Western Trails & Treasures Auction (February 2022)

Nine different stocks and bonds from this western railroad. The rail ran through Portola, California in Plumas County. Lot includes extremely rare com

Four issued certificates from the Western Pacific Railroad issued from 1949-1967. Three blue style and one orange preferred certificate. The preferred

Lot of 8 includes a Fair Oaks Transit stock issued in 1912; a very rare Central California Traction Company stock issued in 1909 for 999 shares. Stamp

Rare! $1000. #206, issued in 1891. Signed by Chas. Crocker as president. Not cancelled. Brown border, black print, and vignette of street car. Eighte

Lot of 4 includes three issued common stocks from the California Street Cable Railroad issued between 1916 and 1920. Great cable car vignette. All in

Nice group of rarely seen San Francisco electric street railway bonds. Lot includes Geary Street Railway, Northern Electric Railway, Northern Electric

Lot includes ten from Market Street Railway including 6 common and preferred certificates, plus a $1000 bond issued in 1910. Also, two scrip certifica

Lot of 10 includes three very rare San Francisco -Sacramento Railroad Company common stocks issued in 1923 and 1924. This west coast describer has nev

#1449 for 6 shares to CE Foote in 1925. Cut cancelled. Incorporated in 1920. The Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Railway was incorporated in 1911 to buil

San Francisco Terminal Railway and Ferry Company stock certificate #1, 10 shares @ $100/share, issued to President W. J. Bartnell and signed by him as

These are all very rare. Rare bond certificates from Monterey & Pacific Grove Railway Company, $1000, 1907; Saratoga & Almaden Railroad Comp...

Nice selection of Yosemite includes two $1000 bonds from Sierra Railway issued in 1897 and 1904. Also, a $100 bond from Yosemite Short Line Railway is

Spectacular vignette of Yosemite Valley with Yosemite Falls and El Capitan! Inc. Calif. 1902. Specimen bond, $1000, 5%, Sinking Fund, 30 year gold.

Very rare. Specimen stock certificate. $100 par shares. Dateline 18xx. Black and green border, vignette at bottom of three allegorical females. Printe

These four are unissued but all are rare. Included are certificates from the Tidewater and Southern Railroad; San Diego, Riverside & Los Angeles...

Large group of rare California railroad stocks and bonds includes: 1)Los Angeles Cons. Electric Railway Bond, $1000, 1892, signed by W.H. Sherman. 2)

Lot of 3 includes Pacific Rail Road Bond, (CA), 1865, City and County of San Francisco. $1000, due 1895, redeemed May, 1884. Some water damage, a litt

Lot of 8. 1) Canon City & Royal Gorge Railroad Company. Five unissued stocks, two varieties. All with gorge vignette. 2) Canon City-Florence &am...

Lot of 8. 1) Denver, Cripple Creek & Southwestern Railroad Company. Low stock number 6, issued to William Borst in 1896. Signed by president CW ...

Lot of 10 different. Includes: 1893 (bird's-eye vignette), 1901 (prospectors vignette, foreign revenue), 1906 (not cancelled, bird's-eye vig...

Lot of 6 different. 1) Two stocks. One issued 1946, not cancelled. Blue border and train depot vignette. ABN. Second is a different design and is a Sp

Lot of 2. 1) No. 1085, issued in July 1890. Signed by Otto Mears as president and the secretary (illegible). Not cancelled! Pristine Mears autograph.

Lot of 13. 1) Denver Circle Railroad Company stock issued in 1885. Signed by WH Loveland as president (namesake of Loveland, Colorado). Punch cancelle

Rare. Unissued. No. 186. Green border, black print, and vignette of locomotive moving away from the mountains. Printed by Franklin Bank Note Co. 8 x 1

Lot of 3. 1) Two stocks issued in 1927 and 1937. Neither is cancelled. Both have the same design: red border, black print, and locomotive vignette. 2)

Lot of 4. 1) The Gilpin Tramway Company. Two stocks, issued in 1888 and 1889. Stamp cancelled. Black border and print, railroad in mountains vignette.

Lot of two $1,000 bonds, issued in 1875 and 1878. Signed by president Jas. Nickerson and treasurer Thos. Nickerson. Punch and large cut cancels that a

Lot of 3. 1) London, South Park & Leadville Railroad Company. $1,000 bond issued in 1883. Not cancelled. Low number 28. Signed by vice president...

Lot of 7, two different companies. 1) The Colorado & Southern Railway Company. Three different stocks, two Specimen, one issued in 1972. Orange,...

No. 3441. $1,000 bond issued in 1897. Signed by the president and secretary. Purple stamp cancelled. Seventy coupons attached. Green border, black pri

Lot of 5 different. Includes: two different $1,000 bonds issued in 1862 (one pen cancelled, one punch cancelled), both with locomotive vignette; $1,00

Lot of 10. Six different plus dupes. All pictorial. Issued 1886, 1889, 1892, 1899, 1901, 1902, and some with corp. signatures but unissued. Operated 1

Lot of 11. Nearly all different. Included: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (1899); Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad (two different,...

Lot of 12, all different. 1) Stocks: 1930 (blue and purple), 1939, 1943, and 1970. All with vignette that has a train vignette and sign with the compa

Lot of 7, most different. Includes: Wabash Railroad ($100 bond, 1955; 1910 stock; and foreign 1910 stock); Belt Railroad & Stock Yard Co. (1893 ...

Lot of 5. Issued in 1857, 1868, and 1870. Pen cancelled. Two others are for the railroad's division in Nebraska, issued in 1878. Punch cancelled...

Rare. RN-VI and RN-PI over printed on RN-W2. $1,000 bond issued in 1867. Punch cancelled. Signed by the president and treasurer. Two railroad vignette

Lot of 7 different. 1) Burlington and Northwestern Railway Company. Issued in 1877, not cancelled, locomotive vignette. 2) Dubuque & Sioux City ...

Specimen $1,000 bond. Due in 1941. Green border, black print, and locomotive vignette. Printed by Hamilton Bank Note Co. Stamped Specimen on signature

Early $1,000 bond No. 166. Oct. 4, 1872. Signed by president Ginery Twichell, treasurer Charles Pierce and three members of the finance committee. Sig

No. 50913 issued for $1,000 in July 1889. Stamp, cut cancelled, and punch cancelled. Green border and background, black print, and locomotive vignette

No. 28939, issued for $500 in July 1889. Stamp, cut cancelled, and punch cancelled. Brown border, black print, and locomotive vignette. Franklin Bank

Specimen $1,000 ten year, 5% convertible gold bond. Dated June 1907. Stamped Specimen across signature lines and punch cancelled. Blue border, black p

Specimen certificate for Preferred Capital Stock. Orange border, black print, and three vignettes: locomotive (left), Native American chief (center),

Specimen certificate for Preferred Capital Stock. Green border, black print, and three vignettes: locomotive (left), cow head (center), and Native Ame

Specimen certificate for $200 of a 4%, 100-year adjustment bond. Union Trust Company of New York. Brown border, black print, and locomotive vignette.

Lot of five. 1) 1889 black on white with man stoking engine vignette. General Mortgage Goal Bond Scrip. 2) 1888 stock with three countryside vignettes

"Formerly the Atchison and Pikes Peak Railroad Company." $1,000 bond no. 636. April 1879. Unissued, but signed by secretary Henry McFarlan...

Lot of 4 different. Included: Kansas City, Wyandotte and North-Western Railway Co. ($1,000 bond, 1886, punch cancelled); Kansas City, Mexico & O...

Lot of 6 different. Included: Kentucky & Tennessee Railroad Company (1872 bond, punch cxl); Cadiz Railroad Company (1903 stock, not cxl); Coving...