Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

Photographer is A.R. Moore, studio in Millwood, California (now a ghost town in Fresno County). Mautz does not have this address listed for Moore. Moo

Lot of 27. Includes: Enterprise Lumber and Development Co., Newark Lumber Co, Noyo Shingle Co. (1898), Noyo Grape Packing Co., Hotchkiss Redwood Co.,

Two mounted photographs ready to frame. Photographer is not identified, though writing on the back of each says "Bought from W.O. Shipley by Su...

Four pieces. The Mendocino Lumber Company, Blue Lake Logging Company, Thomas & McCrea Redwood Lumber, Pacific Coast Redwood Company City: Redw

Photographer is A.W. Ericson. According to Mautz, Ericson (1844-1927) moved to Trinidad in 1869 and worked in the lumbering business till 1876. He sta

Lot of two. 1) Mounted photograph showing lumber camp with locomotive parked next to stacks of wood. Many small cabins on the hillside above the track

Lot of 50+ items. Includes: six unused pictorial Certificates of Deposit from the Banking House of P.A. Lamping & Co. (Downieville); an 1867 che...

Lot of 50. Includes: Sonora (29 checks 1907-1908), Angels Camp (10 unused Bank of America checks), Jamestown (two 1899 checks w/ adhesive revenue stam

Huge lot of 350 checks, most from the 1920s. Checks from branches in Los Angeles, San Diego, Fresno, San Francisco, Livermore, and Vallejo. Some have

Over 150 post cards. Many are European. Includes (among hundreds of others) Paso Robles Hot Springs, Hotel Raymond in Pasadena. Casutin Ostrich Farm,

Lot of 27. Billheads: two 1899 from California Powder Works (SF) for fuses and caps; Tremont Hotel to Oregon Stage Co. (Red Bluff) 1867 w/ adhesive re

Lot of 40 items, most from Southern California. Includes: 20 ribbons, most for Native Sons of the Golden West (Athens Lodge) events in the Bay Area (1

14 folded maps by various oil companies: Chevron, Shell, Flying A, Richfield, Standard, Conoco, etc. City: State: California, Date:

Lot of 5. 1) Three copies of a 1914 Map of El Dorado National Forest and Directions to Tourists and Campers. Mt. Diablo Meridian. Lists the resorts ar

1923, folded, with Resources, Attractions, Topography and Climate; 1926, folded and 1928, folded (vellum maps, both in perfect condition); 1930, folde

19 tourist maps of various California attractions: Shasta/redwood Highway, Greyhound Bus Travel, Pacific Highway, San Francisco, Redwood Empire, south

Lot of 7. 1) State Poll Tax Receipt, San Jose, 1891. 2) Two different State Poll Taxes for Napa County, 1905 and 1906. 3) Two Road Poll Tax Receipts f

Inc. in California, October 4, 1930. Unissued certificate # 24 for Empire Motors Corporation, Ltd. Ornate border with eagle vignette. Gorgeous conditi

Over fifty stocks of various parts and component suppliers to the auto industry. (Prag collection) City: State: United States, Date

Blueprint of the gold mill for the Confidence Gold Mine of Tuolumne, 1917; receipts from Jamestown businesses, early 1920s, lithograph view of Culloma