Western Railroad Passes, Montana, Western Americana and Gold

Auction Details

Our Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2016 auction is a simultaneous live and internet event with 1,800 lots split over three days. Here is a general breakdown of the 3 days, all of which feature different collecting categories:

DAY ONE (Sept. 30th)

*The Ken Prag Western Pass Collection: Nearly 1,000 railroad, stagecoach, steamship and express passes incl. important autographs such as Jay Gould, Otto Mears, and Leland Stanford.

*Western Bottles: Following up on the great 49er Bottle Show in Sacramento, we have more rare, pristine, unusual, and special bottles in this auction.

DAY TWO (Oct. 1st)

*Western U.S. Placer Gold & Ingot Collection: From small nuggets to 1.8 troy ounce nuggets to gold specimens weighing over 7 troy ounces. Also, a William Sharon Presentation Dinner Ingot!

*Montana Tokens, Postal History, Ephemera, Books & Gaming Chips: A fabulous selection featuring more great items from the Svoboda Collection and others.

DAY THREE (Oct. 2nd)

*Our General Americana section featuring a wide variety of Western treasures: scales, a strong box, badges, ribbons, jewelry, watches, and a large collection of important and rare books (Nevada and California History, 1st Editions, Military, Native Americana, Biographies, Presidential, etc.).
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Lot Withdrawn3450 - Lot Withdrawn
Holabird Western Americana Collections
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Uranium Library3451 - Uranium Library
Holabird Western Americana Collections
9 Volumes on uranium mining and uranium related history. Includes, "Gathering Rare Ores" by Jonathan E. Helmreich, w/ dust jacket, "U...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to m********y for (100.00 + 21.00BP) = 121.00
 
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Mining Men Library3452 - Mining Men Library
Holabird Western Americana Collections
9 Volumes of books on mining men that includes, "A Mine of Her Own" by Sally Zanjani, w/ dust jacket, "Mining Engineers and The Ameri...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to m********y for (140.00 + 29.40BP) = 169.40
 
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Cornish Miners Library Archive3453 - Cornish Miners Library Archive
Holabird Western Americana Collections
4 Volumes on Cornish Mining including 2 copies of "The Cornish Miner in America" by Arthur Cecil Todd, "The Hard-Rock Men; Cornish Im...
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Estimate : 60.00 - 90.00
Sold to m********y for (90.00 + 18.90BP) = 108.90
 
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Gold and General Mining Library3454 - Gold and General Mining Library
Holabird Western Americana Collections
15 Volumes on Gold Mining and also mining in general. Examples include, "The Lost Goldmine of Juan Mondargon" Edited by Charles Briggs an...
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Estimate : 150.00 - 250.00
Sold to m********y for (150.00 + 31.50BP) = 181.50
 
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Mining Equipment Library3455 - Mining Equipment Library
Holabird Western Americana Collections
1) Black Powder and Hand Steel, Miners and machines of the Old Western Frontier by Otis e. Young Jr. 2) Supplying the Mining World: The Mining Equipme
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Estimate : 50.00 - 70.00
Sold to b******1 for (95.00 + 19.95BP) = 114.95
 
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Gold Rushes and Ghost Towns3456 - Gold Rushes and Ghost Towns
Holabird Western Americana Collections
12 volumes. 1) Chasing Gold for Fun and Profit. 2) The Downs, The Rockies and Desert Gold. 3) Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880. 4) The Bona
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Sold to p********n for (110.00 + 26.40BP) = 136.40
 
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The Great Diamond Hoax3457 - The Great Diamond Hoax
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The Great Diamond Hoax and Other stirring Incidents in the Life of Asbury Harpending. Edited by James H. Wilkins. The James H. Barry Co., San Francisc
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Estimate : 50.00 - 75.00
Sold to m********y for (25.00 + 5.25BP) = 30.25
 
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Western Native American History Library3458 - Western Native American History Library
Holabird Western Americana Collections
17 Volumes on the history of Native Americans in the Western United States. Examples from this lot include, "Zuni and the American Imagination&...
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Estimate : 120.00 - 200.00
Sold to 8********l.. for (60.00 + 14.40BP) = 74.40
 
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Native Americans Post-Gold Rush Library Archive3459 - Native Americans Post-Gold Rush Library Archive
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31 Volumes on Native Americans following the California gold rush. Includes 23 volumes of Lifetime Book's "The American Indians" writt...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to t*****5 for (50.00 + 12.00BP) = 62.00
 
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