sign. 5x27". Some signs of use. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Cit...

A) Cardboard advertisement for Dr. Lynas' Hair Grower and Toilet Cream. Orange letters on a black background. 13.5 x 10 inches. B) Cardboard ad...

Three slave items including an ankle shackle and branding iron. It is unknown if these are originals or reproductions. The other item is a Manilla or

This lot contains five (5) different styles of handcuffs or personal restraint devices. There is the Argus "Iron Claw" type 4 made in Chic...

Police hand lantern with trace of original green paint. Double crown top and 2 handles. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

Set of two 18k gold plated pens by Pierre Cardin with original box. Cardin was an Italian-French fashion designer known for his avant-garde style. The

This is a vintage pocket knife with pencil on a chain. Engraved "FRL". The chain is a twisted rope design, a button hole t-bar and two gol...

Name tag with clasp for J. Earl Cavanaugh Dean, Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral. It is likely all of these items belonged to him. Cross patch with pi

12 cruise ship menus, mostly Sitmar Cruises, c. 1950's to 80's. 3 are South Pacific covers with blank menu pages. SS Mariposa information ki...

1) Railroad Terminal Map of Chicago - 1895 - with inset of downtown & index to railroads and depots - (27 1/2" x 21 1/2"); 2) Michigan...

This lot contains frontier shirts that cover the colonial period, fur trade period, frontier old western periods. There are two pair of buckskin pants

3 framed "Gun Show" fantasy vests as would be used in the 1960's-70's. We offer these as educational examples. Each is a fantasy, ...

17 Harpers Weekly wood cut prints, 7 other woodcut prints from other period papers. c. 1870's to 1880's. Date: Country (if not USA): ...

About a 7" stack of old newspapers, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Examiner, Morning Union, Yank, Stars and Stripes. Presidential headlines and ...

Two 8mm film reels in dustproof cans manufactured by Goldberg Bros. in Denver, Colorado. Both cans are contained in their original boxes. The content

Kodak Aero-Ektar, 178mm, F 2.5 lens, perhaps for a projector or enlarger. Marked Alpha Syncromatic. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City:

Miscellaneous Logging & Lumbering Publications (6): 1) "This Fascinating Lumber Business" by Stanley F. Horn Publ by The Bobbs-Merrill...

Early Newspaper Articles & Illustrations on Lumber: 1) The Youths Companion (cover), February 27, 1913 "A Vermont Logging Camp", (6 Il...

Original 11x14" print of lumbermen by c. Kinsey, St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

General Advertiser 1808, Philadelphia. 1971 LA quake in The Valley News and LA Times, 1974 LA Times on Watergate, Reno Gazette Journal Mapes implosion

Thin red quilt with paisley pattern. About 72x77". Edge wear and signs of use. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

4 machine made trade blankets, about 80x68". Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance: Cameron Charles Holloway Coll...

Vintage red paisley quilt. About 62x78". Some edge wear and small tears. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

1859 Palmer's Vegetate Lotion pamphlet 4pp. These products appear to predate the Palmer's emerald green bottles of the 1870"s. 11.5x8.5...

About 30 RN checks, Greene, NY. Boston, MA. Columbia, PA. New York. Helena and Butte, MT. Columbus, OH. Portland, OR. Silver City, NM. Prescott, AZ.

About 30 RN checks, c. 1873-1889. Greene, NY. Helena and Butte, MT. Townsend, MA. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:

About 35 checks with good eye appeal. Ardmore Coca Cola. New Brunswick, NJ. New York. Richmond, VA. Wataga, IL. Olney, OK. Dixmont, PA. Holbrook, AZ.

About 60 nice checks, not the usual stuff. Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Portland, Grass Valley and Shaniko, OR. El Reno, OK. Clarita

22 Western checks. Trinidad, Co. Silver City, ID. Bisbee, AZ. Blackfoot, ID. Helena, MT. Denver, CO. Shanika, OR. and more. c. 1867-1923. Date: Cou

Original wood stereoviewer and 3 views-cowboy on horse, boy and dog at a stream, Arizona ranchers. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: P

This lot has four photos carried by loved ones. Two daguerreotypes of an older woman, a well dresses man barley visible; and two tintype photos, one c

Lot of over 100 vintage 1880s trade cards with Victorian art work. Theatres, shoemakers, sewing machine companies, dry goods stores, furniture stores.

36 trade cards and advertising items-Oysters, Hire's Root Beer, Hair Pins, Arbuckle Coffee, Milwaukee Harvester, Sherman's Mocha and Java, B...

Lot of about 20 vintage trade cards for shoes, cotton, medicine, tea/coffee, shoe polish, butter, thread, sarsaparilla, tobacco, etc. Very artistic. V

True West, a magazine about the history of the American West. This lot is comprised of two large boxes containing about 175+ issues published between

Rare US Deputy Marshall receipt for capture of Frank McNeary in 1895, signed by deputy. 4x8.5". Date: Country (if not USA): State: City:...

11 US Product labels or flat packages, various sizes. Morning-Tap Cigar, Blue Bonnet tobacco, sardines, Dr. Bonker's Bitters-toning, 2x Governme...

Brown vintage black powder container with some white crust on bottom. Cork with leather tether. c. 1880's. 12.5x6". Date: Country (if no...

Vintage drinking gourd with cork as would be used as a canteen. c. 1900-20. Rope carry handle. 11x7". Date: Country (if not USA): State: ...

Detailed mechanical drawing of unknown device 15.5x28" with stain. EG Rideout watch brochure The Navigator or Mariners Guide 1905, Lloyd Hatha...

Collection of about 35 vintage magazines including National Geographic Magazine, Popular Mechanics Magazine, Mechanix Illustrated, Life, the Saturday