Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

1) 1853 blue text and vignettes (allegorical). 2) 1855 black text and vignettes (allegorical and horses). Delicate paper with creases, punch holes and

Four unissued pictorial scrip of different denominations for the Manhattan Silver Mining Company. $1 (black), $5 (green), $10 (blue), and $20 (brown).

Seven different denominations of this colored scrip: $1, $3, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100. All different colors. All RN-D1. Mining vignette. Unissued. Exce

1) Carson City Savings Bank stock certificate. No. 56, issued for 5 shares on Feb. 7, 1883 to E.M. Hunt. Signed by Hunt as cashier and the president.

This box is full of many different types of documents that span the history of the Bullion & Exchange Bank (and later, the State Bank & Trus...

Lot of 41. Most pictorial. Nevada banking documents made during the Comstock. Includes: thirty illustrated deposit slips with eagle and coin vignettes

Code (cypher) booklet for the Bullion and Exchange Bank for the account of R. M. Clarke. Code words from letter A's through letter D's for o...

Six typed letters on Department of Interior, United States Indian Service letterhead, each addressed to the State Bank and Trust Co. in Carson City, N

This is the first one of these we have ever seen! It is also only one of two Nevada advertising scrip that we know of; the other known ad. note is fro

Lot of 10 canvas and paper bags from the First National Bank of Ely. Also a postal cover from 1919. City: Ely State: Nevada, Date:

Another Nevada bank condition report (see other lots). "As Required by the Comptroller of the Currency at the Close of Business, June 29th, 192...

This fabulous piece of scrip (possibly the best known) represents one of the most important (if not the most important) strike by the members of the I

Perhaps the second best known piece of IWW strike scrip. See previous lot for description. City: Goldfield State: Nevada, Date:

Inc. in NV just six months before. No. 129, issued for 30 shares to C.L. Ronnon in Las Vegas on Sept. 16, 1905. Signed by Ronnon as cashier and John S

Rare. Framed and matted. Inc. in Nevada. No. 10. Issued for 18 shares to M.H. Walker on June 10, 1905. Signed by Chris Brown (president) and John S. P

No. 49. Issued for five shares to J.G. Taylor on Apr. 21, 1910 in Lovelock. Signed by the president and cashier. President's signature is very p...

This bank lasted only 6 months! Official 1909 copy of the articles of incorporation for the bank that were originally filed on Jan. 19, 1906. Five pag

Two real photo postcards of the Reno branch at Second and Virginia, a canvas bank bag, four boxes of box matches, a brand new Zippo lighter still in t

Lot of 7 canvas bags from the First National Bank of Nevada, 6 x 10" green. City: Reno State: Nevada, Date: FHWAC#:

Scarce $1 denomination! Rhyolite, Nevada, November 30th, 1907. No. D 2921. Signed by three cashiers. Brown/orange. 3.5" x 7.25" Lith. by B...