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,