Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

Steamer Lucknow. Master Plumer. Nice vignette of a steamer. A. R. Guy, stationary, 130 State Street. Signed for William(?) Davis & Co. City:

Steamer Rambler. Delivering 213 bags of Corn. Signed by E J Weeks for Sanderson(?). Printed by Towne & Bacon, printers, 503 Clay Street. City:

From the Nicaragua Steam Ship Company. C. K. Garrison agent. Garrison and William Ralston became acquainted on the Mississippi River and when Ralsto

Nice vignette of schooner Arrived on the P M Randall with wheat. Signed by Amos Hewitt. City: San Francisco State: California, Date

Another California Steam Navigation Company steamboat. Delivering four from the Standard Mill. The Helen Hensley was built in 1853 in Stockton by Samu

Gold Rush schooner left Boston on February 2, 1853. Master of the ship was a man named Winsor. Carrying 100 barrels of Codoris family flour. Vignette

1) Gilden & Williams Line located on the Lewis Wharf. For eggs shipped on the War Hawk to Marshall Pierce & Company. Shipped from Boston on ...

To Snow & Rey for $127. Signed by agent E. Chapman. Printed by Nesbitt & Co, Wall Street. Blue paper. Endorsed on reverse. Spindle hole at c...

Lot five. 1) Stockton, 1869, Steamer Harriet. Haas & Crow steamship company. $212.13 for freight and passengers. From Henry Miller,of Miller and...

From Henry Pierce. Signed by H Hulbert. February 13, 1860. H. P. Hulbert is listed as living in the 1860 census in San Francisco and his occupation wa

From $60 from Alva Park to $500 from Gilricht(?) and Charles St. Clair. Adams & Company was incorporated on May 1, 1854. These deposits were mad...

Lot of two. One still adhered to paper. 1x1". These tokens were used as money in California during the Gold Rush as pocket change was almost no...

Block of four on glazed cardboard. 25c. These tokens were used as money in California during the Gold Rush as pocket change was almost non-existent. P

Lot of two. 1) 1860 check signed by Morris A Cohen for $36.00 on Fretz & Ralston check. Small round vignette of lady luck on the left side. 2) I...

Document datelined San Francisco July 31st, 1850. "Judge Richardson/ Please put the within enclosed papers on record...yours, Wm. L. Lewis.&quo...

Lot Withdrawn

Number 185 issued on August 4, 1855 for $600 to Mssr A. P. Bessey & Co. Signed by Pierce & Co. (Pierce was a receiving company so this was m...

RARE Gold Rush San Francisco Banking House. Check Number 22 issued to John Laraby for $34. Signed by Gregory Yale. Black and blue with fancy lettering

Sixty kegs of cranberries and 400 hundred barrels of flour bound for San Francisco from Boston on the good ship Telegraph with captain K. Harlow. To M

Importers and Wholesale Dealers in Paints, oils, glue, artist materials, etc. To H. W. C. (Henry Corbett of Portland, Oregon Territory). Nice Gold Rus

Number 165 for 1 share to Mary Parkes. Signed by E. White and J. Rowets(?). RARE and VERY FINE certificate from the Pacific Land Company issued in 186

Pre-49er! Bill of Lading for Macondray & Co. Shipment of gold dust valued at $10,000 on the steamer Oregon, commanded by Patterson going from Sa...

Rare. Date Aug 15, 1854. Pay $500 to Mrs. A. N. Butterfield at sight. Three vignettes: building with carriages outside (left), steamer paddleship (top

Territory of California. Authorized by the town council and carried out by John W. Geary. Fifty vara lot for Henry M. Lewis on the northern side of Ty

Another Territory of California document! 1849. This is a very rare document announcing the sale at auction of a lot in San Francisco. The document, e

1) Pacific Warehouse on December 2, 1861. Cox, Francis & Co. Warehouse & Commission Merchants. Flour from the Lambard Mills to William Pierc...

A blue bill head of Washburn & Co., Merchants Exchange Building, Numbers 54 and 56 Front Street. Listed as Auction and Commission Merchants. Cro...

Account of shipping balance due. A single page account sheet of money owed hand-written for Captain R. Greenlee. Shows first payment on sale of boat,

Inc. in Oct. 1852. No. 190. One share. Dated March 4, 1853 and signed by Byrne (president) and Gunn (secretary), but not issued. Three vignettes: padd

Grain and barley has arrived on the Henry Pru. Jackson & McComb are the proprietors. Schooners were constantly in Suisun Slough headed for San F...

To his brother Baker. November 1, 1854. James Sebastian Meredith arrived in Folsom in 1849 with his two brothers Baker and Hector. There was a J. S.

Number 47 fro $500.00 to Arthur S. Barber. Signed by Charles Lindley and Henry (?). This is an early California bond that was issued in 1852. That was

Lithograph of "Early California Mining" by R. S. Dogge showing three miners: panning, using a sluice box and an arrasta; a letter, and mor...

Hand-sketched & colored diagram of a mine's cross-section, complete with drain tunnels, shafts, engine rooms, hoists, pump stations and cart...

Lot of 6. 1) Phoenix Iron Works billhead. San Francisco, April 19th, 1856. Jon. A. Kittredge, Fire-Proof Doors, Shutters, Vaults, Etc. One dozen rivet

Lot of 21 items! 1) Golden Channel Mining Company stock certificate. The November 4, 1858 Sacramento Daily Union ran this article, "The Golden ...

1) Cover addressed to Knapp in Hawthorne, Nevada. Blue oval Wells Fargo stamp for Columbia. Green 3 cent printed postage. 2) Cover addressed to San Fr

Hand colored sketch and hand colored lithograph of the Panama railway at Colubra or Summit Station by F. N. (Fessenden Nott) Otis (1825-1900). Two ima

Internal envelope, so no stamp or cancel was needed. Handwritten note on left says, (?) W. Box Nevada. City: Downieville State: Califor

First one seen by us! Junction City was a Gold Rush mining camp located on the Trinity River. Wells, Fargo & Co's Express. Commission to be ...

Chinese used cover addressed to San Francisco from La Grange, home to one of the most famous Hydraulic mines in California. City: La Grange

Letter datelined Los Angeles, Jan. 20, 1876. Addressed to J.C. Meussdorffer & Bro. in San Francisco. D. Desmond is ordering RR silk caps. 7.75&q...

These letter sized handbills are about the merger of the Nevada National Bank of San Francisco and the Wells Fargo & Co. Bank of San Francisco. ...

Checks and receipts from Wells Fargo dated from 1873-1903, one with embedded revenue stamp and a receipt with adhesive revenue stamp City: San

Unused advertising cover with vignettes of the Wells Fargo Express Office and Bank in San Francisco. Green text and vignette. Few creases. Overall ver

Four Wells Fargo franked covers from Cordelia, Red Bluff, San Francisco and New York all sent to San Francisco. City: San Francisco State:

10 total. Six Wells Fargo covers from San Francisco plus four different Wells Fargo covers outside of San Francisco. Covers to San Jose (1864), Indian

First of Exchange, stamped "In Currency", also a red round stamp, Nov. 8, 1869. Two adhesive revenue stamps. Check made out to Arthur Devl...

Two SLOW Way Bills (both 1864) for freight on cases from New York. Each measures 3.25" x 7.5." Also two other way bills (1863 and 1864) th...

Very rare Wells Fargo label. Vignette of locomotive. Measures 3.25" x 4.5." Very good condition. From the G.M. Hackett Collection. City:...